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parpol ,

That's why I get them fresh, never frozen.

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    They're on hexbear and lemmygrad too.

    parpol ,

    Rakuten is bigger than Amazon in japan. They are an online shopping service, mobile and broadband provider, bank, crypto exchange, traveling agency, credit card, fast pay service, online grocery store, and more.

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    Yes, all those dollars that get pulled out of the earth by the blood sweat and tears of miners?

    You mean the nickel and copper mines?

    parpol ,

    "Crypto isn't backed by a government"

    "CBDC is a digital form of fiat—money that is issued by central banks. It is designed to be a digital representation of the country's physical currency. Unlike cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, CBDC is backed by the government and is legal tender."

    CBDC is blockchain based, i.e cryptocurrency.

    Japan is developing a similar cryptocurrency as well.

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    Which is just as true with mining, except money is staked into mining rigs.

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    That's not true. A lot of people for example care about what happens in the US despite there not being socialized healthcare.

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    Who?

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    Oh, digital contracts. They haven't really taken off in Japan. We still use plain old stamping on physical paper here.

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    The jitsu-in is required for marriage and purchasing property.

    The ginko-in is required for signing stuff as a business.

    The mitome-in is required by all Japanese for signing anything.

    The ginko-in and mitome-in are still required everywhere. I've never been sent an online doc that I could sign with an online service or blockchain, nor have I heard from anyone about it. It's always a letter that I have to place my mitome-in on and send back.

    parpol ,

    Microsoft does enforce using TPM since win11 though.

    parpol ,

    Click the link below to try out the new PewDiePie flavored Cov.

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    parpol ,

    Masturbation abstinence as a meme is popular online, but I doubt actual abstinence is.

    parpol ,

    I'm pretty sure that was a group that started as a support forum for porn addicts, but it looks like it has been taken over by some real fanatics. Perhaps religious people? The core message still seems to be about porn addiction, but full abstinence is a harmful path it is sidetracking to, which is why I suspect there is some kind of hidden religious agenda by the mods.

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    Firefox asks me where to put my files though.

    parpol ,

    I see. My bad.

    parpol ,

    If you want a trustless system, you have to sacrifice performance.
    At least the proof of stake blockchains like Ethereum don't use that much energy, and you get a pretty cheap and fast transaction with layer 2 solutions on par with credit card transactions.

    parpol ,

    13.15 is the average number of transactions per second. Max TPS (57.91) is the largest recorded TPS, not the capacity of the blockchain. Max TPS will rise as more people use layer 2. Layer 2 solutions can handle 2,000-4,000 TPS, and there are 24 commonly known ones that can do these transactions in parallel.

    parpol ,

    Would you trust your money with a bank in China? It was only a year ago that people lost their savings and couldn't withdraw money for food after a major bank was on the brink of bankruptcy due to the Evergrande scheme.

    I guess you can call it questionable, but if I buy a VPN, I'm not going to pay with a credit card linked to my name. I use Monero. If I want to transfer money to my family in another country, crypto is faster, cheaper, and has no restrictions. I can't even pay my student loans from my home country because my current bank blocks foreign credit card transactions, even if they are important.

    This is very niche and not something an average Joe needs, but cryptocurrency isn't for the average Joe to begin with.

    parpol ,

    Bitcoin had its official ETF approved and started the other week and Ethereum is soon to follow. so I would say capitalism is very much not rejecting blockchain technology. Didn't blackrock and other giants put a ton in?

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    Yes. There are Escrow services in crypto that hold and issue chargebacks, but it is to to you if you want to use such a service.

    centralized crypto exchanges also have fraud combatting teams. An example is that exchange that sponsors kitboga, the youtuber who screws around with Indian scammers. They lock scammers' accounts from withdrawing but not depositing so they keep sending victims' money to these accounts, and then eventually they lock the accounts and transfer the money back to the victims.

    Obviously an issue with this approach is the scammers can just use decentralized wallets, but recently exchanges started blocking transactions to these too unless you provide KYC info about them, so they're trying at least.

    If you do things right, you can be relatively safe from fraud and scams, but most people won't do things the right way.

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    I'm personally advocating for Ethereum which is Proof of Stake and uses a fraction of the energy Bitcoin does.

    However, correct me if I'm wrong here because I'm not that much invested in bitcoin as a tech or investment, but isn't almost half of the energy used on bitcoin generated from renewables? I could swear I saw an article about it somewhere.

    Although nowadays people seem busy heating up the world telling AI to cheat on their homework, so I wonder if this is a problem with society rather than technology.

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    I think it depends on the layer 2 solution, but as far as I understand, each of these layer 2 solutions independently have 2000-4000 as theoretical max, and only after bulking transactions together do they affect layer 1, so you should be able to add all layer 2 together for the total.

    I guess the spatial sharding update will further increase the maximum number of transactions you can bulk by a factor or two so an individual layer 2 solution becomes comparable with visa, but I don't think that update is coming to Ethereum in several years. Then again, Ethereum needing to perform 60,000 TPS is likely not happening this decade either.

    For now at least, layer 2 is fast and cheap, although a bit difficult to use.

    parpol ,

    It is illegal to send cash by letter.

    parpol ,

    It is less than a dollar

    parpol ,

    It is in most countries

    parpol ,

    That's just proof of work chains like bitcoin. Ethereum doesn't have intense calculations and nodes instead use their staked money as liability to offer proof of transactions.

    parpol ,

    Without bitcoin, the renewable energy plants wouldn't have been built.

    We don't have a shortage of electricity in the world, we just don't have enough incentive to make it renewable.

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    parpol ,

    Mining is a great way to deal with excess energy from solar farms.

    When solar power plants produce more energy than needed, that means we have to shut down some of the plants temporarily. This is costly, and also means we require alternative energy for cloudy and rainy days. Solar still produces energy on these days, but not enough.

    If we make more solar plants so we can have enough energy even for cloudy days we instead get too much energy on sunny days, and we are forced to shut down the plants temporarily, and this is essentially wasted money for these electric companies, so why would they want more solar plants?

    Producing a lot of plants just to expect them to run with low efficiency and with half of them shut down on sunny days is wasteful and costly.

    However, if we instead have mining rigs consume the excess energy, we get a stable energy flow, because mining rigs will turn on and off based on the cost of electricity. Supply and demand stabilize.

    parpol ,

    People keep saying "creating heat" as if that's the cause of global warming. And it isn't just creating heat, it is running an entire ecosystem.

    parpol ,

    Not only did I not uninstall my adblocker, I also switched to the Invidious front-end to avoid any anti-adblocking scripts, and I can also download videos now, and get no trackers at all.

    parpol ,

    The best use-case for an Apple product is you get money when you return it.

    parpol ,

    What did New Zealanders do to OP?

    parpol ,

    Don't worry. The first human is already dead anyway.

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    Probably useful for people living in constant fear of being kidnapped, but personally I think I'll just revoke location on this one.

    parpol ,

    I doubt anyone would want to kidnap me, but if they did, trackers would probably help them.

    parpol ,

    I feel it would be kinda my own fault if I got in a car wreck on a freeway. What was I even doing there without a car or a licence?

    And if I got lost in a forest, I obvisously wouldn't need emergency services if my phone knew my exact location, would I?

    Jokes aside, I could just toggle the permission on or off anyway, and I grew up without a cellphone to begin with. Yeah, there are risks, but to me this is phobia levels of precaution in exchange for giving out my exact location at all times to who knows. If that's what kills me, that is entirely on me, but it very likely won't.

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    If I didn't bring my phone with me to begin with, which I often don't, I would be in the same situation. I'm not saying the emergency service is useless to everyone. But the risk of it being off causing my death is so insignificantly small, the risk of someone tapping into my location far outweights it for me. We didn't have phones when I grew up, and it should be OK not to rely on it for everything today as well. If that kills me (which it won't), that is on me.

    I could argue then that everyone should carry a first aid kit with them everywhere they go, or a rape whistle, then since it would save at least someone somewhere, but that's a high burden to prevent something of low risk.

    More importantly, why can't it check the location when I actually make the emergency call, rather than every 10 minutes? It does not need my daily routine to locate me.

    Now that I think about it, location is disabled globally on my phone by default anyway, and has always been. I turn it on when I have to, and immediately turn it back off when I don't need it anymore.

    parpol ,

    Fair use doesn't exist in Japan, so I wonder how it applies to content made there.

    parpol ,

    Imagine still using google services in 2024

    parpol ,

    As long as you generate the PW with numbers and special characters included, a 14 character password will take over a hundred years to crack.

    50 is so unnecessarily large, it closes in on the age of the universe amount of time needed to brute force.

    parpol ,

    Still better than the Funimation localizations.

    parpol ,

    Skill issue, but shitting on Microsoft and Apple is allowed anyway.

    parpol ,

    Can you order a GDPR-compliant one from Europe instead, or an older brand?

    parpol ,

    He must be one of those non-Americans with universal healthc*re

    parpol ,

    Commonly known as 1950-1970s Atompunk, featuring a cold war utopia with nuclear energy, atom power and robots.

    X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

    Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...

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    Anyone who hasn't moved on to mastodon at this point is a clown.

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