- Unless there is actual real-word harm to someone (which is hard to imagine happening from a video game), no, I don't agree with you.
What your kids are exposed to is your responsibility. Don't burden the rest of society because you can't be bothered to set your own boundaries.
- > 1) not antagonizing regulators with extreme content
Who is this regulator that's going to care that Visa and Mastercard are processing payments for porn?
- Why not? I regularly buy products and services online with crypto and it works quite well, usually a better experience than with a credit card.
There are plenty of chains that can confirm transactions in a couple seconds, and if you're concerned with volatility, just use USDC/USDT. There are crypto payment processors that handle all of this and allow payment across a range of chains and handle the volatility so that the merchant doesn't need to worry about anything crypto and just receives fiat.
- Then the focus should be on reforming the police and courts, not on pivoting to vigilante justice.
- > and as far as I can see that side still all bottoms out in crime or scams.
A lot of the value is technically from crime, i.e., using crypto to skirt government laws and financial regulations that I believe are unjust.
> I've always felt those were an admission of failure of the whole crypto enterprise. All of the downsides and none of the upside.
Ideally they wouldn't be needed, but they still allow one to take advantage of the other benefits of crypto (like unrestricted cross-border transfers) and still have access to a large markets of products and services.
- How are there not real use cases for crypto already?
Surely more business is being done with crypto today than was done using the internet in the 80's.
I've been paid my salary in crypto for the last 8 years. The company I work for pays nearly all their expenses in crypto. I pay for my rent and most major purchases with crypto. A significant portion of my savings is in crypto. For fiat purchases, I'll use a reloadable crypto visa card. When I travel to foreign countries that mostly use cash, I'll usually exchange crypto for local currency rather than carry large amounts of USD or deal with sketchy ATMs.
- My understanding is that the current governments of both Cambodia and Thailand are losing support because of economic and other problems and are using this conflict to distract from their domestic issues and shore up support.
- I can never understand how anyone with an interest in tech hasn't switched to Linux for their personal desktop/laptop at some point in the last 20+ years.
Why would you want to use a closed source OS controlled by a corporation with a past as checkered as Microsoft's?
- Trains are the easiest form of transportation for full automation. There shouldn't need to be any required staff on board.
- Doesn't just about every passenger train have more than 2 carriages? I'd guess the average is closer to 10.
- Please tell me this is sarcasm. That is exactly the kind of terrible idea that Mozilla would come up with and force on users.
- They don't need alternative revenue streams. Just take the millions they receive from Google and spend it on tech. Cut out all the warm and fuzzy political marketing bullshit and all the management that have promoted it.
- Yeah I've always wondered about that. I haven't gotten them regularly since I was 16 - 17. But in my late 30's, I still have an annoyingly high libido, no issues in the bedroom, and testosterone in the upper range of normal.
- Just use LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on Android.
They basically strip out all the anti-privacy, anti-user "features" from Firefox.
- Uber doesn't even operate in most Asian countries. They made deals with Grab 7-8 years ago to not compete in the same markets.
In which country is Uber more expensive?
- Okay then you need to accept some combination of higher average prices and sold out peak travel times.
- I suppose if all men made the same salary that would level the playing field to some degree.
- > Not where I live
I never understand why people make comments like this and leave it to the reader to guess where they live. Your profile has your email and linkedin, so it's not like you're trying to stay anonymous.
And to your point, local taxis being less expensive is unusual in my travels from 50+ countries. Uber/Grab/Bolt/Gojeck/Maxim are almost always significantly cheaper and more reliable in my experience, especially for foreigners who aren't familiar with typical fares.
- Dynamic pricing based on availability is much more efficient, which is a good thing.
- Firefox (or Ironfox) with ublock origin and background play fix works great on Android too, no need to use an app.
- Floating point math shouldn't be that scary. The rules are well defined in standards, and for many domains are the only realistic option for performance reasons.
I've spent most of my career writing trading systems that have executed 100's of billions of dollars worth of trades, and have never had any floating point related bugs.
Using some kind of fixed point math would be entirely inappropriate for most HFT or scientific computing applications.
- > There's also...apartment hotels!
They're not nearly as common as Airbnb apartments in most countries. I also trust Airbnb listings and reviews more than what I find on most booking sites.
- I think we're just the silent majority.
I've been a digital nomad for the last 9 years. Airbnb is a huge reason why my experience has been so great. How else can I show up in a city in a new country , spend 5 minutes the day before I arrive, and end up with a nice furnished apartment in a great location for a week's stay?
- Evading government capital controls and taxation has proven to be a pretty solid use case, even if frowned upon by some.
- In many Asian restaurants, it's common to have a cashier near the entrance. Your just pay your bill as you leave.
- The epicenter was in the center of Myanmar, far from the ocean, so shouldn't be any risk of tsunamis. But starting to see some pictures. The fatalities are going to be a lot higher than being reported now.
- Bangkok has many tall buildings, so it was probably felt a lot more strongly here than other places closer to the epicenter. I was on the 32nd floor and saw and heard large cracks forming in the walls.. definitely a scary experience. They just let us back into the building, but not sure I'll stay here for a few days.
- > Otherwise if you replace all 80% of the good drivers with waymos and the remaining 20% stay behind the wheel, accident rates are going to go up not down.
That's a ridiculous scenario. If anything, impaired drivers should be more likely to choose an automated driving option. But no need to to even assume that. The standard that matters is replacing the average.
It is to those who enjoy playing them.
Are you suggesting that playing a game involving incest is somehow unacceptable, while a game with graphic murder is fine? It's a strange moral line to draw, and despite what you may think, your views are not shared by everyone.