finitebanjo
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- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 17 minutes ago:
Okay but we were talking about BTC pump and dumps and to perform that on the massive scale which dwarfs any stock ticker below the top 5 by hundreds of billions of dollars while somehow completely illuding people who watch the blockchain like hawks for big movers…
It’s just not feasible. You would have to be much richer than the official richest man on earth and have almost all of your assets liquid and then on top of that you would need millions of wallets acting asynchronously. And why would you even bother? If you’re that rich you could just not hide it.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 6 hours ago:
And thats specific to any one form of currency because…?
- Comment on Banana tonight 14 hours ago:
@PugJesus is that you?
- Comment on Tragic 21 hours ago:
I don’t read high school dramas or romances, usually, but I do sort of wonder what the source is. Always love a good betrayal or interpersonal strife.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 22 hours ago:
Even Codeberg?
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 22 hours ago:
Yes but it’s become a serious problem now because of the language models.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 22 hours ago:
Oh no! Lmao. You’ve really only demonstrated that you don’t understand what Bitcoin is, that you think Iza owns and operates it.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 22 hours ago:
You’re either pretending this administration isn’t worse than any previous example or you are woefully naïve.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 23 hours ago:
Since you’ve missed the news, the USA has been overtaken by a fascist christian white supremacist party who gut social programs, cut science funding, literally completely disbanded the department of education, increased the defficit, and enacted large Tariffs on every other nation.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
So you’re saying there is a group out there pumping and dumping hundreds of billions equivalence to USD?
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
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They’re selling shares of their company, META stocks, to the shareholders that then vote on their liquidity portfolios. Not Crypto. Owners of a hypothetical META crypto don’t benefit from or have any say in how the company operates.
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Alternatively they could spend that money on holding their own hypothetical crypto so as to create market cap and buy/sell volumes appealing to crypto investors.
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- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
With a Market Cap of 2 Trillion it’s pretty difficult to impact the purchase price as an individual or group. Even a small nation would struggle with it.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
Thank you, I appreciate the clarification.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
I didn’t really parse what your comment is saying. Are you saying that whenever you buy BTC you later sell it for half your buy average? Or are you saying like 150%?
Is it just you or are you implying that everyone loses/gains 50% from the magical BitGoblin?
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
Because holding USD is a liability these days.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
If you own a share of meta then you own a share of meta and meta owns a mix of assets ranging from physical to various liquidity, whether its USD or BTC there isn’t any difference in this regard.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
Buying BTC doesn’t help them do that.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
Crypto is not used to bypass regulations. Failure to regulate is on the state, not the crypto. It is easier to regulate crypto because of the public multiple ledger system that is the Blockchain, allowing you to trace tokens all the way back to their conception.
The purpose of Crypto is that it removes the need for a bank for transactions and holding of nonphysical currency. Adoption rate proportional to total population is what gives them stability and makes them less susceptible to scams or pump and dumps.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
TBH if the choices are USD or BTC then I think the latter has a better future at the momentm
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 day ago:
This and software companies openly supporting Linux. For example, if Adobe and AutoCAD among others would build some tars then you could see it.
Ironically, Game Engines are ahead of the curve on this. You could build Unreal Engine from the github page on Linux for many years now and we also have Godot and Blender. I think several PCB design and also architecture tools already exist on Linux as well, so there is definitely room for a lot of industries and businesses to shift away from Windows as long as they can find a competent tech guy to maintain everything with minimal downtime.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 day ago:
I think the Netherlands did this a couple of years ago?
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 1 day ago:
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It can also prevent ineffective, outcast, or weaker specimens from mating. If a woman could be impregnated in very few seconds consistently then the number of teen or child pregnancies as well as pregnancies resulting from rape would all increase dramatically. Some similar evolutions occured in Wolves, the wolves genitals are stuck together after reproduction and if an outcast attempts to mate he will be trapped and ripped to shreds.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
TBH this sub is pretty consistent for these sort of takes. Rage no matter how impotent is welcome here, but they issue warnings to people who want to de-escelate and look at the facts.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
You’re saying that framing trans people as evil sociopaths is based…?
- Comment on The city is so lively 3 days ago:
Actually a lot less cars in Paris these days.
- Comment on Trump says will double steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% 3 days ago:
Ah I get it now, “you want to sell steel here? Oil the palms.”
- Comment on Trump says will double steel, aluminum tariffs to 50% 3 days ago:
Nah, actually, the US Steel and Aluminium is limited and expensive. Foreign investors would have to outbid US Manufacturers who literally have no other options because Tarriffs prevent them from importing cheaper large quantities of Steel and Aluminium, because, get this, USA specializes in making heavy machinery, military grade equipment, electronics, and technically skilled services such as banking but explicitly NOT making Aluminium and Steel.
You know who does specialize in Steel and Aluminium? Trump friend and associate Roman Abromovich, Israeli national and Russian oligarch.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 3 days ago:
Some of us don’t want to feel superior, we just want to share.
Not me though. I’m better than all of you.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 3 days ago:
Fun fact, there are materials that dissolve better in fatty acids than water. For example, Menthol crystals extracted from Mint Oils will readily dissolve in other oils but is very picky about its water.
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 4 days ago:
Sometimes when you create leeway or ambiguity, the worse kinds of people will use it to stress the limits and do unimaginable harm. For example, legalizing a child pornography production and collection would legalize the company that profits off of child pornography and emboldens those with pedophilic urges.