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by knorker 4y ago
I guess it's like turn signals: If you can't do it right, then just don't drive.
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by knorker 4y ago
The world is probably better off for you not driving there, so doesn't sound like a bad side effect.
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by knorker 4y ago
> As a driver, will you understand what you have to do if you drive past that sign without lots of local knowledge? The actual criteria would not be useful on a sign. It's not "made before 2006". It's "ULEZ compl
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by knorker 4y ago
But here the money would go to buses, right, which should go that far?
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by knorker 4y ago
I suspect you'll mostly get "Yes" because selection bias, so from me you get a "no". The IT industry is huge, and you can work on so many different problems (as I'm sure you know). I would find it hard to burn
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by knorker 4y ago
It's not entirely a ponzi scheme. But what remains is crime.
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by knorker 4y ago
SBF added a backdoor so that even their own poor internal auditing would not log him shuffling customer money out of FTX into Alameda. That's not incompetence. I know what I call it, and it starts with "alleged".
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by knorker 4y ago
> would be a great way which, if regulated, would allow for things like selling real estate (deeds) or automobiles (titles) Absolutely not. The source of truth for real estate is the local government's land registry. The NFT blockch
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by knorker 4y ago
> Assuming the sender/recipient's countries don't outlaw it or regulate it into parity with traditional banking. This raises an obvious question, though: Why would countries NOT regulate it like traditional banking? Notice
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by knorker 4y ago
That's kind of off topic, but here's a great explanation of NFTs: https://onezero.medium.com/nfts-arent-as-stupid-as-you-think... Edit: to answer your question, NFTs expressed in traditional speak would be this: A
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by knorker 4y ago
What are the source of the fees? Legal compliance? IOW are your savings due to breaking, or loopholing laws?
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by knorker 4y ago
I think it is fair to BTC and ETH, just by saying MtGox and DAO split. The former was, what, 4% of all BTC that will ever be, and the latter was socialism for those close to the developers, capitalism for everyone else. Those were really bi
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by knorker 4y ago
I would also not allow it. I'm saying the problem is that core Go developers say "Go doesn't have exceptions", which is manifestly false, but causes people to not write exception safe code. But despite you and me, I&#x27
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by knorker 4y ago
It wouldn't be an indictment of DeFi/cryptocurrencies if it weren't for... you know... this being basically the main pattern used in all of DeFi/cryptocurrencies. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
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by knorker 4y ago
You're assuming that the code was written exception safely. E.g. mu.Lock() foo := bar[baz] // <- throws exception / panics mu.Unlock() Go is sold as a language without exceptions, so people don&#x2
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by knorker 4y ago
> So the only remaining question is why would normies who say (according to you) amen to all above would need crypto Exactly. They don't. Not as a currency. It's gambling. And "normies" don't want to run a bank j
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by knorker 4y ago
Sure, without the safeguards. No FDIC. No lessons learned from the history of banking. I agree it's a banking problem in that they're trying to streamline a new economy by not doing what "legacy banking" does. Which is l
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by knorker 4y ago
You're not taking crazy pills. It's become abundantly clear that the vision of everybody being their own bank will never work. People don't want to be their own bank, just like they don't want to be their own bakery, or
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by knorker 4y ago
People in rich countries can't either. Please review the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I will not engage further.
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by knorker 4y ago
I'm curious about when you thought it was anything else? I don't think this will affect its reputation noticeably. Which demographic is going to be turned off by this? The regular public won't hear about this. the FIRE invest
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by knorker 4y ago
Well, i strongly disagree with all of that. Or at least that it should affect what your employer gives you. It's straight up discrimination, and some of it (e.g. based on parental status) usually illegal. Taking care of the sick, elder
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by knorker 4y ago
How do you know? Maybe I have a gambling debt to the mob. If I do then I need that money MUCH more than the co-worker with multiple kids. In both scenarios we put ourselves in that position. Maybe I have a health problem, and live in the US
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by knorker 4y ago
So can we stop hearing about how the British monarch is not political, and has no political powers?
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by knorker 4y ago
I'm not sure if you are for or against cryptocurrencies, since you here explicitly say that the value in the systems is to break (capital control) laws. I honestly can't tell if your comment is satire, because there are actually p
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by knorker 4y ago
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked"
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by knorker 4y ago
Most people in the world can definitely not use cryptocurrencies. Maybe the average nonprivileged will succeed once or twice, but this is like going to Vegas and using the martingale system: It'll make you win consistently, right up
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by knorker 4y ago
No, none of the above. Except in one aspect: Because cryptocurrency for these purposes at best use a loophole in AML/KYC laws, at worst just plain break them, if you do it right there's less risk of getting caught (guilty or innoc
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by knorker 4y ago
How are the standard solutions for cross border payments worse than bitcoin/cryptocurrency? I regularly ship 5-6 digits between countries. It's not even hard. And I do it without gas fees (there's paying the spread, but if I&
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by knorker 4y ago
To me the main difference is in challenging circumstances. All those "taken with an iphone/pixel/samsung" ads are not proving anything, because they can only take that in absolute perfect conditions. But make the conditi
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by knorker 4y ago
The strange 406 is one thing, but what's the recommended chrome extension or something to get rid of the obnoxious page scrolling overrides?

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