swift532's comments

I've found ChatGPT 4o (the voice one) to be useful, I just need to prompt it first by saying `Whatever you hear in Chinese, say in English, whatever you hear in English, say in Chinese`. It refuses to cooperate if you tell it to be a live translator.

Anyways, it seems to understand context really well, I tried it out with a Chinese person and they said it worked really well.

It even works for Croatian which is awesome as it is a really small language that anything voice-related usually does not work with.

Well if you take it to the point of absurdity, then we only have to maintain a competitive market for grain and water.

I closed your website instantly as soon as it played a sound, it's pretty bad it does that. When I try to click on the whitepaper button, the click actually goes to the globe. I am sorry but it's very amateurish.

Anyways, what do you offer that bitcoin doesn't and what do you don't offer that bitcoin does?

I know for a fact that normal people use crypto in Venezuela, albeit through apps and Binance. Their currency is crap and USD was outlawed for a while. I got the info first hand recently when a Venezuelan dev colleague visited my country.

You get to call it stupid, you don't get to cut someone's water or electricity off because you think they have a stupid opinion. Same should go for having the ability to pay for stuff and receive money from people who want to give it to you, as long as what you are doing is not illegal.

They don't have to be sitting there. A startup with a good person running finances will also have short term investments (should not be S&P though). Not sure about all startups in general but in my experience so far, this is what happens.

Not a dumb question at all. AFAIK it is the amount, in the USA it's $250K. Other countries have similar situations, most of the EU is 100K €.

If sufficiently motivated, take pics with your phone. With a good camera, you could minify a lot of code into a tiny font size, take a photo or multiple photos, and OCR them later.

Or encrypt the whole repo and just send it to a bucket somewhere. I mean there's got to be a lot of ways to do it if you really want to.

I am not the best person to address everything point by point as I am not putting enough thought into it, but perhaps I could point (heh) you in the right direction.

Sure you could let Visa do this (as they and Mastercard handle most online payments now anyways), and it would probably work as well as Visa/Mastercard work now, but for some people that is not good enough.

1. Differentiate clearing (telling you you now have some money) and settlement (you getting the money you "have"). For Visa and Mastercard the latter takes days or more.

2. Permissionless means that you don't need any entity's permission to transact. Visa and Mastercard definitely require permission, and on occassion don't give it for various legal but "immoral" things like porn, Wikileaks, and who knows what in the future.

3. Borderless is kind of similar to permissionless. As soon as you bring in legacy behemoths like Visa into it, this kind of goes away.

4. With decentralization, fees are determined objectively (you pay to get in, and if there is enough demand, regardless of price, blocks are full). A monopolist would charge as much as they could get away with, sometimes even if that means no transactions are being performed.

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I would say that with a Visa(like) company, you definitely lose 2, and 4 will probably have some bullshit involved.

I don't see them as bragging. The first part of the paragraph is their previous "hard-working" perspective, and later comes understanding of the people they were looking down on.

For one, people who live under oppressive regimes.

It can get a bit impossible. I recently wanted to watch Don't Look Up with Croatian audio (am Croatian, I know it's stupid but I thought it would be funny) and Chinese subtitles (because that's my GF's first language), but it is not possible. If I am on my Croatian profile I can use Croatian audio but not Chinese subtitles. If she is on her profile she can use Chinese subtitles but not Croatian audio.

I get that it's a UX thing because most people aren't interested in Swahili subtitles, but it would be nice to have an option to expand the list since I know they have the data.

Sorry if I assume too much, but I think you'd be thinking quite differently if you had to consider buying your first home on the French riviera now, on something like a 60.000-100.000 euro pre-tax salary.

This is kind of overstated. From what I remember, it only makes addresses vulnerable after you spend from them, and in all likelihood the network would migrate to a resistant algorithm.

To illustrate the point even more, if it's an average sized bar they'd still be billionaires on average.

IMO that's a problem with Uber's pricing model. If the destination doesn't have enough people requesting new rides, the price to that destination should be higher.

If the price accurately represented the drivers' costs, they wouldn't refuse the rides.

Can you name a few such countries. I live in the EU, but when you have a business in my country you are always breaking some rules no matter what, and a lot is up to the discretion of the tax people.

Perhaps those harder jobs should be paid more and people would then apply.

I would disagree in the case of platforms which are monopolies. Or in this case let's call it a triopoly because they collaborate on things like this.

Same like how public utility companies cannot shut off your power or water because they don't like you.

I don't get it, do you have 13 children?