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by helloworld11 4y ago
A bit late to the reply party, but for me it's simple: Crypto offers an imperfect but refinable digital means by which people can exchange perceived value with each other worldwide without middlemen or arbiters of what should be permit
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Binance and Tether are nowhere near big enough to be major financial weapons against the west. They also have nowhere near the sort of supposed major government or criminal support from anyone interested or powerful enough to stop their pos
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I think it's amusing as hell how the founder of Binance had a spat with SBF and was partly responsible for hurrying along the collapse of FTX (though that dumpster fire was doomed anyhow), and is now reaping the whirlwind of his own ba
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>used the word Latina instead of the correct latinx. It's not the "correct" term, and almost nobody I know of takes it seriously outside of really, really narrow little social media woke bubbles. If someone is a woman and
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Yes but the key question is, where is the listening done and where is the data stored?
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This isn't quite right. U.S politics is much less party-centric than it is in many other countries. Basically, though you've got a vast majority of candidates for X or Y office who are either democrats or republicans, their platfo
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Is this a persistent problem in android phones? Is there any way to avoid it (except using iOS)?
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by helloworld11 4y ago
you're presupposing that your experience of cash transactions is and should be everyone's experience of cash transactions. Yes, many normal people sometimes conduct business with larger amounts of cash over 10k euros, which by the
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Well don't I feel foolish..
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With that much hatred in your opinion of our species, i'd say that you suffer from too much garbage thinking that has lost all perspective or balance in judging humanity. Yes, we can be a terrible species and in many ways continue to b
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by helloworld11 4y ago
This infographic is a bit off on a few of them. On Neptune and Saturn "surface" gravity is only modestly higher than on earth and atmospheric density is fairly modest too along the cloudy layer that we could call the surface of th
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by helloworld11 4y ago
first link below estimates that YouTube's total storage needs for all of its content are roughly 10 exabytes. It goes into a lot of detail that you can check for yourselves, because it's a bit too much to copy over here, and thoug
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This is absolutely laughable. The very opposite is the case: Wealthy, well connected people, politicians and businesses already can and do transfer and launder money on industrial scales, with only minimal worry about rules like this one, w
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>Privacy shouldn’t exist for financial transactions. It makes it easier to launder money or hide wealth. There is no other use for “dark” financial transactions. This makes a very tenuous assumption that government is always justified in
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by helloworld11 4y ago
And why do you need to justify that something should be made illegal just because your personal circumstances don't include it as an experience in your life? Unless something is explicitly (or sometimes implicitly) harmful to others, i
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>That will change with this law, finally. Or put them out of business. That's a good thing, don't you agree? Or here's a novel idea: Try not to support coercive laws and rules that seek to stamp out the possibility of peop
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Love the Lecter reference...
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And of course this is intolerably awful because only progressive, woke, leftist, pro-Government-covid-control sources should in any way be tolerated in their views? Only they're free of slant and emotional bias? Indeed. Why not analyse
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Anecdote here, but any time I use dark mode even for a few minutes, it makes my eyes feel awful, and leaves ghostly shadows of text lines in my vision for up to a minute or two after leaving the screen. Reading anything in light mode on the
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by helloworld11 4y ago
I've been using it for some of my work for a few months now, after a multi-year hiatus because it always, no matter which version I installed, slowed to a crawl after a short while of use. Now that I've restarted using it.........
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by helloworld11 4y ago
The prohibitionist puritans never learn. Laws that reduce smoking permissiveness in public places? Sure, Laws that set rules for advertising and legal buying age or location? Okay, why not. Banning tobacco completely in a spasm of nannying,
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Elton John Quits Twitter over “misinformation policy”(bbc.com)
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Not sure about suicide cyanide teeth, but the pill version was very real. A whole bunch of high-ranking Nazi's left the stage using exactly this. Among them Hitler (slightly disputed about whether he simply shot himself right after bit
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It's absurd but increasingly common to see such bad, ignorant metaphors of technologies used by people with en emotional vitriol on a site like HN. The mafia is a emphatically criminal organization made up of people whose unique and sp
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So I guess that this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33897793 is part of the reason why? Or will there be a backdoor in their supposed "end-to-end" encryption of iCloud data?
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Wonderful, great, but oh god why do it in sight-destroying white on black text? I can't be the only one that suffers shape outlines in my eyesight for minutes after even a few seconds of looking at it.
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>The reason he won back then is in a large part due to the misinformation campaigns supported partly by Russia, see Cambridge Analytica with the psychographic targeting etc. I call bullshit on that. The progressive side of US politics an
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>countering scientific consensus with harmful conspiracy theories You mean "harmful conspiracy theories" such as previous suggestions that COVID might have accidentally come from a lab accident? or that the vaccines didn't
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>The results are very visible these days in the US and I'm happy they're not in Germany (at least not in a relevant way). Your "tolerant" western Europe has no shortage of ingrained racism of all kinds that it just sw
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>In the West we still have democracy - yes might be on its last few legs, but it's not too late, as the 2020 election showed This is laughably biased. Whatever his defects, the election of Trump was if anything a much better example

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