explodicle
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 23 hours ago:
Does DAI count?
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 2 days ago:
The “Greatest Generation” are the parents of Boomers.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 days ago:
That’s just layer zero on some blockchains.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 days ago:
Um ackchually by electronic cash they mean like bearer bonds, irreversible but not necessarily usable at all.
- Comment on Be nice 3 days ago:
The USD is now backed by bitcoin and you spend small fractions of a dollar.
- Comment on Be nice 3 days ago:
Time preferences would be lengthened due to lower interest rates. People would save instead of taking on more debt. It would be harder to get a loan, but your real interest rate would be lower.
Instead of deliberately encouraging consumption, everyone would buy less stuff. This would be terrible for “the economy” (rich people) but great for people who live in the environment.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 5 days ago:
Genuinely curious - has Texas been getting fewer residential outages since they expanded capacity for crypto mining? I’d imagine the same economics apply here.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 days ago:
Didn’t he invest in Dogecoin?
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 days ago:
Lightning
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 days ago:
everything you don’t like
On issues like these, conservatives will discover the magic of actual reasons. It’s only “things you don’t like” when we’re talking about banning hate speech or something.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 days ago:
And hypothetically if it won’t get broken up because the government works for them and not for us, then we can break the monopoly ourselves.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
At this point any idiot can buy drugs on the dark web. We know this because many do it wrong. The same will apply to deepfake websites.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 1 week ago:
The sad thing is that AI has already solved climate change. Just ask it! Same solutions we already knew.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 week ago:
Time to adult up and start practicing counter-economics.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
I’m as crypto bro as they come. Fuck Brave, BAT is a pay-to-surf scam.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
If the software in question is bad, then I’d like to reduce visibility of the post while explaining why in the comments.
Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam. Its CEO donates to homophobic causes.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 2 weeks ago:
They’ll be fossils and a band of pollution akin to the oxygen catastrophe.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if they would have gotten away with it if they’d just played it cool.
- Comment on Gallium 2 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, but a lot of folks are better friends than they are good people.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 2 weeks ago:
One of those fundamentals is a tightly scheduled supply. The tail emission is just to ensure mining security and is insignificant compared to XMR appreciation. That’s why the guy above saves gold and Monero.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 2 weeks ago:
That is weird. It should have gone up a lot since 2018 because of the smaller market cap and excellent fundamentals.
I can’t even argue with you. It’s practically a stablecoin by crypto standards. Image
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 2 weeks ago:
Unless there’s a bug in Monero that nobody has discovered yet, which would explain why it keeps losing value relative to bitcoin.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 2 weeks ago:
They want to destroy America because corporate centrists already destroyed their rural communities.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 weeks ago:
Then you won’t have time to push the button, especially with a hinged cover. They know they’re coming, you won’t.
If you’re worried about your door getting kicked in, then you need to take out the battery, fully encrypt the hard drive, and wrap the power cable around your ankle.
You should probably have some plan for if you’re put under duress, but I sure don’t and would immediately decrypt all of my secret gay porn.
- Comment on Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews 3 weeks ago:
“…the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.”
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 weeks ago:
It can’t sneeze
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 3 weeks ago:
Back in my day all the social engineering was done to humans.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 3 weeks ago:
Signal used to work this way and I’m still mad they dropped SMS.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 3 weeks ago:
In this context I think “crypto” means your message is encrypted across hops, not that you have to pay to send/receive messages.
- Comment on Self starter 3 weeks ago:
Me too and it has somehow helped, like in Office Space.
