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by usednet 4y ago
Just look at what happened when Gaddafi tried to create a gold backed dinar.
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by usednet 4y ago
Just reading the article and remembering my last hospital visit gives me a headache. I got better treatment in Tunisia than at an American hospital in a wealthy area. What an embarrassment for us being the only developed country without uni
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by usednet 4y ago
Extremely popular with college students right now.
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by usednet 4y ago
Now its on Tiktok, before it was on Instagram, before that Twitter, and so on. Is this really news? There’s far more interesting scamming communities on the clearweb than the kids selling shitty methods on Tiktok for $20.
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by usednet 4y ago
I played competitive FPS games for years at high ranks with a Bluetooth headset before learning of the delay. I did not notice. However, for a while I switched to a Bluetooth keyboard and until I realized the input delay was severely impact
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by usednet 4y ago
Ponzis can be very profitable. I think algorithmic stablecoins are stupid too.
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by usednet 4y ago
Pretty much all under the table crypto transactions are in Monero, Zcash, or other privacy coins. Bitcoin’s utility is horrible compared to most other cryptos, its purely a store of value.
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by usednet 4y ago
The parent comment was edited to remove the section on UST after my comment.
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by usednet 4y ago
AFAIK, Tether will not convert to USD for you unless you register and have >100k Tether. Therefore, most holders only ability to “cashout” is on exchanges. Obviously, this is problematic.
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by usednet 4y ago
Your explanation is incorrect, please see my reply to the comment under yours. You should edit it so people aren’t misinformed.
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by usednet 4y ago
That explanation is not correct. Algorithmic stablecoins rely on a pairing with another crypto, in UST’s case LUNA. 1 UST can always be swapped to $1 US dollar of LUNA. It is interchangable, so $1 US dollar’s worth of LUNA can also be swap
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by usednet 4y ago
No, but when many major exchanges only have USDT pairs people are forced to use it.
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by usednet 4y ago
Yeah. Furthermore, I don’t know how CMC calculates their total but if it uses fully diluted market cap, the crypto total would be even less by a large amount.
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by usednet 4y ago
Bari Weiss doesn’t seem to know basic economics. Are all consumer goods perfectly competitive markets? No. Is demand for consumer goods highly inelastic? Yes. Does the author account for collusion? No. One can’t just say that consumers shou
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by usednet 4y ago
I’m curious as to what HN’s VPNs of choice are. I personally use IVPN and Mullvad.
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by usednet 4y ago
Lovely. The same Bill Gates that convinced Oxford to sell their low-cost/free vaccine to Astrazeneca, creating billions in profit at the cost of global health.
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by usednet 4y ago
I studied the atomic bombings extensively in college and it seemed abundantly clear that the decision to drop the bombs was barbaric and unnecessary. The question of whether or not the Japanese offered to surrender before is largely irrelev
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by usednet 4y ago
How exactly do you suggest the federal government create 4 trillion dollars in yearly profits?
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by usednet 4y ago
I wish Valve still cared about Team Fortress 2. Unfortunately their terrible work distribution system has lead to the complete abandonment of many of their most popular franchises.
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by usednet 5y ago
Easy to say that, harder to live it. Would you willingly choose to receive treatment from a less trained, less accurate NP? I wouldn’t, even if I had to wait longer.
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by usednet 5y ago
I’m sorry but are you stupid? Your first comment is literally whataboutism, which I made fun of in response.
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by usednet 5y ago
I’m not fundamentally opposed to pigovian taxes, they are the best option in many cases. For climate change, definitely not the best option. I personally advocate for cap and trade.
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by usednet 5y ago
I’m getting deja vu to “WMDs”, “moderate rebels,” “dictators,” and “national security.” Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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by usednet 5y ago
Because then you get a gag order and a wiretap.
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by usednet 5y ago
I like Steve Keen. I find his work convincing and practical.
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by usednet 5y ago
Nobody within the hacking scene actually believed that story. It’s remarkable that there’s been 0 evidence that Kaspersky has ever had a backdoor yet so many people believe it. The NSA’s own incompetence led them to run an antivirus on a co
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by usednet 5y ago
I agree, and I think that what you said about the rate being incorrect is right. Pigovian taxes are great in models but extraordinarily difficult to implement. Measuring externalities, especially of something like carbon production, is a mo
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by usednet 5y ago
Yes. The FTC, BigLaw, and tech are highly interconnected. > Public Citizen found that just over 75 percent of top FTC officials (31 out of 41) over the past two decades have either left the agency to serve corporate interests confronting
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by usednet 5y ago
> Onyx Boox Nova Air Color with Kaleido Plus Somebody fire their naming guy
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by usednet 5y ago
It’s pretty clearly abusive and not under the scope of AC privilege. In fact multiple cases have resulted in companies with similar behavior being forced to turn over the material.

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