trompetenaccoun

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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Always listen to your grandma. Most people understand their parents' generation fairly well, but there is a lot of knowledge in generations further removed from our own that generally gets dismissed. That's not to say we should ea
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
As far as known darknet markets go they've all switched from Bitcoin to Monero. If we're talking bigger fish it's speculation that they prefer cryptocurrency over traditional assets or cash in the first place. Follow the mone
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Is there any realistic estimate for how much cheaper SpaceX will be, compared to bringing cargo up on traditional rockets? I've seen Musk claim something ridiculous like it's 1% of the cost of legacy systems but guess that should
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Chinese companies produce those chips, that explanation makes little sense. Rather than the companies "hoarding", it may be they're simply not exporting as much to the US and Europe anymore, for political reasons. Any major c
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Yep, economics definitely belongs in the social science field. The problem is, even in the "hard" sciences a lot of research is hardly scientific. When it comes to human behavior it probably could be studied in a more thorough and
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Monero is just a digital currency anyway, similar to Bitcoin if Bitcoin had cheap transactions. You can hardly run anything on the network. Something like Ethereum might be an option once it scales properly and when transaction costs come d
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
The headline makes it sound like it's about sci hub, maybe that that's why people are confused.
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Someone who doesn't understand finance and doesn't know how to invest is bound to lose the money sooner or later. There is always fraud, there's always wastefulness. How many generations it takes is irrelevant, that number fo
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
It's all a question of politics. Based on what I see there is no doubt that digital currencies are coming. Governments are not going to just give up their currency monopoly, so the only logical consequence is central bank digital curre
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Schickedanz Heiress of a multi-billion dollar online retail business in Germany. She was the 13th richest woman in the world at one point. Gave her entire wealth to a private ban
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
The government needs to finally ban Windows. In addition to being insecure it's used by many criminals for their scams and blackmail operations.
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Nope, quality went down a lot with even more unfunny memes and reposts than previously thinkable. Moons made it worse, just like donuts ruined ethtrader (and even lead to most of the users leaving starting their own sub). Of course that won
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Of course the money would flow to safe havens an accumulate there. Besides all the known issues with UBI, a populists' favorite. This thread demonstrates vividly how little the average person understands about economics and finance, ev
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
This isn't true. Firstly in a totalitarian state they can already freeze your assets at will. Chinese banks regularly do this and there's nothing the victims can do about it. Secondly, although unlikely that states will do so, it&
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
And how many were written by GPT-3, while at it. Soon this will be a thing.
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
The "Unchained" podcast by Laura Shin is good for that. It's mainly focused on Ethereum and Bitcoin.
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Lots of Yunnanese bats in Hubei. Who doesn't know the famous caves of downtown Wuhan where they congregate every evening.
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by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Your article mentions the "Wuhan Institute of Virology", which one also finds named in a couple of news articles and scientific publications. However what is rarely discussed is that the Wuhan CDC (武汉市疾病预防控制中心), which also has a v
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by trompetenaccoun 6y ago
No. They decreed that the respective currencies stopped being legal tender (against the will of the people in many cases, btw) and so the people had no choice but to swap their money for Euros. The exchange rate was fixed and the currency w
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by trompetenaccoun 6y ago
That's a really good picture. I'd love to see how far they can zoom in with classified spy satellites these days.