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by immibis 11mo ago
There is no evidence for this. When gold and gold-backed currency were used for trade, it fluctuated in value wildly and there were several depressions each decade. After centrally-issued fiat currency was introduced, it had a much more sta
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by immibis 11mo ago
I guess Microsoft lost this battle, at least at some companies, because I'm now at one that uses Slack and Google, with no dependency on Microsoft Office.
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by immibis 11mo ago
> what are your thought on nano. It has zero fees I repeat: > Almost every cryptocurrency starts out with low fees and then fees increase when it gets popular and runs into processing limits.
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by immibis 11mo ago
What?
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by immibis 11mo ago
> By stabilise I mean stops growing in value by 50%/yr with big short term swings of 80%. Yeah, so that can't happen unless it's used for actual trade more than it's hoarded, which can't happen unless it's i
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PRQ sued by .se domain registry(nixsanctuary.com)
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by immibis 11mo ago
Value can only stabilise if there's either someone in charge adjusting the rate of printing to maintain a stable value. It cannot be done algorithmically as there's no way to determine the value from inside the system. Non-deflati
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by immibis 11mo ago
Bitcoin is also money printed out of thin air. Bitcoin is also a fiat currency. It may be impossible to change the rate of Bitcoin printing, but it's definitely possible to print more cryptocurrencies (see Ethereum, Monero, Solana,
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by immibis 11mo ago
There is no conversion of money into goods, only exchange of money for goods. I'll give you some bread and milk for 100 BTC if you want. I'll even fly to your country to personally deliver them to your house.
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by immibis 11mo ago
I've recently used Bitcoin to pay for several legitimate items because the fiat financial system just decided not to let me pay with my debit card, for no apparent reason.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Laws aren't always written down. A good example is what happens if you criticize Israel - the government, if it notices you, will come down on you like a sack of bricks, even though there's no law that says "don't critic
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by immibis 11mo ago
Almost every cryptocurrency starts out with low fees and then fees increase when it gets popular and runs into processing limits.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Not really, because the government freezes your bank account and takes your money.
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by immibis 11mo ago
One where the president prints trillions of dollars to bail out his AI cronies.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Ultra-capitalist libertarians are communists... riiiiiight ... btw I was banned from r/bitcoin Discord for saying that exchanges are banks.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Because... Nothing else achieves that? Besides a centralised database, which is extremely vulnerable to censorship - as seen when Visa blocked Steam from selling porn games.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Were they domestic terror organizations? The answer to this is important, and often overlooked.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Why would a budget-conscious institution give away money for free?
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by immibis 11mo ago
or you could slap a GSM shield on a Raspberry Pi.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Then aim for freely distributable drivers. You can share copies of Raspbian, so it seems possible.
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Inside a virtual machine which is easy to detect.
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by immibis 11mo ago
I think they're saying the phone doesn't stop you from installing a version which doesn't do that.
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by immibis 11mo ago
No. There are a few that claim to, but none of them are actually any good. Waydroid, for instance, requires that your kernel is compiled in basically "Android mode" (e.g. binder enabled).
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by immibis 11mo ago
It was, but it wasn't pushed into everyone's filter bubble.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Obviously you'd only choose hardware that works the way you want it to.
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by immibis 11mo ago
We can have it. It won't become as popular, but we can have it.
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by immibis 11mo ago
It is. 17 U.S. Code § 1201 - Circumvention of copyright protection systems
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by immibis 11mo ago
In the ARM world, there isn't even a standard way to boot, and there are no standard hardware interfaces - except maybe the interrupt controller, since it's part of the CPU and only ARM designs the CPUs. On any PC, you can still
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by immibis 11mo ago
Any one of us here could learn the skills to design a smartphone. It won't necessarily be good, but I remember that years ago, someone made one with a touchscreen hat and GSM hat atop a Raspberry Pi, rubber-banded to a power bank. I&#x
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by immibis 11mo ago
You can tell it's truly secure and private because the Cellebrite leak says they can't break it (one of very few!) and some governments assume you're a drug dealer if you use it. My next phone will run GrapheneOS.

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