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I'm not aware of where large cash transactions are banned, but if they are surely it's because cash is largely untraceable. Meanwhile bitcoin is easily traceable, and the IRS is not afraid to crawl the blockchain to piece together what you don't tell them[1]. Putting my tinfoil hat on, I wonder if governments are helping spread this myth that crypto is untraceable because it makes it easier to catch criminals.

[1]: https://www.taxlitigator.com/the-irs-confirms-its-great-eye-...

Tax evasion is no less real of a crime than other financial crimes. And in any case the parent post mentions taxes, so I think the numbers are still relevant without excluding it.

0.5% of Bitcoin's volume is illegal activity. [1]

11%-12% of the USA's economy is illegal activity. [2]

If you wanted to commit a crime or evade taxes, probably the dumbest thing you could do is record permanent evidence on a public, immutable ledger.

[1]: https://ciphertrace.com/2020-year-end-cryptocurrency-crime-a...

> Cash—anonymous and liquid—has long served as a tool for criminals. Cryptocurrency, with its similar characteristics, may likewise struggle to ever completely shake its bad reputation, despite illicit transactions making up less than 0.5% of Bitcoin’s yearly volume in 2020.

[2]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/032916/how-big...

> Estimates vary widely, but some put the underground economy at 11% to 12% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).

> “Because he [Wright] advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial, he will recover only nominal damages,” wrote the judge.

He should be charged with perjury. Why are the courts letting him submit fraudulent evidence with no consequences?

Yep, rewrite it in Rust please. I hate having to pause for garbage collection every night.

> I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control.

This is interesting to read. When I first played it I was dying for touch controls. It seemed like such a natural fit for the gameplay of sliding papers around.

I think decidose would be even less accurate. A normal dose is 3g-5g. A microdose is 0.1g-0.2g. That's not a ratio of 10. At least microdose has a widely-agreed on colloquial meaning.

I'm curious, what is the business justification for funding development of Demucs, if you don't mind me asking? It doesn't seem very related to FB's core business.

To be fair that's how a lot of software worked in that era. MS Office worked that way too (doc files, not docx files).

No, this attack wouldn't work on bitcoin. Bitcoin chooses the chain with the most total work (which is blocks x difficulty), not the most blocks. Else someone could fork the chain from a block sometime in 2009 when difficulty was very low and outpace the rest of the network.

The problem is brand management doesn't come up on leetcode, so they can't test for it in interviews

I wouldn't want anything killing pods every time there's a network timeout. That sounds like a quick way to turn a tiny problem into a huge problem.

This article isn't about the app called Microsoft Teams. It's about a lowercase-T team of people.

I just confirmed that 640 KB fits in RAM. That's enough for me.

Is it really what "normies" want? Or is it just what drug companies/lobbyists want?

If someone is trying to escape their local currency, they won't want an on/off ramp. In foreign nations with a large underground USD economy, people skip the local currency and trade/spend USD directly. The same could happen with BTC. In fact in the most extreme cases this transformation is already happening: https://www.reuters.com/technology/venezuelas-economy-regres...

> But a major part of Venezuela's crypto operations involves businesses swapping out of bolivars to beat inflation, said economist and finance expert Aaron Olmos.

> "Nobody is going to tell you 'every night when we do the books, we convert bolivars into bitcoin,' but yes, this is happening."

My theory is that the likelihood someone understands the use cases is inversely correlated to their trust in government.

For example: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60912789

These articles all follow a common pattern.

1. The trigger – Inflation/distrust in government/bank withdrawal restrictions/paypal freezes your funds/country is at war/etc

2. The response – People gravitate towards a system that is resilient to whatever failure mode they experienced

Those who haven't personally experienced #1 (such as world superpowers, the wealthy/"elite") seem not to be able to grasp the benefits. Meanwhile in places that are smaller/less stable/not economically self-sufficient/on the fringe, people are increasingly turning to it as the best alternative.

Options. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/put.asp

There are ways to bet against stocks that don't expose you to unlimited downside.

It only costs a few thousand to "run for office". Anyone can do it. People already abuse this for advertising and even just memes. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/udw7ca/w...

Right, but how is this any different than a camera? Nobody goes around saying Nikon designed their cameras upside down and then had to hack around the mistake in software. It's just how lenses work.

Did you mean write calls?

Yeah the problem is liquidity, and the "bespoke" nature of this kind of bet. I can't just stroll into Bird HQ like Christian Bale and ask them to do all the work for me. I only want to risk a few thousand, not millions. Even setting up the deal might cost more than I was willing to risk in the first place.

I wonder if these wild valuations could be kept in check if there were a way to short/buy puts on private companies. There's positive pressure on valuations from the funding, but scant negative pressure.

Scooters-as-a-service can probably be a profitable business worth millions, but you had to be really out of touch to think it could be worth billions.

RIP Google Timer, 2013-2022

To be fair though, the entries on killedbygoogle seem to average ~5 years before death. By that metric 9 years is a respectable run.

VDOMs aren't inherently slow... Inferno uses a VDOM and scores within a few % of SolidJS on js-framework-benchmark. (Never used it myself)

https://www.infernojs.org/

I was just responding to the specific question I quoted. More broadly I agree with you that it's a risky idea to immortalize your criminal activity on a public, immutable ledger.

> What if they just turn off the external internet?

No government is capable of this. Even North Korea has people smuggling phones over the border. A single cell or satellite connection that can sustain 2-3 KB/s is all you need to keep the rest of the country connected.

Made with Dear ImGui. I'd recognize that font/style anywhere.

Alexa, would you kindly turn on the kitchen lights?