You cannot quote Wikipedia on any topic (Wikipedia policy - cite the source, not Wikipedia) but especially matters to do with Hamas/Israel war. Even Jimmy Wales has noted severe issues with bias.
> About the name: The subdomain was called onyx, a reference to the Pokémon Onix (a Pokémon made of multiple boulders, fitting for a multi-node architecture). It was an informal codename chosen by the engineer. It had no connection whatsoever to Fivecast ONYX, an unrelated 3rd party commercial product previously used by ICE. We understand this coincidence caused confusion, and we address it further below.
> It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question.
He was thinking about convergence. You're probably smart enough to be aware of that, so you're deliberately twisting his words.
> folks like Bill Gates or Larry Ellison are skinwalkers
On HN a decade ago this would have been moderated into oblivion. The recent manual un-flagging of poolitical posts by the mods (dang has openly discussed this) has changed the site for the worse.
Actually It woke people up to the fact that there is clearly bad things going on. The people that take the politically correct standpoint have a lot to learn. Talking about things that are going wrong in society is important. If you don't like that, go live on an island somewhere where you can cut yourself off from humanity.
Discourse is good for society, unless you think that society shouldn't exist, or freedom shouldn't exist...
> No one should use a for-profit terminal emulator, especially one created by a VC-backed startup, full stop.
I use Warp. I like it - notifications for failed processes, terminal pages so you can easily navigate between input+output pairs, and yes sometimes I'll use the AI rather than remember the syntax for every command.
But just make it commercial open source, let me pay 20 bucks a year for a build. I think the company deserve to profit from their work (I'm not sure why people think that profit is bad) but I'm not going to use it as my editor.
I’m litigating this conversation - you supported outing somebody and publishing someone else’s sex tape. As an adult human being you know this is wrong. You are mistaken and you know you are mistaken.
No. I support the concept of an open society with an institution of journalism that isn't stultified by powerful forces that seek to control information
I think you believe this stance is standing up to power. But the media is powerful in their own right and nobody needs the details of their sex lives published without their consent- not Peter Thiel, not you, and not me.
I am not looking for ways to evade taxes. My taxes are very straight forward and will never involve crypto. I have also dealt with the IRS legal system and nobody wants to draw attention that will get them involved in that insane bureaucratic system that has their own courts and legal officials that operate entirely outside of the federal government and take part of the year off.
Owning assets and getting loans against them rather than selling them is considered tax reduction, not evasion, and is a very common accounting pattern.
I am aware of this process. That does not require crypto and I am not interested in it either way, crypto or otherwise. Most certainly never investing in crypto. I am however waiting on Full-scale QE for other reasons that also do not apply to crypto but I doubt the fed chair has an HN account.
Ok, I only responded because you mentioned you thought that it was illegal tax evasion earlier. The is much easier with crypto - I can walk into a shop and use Apple Pay to instantly get a loan against my assets. It’s vastly more convenient than otherwise.
As is getting more interest on your savings, with insurance.
Buying anything for less than $.30 (and in reality much more because people need to make a profit) only works with crypto right now as far as I know. This is huge not just for individuals that purchase small items of content but also for agents making calls for each other.
I think your concerns the governments may have backdoors in projects are reasonable. Blockchains and decentralised exchanges are open source and there is a culture of auditing prior to releasing, however (like Dual EC DRBG years ago) government can do attempt to subvert public systems. It is generally harder to subvert something with public code and a verifiable build though.
> Most certainly never investing in crypto.
Good. Crypto itself is a wrapper, that makes things instantly tradable globally 24/7.
It could be a wrapper for government bonds, it can be a wrapper for Nvidia stock, it could be a wrapper for real estate, it could be a native token used to pay fees on on a blockchain, or as mentioned it could be a wrapper for garbage. The people telling you to “invest in crypto” are often talking about the latter and generally also have no idea how blockchain works beyond scamming the next person. They don’t build anything and they should be ignored.
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