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I use Opera for this feature alone, makes a huge difference!

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I loved Tresorit but it's camera upload feature didn't transfer files correctly from my wife's iPhone - it left them corrupted and unopenable with no warnings or errors whatsoever.

Unfortunately because of that alone I dropped them completely. I'm using Dropbox now because I haven't found a better alternative for syncing between iPhone/Android/Windows/Linux.

Crypto is not even zero sum, it's negative sum, because whilst the value is set by people trading to each other, real USD has to come out of the system every day to pay for the electricity to support it.

The reason it hasn't "generated" wealth and has merely "moved" it, is because it doesn't allow everyone to succeed. Say in your case, person A bought at $1 and sold at $100, so he is up $99. But someone else had to buy the bitcoin he sold, so that person is currently sitting at -$100. For one person to profit, another necessarily has to lose.

The price of bitcoin could increase almost indefinitely, since the whole "hodl" meme is about reducing the supply and reducing the float, which allows it to continue to pump upwards and for people to get rich on paper. But it will never be possible for all of them to actually cash out, there isn't enough real USD in the crypto economy to allow that.

It is not reasonable to compare Blockchain versus TCP. Only advocates do this because despite Blockchain technology being completely useless, it's a simple line that excuses all lack of progress / usecases, whilst simultaneously implying it will still take over the world.

It's a dishonest line to come out with and people on Hacker News should know better.

Just wanted to +1 this. I also read Japanese at a high level (JLPT N1) and I've always learned characters in context of the vocabulary they are in. Spending months learning 2000 "meanings" for characters isn't a great way to spend your time in my opinion, the hard part of learning a language is remembering tens of thousands of words. Kanji is relatively not a big deal.

The exception I suppose is if you really want to be able to write characters by hand, then the Heisig method has value. If you can live without being able to handwrite well, then it's hard to justify spending months up front remembering unhelpful meanings than actually learning the language itself...

This is his reddit account:

https://www.reddit.com/user/jstolfi

He primarily posts in buttcoin, a sub that exists to mock bitcoiners. It's pretty fair to say he thinks all coins are crap, not just bitcoin.

Also, please include me in the "Understands cryptocurrencies and yet doesn't support it" bucket please :)

Its not the same thing because exchanges often trade only Tether/Bitcoin pairs, and don't allow people to withdraw into actual USD. If you can print as many tethers as you like, then you can massively pump the bitcoin price buying it with worthless tether.

This only works as long as people selling Bitcoin have been happy to accept Tether instead of USD, which (inexplicably to me) they have been doing. If Tether is proven to be backed by nothing at all, then there could be a serious crash as people try to get real money out and dump Tether. Your bitcoin being worth 7350 USDT isn't very exciting if your USDT are worth 0 USD.

But they could implement that tomorrow if they really wanted to?

Was this a joke that's gone over my head? :)

Don't think there is a std::optional yet, have to go with boost::optional.

I think you're point is completely correct though. You can write very safe code today using modern C++ features.