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IIRC, bitcoin ATMs do not set up wallets for you.

You still need to create a wallet, key, etc. and that is not easy to do for beginners without an exchange like Kraken. Most DNMs use temporary addresses so it's not a good idea to try to transfer directly from a bitcon ATM to a DNM.

I didn't say Monero is KYC.

I also didn't say you transfer directly into Kraken. Instead, you would use at least 1 or 2 other wallets before transferring into Kraken, because that bypasses their scanning.

Kraken is still cheaper while doing that than paying a 10% fee for an ATM.

Hard paywall, doesn't work with archive or outline.

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It doesn't matter if Monero is used with KYC - transactions are obfuscated.

That means the transactions can't be traced to your KYC wallet on Kraken, meaning you're spending 10% on an ATM for no reason.

>then you set things up incorrectly IMO

That's precisely the problem with crypto though - most problems get blamed on the user, and not highlighted as the deficit it is for the crypto.

Aren't Monero transactions completely obscured anyways?

It doesn't make a difference if you using a Bitcoin ATM or transfer to your Kraken account (except a 10% fee for the former).

>That’s funny, I wondered why Amazon order emailed sucked so hard lately. Thought it was just them being dumb.

It's the opposite.

Amazon wants you to click back into the store to buy things. One way to do that is forcing you to view orders in the store instead of your email inbox. They care more about that than Google seeing your purchase history.

I can almost guarantee Amazon dropped the item details from their emails in order to get you to click back into the store.

That's fair but for people without HSA they should still file a claim against maximum out of pocket.

I thought the lists were a red herring for the problems with privatized healthcare - i.e. look at how complicated pricing is, not how it is being complicated by for-profit middlemen.

>the adapters are large enough that there are only 4 but also small enough that making a 2x USB A adapter would be quite challenging.

This was my thought as well, but they're planning on doing more interfaces than what they're listing now, so it may be they went for universibility with the size.

Also USB-A is going to slowly die off anyways, so I doubt it's good to build the dongle standard to two USB-As.

FWIW Amnesty International has been calling out Apple's kowtowing to China and invasion of privacy for the last three years, but it's been falling on mostly deaf ears:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/china-social-media...

More to the author's point, in a free market you can have consumer watchdogs providing transparency, but even they can still be drowned out by "privacy"-based branding from giants.

This assumes that all projects should be built with the larger scope in mind.

Sometimes you just need a shovel, not a Bagger 288.

Which takes quite a bit of time and hasn't been proven possible yet. Very different from an on-demand poison pill.

ZCash is controlled by a privately-owned company in the U.S., who gave themselves founder's rewards.

It's also designed in a way to allow "poison pills" - i.e. those in control can force a single transaction on a block, thus giving a vector to deanonymize someone.

You may ask, "Who would do something like that?" and the answer would be the U.S. government who can compel privately owned organizations via secret court subpoenas. Monero is more private than ZCash, and has a record of not acting on self-interests.

Right?

The whole "I don't understand how people can possibly think that identity obfuscation at scale is a good thing for a financial system" can be answered by, "Will you share your entire transaction history and account balances with the entire world? Why not?"

Nothing ever _has_ to happen; that implies intent in markets.

Efficiencies and user experience are better for more users on social media than email, despite it's obvious flaws.

Did regional steel mills _have_ to replace local blacksmiths? No, but they did.

This may be a naive question, but isn't that a problem with the content reporting system itself? That it requires blanket exceptions?

Popular users are going to have more false-positive reports than others, but when those reports deviate from the norm on individual pieces of content (say a nude photo) then the system should still be able to pick it up. It's an exercise in feature extraction.

The login blanket exception (for the CEO of the company) is a different use case and purpose than content control, one that blanket exceptions can solve efficiently.

I don't like this example because it assumes that the Whatsapp founders would have had the same billion $ impact at FB, or that FB would not have just acquired whichever app that would have filled the market potential otherwise.

People here are saying that Carmack isn't really saying much (quantity-wise he's not) or giving their own personal anecdotes, but he's touching on information theory for imperfect markets.

Basically the employer and candidate screw up the signals to each other about buying/selling of labor today, and it creates costly overhead for both parties. In a perfect market, employers and candidates know everything about each other and quickly fill- or land-in the best possible positions (respectively).

Not sure if the startup he's promoting, or throwing in random population sampling, solves this problem though. Seems like the random sampling is only a temporary fix to uncovering missed positive signals in candidates.

Liability will be delegated away from the hospital and onto the service provider, same way they are with diagnostics on clinical lab equipment. Hospitals love to continue to get paid while shouldering less risk.

Anything that promotes meaningful content discovery.

Everyone is projecting their need for anonymity in response to this question, but ultimately it comes down to frequency of dopamine hits. Think TikTok but more formats than just video.

And not Reddit video? At least you can avoid chat.

It's survivor bias to only look at existing incumbents. Reddit absorbed Digg users almost overnight, as one quick example. Another slower one is how AIM, ICQ, or MySpace lost the war of attrition.

This conversation highlights the dichotomy of higher education in the U.S.

You're describing the quality of an education, while the previous commenters are describing how to game a title system to get the best brand. These are two different goals/outcomes.

>I'm not sure what if any negative selection system is used to prevent accidentally targeting autoantigens in addition the foreign antigen

From an evolution perspective, it may improve survival chances to form antibodies with partial autoimmune match and beat the infection, rather than form less antibodies period. Also because the infection is an immediate death threat, while autoimmune disorders (like Celiac's) can be a major inconvenience that doesn't stop reproduction.

Nothing in the previous comments contradicts that.

That's why I said "thought to" instead of "proven to". There is enough evidence to show that aluminum in drinking water accelerates Alzheimer's [1], while the antiperspirant is hypothesized, but not proven or disproven yet.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/152/1/59/139168

Anecdotes are not why the regulation would exist. The majority of people can do things the right way, but it's always the outliers and bad (lazy?) actors for which the regulation needs to exist for.