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Comment · 4 years ago
You're not going to like it, but I think the men you usually find attractive are out of your league

Also, unfortunately, in today's society, high value men have less incentive to settle down. That is sad. Someone desirable to you, probably is for many other girls too, and they know that

You might be a great person/woman, but might have something turning down people as well... I can't say. We, internet strangers, can't help without knowing you

Comment · 4 years ago
I think their business model is like a gym - they need people making an effort to cancel, not to renew... Crypto works for one-time payments, but it sucks for recurring transactions. Too much hassle to pay every month, people would just give up.
Comment · 4 years ago
People back then used to have (almost) free labor. That is one variable that also changed over time. All that pretty architectural features took a lot of effort and time. Usability is one factor, but many things past civilizations did were only possible because they only paid for food (and often, not enough)
Comment · 4 years ago
Even though the actual figure is unknown it still a fair argument, thanks
Comment · 4 years ago
silly question, being USDT "only" 80B, why does it matter if it collapses? considering cryptos market cap is more than 1T, and 100B's wipeouts routine, sometimes during crypto winters (where we observe -80% across the board) or collapses such as Luna recently (>50B? no idea)

Of course, panic would happen, but still. I think people would move on, forget, and continue believing whatever they want to

just curious to read counterarguments

Comment · 4 years ago
> "If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response."

Reading that from them is hilarious. The message might be about being a bootstrapper and not spending frivolously.... or simply saying they don't care, who knows?

Comment · 4 years ago
OMG, again? Are we going to see this every week now? This guy has two jobs already and still has time to brag about and promote his blog? Please don't ruin the remote work for us.
Comment · 5 years ago
He reviewed my first Go PR a few years back when I posted something new for rclone. He's super nice, indeed. Kudos Nick!
Comment · 5 years ago
Print articles is optimized for reading not ads or SEO. Sadly the incentives makes the reader experience worse.
Comment · 5 years ago
We all agree about how much important debian is for all tech community. Why is it so difficult to scale their snapshot service? Serving static files at scale is a solved problem. Am I missing something? Can't a cloud provider help them out?
Comment · 5 years ago
Perceived value. It worths what people are willing to pay for. A lot of things work that way. Skeptics might wonder how long it would last, but less about how much it should be worth. People aren't only buying tech.

We do have a lot of scammers and useless coins, but tech is only one indicator of value, not the ultimate method to predict perceived value.

Comment · 5 years ago
I can't emphasize enough on this! The future doesn't give a damn about your reasoning, no matter how much well-tightened it is.

Before us, uncountable incredibly smart people got mistaken. As Elon said, the most entertaining outcome is the most likely. And guess what, entertaining outcomes are unpredictable. He might be wrong, which ironically illustrates what I've just said.

Comment · 5 years ago
Out of all stablecoins, I've found DAI the most interesting one, it's a beautiful engineer solution to tackle a problem. Backed by volatile assets, profits and interests (%). Every participant has a clear incentive/risk, trustless and transparent.
Comment · 5 years ago
Trezor is great as an U2F device because it uses the same crypto seed to initialize all internal keys, including the U2F feature. So you only have to backup the seed phrase offline (paper is one of the safest medium when correctly secured, or you can buy a cryptosteel plates to really long-term storage).

Crypto fan or not, those devices are amazingly secure, and certainly hold billions out there. I think it is open source too.

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