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by ls15 4y ago
I think every crypto wallet that is worth its bandwidth to download tries to educate users about the importance of keeping private keys secure.
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by ls15 4y ago
So I know a victim of a phishing scam. She got tricked into confirming a transaction from her bank account. She called her bank minutes after it happened, but they told her that they are not able to reverse the transaction. However, accordi
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by ls15 4y ago
During the pandemic, some shopping centers in my area started to measure wrist temperatures. Once, my wrist was still cold from winter temperatures outside: "28.5, ok, next"
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by ls15 4y ago
> the scams are completely devoid of any sophistication Some scams, sure, but those really baffle me. If you are kind of smart and you know that you are scamming people and these people know who you are, while you are in a country that
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by ls15 4y ago
Even though it is not an official service, in Germany there is Abgeordnetenwach [0](Translate: representative watch ), where citizen can ask parlamentarians directly. Some parlamentarians are great at answering questions, while some never
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by ls15 4y ago
With cryptographic signatures I could at least verify that something stems from the same account that I previously agreed with, but this would require people to be able to manage their own private keys. Actually nothing would stop people fr
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by ls15 4y ago
> But then again it's a bit dystopian I am having a hard time to imagine a scenario that is more dystopian
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by ls15 4y ago
Create a crypto project, ideally a premined one, delegated PoS or so with outrageous performance claims. With non-premined PoW coins it is much harder. Ideally with a huge supply of tokens. Let's say 100,000,000,000 total supply. Form
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by ls15 4y ago
"Whiskey and cigars for me and my friends please"
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by ls15 4y ago
Education does not start at the age of 21 though
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by ls15 4y ago
Isn't it uneconomic for a country to educate young people and then deport them as soon as they (are old enough to) start working and paying taxes?
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by ls15 4y ago
> It's worth noting that almost all of this is still the output of the 9/11, where US and Saudi systems did not communicate and resulted in known terrorists in Saudi Arabia being able to travel at will into the USA. > I don&
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by ls15 4y ago
I think at this point, Europeans should be allowed to vote in U.S. elections.
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by ls15 4y ago
Or 1959-12-31, so nobody has to guess if it is yyyy-MM-dd or yyyy-dd-MM
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by ls15 4y ago
> google-lite life I like that term. I am a happy DDG user who uses Youtube without an account and typically avoids everything else by Google. Sorry for not clicking the thumbs up button or subscribing to your channel - I would if it wou
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by ls15 4y ago
Better have a gasoline generator with you.
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by ls15 4y ago
I'd say n mandatory coding days per month for every software manager to keep them on the ground.
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by ls15 4y ago
> With your logic, EU and all other government should ban facebook, twitter as there is high probability that US companies supplies data to 3 letter companies. As a EU citizen: Just have a very close look at Facebook and TikTok and deter
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by ls15 4y ago
How many?
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by ls15 4y ago
Where Germany certainly fails is providing energy at consumer-friendly prices. We pay almost three times as much for electricity as people in the U.S. on average. Close to Denmark, who lead that ranking. Japan has to pay about half as much.
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by ls15 4y ago
You may be surprised to see that Germany is a net exporter of power: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... The main issue with green tech is that it sometimes doesn't produ
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by ls15 4y ago
From the first link: > For business workers, drinking is non-negotiable. Drinks after work strengthen relationships with colleagues, and an invitation to drink with an office superior is a great compliment that should not be turned down.
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by ls15 4y ago
They can close if it is too expensive to run.
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by ls15 4y ago
> enthralled I never heard that word. Is that an euphemism for "corrupted"?
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by ls15 4y ago
Which is weird to me, because MM in latin numerals is 2,000 There is a way to express one million as M̅ (horizontal bar above M for M * 1,000), but I think this was a later addon that was not used by the Romans. They probably rarely had to
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by ls15 4y ago
> she may have barely understood Mathematics degree. Both parents economists.
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by ls15 4y ago
How do I know that it would not even worsen the situation, as it clearly would introduce other inequalities?
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by ls15 4y ago
Frustrated German here, hoping that the government will at some point realize that investing in nuclear is more useful than dismantling the German economy, so that others will burn the fossil fuels that Germany does not need then anymore.
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by ls15 4y ago
The tokenomics are important. They could create as many PoW blockchains as they wanted without the coins being securities. The important part is that they created all tokens themselves and then sold them via ICO with funding rounds to inves
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by ls15 4y ago
Exchange tokens are amongst the more obvious securities IMO. I think they tick all marks of the Howey Test: - An investment of money (Send money/BTC, get token) - In a common enterprise (the exchange) - W

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