headsoup

36 ms·

331.
by headsoup 4y ago
And it's wonderful! For me it strikes the right balance of simplicity, efficiency and customisation.
332.
by headsoup 4y ago
For a straightforward start, this guy piles on a bit, but also holds a lot of the history/evidence on record too: https://mobile.twitter.com/Bitfinexed
333.
by headsoup 4y ago
Even better is the other coins (like Celsius) pulling money out of Tether's thin air. Impressive! Why not just make the next one obvious and call them 'Holy Stablecoins' ...
334.
by headsoup 4y ago
The exchanges. Clearly and factually.
335.
by headsoup 4y ago
I think this is why it is problematic these days. Trust in simple terms would be trusting your local community but not the 'outside' world. But now we're trying to make the whole world one community, so who to distrust? Ev
336.
by headsoup 4y ago
This is true, and why all political ideologies fail. They can't cater for scale, or when they do, they do so by tyranny, which also fails eventually. Blockchain/Bitcoin has already been thoroughly corrupted, so ironically will pr
337.
by headsoup 4y ago
Hence my comment on people spamming ideas to front-run it. Other than that, I can't really see a need for this that is for private use.
338.
by headsoup 4y ago
I'm not sure what the value proposition is here. Is the idea that you want to use this later to tell others you had the idea first, or to protect your IP? If so, I could definitely see people noting every conceivable idea they can ima
339.
by headsoup 4y ago
That was a study of ~3000 people. They also excluded products, institutions and international (obviously) users. Not really representative of Twitter considering a decent part of its interactions are businesses and institutions engaging w
340.
by headsoup 4y ago
Guess we'll find out which it is in the next few months. Proof of stake is just as vulnerable to Ponzi, especially if promising any sort of outsized interest returns through middle-men services. The 'scientific, peer-reviewed ph
341.
by headsoup 4y ago
That wouldn't be a 'billion dollar'+ cryptocurrency though would it
342.
by headsoup 4y ago
Evidence? Twitter still seems pretty popular without all that extra flashy trash...
343.
by headsoup 4y ago
This is the key point of the whole article I think, and why anything changed at all: > DuPont’s patent on CFC technologies had expired. It is good to celebrate success, but it would be nicer if large industries had a track record of inte
344.
by headsoup 4y ago
By that logic open source software should be mostly crap... High pay bringing high competence and passion seems a rather poor assumption.
345.
by headsoup 4y ago
That reads like fairytales and wishful thinking which entirely ignores the substantial corruption and manipulation of the 'crypto economy' that exists now. Everything mentioned int it can be done right now without crypto, it'
346.
by headsoup 4y ago
Well, that home computer isn't exactly free... But pedantic point aside I think the core point is that as long as you can connect to the web, it can absolutely be free.
347.
by headsoup 4y ago
I'm sure a lot more of these trials will be pushed now that safety monitoring/controls and study quality requirements were relaxed so eagerly for the covid vaccines (and I mean well past the point of the initial unknowns that requ
348.
by headsoup 4y ago
Nice. I noticed the 'Pre-order now' button for the 12th gen DIY edition goes to the configuration page for the normal edition. I was confused that all options had Windows installed... You can still get to the DIY configure page t
349.
by headsoup 4y ago
They defend them because they have a vested interest in the whole pyramid not collapsing.
350.
by headsoup 4y ago
Don't look too far into what's backing Tether than, unless that burning is also 'good for Bitcoin.' Lucky, that one has enough vested interest from those making money they'll do an awful lot to stop it following LUN
351.
by headsoup 4y ago
I'm still rocking my 20yr old Onkyo amp. Maybe they're out of business because lots of people are still using their old equipment happily? Anecdotes, huh.
352.
by headsoup 4y ago
I think what should also be highlighted is not that we necessarily just prefer convenience, it's that we don't value effort and craftsmanship so much anymore because the 'cheap' systems produce 'good enough' pr
353.
by headsoup 4y ago
I guess the question is whether an end-to-end walled garden is a good solution to tracking or not? And whether Apple can only track their own services/apps or other user data/activity. Providing Safari makes it interesting
354.
by headsoup 4y ago
> easier said than done Yes but easier comes with a greater cost. This is widely true for broader society where we are all busy taking the convenient solution over the harder, proper way, because screw long-term. Sometimes, you have to r
355.
by headsoup 4y ago
Also, bitfinex'ed on Twitter (and previously Medium)
356.
by headsoup 4y ago
As long as you don't foresee any issue with massive central control of food supply, medical response or synthetic products, sure, there's no implications whatsoever. But handing over that sort of control should never be done &#x2
357.
by headsoup 4y ago
If you look into What Bill Gates' attention is focused on (massive landholder, wants the world fed synthetic beef, hopes the next pandemic will be centrally managed and controlled, ownership stakes in media, connected to Epstein), rega
358.
by headsoup 4y ago
You say that last part like crypto is mostly good and this is one bad apple. I suggest you don't research too far into the owners of Tether and how much is has propped up the entire crypto market single-handedly. An individual is not
359.
by headsoup 4y ago
I think the web is less chaotic now. I was extremely chaotic early on, and it was great and terrible. You had niches for everything, style was all over the place, people made things efficient in interesting ways and, of course, there were
360.
by headsoup 4y ago
I think that's over-simplifying it just a bit. Many people are conned into thinking it's a safe asset for their spare cash, or it's helping some cause, or it helps them send money overseas to people in oppressive regimes, e

More ›