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>And that's just bitcoin, stable coins are more reliable. Until they submit to agnostic third party audits, they're not stable.

China doesn't have the same freedom of speech as the U.S. You can't just ban companies because you want to. There are laws and protections from the government in place.

That's assuming that new facts never come to light over time.

I mean, correcting factual errors is pretty good trait for a fact-checking site, right?

"Making this bread really takes me back to growing up with the funerary pyres at Grandma's house"

I think the video conference market success is also linked to increased prevalence of camera us - i.e. mobile plans finally support streaming, laptops carry a camera as standard, e…

Noob question: Can you do attestation with mobile web, or is it app only?

Even the hotspots functionality is useful - if I'm in a new city, I can see the highlighted areas where the best restaurants and bars are.

My experience is the opposite - Chase nickle and dimed me and made me pay fees if I didn't jump through certain hoops. It made me go back to my credit union.

Thanks to modern banking, you don't need to be in the same city as your credit union. I've used the same CU for 20 years, the last 8 of which has been 2000 miles away from it.

Yeah, was wondering where the combustion engine came in. It revolutionized agriculture. Also, tea making was a huge sanitary step forward.

They'd be paying you directly for your information through incentives.

More along the lines of giving you control to allow brands you trust to know more about you. Imperfect markets exist because of the unbalance of information, which is why adtech wi…

As long as there are imperfect markets, there is demand from sellers for advertising to do targeting. If the goal is to remove advertising, then it may be better to set up mechanis…

Because it was a loss leader. It's proof that Uber subsidizes individual markets differently.

Yep, every time technology shifts, reputation systems shift in response. This goes all the way back to yellow news with newspapers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Even with legal sales, there are still black markets for drugs, as is evident with marijuana: https://apnews.com/article/business-california-los-angeles-m...

Radical Treason Raptor Planes /Birds aren't real

That doesn't mean they're not subsidizing individual markets to remain competitive though. It just means the average is marginal. IIRC Uber lost $2B on the Chinese marketing simply…

Fire codes show emergent design as well. The end-of-day fireworks in Disney Paris has the square packed corner to corner, while in the US there are roped off escape routes on the r…

If it's any consolation, a big CPU suck is friend-or-foe checks being done by characters on everyone in sight, in every tick. That came out last year-ish and making smaller taverns…

Alcohol has greater cultural and historical significance than marijuana does as context, despite killing 3 million people each year. Claiming it's okay to lose a hand because you c…

It's part of the Google informational branding, which is why you say, "Hey Google" instead of "Hey Alexa" or "Hey Siri". For HN it seems boring, but for normies it's simply descrip…

Fair, I should have said 8 months since the market exploded.