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Tornado Cash Co-Founder Says the Mixer Protocol Is Unstoppable [Jan 25, 2022](coindesk.com)
2 points by mrkramer 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Most crimes have what's called a 'Mens Rea' element, which means you had to have criminal intent. That's what Ross Ulbricht was arguing; the creator and the operator of the biggest Dark Web drug marketplace called Si
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Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says(techcrunch.com)
4 points by mrkramer 4y ago|3 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I never used TikTok but from what I heard and saw it is essentially a Vine with better UI and UX e.g. you scroll vertically for new videos and it has very good recommendation system. P.S. I never used Vine too but then again I read and hear
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Software code is not law. Law regulates software industry not vice-versa.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>They think they know Facebook has the financial resources to buy out anyone with even a slight chance of becoming a competitor, and are leveraging that in an anti-competitive fashion. Ofc they know it; Facebook/Meta is a public com
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by mrkramer 4y ago
VCs are private companies which invest and manage private money and they are not regulating anything. FTC is a government entity which is required by law to regulate markets. That is my layman understanding. And there are hundreds of VCs so
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>The counter-argument is that if a large company is allowed to buy all of its promising competitors when they are small and inexpensive, our overall business ecosystem will get weaker in the future due to that big company not having to b
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Scrutinize big mergers don't block smaller acquisitions because you think you know that sometime in the future the smaller company will become big healthy competitor.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
If you are a neoliberal economist that's not bad criticism because less government intervention the better for the market.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Because she thinks she can predict the future in a way that she believes she knows what is the best for the market in the long term.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Also covered here: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/amazon-is-buying-irobot-fo... https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/5/23293349/amazon-acquires-i...
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Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B(cnbc.com)
482 points by mrkramer 4y ago|475 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Leaving porn aside....Bitcoin FTW This is what Satoshi was talking about; "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While th
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Biden administration will declare monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency(cnbc.com)
5 points by mrkramer 4y ago|2 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I meant stolen/lost. Ofc physical and digital keys are not the same but Satoshi's wallet is probably multisig wallet meaning in order to move bitcoins multiple keys need to be signed and my assumption is Satoshi does not have acce
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Larry Page offered more money for WhatsApp than Facebook because he realized Google won't win mobile messaging wars but WhatsApp guys decided to go with Facebook. Btw Facebook was also afraid of not winning mobile messaging that's
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Comics is amazing! Thx for sharing.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
That was some early miner's coins not Satoshi's although Satoshi was also an early miner.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Imagine you buy a car and you don't sign ownership papers. I steal the key of your car and I lock the car. Now I can demand "Prove me that the car is your by unlocking the car". How will you prove it? Certainly not by unlocki
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Imagine you live in an impenetrable house which when locked can only be accessed by a key. Now imagine you go outside the house, you lock the house and you lose the key which unlocks the house. This scenario might happen to Satoshi and ther
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Your business career is also your private life. Why would the whole world need to see it or anybody who uses the internet?
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by mrkramer 4y ago
You get fast, powerful and easy to use communication tools for free when you use Facebook and its family of apps. Why do you think Whatsapp is so popular now and not SMS anymore?
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by mrkramer 4y ago
All of a sudden everybody has short attention span but books sales still didn't drop to zero.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Modern social media leaves a very big gap - that was filled by old Facebook, or to some extent MySpace: The "people directory" where basically everybody has a page, and you can see what friends are doing, or look up acquaintan
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by mrkramer 4y ago
That's one way of winning a game :)
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by mrkramer 4y ago
This is 2nd and 3rd search page results spam, I get spam phishing websites on 1st page of search results when I search for certain ecommerce websites. Google is done.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Feels bad man....They turned down $3bn acquisition offer from Facebook and now they will slowly fade out of the importance. I know their market cap is multiple times greater than $3bn they were offered but still they can't survive on t
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This has to be the future of gaming laptops(pcgamer.com)
3 points by mrkramer 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
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