gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
If you're tipping when you're against this practice, you're doing a disfavor to everyone. IMO more people should stop tipping.
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gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
in France you can get fined or go to jail for saying fascist stuff, works pretty well.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I disagree, tipping is stupid because it is based on percentages. Why should I give more tip because I bought a more expensive item? Sorry but we don't have to agree, forcing tipping on others is an asshole move.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I value the employee, I think they'll do fine with minimum wages, but they won't do fine if the small business goes down.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
That result is shocking to me, as I see homeless people everywhere I go in the US, but that much in comparison in Europe. So I'm wondering what it could be?
- Are the results false? Would a country lie on the numbers? It looks like the US estimation was misleading halved in two[1], the real numbers paint a much different picture placing the US much higher than any European countries.
- Are the results misleading? For example, I see that different years are listed for different countries (2012 for France, 2019 for the US), or that Germany's numbers include "around 375,000 asylum seekers and refugees in temporary accommodation".
- Is reality misleading? For example, it could be that homeless in Europe are taken care of and thus you don't see them much, whereas in the US they are all over the streets because there are no aids. Or it could be that most homeless people in Europe don't live in the cities and are thus out of sight.
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-06/why-is-ho...
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I'd be willing to pay more taxes to help the economy, but most people are against this. In the mean time I do my part by eating out more often and visiting small businesses.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
That's why you live in the country with the highest number of homeless people in the streets :) You should come visit socialist europe one day
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I'm not sure I understand, would you rather me not eat out and help out small businesses? My money, my way of helping. I pay taxes for the rest.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I don't agree. I don't like tipping and so I do not eat out usually because of this.
Right now I understand that we need to do our part to help small businesses, so I'm making an effort and tricking my brain into eating out by not tipping. This is where I want to put my money: I think it's my responsibility if small businesses are going to survive, I don't think it's my responsibility if workers are not paid well.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
How? Tipping is friction and makes you feel bad, by not doing it I'm incentivized to eat out more often. What matters to me are small businesses, if I help the workers but not the small businesses there'll be no job for them tomorrow.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I want to help small businesses.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Poverty
I personally I'm getting richer. Working for a big corp as a software engineer, I've done nothing but saving more money since the lock down started. I've also done much more shopping on Amazon, so I guess I'm giving back some of that money to other big corps. Doing groceries at Costo so money is not leaving the circle of big corps.
I've tried to eat out more often, even leaving less or no tips in order to feel more incentivized to not eat at home.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Zcash Open Major Grants
can't stand someone not agreeing with you?
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Zcash Open Major Grants
Monero is cool, but it has fundamental flaws: its anonymity set. And ring signatures is not standard crypto at all. Less complexity than zk-SNARKs for sure, but there's a trade off in confidentiality.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Zcash Open Major Grants
Unfortunately you're not thinking about regulations, which Zcash has to think about every day.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Zcash Open Major Grants
source?
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: Zcash Open Major Grants
As Vitalik said, most of GP's message is wrong. The trusted setup was participative, as in anyone could participate and as long as one person was honest the protocol was secure. I know people who participated, I think it's FUD to say that the trusted setup is not great if you're getting value from it (short-size proofs).
Furthermore zk-SNARKs are the best constructions out there for confidentiality, not ring signatures, as was demonstrated many times on research on Monero
tl;dr monero does not provide that much confidentiality because the anonymity set is too small. In other words, you are only hiding your transaction among multiple ones, whereas Zcash hides your transactions among all the set of accounts.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
I do not understand your comment.
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
True but... these people actually won the lottery, what have you won?
gtrhtrhtrhtr | 5 years ago | on: South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
The probability of that happening is much much negligible though (the probability of it happening once is 1/N, the probability of it happening twice is 1/N^2)
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