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by zepto 5y ago
Tldr: 1. When working on any kind of problem, task or question, embed yourself in a small group of peers with broadly similar concerns. 2. Get mentors. Copied here because I think these are actually excellent candidates, whereas Bloomberg i
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by zepto 5y ago
What are you talking about? How is it ‘walled’?
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by zepto 5y ago
> I don't expect the average person to ever transfer USDC the way it is done today, it would be a terrible user experience. Therefore the service you are comparing against is one that only exists in your imagination, and is not real
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by zepto 5y ago
I don’t know if you realize this but you proved my point perfectly. Someone defrauded you, and you were able to recover the money . With crypto, when you get defrauded, you will never see the money again. If you think there is no fraud in
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes, it is true. You can write that text all you like, but it wouldn’t be a legal contract. Hint: Who is do you think is signing that contract, and who is going to enforce it?
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by zepto 5y ago
The risk of the money being fraudulently taken back is close to zero. If you are worrying about that happening, then you are either a fraudster yourself, or just being paranoid. There is no major benefit to not having this. On the other h
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by zepto 5y ago
They aren’t cryptographically secure, obviously. The security comes from the capacity of the banks to hold or reverse them, and the capacity of the legal system to jail people for check fraud.
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by zepto 5y ago
Unlike with crypto where the money is always lost forever, mistakes with wires can usually be corrected. If you don’t understand Wires then you may be unaware of this.
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by zepto 5y ago
> NFTs don't necessarily represent ownership of the underlying asset They don’t ever .
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by zepto 5y ago
> that’s how people interpret NFTs Almost no ‘people’ interpret NFTs this way. > There’s no mental model for owning this inmaterial thing that is pegged to a digital file that can be duplicated infinitely without your approval. There
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by zepto 5y ago
> it wouldn't take too long for partition tolerant crypos emerge Wouldn’t it? This is an unsolved problem and there is nothing that implies it can ‘quickly emerge’. One of the paradoxes about crypto is that all problems with it can
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by zepto 5y ago
It’s incredible that you think it isn’t.
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by zepto 5y ago
Unless there is a typo, in which case it’s the easiest way to lose large amounts of money in existence.
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by zepto 5y ago
You are just using a bad bank. The bank I use lets you initiate a wire via their iPhone app, and then they simply call to confirm security details etc. Far easier and safer than anything crypto has to offer. Not to mention that it’s a com
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by zepto 5y ago
Why is ‘ wiring ’ so bad from your point of view?
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by zepto 5y ago
Such as?
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by zepto 5y ago
It’s not about what the author wrote. Of course what they wrote was their own opinion. It’s about you reading ‘bitterness’ in to what they wrote. The bitterness is in your mind.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Are descriptions such as "bitter" not the "plain and simple" truth for this post? I certainly think it reads bitterly. Erm, no? You yourself pointed out: “Well, readings are subjective…”
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by zepto 5y ago
The web is pretty sullied already, no?
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by zepto 5y ago
Separately from anything else. Just because the far right quotes something does not mean that something is either wrong, or political. This is true throughout the world. Simply saying ‘the far right likes it so it is bad’, is itself a susp
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by zepto 5y ago
Lots of people invest by buying small amounts regularly.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Also I just checked the median transaction amount on Bitcoin and it's something about $200. So it's reasonable to assume that at least half of all transactions are actual purchases of things and services. No it isn’t.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Those long established Chinese families represent a tiny minority of Asian American university students. I’m sure it doesn’t help that admissions discriminate against them because they look similar to the international students and fir
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by zepto 5y ago
You’re right. I was off by 10 years.
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by zepto 5y ago
> But a shallower explanation is the essence of what encyclopedias are all about, IMO I think that’s due to encyclopedias having been sets of books with limited space.
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you're Chinese, you gotta be really smart, the top 1% smart, to immigrate into the US. Ridiculous. There are long established Chinese communities in the US who came over to be railroad laborers. Why would they somehow be in th
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by zepto 5y ago
My work computer can’t take video calls. It is better that way. I have an iPad for that.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Put your OLED display in direct sunlight on a bright summer day and you will get effectively get no contrast at all, Recent iPhone oleds are dull but usable in direct sunlight.
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by zepto 5y ago
I don’t think they are entirely separate. I do think that exposure to racist sentiments has a very different effect depending on who you are. So indeed I think your personal racism is not a simple function of exposure. I’m sorry you pers
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by zepto 5y ago
If you want to use an Rpi4 as a desktop, you should seriously considered one of the more mainstream 64 bit distributions. I use Manjaro, for example, and it is excellent and far superior to Raspian, which is better suited to being an introd

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