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by webXL 2y ago
Why do people need to be on guard for those beliefs? People should be critical thinkers and not thought police. Granted, there are all kinds of whackos in crypto, but we should only be concerned about the immoral ones trying to scam us out
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by webXL 2y ago
What makes the “b-word” dirty?
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by webXL 3y ago
Sure, let's go!
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by webXL 3y ago
Odds are they lost access because they didn't treat it as something really valuable. A good idea is to learn how to safely store and backup your keys (plural). If you allow others to hold your bitcoin, particularly a large one that cou
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by webXL 3y ago
Why is collective bargaining power a concern of the FTC? I would have thought that bargaining power would have increased with a merger (despite being smaller overall with layoffs).
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by webXL 3y ago
Perhaps people should get off these me-too-coin casinos and just self-custody their bitcoin if they are serious about saving.
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by webXL 3y ago
Sadomasochism is alive an well.
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by webXL 3y ago
Definitely enjoying that irony, although the smart home products came first for me. Re. #2, I like the peace of mind that I haven't left lights on when I head out of town and also the security benefit of programming them to periodicall
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by webXL 3y ago
"Charter contended the $600 figure was inaccurate, arguing that its Spectrum TV Select service in Los Angeles only cost around $219 a year more than Google's YouTube TV service," according to a MediaPost article in Augus
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by webXL 3y ago
How was that even “remotely regarding…”?
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by webXL 3y ago
Seems back up. I'd love to get a deep-dive into some of the recent outages and some reassurance that they're committed to stability over new features. I talked to a CS person a couple months ago and they pretty much blamed the lac
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by webXL 3y ago
Gensler explicitly stated that BTC was a commodity about a year ago: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/06/278669...
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by webXL 3y ago
I'd give some benefit of the doubt like perhaps it was taken out of context, but... "bro"!? roflmao at the brazenness
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by webXL 3y ago
WTF? That's incredibly sad. Suddenly I'm interested in DVDs again.
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by webXL 4y ago
I don't know who said it first, but it was something to the effect "the Fed will raise rates until they break something." The rapid move away from ZIRP might be the real culprit here.
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by webXL 4y ago
The investors sure don't. But I'm not sure how failing to provide a backstop for deposits would help anything here other than the big four. FDIC insurance doesn't make sense to me for businesses. If a startup receives $25M of
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by webXL 4y ago
Let's hope (for all our sake) your work continues for a loooong time, fun and not-so-fun. Until we all can self-bank!
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by webXL 4y ago
I don't know who Brad Hargreaves is (or if his area of expertise makes him qualified to opine) but his previous tweet is interesting: > CEOs yesterday faced a hard choice: Pull your deposits and go into default on your venture debt
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by webXL 4y ago
well.. you didn't give me much to go on: > It's because we don't want borderless payments. That's why nations set up borders in the first place.
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by webXL 4y ago
So, let me get this straight, your nation should have zero influence/dependence on anything outside of its borders?
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by webXL 4y ago
There are probably at least 20 stereotypes/organizations objectively more dangerous than "crazy MAGA freak with a gun", but congratulations, you've contributed to political divisiveness on a tech-oriented forum!
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by webXL 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree, but can you please clarify "a lot less than one billion"?
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by webXL 4y ago
> FSD reliably and repeatedly tries to stop at green lights on a 50 mph road near me I believe that's a "feature". I had it on a loaner too and it wants you to give it permission to cross the intersection by pressing down
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by webXL 4y ago
> "you have a vote to force others to comply to the majority" is less terrifying to you?
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by webXL 4y ago
That's largely because academia favors central planning and doesn't trust those without a graduate degree to make socially optimal choices. They want to be the planners the masses depend on and Mises tried to show that desire was
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by webXL 4y ago
Targets to ban internal combustion engines will put an enormous strain on battery costs. Someone mentioned "massive pumped storage" but there's hardly any water where you'd want to build solar plants. Industry and even t
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by webXL 4y ago
I highly recommend YouTube Comment Search[1]. I just searched for "hike" and got three Putin Price Hike quips from Psaki (yesterday's brief). The masses are being programmed to look away from monetary policy. The last time an
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by webXL 4y ago
> Nobody owes another country trade. ...not the rest of the world for wanting to avoid trading with a warmonger. You're conflating decent people with their indecent governments. There are plenty of decent people who would gladly tra
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by webXL 5y ago
This is about as close as you can get to the government suing itself. Turbotax is the dominant player in an industry created by the government. Tax prep fees are just another tax.
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by webXL 5y ago
Blow away by the different tech demo'd here. It reminded me of "The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart

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