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by leppr 5y ago
I don't know of a way that's both widespread, cheap and legal. * Country-specific: prepaid cards like Suica in Japan, purchasable with cash from ATMs. * Not that cheap: offshore bank account. * Not legal: crypto card with "bo
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by leppr 5y ago
But it's much much harder to acquire a privacy-respecting contactless payment setup than carry a bunch of coins.
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by leppr 5y ago
To learn more about this: https://twitter.com/VValkyriePub/status/1451035108266233863?...
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by leppr 5y ago
> Basically, do a good job for the economy overall and then your net worth will increase. The economy's health is not necessarily accurately reflected in asset valuations (which is what index funds track). When it becomes clear th
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by leppr 5y ago
> Isn't the real solution to have some group responsible for providing oversight and enforcement to elected officials? Most US citizens seem to consider their government to be a "Democracy", that responsibility/auth
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by leppr 5y ago
Sorry for the meta post, but it's quite funny how HN's legendary skepticism towards cryptocurrency manages to get even Sam Altman's project flagged on his own (former) board.
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by leppr 5y ago
Hardware-wise maybe, but it's still bogged down by Facebook. Supporting them by buying their products, when the window of opportunity for user-respecting alternatives is still wide open, is frankly unethical.
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by leppr 5y ago
The number one priority in a notes syncing app for me is E2E encryption[1]. Even with a private git repo, you're still most likely storing your plaintext notes on a third-party server. I wish there were more options satisfying this req
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by leppr 5y ago
I don't live in the US but I doubt that's true in most places given that adult porn is way easier to access than gore. "Pornhub" is a household name, on the other hand, assuming they're not particularly interested i
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by leppr 5y ago
If the product is free, you're the product. And if the product is paid, you're also the product.
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by leppr 5y ago
Then you can simply find a song that matches what you're exactly wanting to listen to and start the "song radio" from there. For me the problem is exactly the contrary, I can't find enough diversity in the daily mixes, i
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by leppr 5y ago
> Second, 1USDT backed by less than 1USD in value is obviously worth less than 1USD no matter what happens to the USD. That's obviously not how it works. For instance, US banks have capital requirements of ~8%, but the dollars the
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by leppr 5y ago
The BTC price increase is because of rumors of a US BTC ETF being approved. The Tether fine is a non-event in crypto social networks.
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by leppr 5y ago
The rates are mostly affected by sudden changes in demand. The demand for Tether comes mostly from Binance and the other centralized Asian exchanges. The demand for Circle dollars comes from the DeFi ecosystem and FTX.
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by leppr 5y ago
Most of the big Bitcoin talking heads did.
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by leppr 5y ago
Depends on the country. For instance in Europe, GDPR enforcement is way more lenient towards small companies, to the point where it makes no strategic sense for a startup to invest anything but the bare minimum required to feign "good
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by leppr 5y ago
Sounds like someone at Starbucks saw your HN comment and ran a search for your email to ping the relevant manager. Impressive if not just a coincidence.
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by leppr 5y ago
The fact that this kind of art NFT (direct link to a centralized resource without a hash) is so widespread, at least proves that a huge portion of the NFT ecosystem is indeed a scam.
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by leppr 5y ago
Crypto attracts blind love/hate ("shilling"/"FUD"). Very few express rational views about it in public. Our social fabric is not used to everyone having skin in the game. I predict this will calm down once the
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by leppr 5y ago
You sign a message containing your Discord username with the address that's registered as owner of said NFT. The bot then approves your Discord account, while also watching for changes in NFT ownership to revoke your access if you tran
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by leppr 5y ago
It's hard to do a quantitative study on something that has inherent deniability. The ones who could map the flows (centralized exchanges, which are de-facto tumblers), will obviously not publish public studies on this.
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by leppr 5y ago
It's just one more step, one time. After installing a userscript extension, it's as easy as a normal add-on.
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by leppr 5y ago
For this kind of simple use case, a userscript makes more sense than a full extension, which has the benefits of making the code easily auditable and forkable.
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by leppr 5y ago
Well that's more effort than just disabling the New Tab ads on Firefox and you're clearly technically inclined so this doesn't go towards my argument.
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by leppr 5y ago
Mozilla might be the best out of this, but they're also in the weaker position. Ads, whether they respect privacy or not, give off a scummy feel to users. The clean Chrome UI, even if it tracks you in a hundred ways, "looks"
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by leppr 5y ago
Or just stop buying Apple devices? That way the duopoly can shift from iOS/Android to Android/<Linux phones, or some other open alternative>. I realize many people are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, especially sinc
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by leppr 5y ago
Personally I think Democracy could be nice. I think there are systems of governance that can allow everyone to have agency on their life without necessarily having to be rich enough to passport-shop. Calling our democratic Republics simply
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by leppr 5y ago
Yes, and none of these riots were about anything related to the economy. In fact, it's precisely during this time that the Feds were hitting the printing press the hardest, directly increasing wealth inequality and thus, the US Black p
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by leppr 5y ago
"Representative democracies" train people to be apathetic. Since birth they are made to believe that the miraculous democratic republic they live in gives them agency, and that the reason they actually don't have agency is be
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by leppr 5y ago
It's better that the producer gets the correct price for their items. That way they can invest in their infrastructure or bid up source materials, getting closer to being able to meet demand. On the other hand profits going to the scal

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