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by xur17 2y ago
Matcha has a good example of what this UX can look like. For example, I recently used it to swap sDAI on Ethereum for USDC on Arbitrum (a layer 2). It's wrapped in a single transaction that does the swap + the bridge with the best exch
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Interview with a Social Engineering Hacker(twitter.com)
1 points by xur17 2y ago|0 comments
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by xur17 2y ago
I find this whole conversation amusing. Growing up and going to school in the 2000s, Windows was the default choice, and I felt like I had to fight to use anything else. Now the conversation has reversed to some extent.
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by xur17 2y ago
Carryon bags - a fair amount of the time the airlines run out of overhead baggage space for the last people on the plane, and force you to check your bag.
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by xur17 2y ago
> I never said there aren't reasonable reasons to want to mix. Just that it's also reasonable to cast that activity as suspicious. I agree. The problem I have is that the federal government is making it illegal to obfuscate the
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by xur17 2y ago
> No, but it's reasonably suspicious. And if whatever service you use to "mix" your money is connected to crime, it's not unreasonable for you to have costs involved with defending yourself. If I'm sending crypto
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by xur17 2y ago
Why are NFTs highly problematic? I'd argue that a central authority is highly problematic as it will end up looking like the existing Google / Apple marketplaces with no ability to resell, etc. Removing the central authority would
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by xur17 2y ago
COAs are physical, and as referenced on that page, NFTs are the main solution to this.
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by xur17 2y ago
> Copyright has a thing called the first sale doctrine. You buy a book and now that copy is yours. You can sell it to someone else or lend it out etc., which is what libraries do. They don't have to negotiate with publishers at all,
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by xur17 3y ago
A 51% attack allows you to rewrite history, which allows you to "double spend". For example, you could send funds to an exchange and withdraw them in cash, then during the attack send them to yourself instead. The amount of comput
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by xur17 3y ago
The fed funds rate / tbill rate is above 5% right now.
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by xur17 3y ago
> Well, they said they often call from numbers they haven’t listed online. Worth noting - do not trust the incoming callerid number. This is trivial to fake.
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by xur17 3y ago
This is why we need a digital cash equivalent. Transferring value shouldn't have to cost 1-3% of the transaction value. It's an absurdly high tax.
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Reddit Says They Invested Excess Cash into BTC and ETH(twitter.com)
6 points by xur17 3y ago|0 comments
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by xur17 3y ago
Some definitely did. I distinctly recall my previous employer saying they were doing exactly that 5-6 years ago during an earnings call (keeping a large loan balance because interest rates were low, and they could use the money in the futur
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by xur17 3y ago
Oh, I agree that Clear is worth using since you get to skip the id line. My point is that Clear isn't making the process any more efficient - they instead created a "skip the line" option under the guise of "technology&q
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by xur17 3y ago
Agreed. And to make it worse, Clear speeds up the id checking phase of airport security, but that has never been the chokepoint in my experience (it's instead the xray scanner).
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by xur17 3y ago
Very cool! It would be neat to be able to click on a product and see a price history graph as well (since it seems like you should have this data your db).
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by xur17 3y ago
Curious about this as well. And this might be a dumb question, but the NOLS trips have age ranges, with the top group being 23 and older. Do NOLS trips lean younger / would someone in their 30s feel out of place?
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by xur17 3y ago
https://www.irs.gov/payments/underpayment-of-estimated-tax-b...
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by xur17 3y ago
I owed a decent chunk more one year due to investments I sold, and left the money in tbills since I knew I was withholding at least as much as the previous year.
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by xur17 3y ago
The IRS already thought of this - they charge you interest on the money you owed them (with some exceptions, like waiving it the first year it happens, only charging you if you withheld less than last year, etc).
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by xur17 3y ago
I imagine it has changed, but 10-ish years ago I recall having a cheap VoIP account that just let me enter whatever phone number I wanted as the caller ID.
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by xur17 3y ago
What about a minivan? All of my siblings with kids use them, and I genuinely think you can fit more cargo in them. My parents take the seats out, and use it to transport stuff from the hardware store, it can a bunch of kids, etc. I recently
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by xur17 3y ago
I've also heard it called "fuck you money".
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by xur17 3y ago
For me the biggest thing is having more control over my time. I enjoy working with my coworkers, and generally like the challenge, etc of working, but the biggest blocker to me continuing to work long term is being fully control of my time.
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by xur17 3y ago
> Assuming the market uses real money, then on paper someone should be able to make a roughly 2% return by betting that the event won't occur. However, if this market isn't closing for a while (for example for an election at th
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by xur17 3y ago
> These type of regulations looks good, but it's not fun or easy to do business in an overly regulated marked. This. Each regulation by itself sounds like something reasonable / potentially good, but trying to run a business in
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by xur17 3y ago
I've started to make up answers that could be accurate, but aren't obvious / the first thing someone would guess. For example, if the question is "where were you born?", I pick a random city.
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by xur17 3y ago
While I sort of agree, the "organized crime" ring would have to care enough to convert his face to a name / address, which is much more complicated than finding someone by name.

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