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My experiences have all been like this too. I am puzzled by how some people say it works for them

True. People use completely unjustified anthropomorphised terminology for marketing reasons and it bothers me a lot. I think it actually holds back understanding how it works. "Hallucinate" is the worst - it's an error and undesired result, not a person having a psychotic episode

Soft skills aren't underrated. On the contrary, people talk about them all the damn time to the point that it dominates hiring practices and the interview process

I have used it, but i dont see how it is related to being able to transact privately. As soon as you do anything linked to your name with those coins puchased on bisq, the whole batch is linked to your identity

Not based on everything ive read. Happy to be shown evidence of otherwise

Monero is fine. But how can you even use bitcoin anonymously now? Even wasabi and samourai wallet are shut down as far as i know. Seems highly risky to use any tool like that since i dont know what the consequences will be in the future. Joinmarket? I'm sure it is possible but it is error-prone, takes so much effort, time and fees that i see it as a failure

I am aware of a couple of cases where people received flagged coins from centralised exchanges and had a lot of issues

The whitepaper shows it was intended to be "peer to peer electronic cash". It did clearly fail at that goal since it has none of the privacy of cash and so on.

It is scarce, novel, transferable, passed critical mass of popularity long ago, uncensorable to some degree for now. That's all that's needed, it makes it better money than perhaps anything else

It isn't fungible at all since every coin has a history which in some cases makes it unspendable, so it is highly risky to accept transfers without a third party chain analysis report, otherwise i agree

I can't read reddit anymore because I always get "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing."

Any way to bypass this?

I want my web browser to just be a web browser, no unnecessary add-ons.

When i try to consider what that really means, it leads me to think it actually encompasses a large and ever-increasing scope of features that have just become the norm. Browsers are becoming almost a general purpose OS.

Also, some of those features clearly require network effect to function which entails having it officially supported and suggested to the users (or even making it default).

That's such an outrageously absurd statement that i find it hard to not read it as sarcasm

The Ministry of Truth.

I didnt deny that addiction exists or that opioids are addictive. That being said, I think the fentanyl crisis and addiction in general is typically a symptom of other complex issues. We are sprinting into a horrific dystopia with intense cost of living pressures. People who can't adapt to that are medicating themselves because there is no other way to cope available to them.

This error really bothers me:

How can pursuing pleasure lead to less pleasure? But that’s how our brains are wired (perhaps as a protective mechanism). At a certain point, addicts still pursue the stimulus, but more to avoid the pain of dopamine deprivation. People addicted to painkillers have the same experience. Beyond a certain level, opioid dependence actually makes the pain worse.

This is simply incorrect when it comes to opioids. With opioids, at some point tolerance hits a limit and the chronic pain patient (or heroin user) can keep taking opioids and continue to have a desired effect. For some people it is crucial for them to keep taking it and it really enhances their life by reducing pain. Anti-opioid propaganda has really gone too far.

Somewhat problematic for what the author is trying to argue.

I tried it many times, including when sending other people a file, but it fails for me about 60% of the time. Error or download just never completes.

I tried wormhole.app many times and have about a 60% failure rate because there's an error or the download never completes. Don't know the difference with your link but i suppose i should try it next time

Researchers have observed that less mentally-demanding activity during sedentary behavior induces a higher risk of depression

"induces" clearly implies causality. This is not true, the research only found association. Awful. These articles are at the point now where they just outright lie

I dont understand anything you wrote here

Even if it were a process as invasive and painful as getting a bank account, it would remain the only technology that enables users to get a search account privately (since Kagi says cash is not scalable for them). Given the level of snark and off-topicness, I presume you don't actually expect me to answer the question with dozens of different methods.

This is a company that claims over and over that they are privacy-respecting, but are running a service that unnecessarily collects your real ID via credit card, otherwise you can't do searches. After seeing what happened to Google, I am shocked that people like you are so dismissive toward me for trying to hold them to account and caring about this issue. Yes I react with religious fervor at this issue - privacy. This is an age where companies are handing over information to convict people for seeking abortions even in the US.

If you have another solution then please share it.

Hope you enjoy linking all your search queries to your credit card, really. This attitude is unbelievable to me.

Yikes, that thread reflects so badly on Kagi to me. Over a year of people explaining why Monero is needed if you actually cared about user privacy, with no results. Weird claims that it is difficult to implement. Can only conclude that the company doesn't actually care about user privacy

Milton Friedman would say only the governments' money printing presses can cause it. A lot more simple, convincing and clearly logical to me...

Isnt that what misinformation always means?

Authorisation does not equal capability. Bitcoin has no privacy so I see how use of it could be trivially tracked and punished. With a private cryptocurrency like Monero it may be feasible to do anonymous crowdfunding; recipients have various ways to cash out into usable currency albeit with significant inconvenience

I was globally shadowbanned for using Mullvad VPN. Happened with multiple accounts. I usually posted in a subreddit where a mod would manually approve my comments, allowing me to get some hundred comment karma, but that still didnt fix it and the mod was getting tired of approving so i eventually gave up using reddit altogether

No, it is not worth it, and in the long-run may not have the desired effect.

For me, after seeing this, I would possibly not report being raped. Arresting the rapist isn't going to directly help me (depending on the situation), so by selfish game theory I shouldn't risk compromising my DNA

It is strange language to say 'carbon footprint is used' but I see no interpretation where the statement is correct. The 'carbon footprint' is actually 'used' to secure the network, motivated by how the process generates more bitcoin. The size of the carbon footprint is not caused by, nor dependent on, that 90% of transaction volume. It doesn't make sense even when I try to find the most forgiving interpretation. There's an implication that the data means the transactions are enormously wasteful but it doesnt logically follow.

That's what is required for the network to remain secure, but there is no direct mechanism to cause that to happen. You can observe all the other blockchains with weak security as experiments: there is nothing preventing the security from just dropping to the point where it is easy to perform 51% attacks.