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Incredible that Namecheap would implement such poorly conceived policy!

You’re shutting down Russian dissidents services?

You are a defacto approving of the human rights policies of all the nations that you don’t apply this policy to

LN is too complicated imo. You can just use other chains if you want fast and cheap txs. Solana, Nano, Near, any of those.

I have loathed Adobe for this for years. Even worse, Adobe was supposed to make all of their products available under this single subscription, but now they want to charge users a separate additional subscription to access Substance Painter/Designer which they recently acquired.

Figure out what medium you'd like to work in (3D, painting, generative art, film, photography, etc.) and then take some classes on that subject. That will put you in touch with an instructor who is an artist and students pursuing art in addition to teaching you about working in that particular medium.

"Do something, even if it's wrong." - eighty year-old gentleman at a poker table when people would think for too long.

I'm thinking about learning Vue and Go. When and why do you use Node.js instead of Go for the backend?

Seems like inflation is skyrocketing to me. Specifically asset inflation. Housing prices, stocks, bitcoin, etc. Basically dollar becoming worth less against these assets thanks to QE.

You can only print so much money though before the dollar becomes worthless, so there is an opportunity cost since you can't print infinite dollars

Seems like you should be able to work remotely with your skill set even if you have to change jobs. If you can convince your partner to also go remote, then you could both become digital nomads and get your travel in. Or, you don't have to go full digital nomad, you could both just leave London.

There's not much point to staying in a job you hate if you have other options. Money isn't everything and not everyone survives to retirement (even early retirement).

My opinion is that we need to move to four day work weeks and each day should have six working hours. Knowledge workers are wasting their lives at work when they could get the same amount done in fewer hours.

Yes, exactly this. As long as the fiat on-ramps and off-ramps are KYC'ed everything that happens in between is an open book. The individual can just use cryptocurrency tax reporting software to provide a trade history for their taxes, and if they don't do that then the IRS can easily track all of their transactions since the IRS will know what addresses they are sending to from exchanges. There's no need for every DEX (or other service) along the way to KYC their users.

I agree that this provision is a disaster and will force a lot of cryptocurrency startups to incorporate outside of the US and also not offer their services to US customers. It's a real shame. The government should be able to get enough data for tax compliance just by making fiat on-ramps and off-ramps (aka exchanges) implement KYC (know your customer) rules.

A new iPhone SE is $250 from Boost Mobile right now. The last time I owned a budget Android phone the MISC folder filled up with garbage that I couldn't delete until the phone was unusable. My iPhone SE will probably end up lasting something like five years. I think the iPhone SE is the best choice if you're on tight budget because its OS is better and the phone will last longer for that reason alone.

This is excellent! I’ve lived this experience with a graduate thesis project that has taken over a decade to complete. Stephen Pressfield’s books (especially Do The Work) felt very close to the mark, but I also couldn’t buy into the idea that the resistance should be thought of as something external (a malevolent force in the universe). I think this article solves the mystery of what the resistance actually is. This understanding of the resistance combined with Pressfield’s book Do The Work could help a lot of people that are “procrastinating”.

Before streaming, a movie studio actually had to convince an audience to leave their houses and buy a ticket to make money from a movie. This meant the studio had to pour a lot of money into marketing for each movie. The cost to market a movie could be up $30M to $50M range for a blockbuster movie. For a mid-budget drama like Meet Joe Black or A River Runs Through It, you could be looking at a marketing budget that matches the production budget ($30M production + $30M marketing). These big marketing costs for every movie meant that the quality of those movies needed to be pretty high to justify the marketing costs. Streamers don’t have to convince people to go out and buy a ticket for every movie they release. They just have to keep the existing subscribers paying and get more people signing up. So the marketing cost per title goes way down. This takes some pressure off to make quality content because the risk per title is lower. Also quality movies on streamers don’t necessarily get the marketing and fanfare they would have before streaming.

What happened around 2006 is streaming. This caused DVD sales to tank, which had a massive effect on the film industry’s bottom line. DVD sales were a money printer and that cash allowed studios to take more risk. Once DVD sales started tanking the indie film divisions of major studios (like Fox Searchlight) started to die, which is a big reason that films became less interesting. Also, the shift to making money mostly off the box office rather than DVDs meant that a movie needed to make more money in its opening weekend, which meant needing to make tent pole movies that appealed to all ages and international markets. Imagine how hard it is to write a movie for all ages in all countries.

I'm currently looking for Rust devs that are interested in joining a side project that uses Rust for the back-end of a web app. The project involves working with Solana (a smart contract cryptocurrency coded in Rust). If interested, email me at rusted[at]fastmail[dot]com

You don't have to use an exchange to acquire cryptocurrency. People can use sites like localbitcoins to exchange cash for crypto in person.

Nano has free transactions. Other cryptos like Stellar and Solana have low cost transactions. People can use sites like localbitcoins to exchange cash for crypto.

If you're in rural India and don't have access to a bank account, but you do have internet access via a smartphone, then I could definitely see cryptocurrency being valuable to you. And that doesn't even take into account countries like Venezuela that are experiencing hyperinflation, where cryptocurrency would be much more useful. There are cryptocurrencies that are energy efficient and have low (or even zero) transaction fees. I doubt the author has looked into these coins.

Beyond just currency uses, smart contracts open the door to phasing out escrow middlemen for purely digital transactions (like buying/selling domain names, etc.) Decentralized lending and borrowing is another major use of smart contract coins.

I meant to post this in a thread about Bitcoin energy consumption, but it looks like I posted it under the wrong thread. Anyways, Nano is still a better version of Bitcoin.

Nano completely solves this. Under 1 second transactions fully confirmed, no mining, no inflation, it's decentralized (and getting more so). All the coins were premined. It uses a block lattice rather than a blockchain, so it is scalable (the main net is doing 185 transactions per second now (1776 tps on the test net). The system to determine voting power (regarding confirming transactions) is basically a liquid democracy where you can delegate your voting power (based on how many coins you own) to a different representative at any time. It leaves Bitcoin in the dust and is an incredibly elegant cryptocurrency that will be the future of microtransactions online as well as an actual usable cryptocurrency. nano.org

Nano (nano.org) is the cryptocurrency that could actually work as a means of payment. The transactions are fully confirmed in under 1 second, there are zero transactions fees, it's scalable, and there is no mining. It achieved this by using a block lattice where each account is its own blockchain.

Blackberry phones once had a lot more market share than iPhones too.

I don't think it's FUD. If the Chinese government wanted to destroy BTC (because it violated their currency control laws), they could do it by coercing the owners of the mining pools located in China and those pools do do currently have over 51% of hash power. They could do a reorg of blocks resulting in a double spend attack, as you point out. A successful double spend attack by China would cause a huge crash in the price of Bitcoin and threaten its future viability. How is this FUD when it could be carried out tomorrow?

There are only a few privacy coins (Monero, ZCash) at this time. I'm not sure why people in this thread are acting like privacy is a standard feature in cryptocurrency at this time. Also, privacy coins were just delisted from Bittrex, so it's not clear what the regulatory future will be for privacy coins.

Do you cut Windows 98 slack and still use it because it was designed in the 90s, or do you use a modern OS? Cutting technology slack because it was the first iteration doesn't make sense to me.

I think Nano is more secure than Bitcoin considering that the majority hashrate of BTC is controlled by mining pools in China. If the Chinese government decides to coerce the owners of those mining pools to perform a block reorg tomorrow, it will happen.

Nano does not have the sort of incentives that create centralization. In fact, Nano voting power is getting more decentralized over time, which is the opposite of what has happened with Bitcoin.

When you consider that Nano txs take under 1 second, are feeless, are scalable, and require no POW mining, it's obviously superior to Bitcoin. All that Bitcoin supporters have left is vague "security concerns" about Nano. But if Nano is not secure, wouldn't it have been compromised by now considering there is an economic incentive to do so and considering that the mainnet has been running since 2014 or 2015?

The lack of privacy doesn't seem to bother you in regards to Bitcoin.

feeless, under 1 second transactions.

Privacy in Nano is something the Nano team is interested in, but I'm not sure how close they are to implementing it.