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I've noticed this happen in other online games. So these days when there's someone I don't want to play with again I will report them but also wait a few minutes before queuing for the next match to give that player time to get matched with others.

Magnus either needs to come forward with evidence that Hans cheated against him at St. Louis or take his L and move on. I like Magnus but this behavior is just embarrassing.

Hi Jaime, this is my first time hearing about SurrealDB and it looks awesome! Do you have any documentation outlining the system architecture and how it works under the hood? Thanks for the great work!

So will GitHub reinstate the repository?

UPI doesn't seem to be peer to peer at all.

Is it possible the court will just say "Plaintiffs get a one-time opportunity to declare the source of and withdraw their funds from the contract"?

I don't know if this is the sort of thing a court can do but it seems like the obvious solution to eliminate the damages to the plaintiffs while keeping the sanction in place.

Although I agree that this is a morally good usage of TC, I think that given the intent of using TC is to avoid retaliation from the Russian government it would probably be considered illegal in the users jurisdiction.

A better example might be to pay for a legal service without revealing your entire wallet balance to that service.

Has anyone done research on whether more financial crime happens in crypto or traditional finance? I'd be interested to see the result, adjusted for market cap or daily transaction volume or whatever makes the most sense.

Congratulations on finding success and satisfaction in your work. I hope to one day find the same. Personally, I think you should keep doing what you’re doing. If you accept VC money you are now beholden to your shareholders and are no longer in control of your business. The degree of autonomy you have, the quality of your product, and the satisfaction you derive from your work will all surely suffer as a result. It’s a deal with the devil and frankly, were I running a business, I would stay away.

PS. These are merely the opinions of someone with no experience operating a business.

Thanks!

Interesting, could you link some of those papers?

No. The "grotesque betrayal" is scumbag politicians like Priti Patel betraying the general public by attempting to destroy any semblance of privacy in their daily lives and wheeling out the tired old "think of the children" excuse to paint anyone against total surveillance as enabling child abuse.

What happens in the case of a network partition? I assume the conflict resolution algorithm is longest chain but would all the validators from the shorter chain partition get punished for being offline?

On what planet is 10 weeks imprisonment a slap on the wrist? Both of the rulings we’re comparing are utterly insane but I certainly agree that the Saudi one is far more insane.

In my opinion the size of the groups doesn’t matter when it comes to whether or not it should be a crime. Though I understand it may be a relevant factor as far as the law is concerned.

Ok, I read the article. The defendant did not share the video publicly, he shared it with two whatsapp groups. He was also not the one to make the racist comment in the video. Was his video offensive? Sure. But being offensive should never be a crime.

> If crypto mixers are outlawed, only outlaws will use crypto mixers.

This is only true in the tautological sense.

Crypto mixers are outlawed > All users of crypto mixers are therefore deemed outlaws > Only outlaws use crypto mixers.

An otherwise innocent person who has never heard about the sanctions may continue to "launder" their crypto unawares because they don't want everyone they transact with to know their total balance. I would not consider them an outlaw but they may be in for a nasty surprise now.

Wow you’re getting a fair bit of criticism for this. Maybe it’s warranted. I don’t know, I’m not a color theorist. But I do think that the colors you’ve chosen are pleasing to my eye and the text samples were very comfortable to read. Even if you are the only person to use this palette and enjoy it then I think what you’ve created is worth it. Thanks for sharing your work!

I bet for every one neo-nazi they block hundreds of birthdays or Chinese [0]. Just seems overly sensitive to me when you wouldn’t even know a person is a neo-nazi unless they start saying neo-nazi shit. Saying neo-nazi shit is in itself grounds for a ban so why block the number 88 at all? How could anyone possibly be offended by the number 88 alone?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology#Eight

Most of this article is pretty interesting and unusually insightful about quant firms. But I find this sentence to be utterly disgusting.

> Trading is a lottery operated by market makers, and like the lottery its social function is to convert mass innumeracy into funding for better causes.

It’s basically saying “we should have your money because we know better than you”. Maybe true, but I find it a very weak argument for the social function of a quant firm. Especially when lotteries are essentially a form of regressive taxation.

Coinbase is not decentralized finance, it's a centralized crypto bank.

> the fluff around decentralized finance being more fair just because it is public and “open” is naive at best

As another commenter pointed out, the investigation was triggered by this tweet [0]. How is that not more open and fair? If there wasn't a public record of the transactions, like in traditional finance, this guy would have likely gotten away with it.

0: https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1513874972552355846

Ethereum was the first ICO.

This is actually a fantastic counter-argument to the “nothing to hide — nothing to fear” people. It’s a good example of how an individual can remain unwaveringly righteous, but due to environmental changes all of a sudden they do have something to hide.

What is it that scares you about reliable, private, non-traceable financial transactions?

Some years ago bitcoin started running into scaling issues. The period between blocks is fixed at 10 minutes and the maximum size of each block is also fixed at 1Mb so the network transaction throughput was quite limited. Because of the limited transaction throughput the fees per transaction increased significantly because miners prioritize the high-fee transactions for inclusion in blocks. Low fee transactions would sit in the mempool until they were stale or dropped.

This limited throughput led to a massive debate amongst the community about how best to scale bitcoin. One side wanted to change the blocksize (either a step-up in size or to use dynamic scaling), and the other main side wanted to keep the block size at 1Mb and implement off-chain scaling (Lightning Network). I won't recount their arguments for/against, or even tell the story of the debate because it would be very long and there was so much shenanigans involved that I would probably struggle to remain neutral. The long and short of it though is that the side that wanted to keep the block size fixed at 1Mb won out and got to keep the Bitcoin (BTC) name while the other side spun out into a fork called Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

Yeah but more inflation == bigger numbers == more growth!

While I trust that the commenter above is genuine, OP seems to be highly concerned about their opsec. So I just want to post a friendly reminder for the OP to be careful about reaching out to people that comment on this post. For example, don’t reach out using an email that can be linked to your identity.

Surprisingly fun, I’m glad I allowed camera permission for this. My favorite subtle detail was the username on the camera view updating to reflect the different bits of information it was predicting about you.

When shortcuts were first released I immediately tried to implement delayed messaging too. In the end I wasn’t able to get it working and gave up. Great job finding this workaround!

> Tomás Ostiglia, executive creative director at creative agency LOLA MullenLowe, said a problem with selling plant-based products was people often said they don’t replicate the taste of meat very well.

I wonder if it’s all just a bit of marketing to get past this response from people. Virtually nobody has actually eaten human meat so how would a customer know whether the taste is accurate or not?

Thanks, headline is a bit misleading,