unicornmama (u/unicornmama)

unicornmama commented on Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry prospectmagazine.co.uk/id... · Posted by u/rwmj

Geee · 2 years ago

My bank freezed my access to my debit card and online bank recently, without a reason. They just sent me a message that I should visit the branch in person. Not going to happen. Fortunately I could open a new bank account online and had some spare cash too.

For the first time I realized that I'm a slave to my bank. They can just freeze my money just like that.

In a fully cashless system you'd be a complete slave to the system.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Yes. Complete a complete slave. LeVar Burton will have to come out of retirement to make a Roots sequel so that the world can understand your harsh mistreatment.

unicornmama commented on Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry prospectmagazine.co.uk/id... · Posted by u/rwmj

berkes · 2 years ago

Why is this "preposterous"? I never mentioned privacy, and certainly never claimed bitcoin provides it.

Also, bitcoin never claimed to enable privacy (contrary to monero and zcash). All it ever claimed was to be pseudonymous. It has been crystal clear to anyone in the field that "if people can link your addresses to your person, they know all your transactions". In fact, this has often been presented as a feature (though I personally don't really think it is a good one) in which e.g. all payments to and by a politician or NGO can be transparantly tracked by the public.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Nonsense. Satoshi’s Bitcoin white paper has a section on Privacy.

unicornmama commented on Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry prospectmagazine.co.uk/id... · Posted by u/rwmj

berkes · 2 years ago

I really really really would think that Bitcoin fills this exact need.

There's a lot wrong with the cryptocurrency world and with Bitcoin specifically. So much wrong, that I'm afraid we closed the one way out of government and corporate-controlled "digital money" and all the risks that comes with. But maybe it never was a good "way out" in the first place: maybe there never was a way out at all.

I keep hoping the grifters and scammers and marketeers move on to the next hypetrain (metaverse, ai) allowing the bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to be salvaged and become the way out again. But that hope is diminishing.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

This is preposterous. Bitcoin is more traceable, more transparent and more censorship prone than every form of currency conveyance we know of including cash, diamonds, physical gold, etc… The fact that’s 2024 and some people still believe Bitcoin enables privacy just goes to show how crypto enthusiasts are candy brained fanatics.

unicornmama commented on OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon semafor.com/article/01/16... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Principles always follow business interests.

unicornmama commented on Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space fil.org/blog/filecoin-fou... · Posted by u/diggan

pclmulqdq · 2 years ago

ACLs are fundamentally incompatible with blockchains. Your only solution is to encrypt those files, and have off-chain key management if you ever want to revoke access.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

But nginx HTTP bridge with copyright banlist is OK…

unicornmama commented on Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1 koreajoongangdaily.joins.... · Posted by u/yladiz

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Very surprising. Does Korean culture generally welcome foreigners? Can anyone living in Korea comment on this?

unicornmama commented on FTC suggests new rules to shift parents' burden of protecting kids to websites arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

AlecSchueler · 2 years ago

Not sure if you're joking but I've seen it argued here several times that we should get rid of minimum age requirements for alcohol and tobacco since the parents should already be policing access.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

I'm about to become a new parent in a few days and reading things like this upsets me.

unicornmama commented on FTC suggests new rules to shift parents' burden of protecting kids to websites arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

newsclues · 2 years ago

Parents should be responsible for their kids, not websites.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Parents should be responsible for their kids, not Tobacco companies.

unicornmama commented on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17% newsroom.spotify.com/2023... · Posted by u/filleokus

lotsofpulp · 2 years ago

Look at Tesla’s net income:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-inc...

That is not hype, that is cash.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Net income is not cash.

unicornmama commented on GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/pil0u

gherkinnn · 2 years ago

I have never worked, or know someone who has, at a place that doesn't rely on CI (does that make it CIDD?).

Of all the *DDs, this is one of the few that is done without much complaint or major problems or controversies around it.

unicornmama · 2 years ago

Ever see a PR with 50-100 commits in short succession with messages like “fix”? That’s CIDD.