nyolfen

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   by nyolfen 3y ago

   this is exactly what he said if you finish reading the comment
2. 152.▲
   by nyolfen 3y ago

   > If the US or Australian government had solid evidence of something like that the article claims, I have no doubt that they would be shouting it from the rooftops. this is literally what they are doing
3. 153.▲
   by nyolfen 3y ago

   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-16/chinese-s...
4. 154.▲
   by nyolfen 3y ago

   what threshold would you find convincing? it performs all conventionally defined functions of money, it is legally recognized as money in some jurisdictions, it is useful as a store of value and medium of exchange. japanese yen might as wel
5. 155.▲
   by nyolfen 3y ago

   i run a small retail shop that sells digital goods for btc. i bought a book with btc two months ago. more convincingly, it's widely used for remittances and as a store of value in countries with debased currencies -- this is a powerful
6. 156.▲
   by nyolfen 4y ago

   parler was actually built on wordpress, lol
7. 157.▲
   by nyolfen 4y ago

   there is nothing unique about conservative media in this regard
8. 158.▲
   by nyolfen 4y ago

   many of the now dyed-in-the-hair socjus types i knew as a teenager were racist channers 15 years ago
9. 159.▲
   by nyolfen 4y ago

   ah, vibes-based reasoning
10. 160.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    why is this the case? why hasn't it been the case until now? what has changed that would reverse the constant trend toward centralization?
11. 161.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    i think neocities would be the more direct analogue https://neocities.org/browse
12. 162.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    thank goodness we have the US federal government to bring its weight to bear on a company in china handling a $600 transaction from a bad guy in palestine
13. 163.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    it is a floating signifier for a variety of projects and technologies, some of which include crypto -- the unifying goals are decentralization and data ownership but these do not require crypto. if you think it is just a marketing gimmick (
14. 164.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    these gpt wrapper apps as a business model are going the way of the dodo, things are moving way too fast
15. 165.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    bitcoin uses sha256, is that crypto?
16. 166.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    web3 is not crypto either (crypto is merely a constituent metaproject). these are important distinctions, like saying web2 is a database or something
17. 167.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    ipfs is not a crypto project
18. 168.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    choosing a sex partner is stealth eugenics
19. 169.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    sorry, is the debate here whether gpt can engage in a conversation with someone and respond using previous context? why would any of this present a challenge given its known abilities?
20. 170.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    surely this should be reflected in mortality rates, then, right? and yet...
21. 171.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    there are definitely people with symptoms that could be described as long covid; there are many others who are pathological hypochondriacs that latch onto whatever is floating around the memetic ecology that explains the physical manifestat
22. 172.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    just demand that they use a slur, this is the true voight-kampff
23. 173.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    i would be happy to use the OTHERS if they were comparable products
24. 174.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    i challenge you to identify a single actual human whose life he "ruined"
25. 175.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    do any other keys have feature sets on par with yubikeys? last i checked they were ahead by a mile, the others i looked at were just fido2 keys
26. 176.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    there was a cool app called krypt that did this for ios, with push notifications to your phone when you ssh'd, where requests were authenticated against your secure enclave. then it got bought by akamai and turned into some b2b saas cr
27. 177.▲
    by nyolfen 4y ago

    i think this applies to every audio player software that has ever been developed
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    by nyolfen 4y ago

    > We are all inclined to accept the Zemskov totals (even if not as complete) with their 14 million intake to Gulag 'camps' alone, to which must be added 4—5 million going to Gulag 'colonies', to say nothing of the 3.5
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    by nyolfen 4y ago

    > There are not "more border crossings" today, there are fewer. less than uh, 2010 maybe. there were less than a million mexican nationals in the US in 1970. there has been an unprecedented explosion in migration from latam in
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    by nyolfen 4y ago

    the country with 20% of its labor force in penal colonies at its peak?