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by leppr 6y ago
It's precisely regulation that creates this situation. Creating and operating a delivery platform wouldn't have to be so costly if they didn't need an army of lawyers and lobbyists to simply exist. In a free market, food deli
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by leppr 6y ago
I agree that these mechanics will always play out at scale, unless users are in charge of moderation/curation/governance. Successful cases in point: Discord: Closed bubbles, users in absolute control of entry and moderation. Sti
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by leppr 6y ago
My bad: [1] https://www.4channel.org/rules > 1. You will not upload, post, discuss, request, or link to anything that violates local or United States law. By local laws, I meant US laws for 4chan, and wherever other lo
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by leppr 6y ago
The difference with software is, for many reasons users most often need to know the recipe (code), but knowing the recipe is enough to trivially replicate the software for free. And incidentally, that's also the expected mode of acquis
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by leppr 6y ago
> their terms of service prohibit inciting terrorism or acts of violence – issues that 4chan/etc deal with by allowing it 4chan and similar communities typically comply with local laws[1], which means no incitation to violence&#x2
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by leppr 6y ago
1. Houses are not "the real estate market". People need dwellings to live in, and the real estate market is there to regulate people's ability to build and occupy them. In a similar fashion to you, I could very well argue tha
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by leppr 6y ago
People have been protesting against Facebook's policies almost since it was created (real-name only, no nudity even in classical art pieces, ...). That didn't change a thing. Facebook kept in-line with its policies, people stayed,
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by leppr 6y ago
That indicates mostly a branding/communication problem and not something fundamentally wrong with the practice of layering services over other third-party services.
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by leppr 6y ago
Proper links and mapping of navigation to browser history are also important for any content-focused webapp. Keyboard navigation is incomplete too (some elements like dropdowns).
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by leppr 6y ago
Maybe biased in favour of Tor but Bitcoin definitely not.
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by leppr 6y ago
Also outlaw Western Union, gift cards, game items, and all the remaining ways to transfer value internationally. Then, maybe, you could think about going after the actual hackers, exploit sellers, designers and implementers of insecure syst
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by leppr 6y ago
Rather: "some technologies seem to exclusively make the news when used to commit crimes." Headlines are not statistics.
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by leppr 6y ago
Actually for language learning at least, understanding doesn't need to come before rote memorization. While "stupidly" learning a one-two word definition might not allow you to understand how a word is actually used, it will
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by leppr 6y ago
When I was starting Anki, I would spend time really focusing my thinking on the cards while reviewing them (reading sentences aloud multiple times until pronunciation is good, relating concepts to others, ...). I'm now convinced this i
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by leppr 6y ago
Detailed criticism is meant to bring people up, not down. There are better web communities if the only thing you want to get is encouragements (not that encouragement is bad, but it's way cheaper than criticism). It's your choice
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by leppr 6y ago
> Bitcoin is a single mechanism whose characteristics have entirely predictable consequences. Cash is a single mechanism, that also predictably allows robbers to more easily offload their loot than if it was livestock, jewels or silver
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by leppr 6y ago
I think your comprehension of my argument is oversimplified. This is about the dynamics between a set of entities, being mischaracterized as a fundamental property of one of these entities. (Here: migration of a pool of bad actors from trad
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by leppr 6y ago
If all you want is safety and stability yes. But it should be clear by now that the current regulated financial system is skewed against small players (which includes scammers, sure, but also regular entrepreneurs) and does not allow for en
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by leppr 6y ago
Yes, thankfully the metaphor fails when we take coercion into account. Crypto scammers, overwhelmingly, simply fool people chasing easy profits. Hacks and actual offensive behaviors are uncommon, you're safe from predators in your den
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by leppr 6y ago
That's like saying forests are made to harbor violence by design, because most forest animals are violent while farm animals are peaceful. The abundance of scams in ICOs (and the cryptocurrency ecosystem in general for that matter) has
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by leppr 6y ago
To put your argument in other words: it doesn't have enough adoption to be more useful than the current alternatives. That has always been a caveat of new network-effect dependent technologies. In the early days, the internet wasn&#x27
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by leppr 6y ago
There are fast bank transfers in my country too, but for some reason my buyer's bank application was buggy and would only allow a traditional transfer. And of course, you can't use an alternative, non-buggy, app with your bank acc
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by leppr 6y ago
Except no, the exact reason I do/did these things with crypto is that I couldn't as easily do it with the existing infrastructure. Buying at a Bitpay PoS in Japan is just scanning a QR code, instant confirmation (Wechat easy but e
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by leppr 6y ago
It's money not controlled by any single government or entity. It can be exchanged almost as easily as cash. If you don't see the use in that, then good for you, your needs must be met by the existing financial services. Personally
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by leppr 6y ago
> The point is, even if you've successfully banned encryption in big companies, users will then just add a layer of encryption of their own, and that layer can be very very secure. That's what projects like Maskbook do[1]. T
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by leppr 6y ago
Interesting, I'm wondering if you can share your favorite tools? Photoshop is pretty much the only thing I miss from the proprietary OSes, never managed to match the workflow with Krita or Gimp.
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by leppr 6y ago
> Even if there were, what's stopping the "bad" gangs from pretending to be the "good" ones? Trademarks? I have no idea if that is actually done, but the criminals could simply cryptographically sign a unique m
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by leppr 6y ago
It is advertisement for his "Notion to Website" product. It's nicely done, because this is the first thing I got from the article, and I think so will most entrepreneur types reading it. The whole point is "I made $100k
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by leppr 6y ago
Yea. If you're fetching the html for a video page, you're presumably going to stream a video, which dwarfs the cost of "14 times a short string of text". The article title had me anticipate to read that 14 separate reque
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by leppr 6y ago
Going on a tangent but this article that came out today is a good read for anyone that didn't follow what happened to BitTorrent the company: https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisitio...

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