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The Scam Dilemma: When Real Alerts Seem Like Frauds(leif.io)
6 points by leifg 3y ago|1 comments
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Cat GPT(catgpt.dog)
6 points by leifg 3y ago|0 comments
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by leifg 4y ago
It has less to do with where it started and more with the language and what field the business is operating in. I was working for a UK steel supplier and they would address all their email recipients with their first name. We had to change
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by leifg 4y ago
It doesn't matter for English website because you usually send out emails with "Hi Joe". Once you internationalize you will need this because in German it's an absolute no go to address a stranger by their first name (at
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by leifg 4y ago
I have weekly 1-on-1s and I do enjoy them. I work for a big-ish company and half of the team works remote full time. Similar to other comments, we chat a lot about personal stuff and crack some jokes. But I also make an effort to note down
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by leifg 4y ago
I should have said "Blockchain applications outside of cryptocurrency" but as you seem to equate the two let's talk about that. A good metric is: "people are using it". That is not the case for any cryptocurrency (y
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by leifg 4y ago
I always wonder with these things: what is the deadline after which you are allowed to say "There is no value". It has been almost 14 years since the inception of Bitcoin. There is nuance to this timeline that's why I usually
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by leifg 4y ago
Knowing German I read through the sources. This article is pretty misleading. The [primary source]( https://www.watson.de/leben/urlaub%20&%20freizeit/879935671-... ) is a slightly clickbait article asking the qu
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by leifg 4y ago
I recently quit being an independent contractor after 5 years and returned to being an employee. Let me outline my experience going from employee to contractor and back. In general: I have been a software developer for 14 years. I love writ
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by leifg 4y ago
> I think you misunderstood the tone of my original comment, which was that NFTs introduce an extremely marginal benefit for the ticketing use case while bringing in all the negative aspects of something based on a permissionless blockch
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by leifg 4y ago
And that's only possible with Blockchains/NFTs?
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by leifg 4y ago
Ok what’s the advantage of an NFT over a regular ticket then?
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by leifg 4y ago
So how does this have any advantage over a regular ticket? (Other than “collectibles”)
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by leifg 4y ago
So using the access key as an example: If I buy an NFT that grants me access to a very exclusive conference, how can I be sure that security will actually let me into this conference? Or how can I be sure at the time of purchase that the co
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by leifg 4y ago
So? It’s so frustrating having these discussions about energy consumption. If you make a statement about the absolute energy consumption of a PoW blockchain, the first response usually is “But this other thing consumes way more energy!!!!”
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by leifg 4y ago
All of that is true. But even if web3 was 100% decentralized it still would be an expensive inefficient P2P.
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by leifg 4y ago
Having lived as a foreigner in other countries I can say: The US is worse than most of them. In other countries you at least get a bank account without the equivalent of an SSN.
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The American Banking Experience as a Foreigner(leif.io)
1 points by leifg 4y ago|2 comments
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by leifg 4y ago
I have to concede that actually is one of the use cases for cryptocurrencies or more concretely: stable coins. I guess using cryptocurrencies make sense if you are completely left to your own devices and can't rely on the government fo
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by leifg 4y ago
My apologies, I used “reverse” and “invalidate” synonymously. Nevertheless on a public blockchain all transactions would be invalidated and that indeed is a problem. Because everyone who received coins would have to wait again for n confirm
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by leifg 4y ago
Sure maybe. But that only really works if few (if not all) entities have control over the consensus mechanism. On a regular PoW blockchain you will have to recalculate all the hashes according to the difficulty which will up to the miners.
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by leifg 4y ago
Even if that is desired and wouldn't spark a philosophical debate about wether centralized entities should get involved at all, there is a much deeper problem. Every transaction that is occurring now on the chain will be invalidated. T
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by leifg 4y ago
I had multiple arguments around situations like this. There are essentially two camps. The one side says: - You can sell for cash, use mixers, NFT sales, $other_sophisitacted_technology and get away with it The other side argues: - You won&
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by leifg 4y ago
If code is law this is perfectly legal. I suppose in the real world intent would matter a lot. That is exactly the reason why "code is law" is such an absurd concept. A piece of code alone will never be able to tell you what its i
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by leifg 5y ago
I don't understand this argument. All three Molly White, Stephen Diel and Nicolas Weaver have made arguments beyond "cryptocurrencies use a lot of energy". You cite a couple of sources in your statements but I would like to s
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by leifg 5y ago
OK fair point. If you want a concise definition of web3 the website provides this as well: https://web3.lifeitself.us/concepts/web3
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by leifg 5y ago
How does any of that sound appealing to anyone? Especially for the first two points, how do you not see the absolute dystopian downsides?
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by leifg 5y ago
> Concretely, our approach starts with collecting and steel-manning the key claims made for web3 through conscious, critical and open dialog with a diverse set of experts. This is something that is desperately needed. More often than not
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by leifg 5y ago
In theory yes. If you have a list of addresses you want to “block” and you convince the biggest mining pools to play along you can “block” transactions to and from all these addresses. Whoever mines a new block gets to choose which transact
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by leifg 5y ago
Estimated 5 billion in 2021. How much was it before crypto?

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