RhodoGSA (u/RhodoGSA)

RhodoGSA commented on Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS pawelurbanek.com/ipfs-eth... · Posted by u/pawurb

paulpauper · 4 years ago

"permanently censorship resistant"

"requires cloudflare"

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

only requires cloudflare if your node goes down. Also, you can use the coin to incentivize others to host your info.

RhodoGSA commented on Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS pawelurbanek.com/ipfs-eth... · Posted by u/pawurb

phantom_oracle · 4 years ago

I looked into this the last time someone posted about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27551619

One thing I realized is how expensive Ethereum domains are. The domain price is equivalent to a regular domain and then you still have to pay the gas fee, which makes it more expensive than a casual .org or .net

The other drawback of these censorship-resistant blogs is that they all require plugins to access the non-HTTP domain, which all but rules out most non-technical people who don't even know what HTTP is.

And while it can still be accessed over HTTP, the bottlenecks become the same companies that might comply with censorship requests.

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

>which all but rules out most non-technical people who don't even know what HTTP is

This is why they call it web3. web1 had the same initial problems. Use Brave.

RhodoGSA commented on YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/zdw

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

what happened to larry page and brin? Have they been pushed out?

RhodoGSA commented on SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon cryptoslate.com/safedolla... · Posted by u/awb

arcadeparade · 4 years ago

250k is nothing compared to the biggest defi losses: https://rekt.news/leaderboard/

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

From the link >These protocols are listed with respect; we appreciate and understand the work that lies behind each name.

Title of leaderboard, REKT.

RhodoGSA commented on How to Work Hard paulgraham.com/hwh.html... · Posted by u/razin

mjfl · 4 years ago

You don’t read a book by reading the first 10 pages. You don’t learn a culture by visiting a place for a week. You don’t make real friends in a weekend. I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 4 years and I still feel like I don’t quite understand the culture here, feel like I haven’t quite experienced the city. I don’t understand how anyone could visit here on a vacation and think they’ve really “experienced” LA. This is even more true for foreign countries. There’s also something weird to me about going to a place with lots of poor people, “helping” them for a weekend, taking a picture, posting it on Instagram, leaving, and somehow getting a warm feeling from that. The common denominator is a shallowness- none of these experiences are as deep or meaningful as the people who do it claim to themselves and others.

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

haha - I've visited LA and also thought it was a shallow experience ;) Also, sounds like you haven't traveled much.

And yes, I do read a books first 10 pages and stop reading it. Sometimes i read the first couple pages of each chapter and stop reading it. I never claim i read the whole book, or understand every nook and cranny of the rhetoric, but that book will still shape my subconscious going forward.

I feel travel is the same. As you go around the world you learn that no one has the answers, each place is entirely based on your experience of that city and everyone has different philosophies in life. It provides a sense of empathy to ideas. Meeting people who worked at hostels or people who bought a sailing boat, some fishing poles and some rice and traveled vastly changed the way i look at the world. Life is really easy in actuality, we as a species seem to complicate it.

Travel has brought me a vast amount of serenity and peacefulness in my normal life, because normal life can never be as hard as traveling.

RhodoGSA commented on How to Work Hard paulgraham.com/hwh.html... · Posted by u/razin

nineplay · 4 years ago

One of my greatest regrets is how much time I wasted on 'work' in my 20s and 30s. I was an engineer, I made a comfortable salary, but I rarely took a vacation, I never traveled outside the UI, I took days off reluctantly with a vague feeling that I was letting someone down.

"Later", I told myself. When I'm successful, when I'm stable, when I have the money to travel in style and not backpack around and stay at hostels. Then I can take a break and have the adventures I want.

My in-laws confirmed this attitude for me - they retired in their 50s and traveled the world. What a great life goal!

Guess what, life happened. Health issues. I'm never going to travel the world. All that time in my 20s in 30s - I was healthy, I was happy, I was carefree, and I didn't appreciate it and threw all that time away sitting at a desk looking at a screen. Today, now, that's about the only thing I'm fit to do.

Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out.

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

He's got an audience that he is writting too. He's talking about building great things, not how to live a full and happy life.

While working at Tesla, we definitely all built great things but that's all we did. I left, took a 70% paycut to start my own consulting business and work 4-5 hours a week while being a 'Digital Nomad'. I've never been happier and guess what, that nagging feeling of 'I'm not doing real work' or finding 'idleness distasteful' goes away when you don't feel like the whole team has a gun to your head.

RhodoGSA commented on UK regulator clamps down on Binance bbc.com/news/business-576... · Posted by u/lakis

alasdair_ · 4 years ago

>You can't make the entire executive team non grata because your citizens are using a VPN to access a banned product.

The USA did exactly this with a large publicly traded UK company. They arrested the executives the moment they touched down in the US on a transfer flight.

The CEO is now going to jail: https://casinobeats.com/2020/03/26/pokerstars-founder-isai-s...

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

Haven't heard of this before, but after some research they willingly didn't comply with any of the regulation. They allowed money to enter from US bank accounts. Binance has verification for the Fiat onramp for UK citizens. What i was discussing above was using already purchased crypto and trading it on binance on a VPN using leverage/Margin. A.) pretty unavoiable and B.) pretty untraceable.

RhodoGSA commented on The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media restofworld.org/2021/pale... · Posted by u/2939223

p_j_w · 4 years ago

Why is that check mate for the Israelis but building settlements, a gross violation of human rights, not check mate for the Palestinians?

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

Because this is the first time murdering a bunch of hamas members wasn't par for the course historically. Now it's Palestinians not 'Hamas' for the Palestinians, but one-in-the same for the US and Israeli governments. The other side of this is that they are a terrorist organization and need to be exterminated. Hamas says the same thing about the israeli's.

Also, war crimes as a subject is always brought on by the winners, just like the telling of history.

The world is a brutal place. Hamas has proved they are not a military match for israel and the war will continue until israel has complete control of the region. That's how one sided conflicts have happened historically.

RhodoGSA commented on UK regulator clamps down on Binance bbc.com/news/business-576... · Posted by u/lakis

Geee · 4 years ago

The amount of Tether just tracks the amount of money deposits, which are tokenized into USDT. Tether is just a small fraction of all the money entering exchanges.

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

Big crypto guy here; Tether is the bain of crypto. It is a centralized medium, that is accepted on centralized exchanges as fact with no audit on how much asset to coin ratio exists. Tether can print as many USDT as they want, buy up all the BTC on 100x leveraged long and no one would be the wiser. BTC's $700B market cap could be fairy dust and no one can know.

RhodoGSA commented on UK regulator clamps down on Binance bbc.com/news/business-576... · Posted by u/lakis

analognoise · 4 years ago

They would become more popular - until they went after the exchange.

You can design a ideal token - the Platonic model of a crypto. Totally secure, totally anonymous. Assume it perfectly hides all information about all users.

And they could easily still destroy it - they'd just attack whoever offered cash for that token, who they would uncover by tracing regular cash (Dollars/Euros/Rinmenbi). There is no technical solution that can avoid actually avoid tracing when you turn the crypto into goods and services - unless both parties are willing to deal in that token exclusively AND not to keep records of any of their dealings. Which makes it only useful for illicit activities anyway - you're not going to get your kitchen remodel done and everyone is going to agree to get paid in your token and not report it to the government while also somehow hiding the fact that you're having people show up to your house to do work. It's just not practical. SOMEONE on the kitchen remodel team is going to go "Nah, I want...dollars?".

There's an XKCD about this:

https://xkcd.com/538/

^ They'd just drug the people involved and hit them with a wrench until they gave them the answers. Developing any of these "cryptos" is a total waste of time, and has been since day one - eventually people will figure this out and the price will plummet.

...in my opinion, obviously.

I think what's going to really happen is that the US is going to release a digital currency, and it will gain real adoption, and which one is Grandma going to use? Real US-backed E-bucks or... some trinket coin she doesn't understand that only allows her to buy heroin and contract killers? I mean maybe Grandma likes to party and has made a lifetime of enemies and it's a perfect fit, but I...doubt it?

RhodoGSA · 4 years ago

Crypto - > Salvidorian Dollar (Insert any country that wants to stick it to the US here) - > US dollar.

Monero keeps no record of headers of each transaction, so granted it might be a bit interesting on a tax form how you got 100m in $Y currency but the crypto to $Y fiat off-ramp would be hidden. Also, there's BTC ATM's, people willing to meet in person for a crypto/cash exchange and plenty of people using crypto to provide liquidity for other base pair swaps.

Also, i don't believe crypto is ever going to be used for the masses. But it has very interesting properties in finance like POS, sythetics, etc. These are REAL uses (read economic gains) So, i may not ever use it for paying for my kitchen remodel but i will HODL it and see my fortunes rise.

Lastly, Multi-level marketing is a 'Meme' in the purest definition. It's why it has popped up in so many manifestations. Whether it's a good Meme or not is a different question but is the reason i believe crypto is here to stay. it's a brain virus with the implicit understanding that if you own crypto, it behoves you economically to get more people into it. If you don't own it and hate it, you are only passively 'Hating it', in a more dismissive posture than anything. This one sided take is the reason crypto will continue to eat traditional finances lunch.