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by leppr 5y ago
Sure, but you don't cure alcoholism by switching from whisky to beer.
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by leppr 5y ago
I'm not exempt from that but the mere concept of needing help to "improve one's show-watching habits" should make anyone pause and reflect.
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by leppr 5y ago
I'm curious what was the biggest difficulty you encountered when building this? If I had to guess I would imagine it to be the economics behind finding suitable hosting providers and pricing rather than something purely technical, but
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by leppr 5y ago
I don't disagree that the vast majority of the activity derives more or less indirectly from price speculation of some sort. But the thing to note is that so much of it is done on-chain instead of on centralized exchanges which have co
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by leppr 5y ago
Investing != using. https://cryptofees.info/ People pay tens of millions of dollars everyday to use these on-chain platforms. They could avoid all those fees if they just wanted to speculate on token prices by using central
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by leppr 5y ago
I'm disputing the logical conclusion from the facts at hand that no real problem is solved, not providing a value judgment about DeFi. It's not an extraordinary claim but common knowledge in the start-up investment land that when
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by leppr 5y ago
Smart contract code is open-source[1], so the centralization you're talking about shouldn't be confused with the (de)centralization of power people talk about when they talk about the decentralized web or decentralized finance. Ci
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by leppr 5y ago
This accident actually proves the exact contrary. Despite these obvious flaws, people are still using DeFi. There must be something of value in there that you're missing. And it's not speculation, as there are way better ways to s
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by leppr 5y ago
Bitfinex/Tether is probably the single richest entity in crypto. A $1.4B loss would not be close to "company-ending" for them.
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by leppr 5y ago
Putting transactions on a verifiable public ledger might be a start.
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It's possible to set this up in a way that gives them plausible deniability (by broadcasting the transaction publicly after the colluding miner confirmed it has a block), so this could have been a way to repay debts with funds that are
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by leppr 5y ago
https://archive.ph/bJCvG
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by leppr 5y ago
You only need to read the linked Twitter thread to get a couple examples.
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by leppr 5y ago
How do you handle looking for accommodations? That was the biggest hurdle for me when I was doing the digital nomad thing. When you're settling in for the long term, you can take the time to do multiple visits in order to make an infor
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by leppr 5y ago
The term "decentralized stablecoins" itself precludes the USD-pegged voucher tokens you're referring to. I'm talking about things like Reflexer's RAI[1], which is designed to have stable value independently of any s
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by leppr 5y ago
The emergent phenomenons arise from an environment defined by certain rules and external factors. Many of those rules are defined by a small group of people (laws), and a very important external factor (money) is directly influenced by cent
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by leppr 5y ago
L2s and decentralized stablecoins keep the dream of a free decentralized economy alive. It's a smaller community for sure (as most pretend enthusiasts aren't actually interested when there's no Ponzi in it for them, and most
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by leppr 5y ago
As far as we know Satoshi himself was rather selfless. The Patoshi[1] miner suggests he actually calibrated his own mining to foster the network's health and decentralization in its early days, in detriment of his own output. I'm
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by leppr 5y ago
Good to see Epic coming back on their shunning of Linux. I guess their quarrel with Apple opened their eyes about walled gardens...
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Kobo can get away with it because their product is hackable. It's fine to release a platform with slightly too limited functionality if other people can then build on it.
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The problem is that for most people there are no clear incentives to making the "good" choices in those matters, while there are many incentives to make the "bad" choice, like gaining an edge in the local competitive mar
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by leppr 5y ago
Ok, I guess some slip through because they should normally require age verification. Even medical videos like breast cancer screening are classified.
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by leppr 5y ago
I'm curious what do you mean by "adult content" on YouTube? Like sexually explicit or suggestive things, music videos, etc, or rather some other too mature topics?
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by leppr 5y ago
Arch. It's possible to update to a new kernel on Ubuntu that has the new drivers required, but I couldn't get the installation to succeed, and the Arch repos being so up-to-date helps a lot with those compatibility issues. Overall
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by leppr 5y ago
I care because as supply chain issues get worse, it's becoming harder and harder to get the good Linux-ready laptops within a reasonable delay. I recently switched to an Asus after a decade of Thinkpads (because a custom maxed-out Thin
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by leppr 5y ago
Not now, but people adapt when there's an incentive. Already if you go in a country with restrictive internet, you'll find the average working-age person knows how to use a VPN. Regular drug users in western countries know how to
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by leppr 5y ago
I see, that makes sense. The advantage of a web app is that it can be distributed in any number of ways though. It's trivial to take it and re-host it on different servers, as an onion service, or go the full decentralized route with I
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by leppr 5y ago
In this case there's not many reasons for it to be a native app instead of a Progressive Web App. This would simplify distribution. If the app is open source, it could also be hosted on F-droid (or just as an .apk on some website). The
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by leppr 5y ago
I don't understand how you can be surprised at a lack of customization options on an Apple OS. It's literally one of their selling points.
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by leppr 5y ago
It's common in my city as well. The reason is tenants can stop paying and are protected by law enforcement from being evicted. That's not even talking about straight up squatters. This makes renting out often non-economically viab

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