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Comment · 3 years ago
I think it is easier to block all UK visitors
Comment · 3 years ago
If you want to dispose of your failed BTC, I will happily provide an address.
Comment · 3 years ago
After a decade of collecting data, probably
Comment · 3 years ago
> my lifted tundra is much nicer at night relative to my nissan leaf.

Nicer for you, but maybe not for the oncoming traffic

Comment · 3 years ago
> @apply is the directive that Tailwind recommend to extract repeated utility patterns. Since it's a static definition, you would only abstract those lists into a CSS file. I don't want to get into much details about it, but it does not solve the problems mentioned before.

I would like to know why @apply does not solve the issues in the author's opinion. This is exactly the part where the author should have gone into details.

Comment · 3 years ago
Uranium is everywhere, but I'd probably be uncomfortable too if my neighbour had plutonium at home.

I think there is a middle ground. The bar for prohibiting things should just not be too low and I feel that it has been pushed lower and lower to crazy mom levels over the last couple of decades. It is time for the pendulum to swing into the other direction in my opinion.

People seem to realize now that banning things has negative side effects and can enable criminals.

Comment · 3 years ago
> or just go with the flow

How does one do this with social media?

Half-ass some tweets and blog posts until people stop asking?

Or try to write the smartest tweet ever and spend 12 paid hours on refining the wording?

Comment · 3 years ago
Who wouldn't empty their regulated bank account in order to get their kidnapped firstborn released?
Comment · 3 years ago
Dietary fat just doubled in price this year
Comment · 3 years ago
You'd need to find people/businesses who are willing to accept crypto in exchange for goods or services, and if that is not an option, you'd need to exchange crypto for local (or another accepted) currency.

If your government tries to stop you from doing that, it is of course much harder, but not impossible, since decentralized exchanges such as Bisq would be an option, as well as LocalMonero or regular old black markets, assuming that you have coins that someone is willing to pay for.

Comment · 3 years ago
If your government decides to kill the internet, I think that's a very good reason to try to emigrate. The fact that China is doing it, may make them look powerful, but it also makes them look tyrannical.
Comment · 3 years ago
The Cypriots who preferred to store their cash in their pillow did not get the haircut though.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's not the point. Everyone knows that crypto is full of scams and everyone tells you that you are supposed to hold your own keys instead of leaving coins on an exchange. Almost nobody tells you that keeping coins on an exchange is good practice.
Comment · 3 years ago
> EU

In 2013 the government of Cyprus decided to seize money directly from people's bank accounts. I would not call that stable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/everyth...

> China

In 2022, when some Chinese banks decided to freeze depositors accounts for shady reasons and debitors planned to protest the issue, authorities used Covid codes to block them from accessing the banks. That also does not seem stable to me.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bank-protest-stopp...

Comment · 3 years ago
I can confirm this

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