kemonocode

8 ms·

31.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I knew he had issues with alcohol from way back, but I looked up to see what you meant. Wow indeed, that's so incredibly sad. That he harbors such a disdain towards his old friends and all is what kills me.
32.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I have some skepticism in those regards, at least unless they make use of their own crawlers. Bootstrapping themselves with different information sources as they've been doing is good for the very beginning as then they serve as a priv
33.
by kemonocode 5y ago
The mix of new and old here is messing with me. Censorship pandas (A relic of early-mid 00's furry sites) and free clipart banners together with Download Discord and Mastodon buttons, ha!
34.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Seriously, decentralized, pseudonymous money that is censorship resistant and doesn't rely on any single government or organization is the killer app. That's how I'm using it, it works perfectly for my use case and even tho
35.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I think Jackass managed to capture the zeitgeist at the time perfectly. It hasn't aged too gracefully, but that's only because it was a full decade early. Not to mention the genuine rapport from all the members of the crew, you tr
36.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I feel I'm taking crazy pills with all the people screeching the blockchain has no uses. They're as wrong as the people who say it has ALL the uses. Also, a (2017) wouldn't go amiss. This article is about three and a half yea
37.
by kemonocode 5y ago
HN has a strong anti-cryptocurrency bias. The comment got downvoted because it's irrelevant to the conversation.
38.
by kemonocode 5y ago
It's always been traceable, there's a public ledger and different data analysis techniques you can perform with varying degrees of usefulness, and Bitcoin's real value doesn't lay there. Anonymity is not the same as pseu
39.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Blanket statements like these come from privilege. That a supposedly vanishingly small amount of people use crypto to transact and safeguard the fruits of their labor is irrelevant because, well, I know I exist. To me, the value Bitcoin bri
40.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Interesting, I'd be willing to give it a try after I had to abandon Duplicati as it just seemed like a lost cause. Right now my backup setup consists on a UrBackup server my machines connect to, and a borg repository that is synced aga
41.
by kemonocode 5y ago
A very empty non-apology all in all, and not nearly addressing what Masad did wrong. Very disappointing. Masad, if you're reading this, get off your high horse. Bullying and scaring people into compliance with lawyers does work, but yo
42.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Tether, which is the most used so-called "stablecoin" (As its value is pegged to the USD) is extremely seedy at best and has had brushes with the law already [0] or is outright a Ponzi scheme [1] and plenty of people arguing for
43.
by kemonocode 5y ago
A not so insignificant part of me wishes Tether would crash already so it'd kill that argument dead for crypto detractors. It'd be interesting to see how Bitcoin's value would look after. I really doubt it'd be zero.
44.
by kemonocode 5y ago
LocalBitcoins works just fine for me.
45.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I can use cryptocurrencies from anywhere in the world, I can't use M-Pesa unless I'm in one of the few countries it operates, and even then I'd be at Vodafone's whims. Truly it may serve similar needs (money for the unde
46.
by kemonocode 5y ago
The "blatant scam" part, maybe. The fact it's Y Combinator-backed is still relevant, though.
47.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Which is why I suspect the title will be changed, even though it is relevant to the discussion.
48.
by kemonocode 5y ago
At best, it'll be something others will be able to leverage and make forks out of, and thanks to its permissive license, they won't have that pesky requirement to make the source code of their fork available. At worst, it'll
49.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Cars [0], apparently. [0] https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/software-solutions/automotive/...
50.
by kemonocode 5y ago
The fact it's more permissive with its license already does not bode well. Just like with Chrome, there could be a myriad of forks that can be closed source themselves and so without easy means to peek inside what they're really d
51.
What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use(brookings.edu)
272 points by kemonocode 5y ago|178 comments
52.
by kemonocode 5y ago
Capital controls, evading economic sanctions, as well as draconian KYC/AML measures that for Venezuelans can be very difficult to fulfill as you're asked for things like existing bank accounts (there's only a tiny handful of
53.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I fail to see how an economic sanction towards an authoritarian regime that ends up having a greater impact upon its people than on the regime itself will somehow fix said regime's mistreatment of minorities. I come from Venezuela, I h
54.
by kemonocode 5y ago
All those things were already illegal (worse yet, immoral) whether you pay for them in fiat or in Bitcoin. That's a false equivalence.
55.
by kemonocode 5y ago
They're reaping what they've sowed, so I don't exactly feel bad about big tech firms trying to flee "wokeness" (read: performative activism that hurts its causes more than it helps them) and finding out they won&#x2
56.
by kemonocode 5y ago
A pyramid scheme implies there's future payments to be expected if one were to aggressively recruit people into the scheme. A Ponzi scheme implies there's a central orchestrator extracting value out of the scheme and keeping it fu
57.
by kemonocode 5y ago
The specific details vary on the implementation, but the analogue to mining in a Proof-of-Stake system is this: newly minted coin is distributed as a reward to whomever wins the block validation "lottery" for a given block. A vali
58.
by kemonocode 5y ago
It makes me wonder if a decade or so down the road, we'll be bemoaning Chrome/Chromium as the new IE. Well, you could argue we're already doing that, considering its influence and how even Microsoft yielded and made Edge Chro
59.
by kemonocode 5y ago
You do realize the Chinese government is not just content with keeping to itself and has repeatedly trying to impose [0] its [1] values [2] on the west too, right? You could argue the west has been doing the same with China, but I'd
60.
by kemonocode 5y ago
I hope this entire ordeal makes it all clear that when a company snatches up a community project, it'll be very likely with the intention to monetize it down the road, and I really think the changes being vaguely alluded to were orient

More ›