doylio

@doylio@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly cheaper and faster than Western Union, but yeah it’s horribly slow by modern blockchain standards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of crypto is you don’t need to hold it on an exchange. And there are other real reasons to use crypto today such as cheap & fast international settlement, protecting your assets from authoritarian governments.

  I agree there’s lots of speculation, and I’m not someone who believes it’s likely to replace the dollar, but it’s also clear there are legitimate uses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I think if Bitcoin falls it will be because development has completely ossified and is unable to react to problems. If quantum computing ever gets going, it will completely break Bitcoin’s security model, and they don’t seem to have the social coordination to respond to this kind of threat like other blockchains do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are people who genuinely think it has value. It’s very popular in places like Argentina, Venezuela and Turkey where the local currency inflates so rapidly people cannot save money. To those people, its value is that it holds value better than their local currency.

  There is also a lot of speculation in the space, which makes it very tough to determine how much actual value accrual there is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This crossword editor's view of the political spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it’s just a crossword puzzle. He probably fit “farleft” in there and needed a hint for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hidden by default⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to give credit where it’s due, I actually like this change. Likes used to be private, and then they became public and subject to the toxic performativity of social media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bari Weiss: Why Are Feminists Silent on Rape and Murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’m so sorry! I misread your comment! I’m going to edit mine so it doesn’t confuse others

  Yeah I agree about the title, but that’s just the internet now :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bari Weiss: Why Are Feminists Silent on Rape and Murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to make my comment additive to the discussion, but I’m sorry if you don’t feel it is. You don’t need to watch the video to discuss the point I mentioned, and I hope we can have a pleasant discussion :)

  Yes there are many progressives who are calling for the release of the hostages and calling the October 7th attack a war crime, but the problem is that it is a perfectly acceptable in progressive circles to pretend that the attack wasn’t that bad, or that it was terrible but was necessary for the liberation of Palestine

  As I said, I consider myself a progressive, and I know that a lot of progressives think like me. But there is a strand of the left that is very vocal online that I fear has lost its way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bari Weiss: Why Are Feminists Silent on Rape and Murder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a fan of hers, but I do think she has a point here.

  There was a significantly different response by progressives to the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram and the hostages taken by Hamas. When posters were put up of the kidnapped Israelis they were ripped down by the same kinds of people who tweeted #BringBackOurGirls.

  I know there will be many downvotes to this comment, but I consider myself a progressive and am worried that progressives are losing sight of their values in favour of what is the prevailing groupthink online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses a dating app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced that dating apps are no longer a good way to find a relationship. They’ve realized that if their users get into LTRs it will hurt their revenue.

  I used to be an avid user of most dating apps, but I’ve had a much more fulfilling love life since quitting them to focus on meeting people IRL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tide has turned’: why parents are suing US social media firms after their children’s death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good! We need to hold these companies accountable. Around the mid 2010s they realized that it’s more profitable to have addicts instead of users. Casinos, bars, and cigarette sellers are forbidden from selling to children. These addictive platforms should be subject to similar limitations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point was to contrast this with cars. Having your car stolen is 10x worse than having your bike stolen