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by zepto 5y ago
> Even if scumbags are infatuated with something, Nobody is taking about infatuation except you. Obviously the comment is talking about the incentive for people to try to drive the value of their holdings up. The scumbags are the ones wh
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by zepto 5y ago
Crypto is different because the scumbags are motivated by the currencies themselves .
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by zepto 5y ago
There is no evidence they have such a desire. In fact the opposite is true. Why you want to find disease here is unclear.
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by zepto 5y ago
> That's what cooperatives are, family farms are, what you owning your laptop as a programmer are. These are just different kinds of organization within capitalism. Clubs are a thing too, you know. These aren’t ‘solutions to capita
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by zepto 5y ago
Ok, so you want a pre-literate hunter-gatherer society. I say give it your best shot!
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by zepto 5y ago
The person who is complaining isn’t offering an alternative, and none of the alternatives have been implemented successfully anywhere.
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by zepto 5y ago
*Solutions that nobody anywhere has ever implemented successfully.
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by zepto 5y ago
Or they could have just chosen a profession they don’t like?
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by zepto 5y ago
“ OP needs to stop being a baby and grow up…” You sound angry and defensive about your own solution to the problem. It’s not obvious how that is a more healthy response than to be depressed about it.
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by zepto 5y ago
“Workers”, human or not is irrelevant.
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by zepto 5y ago
People sit in them to do jobs that weren’t designed for humans.
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by zepto 5y ago
No, the process of converting raw materials into cash reduces the energy content so it’s not a store. It’s a consumer of energy.
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by zepto 5y ago
Ahh so you equate investment with success. Got it.
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by zepto 5y ago
What about Laserdisk? You seem to be only choosing technologies that were exceptionally successful. An odd bias. Most of them aren’t.
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by zepto 5y ago
This is a completely absurd claim. I make international payments regularly using things like Wise (formerly transferwise), and it’s far simpler than any crypto solution, and accepted by everyone. And yes, I own some crypto and could use it
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by zepto 5y ago
I assume this is just a troll or a joke. Clearly they are not.
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by zepto 5y ago
This is just false. Just spend 15 minutes less per day on video games or doomscrolling.
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by zepto 5y ago
You can’t, but then you can’t choose to ride a genetically engineered unicorn either. In either case someone would have to make one first.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Apple doesn't have the authority to shut down Meta's business. This is a silly statement that has nothing to do with reality. Apple has the right not to be forced to work for Meta. If people want Meta so much, they can choose
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by zepto 5y ago
> Claims about cheaper transaction costs with banks outside the country (primarily the US) turn out to be false These were always obviously false. Why did anyone believe the claims?
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by zepto 5y ago
It’s much harder than that to prevent fingerprinting, or the use of legitimate APIs for illegitimate purposes. In any case the idea that you can achieve privacy and security solely through managing APIs is simply false.
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by zepto 5y ago
> The OS, of course, could enforce that at a technical level, which weakens the argument significantly. This is simply not true. An app can lie about what it does, and nothing at a technical level can prevent that.
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by zepto 5y ago
> Every new model is just like the model from 10 years ago This statement is totally false.
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by zepto 5y ago
Why not just store it on the blockchain? That is guaranteed to be permanent and immutable according to web3 proponents.
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by zepto 5y ago
That link doesn’t work!
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by zepto 5y ago
> This is a chilling and dangerous responsibility to burden protestors with: No it’s not. It’s simply a reality. The way the chose to protest facilitated the looting. When the looting started they could have ended the protest and summ
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by zepto 5y ago
You didn’t actually mention any problems it solves. It’s not about awkward wording, it that the examples aren’t real.
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by zepto 5y ago
Autism is not comparable to blindness in any meaningful way, so no.
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by zepto 5y ago
You can delete that if you don’t like it.
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by zepto 5y ago
No they don’t. People want to run fast code. Rosetta is just a stopgap.

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