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What features are you referring to?

I do like the concept that an artist can continue to get a percentage of future sales. But blockchain itself does not prevent copyright infringement of digital assets. I.e. the art…

You got any more detail on this? Most developed contries have digitized their deed system, so I am not sure how you can con someone out of their deed. Also, back when we did use ph…

> But if people buy deeds instead of the house itself (i.e. most NFTs) then the link becomes broken and the signifier of “ownership” is less useful. And as it is used for digital g…

> You can easily communicate numbers 1 through 10 to just about anyone around the globe by holding up the corresponding number of fingers For the numbers 6-10 China have hand gestu…

How would you ensure that the companies repay their loans?

> DeFi tries to break any chains to opaque companies and have all actions happening transparently and auditable on-chain How can you create anything of value¹ by limiting yourself …

> By definition, a lot of the projects on Ethereum are a LOT more transparent than the traditional finance world The important stuff is not transparent. For example, how do you kno…

> It’s not just the way things look, but uniformly communicate a single experience. Microsoft used to be very integrated and had an entire ecosystem that was uniform Their Office s…

While this progression may exist, it is not what I took from the article, nor the original idea behind the hedgehog classification. It is more about some thought-leader being keen …

> [offshore corporation] I have no idea how to do this, particularly without being able to leave Argentina. Also I don't think it's really a practical solution for the vast majorit…

If I understand your situation correctly, you are working in Argentina, but not paying income tax because you are a non-resident, and the source of your income is outside Argentina…

> The short answer is that Bitcoin works and TransferWise and PayPal don't. The comment you link to say that you cannot get money out of Argentina (due to capital controls). Fair e…

> I’ve been using Bitcoin to get paid for a couple of years at this point where I live here in Argentina Can you explain how this is better than e.g. Wise (formerly Transferwise), …

> I think it makes perfect sense for somebody to say that any loan that is backed by stocks granted on the basis of RSU, incur some additional special taxes Based on the numbers pu…

> This is how police should get around the problems presented with encryption. By adding a backdoor to E2E encryption? That is pretty much what they have been asking for :) Amazing…

Appreciate the links, thanks!

The thing with a lot of server software (like postfix) is that configuration is usually spread across many files. And then there is the re-use of things between services, for examp…

> and a few servers The problem I see with NixOS on a typical personal server is that you have to setup all these things using nix expressions, from which the actual configuration …

> you didn't know for sure where to post your problem It depends on the topic/domain, but I have fond memories of being on various mailing lists, and there was also usenet.

I don’t really follow your logic. The Danish strategy is to test a lot of people and catch new cases early. Requiring a green corona passport when entering various establishments w…

> it's like the most zero-sum activity imaginable. I would argue it’s actually a sub-zero-sum game because the “game master” (bitcoin miners) withdraw 12.5 coins from the pool ever…

As someone else said, you do not store coins anywhere, they are derived from the public ledger (block chain). What you store is your private key. Your private key was generated tog…

I believe the U.S. minimum requirement is currently at 10%, but you do remember how bad it all came crashing down 13 years ago, right? So yes, it does matter if we let financial in…

For me, it is generally > 2 minutes, and “release build” cover any build that leave your machine, e.g. nightly builds, beta builds, test builds to a specific user to track down som…