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by threevox 5y ago
There's no point in paying for essentially any streaming service these days. Piracy legitimately provides a better user experience for free if you know how to do it right
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by threevox 5y ago
Only viable solution
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by threevox 5y ago
I'm neither a Lambda School hater nor a patent lawyer, but it seems a little far-fetched to me that a company can lay claim to a letter of the Greek alphabet. I wonder if the settlement made Lambda School's name change absolutely
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by threevox 5y ago
Taking Tether's PR statements at face value is like doing the same for Bernie Madoff
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by threevox 5y ago
At risk of continuing the devolution of this thread, anti-vax != "Republicans bad". Disingenuous false equivalence. One is the pinnacle of dangerous, malicious misinformation and the other is just a political opinion held by some
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by threevox 5y ago
That's what I saw claimed, but that wouldn't go away the very second Facebook came online again
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by threevox 5y ago
LOL - score one against building out all tooling internally (a la Amazon and apparently Facebook too)
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by threevox 5y ago
That's why you don't store money in your bank account, you keep it in investment vehicles which also appreciate in value over the long run (not the best inflation foil, but an OK one)
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by threevox 5y ago
Seems more like fraud/money laundering, from what I can tell
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by threevox 5y ago
Well, they officially don't guarantee that they will redeem Tethers, but in practice they do, at least for the time being. So any withdrawal pressure would be de facto rather than de jure
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by threevox 5y ago
Unfortunately there is a fundamental difference: that of a O(1) vs O(n) lookup. While this makes little difference to the casual user, it definitely makes a difference to the power user, let alone the programmer
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by threevox 5y ago
The word "a" is also in "Evergrande"
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by threevox 5y ago
I agree, this does feel like a sea change. Not to mention that it's coinciding with the end of the CCP being a more or less reasonable ruling body (video game bans, corruption purges, increased propaganda, etc.)
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by threevox 5y ago
That should surprise exactly no one, given how unreliable Chinese official figures are
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by threevox 5y ago
Yet more evidence that people should stick with dogs as pets, as co-evolution intended /s
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by threevox 5y ago
This really should be higher - really well-made video on something incredibly important
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by threevox 5y ago
False equivalence much?
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by threevox 5y ago
This aged poorly. Ironically, I've never seen anyone get banned on reddit for incorrect opinions
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by threevox 5y ago
A bit of a false equivalence, not to mention a tired trope
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by threevox 5y ago
I can't decide if this is perfectly cogent or utter bullshit. The site itself makes plenty of sense and is even mildly technical. However, the Twitter account associated with the site ( https://twitter.com/UAPTheory ) is
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by threevox 5y ago
Right, I think Ponzi is a more accurate potential criticism of crypto
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by threevox 5y ago
So, judging by this guy's Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Ceg%C5%82owski ), it's somewhat obvious he's a stooge. But I don't think his point is terrible - in fact, I rather agree
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by threevox 5y ago
It's certainly the closest thing to the central idea of the Ponzi scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
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by threevox 5y ago
It doesn't matter what profit rate Tether or any other Ponzi scheme claims to provide. In the case of Tether, they're claiming you'll have a profit rate of 0%, which is still worse than you should be getting, given that it
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by threevox 5y ago
It is a more general form of a Ponzi scheme, where you substitute the nominal positive returns from Madoff's scheme with a theoretical stable price, when in reality both schemes should (if the author of this article is right) offer a s
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by threevox 5y ago
That's a terrible argument in the financial world. Obviously this would be a Black Swan type of event like the 2009 financial crisis - there wouldn't necessarily be foreboding events or even the ability to predict when this would
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by threevox 5y ago
Technically, you could withdraw your money for a profit from Bernie Madoff's company for a long time
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by threevox 5y ago
Well, the unsustainability of a negative sum game being masked by new investment is basically the most general form of a Ponzi scheme, and that's what this article is arguing Tether is
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by threevox 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. What the hell?
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by threevox 5y ago
On one hand, you can pay ~$30/mo to have somebody else do your web browsing for you. On the other hand, you can use an adblocker (free), Brave Browser (free), and just not have 8 quintillion tabs open. I'm trying to be open minded

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