BlueTemplar

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by BlueTemplar 7d ago
No, we mostly stopped using chemical weapons because they were bad at modern warfare : https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
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by BlueTemplar 7d ago
And they will be stopped by someone sane in the chain to actually fire these missiles. (Like it already happened several times.) The danger is upfront : if there is a group of people insane enough to set up a system where there is no such c
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by BlueTemplar 1mo ago
Those Microsoft pawns ?
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by BlueTemplar 1mo ago
There are people that pre-ordered their latest PC that are currently waiting for the remaining batches to become available, finish paying the PC price in full, and have it shipped to them. So this information does fullfill a direct custom
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by BlueTemplar 1mo ago
Facebook/Meta is a great example indeed when one remembers that they took part in a genocide, and still haven't faced consequences for it.
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by BlueTemplar 1mo ago
The current kind of car is extremely good at doing what it does. It's just that most of the benefits are short term, and for the car user (and the oil salesman), while the costs are borne by everyone else, and some of the worst ones ar
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by BlueTemplar 1mo ago
Yeah, it's infuriating when poorly implemented.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
What kind of 'infrastructure' did China have when they had "fallen out" with Google (in 2010?), that the EU does not have now ?
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
For the worst, you mean ? The current arrangement has been torpedoed a long time ago already, with the Patriot Act (2001) (though it took many years to understand the extent of it).
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
No, I want to insist on Bitcoin's intellectual legacy. Before ~2011, only a handful of niche nerds at the intersection of cryptography and (goldbug) economics had heard of related ideas. After ~2011, everybody had, and started building
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
> You can't even buy a fucking game without it being encrusted in anti-user DRM. You very much can. And notably, exceptions that do use it tend to be from giant public corporations.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
It is. I guess that it's more of an issue for banks in smaller countries ? (But how come SEPA is not more widely used even for B2C sales then ?) Sounds like the digital euro might also have been designed to help with these issues ?
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Yeah, it's uncommon, but bank wire does exist, and while (like cheques) it's typically used for paying rent / utilities / sending money to non-businesses, it does seem to become more common since it was improved to be &#
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
I never had a credit card. I cannot remember having an issue paying with debit cards.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
That network still exists, and can now even be used preferentially over Visa/MasterCard, in particular when paying online.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
My debit card is both MasterCard and CB. And a few months ago I noticed that I could pick either network when paying online.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Those would be easy in comparison to the Marvel (Disney) ones. 6 expected sets ! Not to mention that it's the Arena workers, they are downstream of the card design process.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
2011 is when it had its first big public boom - and bust, accompanied by even generalist press reporting on it. And the nerds at Valve would have been *in particular* aware of it. So causality is more likely to be reversed in that example.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
"Break the law" is too weak of a term since it includes routing around the monetary systems overseen by incompetent / corrupt / totalitarian governments.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
That last example postdates Bitcoin, and even Bitcoin entering public consciousness (in 2011), so why bring it up ?
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
'stable'coins are a lie though. They just hide the risk, they do not make it go away. (At least bank accounts are insured up to a certain amount.)
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
If you think that 'teenager' is too old (which I am skeptical about, considering the current popularity of Roblox), replace by 'kid'. ---- More complications, more points of failure.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
It's certainly possible that Valve is not being truthful about the lottery. (Would that be illegal for them to do ?)
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Concert/game tickets are in a extremely different situation. SM doesn't become completely worthless past a certain (near, known) date.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Imagine buying the SM for a teenager in your family that doesn't have a Steam Account yet.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
One issue here is that one, very important for the future of Valve, type of target customer here is first time Steam users : teens without a console nor a (gaming) PC. April 2026 is already going to be a problem for them. (Though I guess so
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
> If you know MSRP Giving a list price would make no sense in the case of an auction, in fact would be misleading, (maybe even illegal ??), and not just because of these issues. Most people would bid the maximum that they can justify. Th
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Which is pretty much what they did : > You must have made a purchase on Steam prior to April 27th 2026.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Already was there on the leaked 2022 list.
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by BlueTemplar 3mo ago
Doesn't seem like it : > I’ve now been once. Everything is off the record, but I’ll just say that it is nothing like the ordinary conference where there are keynote lecturers you barely get to meet (if at all), or where you listen t

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