sorbits

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by sorbits 5y ago
What features are you referring to?
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by sorbits 5y ago
I do like the concept that an artist can continue to get a percentage of future sales. But blockchain itself does not prevent copyright infringement of digital assets. I.e. the artist may sell his photos as NFTs, but I can still use them wi
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by sorbits 5y ago
You got any more detail on this? Most developed contries have digitized their deed system, so I am not sure how you can con someone out of their deed. Also, back when we did use physical deeds, there generally was owner’s copy and land offi
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by sorbits 5y ago
> But if people buy deeds instead of the house itself (i.e. most NFTs) then the link becomes broken and the signifier of “ownership” is less useful. And as it is used for digital goods, the signifier of “ownership” is already broken, a
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by sorbits 5y ago
> You can easily communicate numbers 1 through 10 to just about anyone around the globe by holding up the corresponding number of fingers For the numbers 6-10 China have hand gestures where number of fingers held up does not correspond
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by sorbits 5y ago
How would you ensure that the companies repay their loans?
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by sorbits 5y ago
> DeFi tries to break any chains to opaque companies and have all actions happening transparently and auditable on-chain How can you create anything of value¹ by limiting yourself to on-chain transactions? If value is created, the tran
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by sorbits 5y ago
> By definition, a lot of the projects on Ethereum are a LOT more transparent than the traditional finance world The important stuff is not transparent. For example, how do you know that Tether is backed by real USD? That Binance isn’t
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by sorbits 5y ago
> It’s not just the way things look, but uniformly communicate a single experience. Microsoft used to be very integrated and had an entire ecosystem that was uniform Their Office suite may have been internally consistent, but I did a b
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by sorbits 5y ago
While this progression may exist, it is not what I took from the article, nor the original idea behind the hedgehog classification. It is more about some thought-leader being keen on blockchains, machine learning, supply-side economics, or
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by sorbits 5y ago
> [offshore corporation] I have no idea how to do this, particularly without being able to leave Argentina. Also I don't think it's really a practical solution for the vast majority of people in either Argentina or El Salvador
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by sorbits 5y ago
If I understand your situation correctly, you are working in Argentina, but not paying income tax because you are a non-resident, and the source of your income is outside Argentina. In that situation, I would look into setting up an offshor
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by sorbits 5y ago
> The short answer is that Bitcoin works and TransferWise and PayPal don't. The comment you link to say that you cannot get money out of Argentina (due to capital controls). Fair enough, but in the comment I replied to, you said
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by sorbits 5y ago
> I’ve been using Bitcoin to get paid for a couple of years at this point where I live here in Argentina Can you explain how this is better than e.g. Wise (formerly Transferwise), PayPal, or some other international money transmitter?
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by sorbits 5y ago
> I think it makes perfect sense for somebody to say that any loan that is backed by stocks granted on the basis of RSU, incur some additional special taxes Based on the numbers published though, it does not appear like these people ar
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by sorbits 5y ago
> This is how police should get around the problems presented with encryption. By adding a backdoor to E2E encryption? That is pretty much what they have been asking for :) Amazing that criminals still pick some unknown device over an
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by sorbits 5y ago
Appreciate the links, thanks!
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by sorbits 5y ago
The thing with a lot of server software (like postfix) is that configuration is usually spread across many files. And then there is the re-use of things between services, for example DKIM’s generated public key should be made available as a
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by sorbits 5y ago
> and a few servers The problem I see with NixOS on a typical personal server is that you have to setup all these things using nix expressions, from which the actual configuration files are generated. That means if you e.g. want to ins
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by sorbits 5y ago
> you didn't know for sure where to post your problem It depends on the topic/domain, but I have fond memories of being on various mailing lists, and there was also usenet.
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by sorbits 5y ago
I don’t really follow your logic. The Danish strategy is to test a lot of people and catch new cases early. Requiring a green corona passport when entering various establishments where transmission can happen, is both a way to decrease the
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by sorbits 5y ago
> it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. I would argue it’s actually a sub-zero-sum game because the “game master” (bitcoin miners) withdraw 12.5 coins from the pool every 10th minute.
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by sorbits 5y ago
As someone else said, you do not store coins anywhere, they are derived from the public ledger (block chain). What you store is your private key. Your private key was generated together with your public key, and your public key is, well, pu
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by sorbits 5y ago
I believe the U.S. minimum requirement is currently at 10%, but you do remember how bad it all came crashing down 13 years ago, right? So yes, it does matter if we let financial institutions disregard risk in the pursuit of profit, when the
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by sorbits 5y ago
For me, it is generally > 2 minutes, and “release build” cover any build that leave your machine, e.g. nightly builds, beta builds, test builds to a specific user to track down some issue, etc. Signing the agreement is also not just clic
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by sorbits 5y ago
While you only have to update your build process once, you now have a noticeable delay for every single release build, and worse, a few times per year, your build will break because you haven’t signed Apple’s latest contract. And for what?
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by sorbits 5y ago
Personally I think that the conflict of interest posed by stock holding lawmakers is bigger than the advantages they gain from trading on information that only they are privy to. For example will a lawmaker holding a large portion of their
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by sorbits 5y ago
> 'event sourcing' […] is an architectural pattern, very well suited to deal with most accounting problems I believe double entry accounting can be described as following this architectural pattern (despite predating it with
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by sorbits 5y ago
I use the word “should” as per RFC 2119, i.e. recommended (as opposed to “must” = required). Though the IRS does limit the types of businesses that can do cash-basis accounting, it would be businesses without inventory, and who does not off
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by sorbits 5y ago
I would base anything dealing with money on a double entry accounting system. The issues that arise are then a question about how to translate them to journal entries, which will require accounting experience, and maybe your chart of accoun

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