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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   IIRC, bitcoin ATMs do not set up wallets for you. You still need to create a wallet, key, etc. and that is not easy to do for beginners without an exchange like Kraken. Most DNMs use temporary addresses so it's not a good idea to try
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   I didn't say Monero is KYC. I also didn't say you transfer directly into Kraken. Instead, you would use at least 1 or 2 other wallets before transferring into Kraken, because that bypasses their scanning. Kraken is still cheape
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   Hard paywall, doesn't work with archive or outline. Text available on Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VhqweeF...
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   It doesn't matter if Monero is used with KYC - transactions are obfuscated. That means the transactions can't be traced to your KYC wallet on Kraken, meaning you're spending 10% on an ATM for no reason.
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service#I...
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   >then you set things up incorrectly IMO That's precisely the problem with crypto though - most problems get blamed on the user, and not highlighted as the deficit it is for the crypto.
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   Aren't Monero transactions completely obscured anyways? It doesn't make a difference if you using a Bitcoin ATM or transfer to your Kraken account (except a 10% fee for the former).
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   >That’s funny, I wondered why Amazon order emailed sucked so hard lately. Thought it was just them being dumb. It's the opposite. Amazon wants you to click back into the store to buy things. One way to do that is forcing you to vie
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   by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

   I can almost guarantee Amazon dropped the item details from their emails in order to get you to click back into the store.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    That's fair but for people without HSA they should still file a claim against maximum out of pocket.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    I thought the lists were a red herring for the problems with privatized healthcare - i.e. look at how complicated pricing is, not how it is being complicated by for-profit middlemen.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    >the adapters are large enough that there are only 4 but also small enough that making a 2x USB A adapter would be quite challenging. This was my thought as well, but they're planning on doing more interfaces than what they're
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    FWIW Amnesty International has been calling out Apple's kowtowing to China and invasion of privacy for the last three years, but it's been falling on mostly deaf ears: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases&#x2F
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    This assumes that all projects should be built with the larger scope in mind. Sometimes you just need a shovel, not a Bagger 288.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Which takes quite a bit of time and hasn't been proven possible yet. Very different from an on-demand poison pill.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    ZCash is controlled by a privately-owned company in the U.S., who gave themselves founder's rewards. It's also designed in a way to allow "poison pills" - i.e. those in control can force a single transaction on a block,
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Right? The whole "I don't understand how people can possibly think that identity obfuscation at scale is a good thing for a financial system" can be answered by, "Will you share your entire transaction history and accoun
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Nothing ever _has_ to happen; that implies intent in markets. Efficiencies and user experience are better for more users on social media than email, despite it's obvious flaws. Did regional steel mills _have_ to replace local blacksmit
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    This may be a naive question, but isn't that a problem with the content reporting system itself? That it requires blanket exceptions? Popular users are going to have more false-positive reports than others, but when those reports dev
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    I don't like this example because it assumes that the Whatsapp founders would have had the same billion $ impact at FB, or that FB would not have just acquired whichever app that would have filled the market potential otherwise.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    People here are saying that Carmack isn't really saying much (quantity-wise he's not) or giving their own personal anecdotes, but he's touching on information theory for imperfect markets. Basically the employer and candidate
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Liability will be delegated away from the hospital and onto the service provider, same way they are with diagnostics on clinical lab equipment. Hospitals love to continue to get paid while shouldering less risk.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Anything that promotes meaningful content discovery. Everyone is projecting their need for anonymity in response to this question, but ultimately it comes down to frequency of dopamine hits. Think TikTok but more formats than just video.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    And not Reddit video? At least you can avoid chat.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    It's survivor bias to only look at existing incumbents. Reddit absorbed Digg users almost overnight, as one quick example. Another slower one is how AIM, ICQ, or MySpace lost the war of attrition.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    This conversation highlights the dichotomy of higher education in the U.S. You're describing the quality of an education, while the previous commenters are describing how to game a title system to get the best brand. These are two dif
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    >I'm not sure what if any negative selection system is used to prevent accidentally targeting autoantigens in addition the foreign antigen From an evolution perspective, it may improve survival chances to form antibodies with partia
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Nothing in the previous comments contradicts that.
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    That's why I said "thought to" instead of "proven to". There is enough evidence to show that aluminum in drinking water accelerates Alzheimer's [1], while the antiperspirant is hypothesized, but not proven or
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    by minsc__and__boo 5y ago

    Anecdotes are not why the regulation would exist. The majority of people can do things the right way, but it's always the outliers and bad (lazy?) actors for which the regulation needs to exist for.