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Helloworldboy··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
Can't go one thread...
Helloworldboy··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
because it's strictly better than BTC. Faster and cheaper transactions.
Helloworldboy··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
LTC has many advantages over BTC. Namely faster transaction times and waaaaaay lower fees.
Helloworldboy··on Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth
I think you can draw some great parallels between Harvey Danger as a band and Cards Against Humanity as a card game.

Harvey Danger

- 1 successful song

- Edgy and cringey (eg. "and I don't even own a TV", W E W)

CaH

- Fun for 1 hand

- Edgy and cringey

I guess Harvey Danger was bored, because they sure are boring.

Helloworldboy··on Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth
Yeah, all those dreams I've had of creating a boring card games shattered.

You've really cut me to the core.

Helloworldboy··on Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth
The problem is that even though there's an "infinite" number of combinations, they're all just some form of "edgy"/gross-out humor.

It's just not that interesting after a few hands.

Helloworldboy··on Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth
I've played it several times before with a pretty wide range of people.

Without fail it just devolves into who can put together the edgiest answer. Then after 2 or 3 rounds everyone just comes to expect it and gets bored.

Helloworldboy··on Bitcoin – Millennials Fake Gold
> how are you using it to enrich your life?

Selling them for way more than I bought them.

Helloworldboy··on Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them
You just listed a bunch of events with zero context that require initial bias to dry racism over.

This "wink and nod" idea seems pretty tin-foil hat to me

Helloworldboy··on Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them
In which universe do you live in that he isn't?
Helloworldboy··on Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them
When you have riots over right-leaning moderates like Ben Shapiro, I think it's clear that there is a free-speech problem at universities in the US.
Helloworldboy··on Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them
Openly supports and defends?

I'm no Trump fan but this seems blatantly false. He seems to have been disavowing racists since the start.

Helloworldboy··on Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is absolutely the case. Just look at the exploding expenditure on "administration" rather than education at these universities.

Universities exploit ridiculous student loan programs to make indentured servants out of their customers.

Helloworldboy··on Do You Love Any Dead People?
why is this here?
Helloworldboy··on Apple HomePod – a missed opportunity
Personally I wish they'd just combine the HomePod and the Apple TV into a single product. Throw in wireless router capabilities and you have the ultimate home device.
Helloworldboy··on Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
Are ad-blocking services generally sued by ad-displaying websites? I've never heard of that happening, but I could certainly be wrong.
Helloworldboy··on Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
Agreed. I think it might come down to the entirety of the BAT ecosystem (ad blocking browser, optional ads that you earn $ for turning on, micro donation system in the spirit of patreon). I certainly think its worth watching to see how it unfolds at least.
Helloworldboy··on Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
I think you might be misunderstanding how it works. Its essentially Patreon. Will it work? Who knows. Can youtube stop it from happening? Probably not any more than they can stop Patreon.
Helloworldboy··on Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
"calls for consistency are just whataboutism when applied to content that I agree with"
Helloworldboy··on Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
they also host /r/SRS which has been doxxing reddit users for longer than /r/The_donald has existed. Rarely see that one brought up anymore, really makes you think.
Helloworldboy··on On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
As someone who grew up in rural WI and went to school in Minneapolis, I can attest to this. The culture differences are pretty huge.
Helloworldboy··on On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
Grew up on the other side of the lake in WI. Feel the same way
Helloworldboy··on P5.js Crash Course: Recreate Art You Love
This is awesome. I loved building little apps in Processing in college, looking forward to trying this out.
Helloworldboy··on The Magic of CSS
Might want to fix on safari, not very magical
Helloworldboy··on United States Senate Committee Testimony of Twitter's Acting General Counsel
"if you don't censor people, you're a nazi!!!!!"
Helloworldboy··on Why Wages Aren’t Growing
> So why exactly is this number infeasible? It's already being paid, just by many entities instead of one.

The problem with your logic is that you would need an extra $3,000,000,000,000 ON TOP of the value currently paid out to the workforce (someone needs to create all that value), unless again you'd like to rob the workforce of their labor to redistribute those not providing labor?

Helloworldboy··on Why Wages Aren’t Growing
1. No true Scotsman

2. Bullshit, even the reasons you provide are rooted in monetary incentive, e.g. how does one provide a better life for ones family? You give a nice example in Open Source at least, but tell me, do you think the self-motivated hackers can create enough value by themselves to support the vast majority of society leeching off UBI? At $1000 per month per American you're looking at well over $3,000,000,000,000 per year. Sure would suck to be one of those motivated individuals having your labor exploited like that.

Helloworldboy··on Why Wages Aren’t Growing
too bad Marxian policies stifle innovation by providing no incentive to pursue it.
Helloworldboy··on Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?
> That's how you get drunk people once they're free to buy alcohol.

This meme needs to die, it has no basis in reality.

Helloworldboy··on Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi about Face ID
Given the rumors that they were trying to embed it into the screen, my guess is that 11 will had both FaceID and screen embedded TouchID
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