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But you’re not moving spendable USD between your own accounts when you’re transferring Bitcoin, so it’s hard to see how this is related to your use case?

I have recently acquired a small swimming pool, and my wife has taught me the expression to “flocc and shock” for removing debris. This appears to be the etymology

... yes? Faster Payments for my GBP balances and Prompt Pay for my THB ones tend to take a few seconds and be free?

Added bonus: both will confirm the recipient name, and if I truly, actually fuck up the payment, I can get the money back again rather than it disappearing into the ether.

Finally: the money I have transferred is now available to actually spend on things straight away, without needing to then reconvert it to real people money with a sizeable cost.

Crypto-currency’s _only_ use case today, other than speculation, is illegal payments. For almost everything else the traditional banking system is faster, cheaper, and safer.

Unlike the US you can pay your way out of most infractions in Thailand for a fair price.

So do? Plenty of companies hiring remote, and you will be far (far far far) from the first tech worker to move to South East Asia. Bangkok in particular has world class (and affordable) health care, food, and night life, and you’re only ever a couple of hours from the beach

Bangkok is absolutely full of view likes this, in no small part due to lax planning regulations. Also there are many tall buildings with bars on the top.

> many of whom got their wealth in shady circumstances

Like inheriting it, which is the shadiest of shady ways to make money

Why though? Is the iPhone hardware that much better than their high-end competitors? I’m a big Apple fanboy but I buy an iPhone (and indeed a Mac) to run iOS (and macOS)

I note this is the case in the UK too tho: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/debt-soluti...

What is a typical team? Biggest teams spend $450m, smallest spend $130m. The resource difference is very real, and the mean hides that.

Excellent documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE

How is this a REST API rather than just a regular API being served over HTTP?

That a 404, 301, and 500 being generated by the API vs the web server are very different events and it’s hard to think of where “various tools” handling them the same is the right choice? What examples do you have where it’s the right choice?

I wish anything built on REST would die. Conflation of the envelope and the payload is idiotic and adds only pain, no value.

Plenty of other countries still use “foot” as a measurement. Try asking a Canadian or Brit how tall they are in cm

> The opening and closing involves zero work

Why?

> If you don't have the keys, it's not your coins

For the vast majority of people, if they do have the keys, their personal security is poor enough that someone will get a copy.

If my current workplace offered me a 15% raise in exchange for forgoing toilet breaks and pissing in a bottle for the next year, I would go for it.

I'm sure there's a number for which I'd agree to be stranded on a boat off the coast of Egypt without power, but I suspect it's closer to 15x my salary.

As I understand it, this makes the latter 100x worse than the former.

I have pissed in a bottle before out of expediency, but I've never spent several years stranded on a ship without power, company, etc, out of free will. Conflating the two seems weird.

Yes, I'm well aware. Indictment is in no way being found guilty by a jury of your peers though and has wildly different standards of evidence.

> It’s unfalsifiable because ... very difficult to do

That’s not what that means.

First you say

> Face masks ... don’t work to slow transmission whatsoever

and when pushed on it, you imply that this is true because there’s been no trial on it, which is not how implication works.

You then also try and suggest the presence of an unfalsifiable hypothesis which you don’t try and explain, and seems suggestive that you don’t know what the term means?

Do you know what indict means?

> [DM] alleges Google "punishes" publishers in its rankings if they don't sell enough advertising space in its marketplace

> Google [says] "The Daily Mail's claims are completely inaccurate. The use of our ad tech tools has no bearing on how a publisher's website ranks in Google search."

Not a fan of either party, but I hope we get to find out who's accurate.

"The main Georgist policy recommendation is a tax assessed on land value. Georgists argue that revenues from a land value tax (LVT) can be used to reduce or eliminate existing taxes such as on income, trade, or purchases that are unfair and inefficient. Some Georgists also advocate for the return of surplus public revenue to the people by means of a basic income or citizen's dividend."

The Economist's iOS app means I have started listening to their podcast many many many times without wanting to. Particularly irritated when browsing in bed next to a sleeping wife.

“nation state” isn’t just a fancy word for country and has a specific meaning

> my experience is that companies always come up with reasons not to give the bonus

This isn’t true in my experience. If you’re trying to make a decision based on comp+bonus then ask what the bonus ended up being the last few years

When I take dividends, 20% of the value I take gets distributed to the staff