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by numtel 4y ago
I'm guessing that it's so that when you search for a long duration of stay, many of the listings will be unavailable but with split stays they can make it easier to figure out how to plan a longer stay, so you don't have to l
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by numtel 4y ago
It's closer to what Magway is doing in Britain https://www.magway.com/
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by numtel 5y ago
Postgres
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by numtel 5y ago
Who else could have an estimated $40 billion and not bother touching it? My guess is that it's the Mars fund and when Starship is ready, those first coins will move.
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by numtel 5y ago
There's a British startup founded by a hyperloop engineer trying to do this. https://www.magway.com/
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by numtel 5y ago
> A single marketplace providing an API for moving goods from point A to point B priced by weight, special requirements (refrigerated transport, etc), timeliness and the current state of the market (dynamic pricing) could work. This is i
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by numtel 5y ago
Well, there is Nexo which is basically the same but headquartered in Bulgaria.
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by numtel 5y ago
While using a vaporizer is better than smoking, try switching to edibles (especially ones without sugar like tablets or oils) so that there's no ritual involved with ingestion. Much of the habit is packing the vaporizer and holding it
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by numtel 5y ago
Blockfi isn't defi. If they had used defi, like aave, they would have avoided this whole situation.
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by numtel 5y ago
A related idea I've had is that: when a living being reproduces asexually, the conscious observer does not split, and is able to experience both bodies. That is, all bacteria exist as one living being with many bodies. To test this, I&
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by numtel 5y ago
> I believe that inertia might be quantized, and if so, it might be possible to take advantage of this to build spacecraft that don't need exhaust to work. This idea is new to me. From (what appears to be a fan site) quantizedinerti
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by numtel 5y ago
As I've gained years and felt like things keep getting stranger and stranger, I've come to wonder about this type of immortality, but I don't deliberately test it myself. "From your own perspective, you will never die.&q
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by numtel 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. The article was talking about shutting down Facebook so that is the source of the reference.
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by numtel 5y ago
We found the anti-democrat! Ideally power should go to the best ideas but since each of us is limited in knowledge, the wisdom of the crowd is the next best option. Is being a read-only user of ENS, zero skin in the game?
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by numtel 5y ago
> No doubt, these censors and would-be censors have the best of intentions. I would contend that profit is at least partially the intention of these actors, largely indirectly by people who are invested in stock markets. Capitalism is a
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by numtel 5y ago
Until there's a viable solution to 1-person, 1-vote for DAOs, this is going to be the case everywhere. Detailed in the "Who Watches the Watchmen" paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/f
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by numtel 5y ago
> The Federal Reserve Act does not authorize direct Federal Reserve accounts for individuals, and such accounts would represent a significant expansion of the Federal Reserve’s role in the financial system and the economy. Under an inter
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by numtel 5y ago
Just wait until you find out that there's not even a block explorer for monero.
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by numtel 5y ago
Oh, come on. The hood height is still tall enough to block the view of any small humans.
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by numtel 5y ago
The identity owned is the private key.
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by numtel 5y ago
Messages are signed by cryptographic signatures so nobody can claim to be you. This is how JWTs and many other protocols ensure message authenticity.
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by numtel 5y ago
I haven't looked at his twitter recently but, to use Cornel West's brilliant term, being a long-distance revolutionary is a very difficult position to maintain.
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by numtel 5y ago
Well, except for ransom attacks, nobody is forced to use a public cryptocurrency. For it to be common and being proud of one's economic transaction history would be awesome. In the 90s, experiments in publicity like reality TV and the
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by numtel 5y ago
The parent comment doesn't deny climate change. Cars (even electric ones) are quite terrible for the environment: huge roads everywhere, each one only serves a few people, etc. Public transit infrastructure is a much better option for
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by numtel 5y ago
How ridiculous that the main feature is to "sign" the document but it asks for name and email instead of a cryptographic signature
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by numtel 5y ago
I haven't watched this video but I want to say that this movie, written by Dave Sirota, the editor of In These Times magazine from many years ago has spent so long working with climate scientists and journalists that this movie he crea
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by numtel 5y ago
I would like to see more information about how Secret network's TEEs (trusted execution environments) are secure. The fact that they rely on special features of some Intel proessors makes me think that any sufficiently powerful actor w
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by numtel 5y ago
A few issues with this: 1. Not all crypto currencies are public. See monero, haven, secret network. Although that last one depends on some specific features of some Intel processors... I'm of the opinion that the pseudonymous nature of
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by numtel 5y ago
Since credit card payment processors heavily restrict crowdfunding applications, cryptocurrency is the only option for unmoderated crowdfunding. Combined with the public nature of blockchains, this massively increases the legibility of the
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by numtel 5y ago
For me, the essential point of web 3.0 apps isn't the use of blockchain as datastore but user-generated keypairs for authentication instead of a `users` table in a database: no more "sign up" buttons, just connect. This enabl

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