Akujin

Screenshot to an OCR reader defeats that really quickly.

I didn't consider using it for piracy cause I didn't even know Telegram had groups. Heh. Talk about drawing attention.

I just recently replaced FB messenger between my GF and myself with Matrix.org + Riot.im.

Hosting the server (synapse) yourself takes about 15 minutes to setup.

I highly recommend it.

It's not multithreaded so it's impossible to use in production.

If people are being stupid I'm gonna call them stupid.

This is like me talking about dollars and you go "paper has existed for much longer than dollars".

This is why I (almost) never comment online. Too many idiots posing as experts.

Comparing two financial instruments during their lifetimes is now a false comparison apparently.

Reading comprehension is hard. I know.

(No where did I say Tulips)

The worst part of all of this Bitcoin speculation is that you have someone like the person you're replying to get on and talk out of their ass. Literally. And then they are the ones getting upvoted cause all the haters love to talk to trash with zero intellectual honesty.

This is actually bubble #4. Here's an analysis of the previous 3: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@huku/bitcoin-bubbles-a-brief-hi...

Tulipmania lasted 6 months. Bitcoin is now 8 years old.

Stop comparing Bitcoin to flowers. It's not even close to the same thing.

This was part of Twitch from the very beginning. The idea that it's "new" is really just ignorant people finding out after the fact and then complaining about it as if it wasn't always there.

MP3s are so small compared to the rest of the internet now that there's a glut of shady websites that cater to people trying to get MP3s. Rings tones are a great example why someone with a Spotify account might google an mp3 for a song. Meanwhile you've got tons of semilegal mixes on Soundcloud and Mixcloud. Spotify and Apple Music is just convenience.

These sites also cater to the leaks scene. Every single hot album to drop recently was leaked 24-72 hours before dropping on "official" sources like Spotify. This makes even those people that have Spotify accounts look for MP3s.

Napstar was replaced by torrents. People still download music without paying for it all day every day.

Newegg takes Bitcoin...... so electronics?

You can also buy fiat currency (dollars, euro, yen).

I vote liberal actually.

It's odd..... you write down an opinion and people make all these ideological assumptions.

Maybe just chill the fuck out for two seconds and be a little bit introspective on why you get so mad when a stranger speaks his or her mind?

Yea.... I'm sure you report all your purchases at the duty free as soon as you get to American soil.

If you go to Newegg and buy stuff, you are obligated under US tax law to pay the capital gains taxes based on the fair market value of the products purchased. If you go to a bitcoin meetup and sell with cash, you are still obligated to pay taxes.

I recently bought a GTX 1080 TI with USD

Amazon wanted to charge me 7%. Newegg charged me no state tax.

Which do you think I went with?

Like our president said.

"I'm smart for not paying taxes." - The president Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/donald-trump-federal...

This is also why people shop in Delaware. I wonder how many of those people reported their purchases to Pennsylvania.

My intention is to HODL and have a discussion. These are all hypotheticals.

What bothers me about this whole thing is that I never bought it like a stock. I mined it YEARS ago when it was worthless.

Now all of a sudden I have to pay tax on something I already own? Seems like the government is double dipping. After all I already paid tax on the hardware, the internet connection, the electricity, and countless other market products that allowed me to mine said coin.

I have a couple of choices now.

I can either sign up for Coinbase and sell it and kiss 15% of it good bye or I can go on Newegg and buy stuff directly with Bitcoin.... or go to a bitcoin meetup and sell with cash in-person..... or go on vacation in Europe and get Euro and again keep it off the books.

Which do you think I'm gonna end up doing?

PS: My address has never been tied to an IRL transaction.

PPS: God damn it's easy to troll HN. More salt than the dead sea.

Philadelphia is quickly gentrifying and this has caused massive lines in voting districts in the recently gentrified neighborhoods. Where voting lines used to be 15 minutes long they are now 2+ hours. We've been trying to get them to split the voting district into two here in Northern Liberties for a while but apparently it's falling on deaf ears. These are by the way "well-to-do" young professionals so it's in the interest of both Republicans and Democrats to fix this.

Meanwhile 10 minutes away at Temple University you have 2 hour lines at polling close. If the dems want to win PA they need to get their voting district shit together in the city.

It would not have made much off a difference. The spread in the entire state was about 90k but when I saw the lines at the universities it made me wonder about the entire state.

I used to live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a new "rich" neighborhood and the lines there are usually 15-30 minutes. Granted the population there doesn't fluctuate much.

AdAway but it requires root so it can block things via the hosts file

Yea... but how much of those features are really from HTC, Samsung, et al and not duplicates of features from iOS or even custom roms from XDA?

I'm so done with Google. This would be like Microsoft ending security updates for Windows 8.1 after only two years.

By the way you can get a custom rom from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development

This. So much this. I had the Nexus 5 as well.

The 6P offers me:

- Aluminum case.

- 1080p screen

- 4K video recording

- Slow-motion video recording @ 1080p 240fps

- 12.3MP single shot

- A good enough CPU for lag free web browsing, spotify, snapchat, instagram, etc.

Why the fuck would I pay $700+ for a new phone for marginal improvements???

I don't agree with that assessment. I've been using Android since 1.0.

The default experience is simply just that. No frills. No skins. Just Google apps. What exactly did they pull from HTC or Samsung that is now in the Gapps package?

Android comes without Google apps as well. Gapps package installs Gmail, Maps, etc but not much in the way of frills.

I can't bring myself to buy a Samsung device. The bloatware is cringy as fuck. Maaaybe if it was unlocked right away and someone on XDA put together a Google only rom but short of that I'll never willingly buy a Samsung device.

One of each of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y2YYS2L/ref=oh_aui_deta... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWIPITS/ref=oh_aui_deta...

They work just fine at the gym, at home, and at work but when in a crowded public space the cutting in/out is consistent.

I currently have a Nexus 6P. It was the flagship before the Pixel series. I use Bluetooth headphones daily on my commute using the Philly subway system (SEPTA). In center city and around suburban station I experience sound cutting in and out all the time on two different wireless bluetooth headphones. It seems to work just fine in my apartment when I don't need it but is never reliable when there's a ton of other signals around.

I can't stand the current state of the industry. New phones cost more but offer little in terms of value. They also look like trash. Who actually thought it was a good idea to make a flag ship phone have a two tone plastic case?

I'll be sticking to my aluminum cased 6P for a while. I'm also likely to get it again when this one finally dies. There's absolutely nothing that makes me want a Samsung or a Google branded Android phone right now.

Well thanks for that. Now I know what not to use.

I have the same background as you. Crimea, not Moscow.

Americans will never understand. Our parents stood in breadlines. We are making six figures in America.

It's not about wealth. It's about a culture that respects hard work, education, and opportunity.