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Anything remotely shape-shaped triggers me!

Soooo... can you make a Wii out of an Xbox 360? :D

This. So basically like Visa/MC nowadays, except optional and you’re not locked into the one you’ve got your card from.

How does crypto facilitate dictators stealing from normal people?

Something like escrow smart contracts?

By giving cash to a shady backstreet exchange guy? Or maybe using a payment kiosk to top up a mobile phone / whatever other service the P2P seller can get the money out of.

But more likely scenario is they have friends who let them use their bank accounts (but don’t have friends who let them use their good overseas bank accounts, so not that useful).

I understand the sentiment, but as someone who had to use crypto because all other options weren’t available, I’d rather live in a world where it exists. (I do have different options now, but I still use USDT/USDC transfers when it’s cheaper.)

Without cryptocurrency, dictators and criminals would still be able to move money around, it would just be a bit harder for them. For ordinary people it’d be disproportionately harder and more expensive.

> than [...] brick-and-mortar banks

How so?

> Because they own and control their own smart contracts but do not own the network that the contracts are deployed to.

I assume they call a method on the contract to freeze the coins (with some superuser kind of signature), so they could easily write a method that moves the coins back, too. This should be similar in terms of gas costs.

The law enforcement theory seems more likely, yeah.

I haven’t seen tooling for rebasing OCI images yet. Considering you’d still have to do this and roll it out to the server, you can just re-run the CI, which would build the image again, but also test that it works with the new base image.

I guess? I agree that parsing out the articles and rendering them in the HTML would make it more readable. But the author didn’t just throw together Win95 and Encarta in a VM and call it a day, there are subtle tweaks here so I think calling it “human slop” is incorrect.

(For example, there’s some URL magic going on -- articles you open show up in the fragment portion, e.g. #/article/Art -- which is non-trivial considering you have to pass that information into the VM and back.)

After trying out Swift first!

Considering they’ve also made pdf.js, I have hope.