Again, I'm all in.

Haha, I knew what that one was going to be without clicking. Great channel

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Yes

It can be whatever you want it to be, baby.

Wait... You're a baby crab, right?

The things I like are cheap...

Legal != Moral

Yes, because criminality has nothing to do with morals. If the state views you as a criminal, you are a criminal. That's why some criminals are still good people and cool.

Verified identities online, passport, face scan

the homebrewer i was buying from didn’t support this one, so i would’ve had to convert it, which means fees typically

anyways, i don’t really care to maintain a crypto portfolio. i buy the coin when i buy the thing, so volatility isn’t too much of a concern. my main annoyance is at the bonkers fees that exchanges want because they (rightly) recognize cryptobros as a milkable consumer base

i hate the people who turned a way to pay for things anonymously into a stock market.

A government promising it's worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Fiat currency is based on the government's ability to issue and service debt, which is based on its ability to collect taxes, which is based on the economy it oversees. It's a bit roundabout but the pieces all connect.

Crypto is supposed the compensation for providing compute resources to a blockchain, which ostensibly backs some application with actual intrinsic value. In that sense crypto is real, but there are no actual blockchains which support valuable applications. The entire thing much more closely resembles a ponzi scheme where real currency is deposited, and then the appreciation it experiences is proportional to the ratio of inputs vs withdrawals, without there being an actual asset creating value.

Doesn't dread's captcha force you to check the url? Afaik it makes you fill in specific parts of the url, so that you check that the url you are using is the same one they are using. Curious how the mirror was able to bypass that.

Regardless I just spent some initial investment saving the pgp public keys and making sure they are legit, so that I can use them to verify dread's mirrors.txt whenever needed. Faster than walking out to the street imo

Bubbles always burst eventually, just wait for it.

Although, without the grift, it would be super illegal, so should we really complain?

Crypto is not privacy.

Selfhost instance on .ru

Checks out. Hows the outlaw life?

Even the chatbots now can write code that compiles and does what you tell it to. I'm a system analyst and can code but I am slow. Now I can give a design to any of them and get code that works in a couple of hours, with most of the time spent iterating toward the right result

In the past it often took a week of afternoons and late nights to turn an idea into working code. I can see why programmers fear for their jobs

Wrong definition there bud.

Ridesharing still gets you the 33 cars.

Yeah, when it was "Hey, I drive to work every day, anyone else on this same route want to pay a bit for gas and share my ride?". It was kind of fine.

But now its just flat out people's "job" as a cabbie without proper cabbie regulation.

Yeah, like taxis, but without any protections or obligations that taxis provide

Sure, as long as everyone's going to the same place at the same time, and washes and doesn't blast horrendous trap music on a JBL.

I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely

Nah, infighting always works best.

I wish the average person was as open minded as you're giving them credit.

Italy. Because you need a license to be a taxi driver, and a random company cannot hand them out (and the taxi drivers union is powerful and corrupt). And because the government gotta know who is renting a room where, you can't just go wherever you want without anyone knowing, especially foreigners. Whenever you rent a room in Italy, the owner will take a picture of your ID/passport, and send your data to the local government. Also you gotta pay taxes on the rooms you rent.

@DarrinBrunner
I found it at $50 and knew it was for sketchy things but still tried (unsuccessfully) to convince my parents to let me give them my cash to use their debt card to buy some.

I could have paid off their house 😆
@rizzothesmall

crypto is untraceable (mostly)

It is very traceable. It's just that the government doesn't have a special position with tracing transactions, so there's been a bunch of kludges built on top of the very transparent Bitcoin network to try to mask things.

There are plenty of issues beyond that, especially BTC and similar coins being energy inefficient, just imagine if every single transaction ran through that. It wasn't designed to be practical.

And on the less technical side, the biggest contributor to crypto being despised by most people is the massive prevalence of scammers, from companies that pretend to help you invest (while being a ponzi scheme) to rug pulls to other scammers being attracted to it for its perceived anonymity.

Afaik there's legitimate uses for the underlying technology, but cryptocurrency is just inferior to regular digital currency from a practical standpoint, and you either have to put up with government regulation (defeating the purpose of a currency aside from government) or put up with fraud that can't be stopped by our governments.

crypto is untraceable (mostly)

Super super incorrect.

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Nah those food delivery bastards. They don't even go home after they just sit together taking up half the side walk

The modern banking system and monetary policy was created under FDR. Nixon just stoped pretending it was backed on gold and told de Gaulle to kick rocks when he asked for the gold back.

Realistically the changes under Nixon are peanuts compared to the digitization of it all since the introduction of systems like Swift.

Bitcoin is the youngest currency around and u like all of the other currencies it isn’t mandated or controlled by governments. If inventions have to be 100% perfect out of the gate then you’ll never get anything new.

That just not true across the board. I've found solo they are expensive but compared to getting a suite at a hotel they are competitive. You ain't beating the king room at a Hilton though, agreed.

It certainly isn't true AT ALL for group travel. I regularly stay in very nice homes for under $150/night per person.

It's still miles better than Cabs, I can't believe this even has to be argued! When was the last time anyone here defending cabs/shitting on Uber actually took a cab somewhere?

The few times I had to/decided to take a taxi, I got absolutely ripped off. And with an Uber, even if it's expensive, you at least know before hand how much you're paying. You can decline if you think it's too much. Good luck trying that with taxis.

I couldn't give a fuck any the regulations. They sucked and did nothing. Cabs were broken and Uber fixed that shit right up.

I'm experiencing the opposite, AirBnB has gotten ridiculous with their pricing. After all the fees and hassle it ends up cheaper staying at an actual hotel.

Yes, much better to choose currencies supported by state violence instead of math and open source software. /s

Oh yes, because the US and co. Have decided to put sanctions on a bunch of countries, the "3rd world people" are not allowed to buy products or services or make monetary transactions with the "civilized world"? No, fuck governments and fuck their sanctions and rules. People who insist on doing things, especially monetary transactions only the way the governments and states want to are the definition of bootlicker. Free economy requires free money (free as in freedom)