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by leppr 5y ago
> Reflexer is collateralized by ETH which is traded 65% of the time against USDT which is backed by chewing gum and hope. This USDT trading determines the price. What kind of logical fallacy are you trying to make here? If someone sets
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You're talking about voucher tokens (Tether, Circle, Paxos...) redeemable for stable currencies. That's not what I'm talking about.
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> All this would work much better with simple old fashioned money. That's the thing, on the internet, simple old fashioned money is not like simple old fashioned money. Keeping accounts and transferring old fashioned money between
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You're talking about fixed or restricted-supply cryptocurrencies, which do indeed almost always have some Ponzi aspect. These might represent a majority of the current cryptocurrency landscape, but isn't close to being a fundament
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A point to take from the article is that users should focus on actual technical capabilities, not "privacy policies" or similar wishful-thinking gesturing. Whether you click on the "Accept" or "Refuse" button o
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Quite unsubstantiated opinion piece, but if sticking the diversity/class oppression narrative is what we need to get the zeitgeist to recognize the harmfulness of centralized surveillance, I'm all for it. Singling-out of smartwatc
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> Another consequence of thinner phones is less protection. Drop your phone once, and the chances you shatter the screen are high. How does thinness decrease screen protection? On the contrary a reduction in thickness also usually invo
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> A democracy is just government by its people. In theory yes that's what Democracy originally meant. In practice the "democracies" we know are "government by some group of popular noblemen" not by "its pe
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This is an arbitrary decision that a proper democratic decision making process would not end up on.
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In this particular case though it is quite strange to me. Between katsu and tenpura, the Japanese are expert at fried food, in which they place peculiar importance on the lightness/crispiness. I tried KFC in Japan and it's mostly
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And this is why public protests are good for governments. They channel a lot of energy into a few precise issues, away from broad structural changes.
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I reckon Netflix restricts to low resolution only if you don't enable DRMs.
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2€/account is still decent spam protection, and fair/affordable for a lot of the world population. It's one thing the whole web can take out of the cryptocurrency transaction model. Costs can also be explicitly monetary and n
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Many Linux games are only tested on Ubuntu. I personally haven't had more issues running Linux native games on Ubuntu than Windows native games on Windows. Playing games on Windows often requires fiddling as well. Either having to lock
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Netflix works fine on Linux. Either enable DRM on Firefox, or install Google Chrome, then use your browser of choice to access https://netflix.com .
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Maybe, but given how very far from any kind of sophisticated democratic governance we are, their use, and thus cryptocurrencies' use, will persist for at least our lifetimes.
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The Ethereum dApp Synthetix has a "DeFi" version of those. It's extremely inefficient and relies on centralized Chainlink oracles but it's permissionless and the assets keep their pegs. The Korean project Luna has I beli
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Any ban aimed at Binance or a centralized exchange in particular will not have much to do with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies themselves.
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This concept could actually be nice to present a pretty interface for products wrapped in plain, cheap packages (or no packages at all and served to customers in reusable containers).
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The point is Bitcoin in an imaginary ideal scenario is at best neutral, not positive. Bootstrapping energy production in remote places could have a few nice side effects sure, it just doesn't help its environmental impact.
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How does exploiting remote energy sources for Bitcoin have a positive environmental impact?
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Things are not moving towards the generalized end of privacy and ownership. That may be the case for a specific subset of the population (the 99 percenters), but overall things are simply moving towards a centralization in information avail
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Actually it's estimated gradually redistributing wealth from billionaires and Silicon Valley companies via taxes and stimulus checks to the American people could afford us up to 4 to 5 years of prosperity. So clearly you're wrong,
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A lot of SSI is about delegating Sybil-resistance. Websites use Google or Facebook sign-on not just because it's more convenient for users, but also because signing up many accounts on these services is a bore, thus managing spam. If t
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Yes, what makes sponsor segments more valuable is the superior human-curated targeting.
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I can't bring myself to pay for user-generated content platforms that do so much censorship, which results in the creators themselves having to self-censor (apparent in how many YTers avoid saying certain words to not trigger audio ana
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Good grades are also an indicator of being able to optimize for grades. Being able to optimize a metric is a good thing, but the problems is that typical students spend 20 years learning to optimize that one and only metric. Therefore it&#x
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IE "worked" too. The main problems came from having to develop for multiple browsers with incompatible implementations. If you restricted yourself to IE, it was quite painless. Any quirk you'd encounter daily was documented,
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Ok, that's not how I read GP though
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Brave is a Chromium fork which mostly just adds UI features. They don't appear to have the will/man-power to modify and develop fundamental browser features, so using Brave doesn't do much against preserving browser diversity

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