rdbell

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by rdbell 1mo ago
You can place your own CLIProxyAPI instance in front of the reseller proxy and block prompts/responses that look harmful. There are community plugins like this: https://github.com/rheodev/cpa-plugin-privacyfilter
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by rdbell 3mo ago
"Switch to a field that involves many people dying if you write a bug" doesn't sound like the less stressful alternative to me.
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by rdbell 3y ago
It usually takes about a month between the time I order something from the US and the time I have it in-hand. Last holiday season was about 2 months. Never tried a return because I'd have to pay through the nose on shipping.
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by rdbell 4y ago
It's like Go, but quicker.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Won’t this be easy to defeat? Run the output through a translation model. English to whatever language, then back to English.
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by rdbell 4y ago
I think a distinction should be made between abusing position & relationships to spin a narrative vs abusing position and relationships to silence individuals. Both are slimy and abusive but the latter is a violation of constitutional r
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by rdbell 4y ago
This is even worse. You’re boned when Google bans your account and refuses to tell you why.
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by rdbell 4y ago
> without the cryptocurrency or blockchain If only we had a way to solve this problem using a solution other than the technology that already solves this problem.
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by rdbell 4y ago
International trade dependency is one of the biggest deterrents to war and often helps countries become allies.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Musk’s specialty is selling vaporware and big promises. Satoshi released working software without prior announcements and did hardly anything to promote it. I don’t know how anyone really thinks Elon could be Satoshi.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Every MMO in existence has external markets for RMT. There are stories of players in elite WoW guilds making 5-6 figures for helping noobs clear content. Some people don’t mind spending $2000 to build an endgame character that’s only worth
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by rdbell 4y ago
Thanks for sharing the SN thread.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Funny how these “tainted” coins are no longer tainted as soon as the US gov gets their hands on them. Anyone else holding the same coins would have their assets seized and get taken in for questioning.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Abuse of state power is like an adult bullying children to steal their lunch money. One-sided and totally despicable.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Pretty interesting. Somaliland and Liberland are interesting stories as well. Kind of the opposite of what you’re looking for.
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by rdbell 4y ago
There’s a place near my house that can exchange in/out of Bitcoin roughly $200k USD at a time without an appointment and they don’t ask for ID. They can do more if you schedule in advance. I don’t live in a lawless third-world country.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Reproduction is one if the most fundamental instincts ingrained in all of nature and you’re blaming people’s desire to have kids on some kind of capitalist conspiracy. That’s an absurd take.
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by rdbell 4y ago
I hadn’t heard of this before. Pretty neat way of using Bitcoin.
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by rdbell 4y ago
I was in Mexico last year, and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get a prepaid AT&T SIM card with cash and no ID.
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by rdbell 4y ago
“I know I’m fucked because they paid me in crypto, and I don’t even know how to cash out.” How does this guy even tie his shoes in the morning? Try walking up to literally anyone attending these “banging” crypto parties that you’re going to
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by rdbell 4y ago
Thanks. This is a good reminder for some of us.
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by rdbell 4y ago
Sounds like a recipe for the cobra effect.
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by rdbell 4y ago
This already happened to Canadians and Russians earlier this year with traditional banks & payment systems. How would this be achieved in the world of Bitcoin and Lightning Network?
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by rdbell 4y ago
I live in a country that’s unsupported by Stripe and most other global merchant processors. I’d love to be able to use Stripe for web credit card payments if I could. Hopefully this is a step towards that.
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by rdbell 4y ago
And gmail would have less users if it was called ClownFartMail. Not sure what you’re getting at.
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by rdbell 5y ago
> There are no financial regulations that currently harm me, a consumer. Mostly true if your main financial transactions are receiving bank deposits from your work & paying bills, and if you, your family and your friends all live in
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by rdbell 5y ago
I’ve tried to avoid Zoom as much as possible. Is there any reason to use the desktop app instead of the web client?
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by rdbell 5y ago
I like the model that Yalls.org implements: https://yalls.org/articles/97d67df1-d721-417d-a6c0-11d793739... "Continue Reading: $0.06 USD"
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by rdbell 5y ago
It can lead to false positives. Only the government is allowed to sell tainted coins. Very convenient rule for law enforcement agencies.
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by rdbell 5y ago
> I cannot understand anyone who promotes the use of systems that catastrophically increase the risks of human error, particularly for the most vulnerable, and which pointedly ignore that other solutions may work better. I can't spe

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