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by user34283 1y ago
Just like it's going to make you a better engineer if you design the microchips in your workstation yourself instead of buying an x86 CPU. It's still neither realistic nor helpful advice.
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by user34283 1y ago
My mouse and keyboard are connected via the USB dock function of my monitor. After the update, I can't even login. Great. Not that it was working well before. To get the second monitor to even turn on, I had to first power off and then
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by user34283 1y ago
No more deserving than any other of the crypto cultists. Whether you fall for an elaborate phish, or if your Ponzi-token predictably loses value after your 'investment' was cashed out as an earlier adopter's profit, it's
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by user34283 1y ago
> I can get 2-10% interest on my crypto holdings without any commitments So you pay little to nothing, and get interest. Ever think about where the money comes from?
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by user34283 1y ago
Not quite. The USDC reserve is "attested" rather than "audited" on a monthly basis. While that particular company might have a good reputation for crypto standards, it still is no bank. It faces less strict requirements
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by user34283 1y ago
Crypto was never gambling. It's a wealth redistribution scheme. I don't trust stablecoins that are built on the same technology, by the same actors, and are then used to facilitate most of crypto's trading volume. I am not co
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by user34283 1y ago
People who ask such questions aren't stupid enough to be in crypto. It's easy to unravel the entirety of crypto: Who is willing to spend any money for crypto? It's the same people who want to profit from reselling crypto at
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by user34283 1y ago
Ah, I've made an "extreme case" now? That's rich. I essentially argued for the necessity of basic financial enforcement that every functioning democracy relies on. I guess you consider it authoritarian when you don'
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by user34283 1y ago
Absolute financial privacy is not a liberal principle. It's a fantasy cooked up by crypto enthusiasts and anti-government ideologues. You cannot enforce sanctions, prevent money laundering, protect consumers, or collect taxes if transa
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by user34283 1y ago
Property rights exist within a legal framework defined by the people, through law. What you're talking about here with self-ownership and the state "infringing" upon property rights when you're taxed and can't trans
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by user34283 1y ago
Talk about rejecting nuance, but now the state is "all powerful" because you can't transact privately. Yes, the state has control of finance and transactions. It always does. Democracies are build on principles like Popular s
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by user34283 1y ago
> financial privacy is an important part of having a functioning democracy No, I don't think it is. Perhaps privacy for speech and voting are.
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by user34283 1y ago
> How long before its seperated from it original aim and just turned into a gambling token Always has been. I mean it was useful for online gaming related transactions, like 15 years ago. Ever since it has become a more obvious scam with
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by user34283 1y ago
Spot on. Some think we need financial freedom, but in reality it's the freedom to fund scams and malware, launder money, dodge taxes, and buy stuff that’s illegal. That won't become legal just because you use "Monero" or
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by user34283 1y ago
Freedom here means transacting without: -- anti-money laundering safeguards sanctions enforcement consumer protection tax enforcement fraud prevention systems -- It is very true that technology won't get you this freedom from sensible
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by user34283 1y ago
I gave that a try, but it wasn't particularly economic. I considered buying a keyboard for this case. I then decided against it. Probably carrying a MacBook Air makes more sense if I want to get work done on the go. That said, I'm
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by user34283 1y ago
The functional advantage should be obvious as soon as you open a book or website. Particularly so if the content has a table, grid, or similar. Typing isn't perfect, but it's somewhat better. Photos and images are so much better o
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by user34283 1y ago
I care little about privacy, but OneUI just looks ugly to me. It starts with Samsung's app icons. They all feel like a cheap knockoff of either Apple or Google to me. I don't want to get a device where the UI looks like this. Othe
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by user34283 3y ago
Hackernews and kbin.social have mobile websites that actually work well. Much better than Reddit. I‘m more afraid about the backend side of things, apparently those decentralized services are not at all ready to scale to a lot of users.
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by user34283 3y ago
„It’s useful, why not“ is not a good basis for regulation. Although the EU seems to think otherwise time and time again.