You should apply for a marketing position in broadcom. The people responsible for the vmware software suite just love to do stunts like this.

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I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.

This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?

A favor is just a form of debt, and debt is money. It does not matter whether it’s written down on paper, or just remembered.

Wait. Bitpay is still around? That was the company Valve has used before. It was the de-facto standard for every eshop accepting bitcoin. Until they decided to implement identity checks, and only support payment from wallets implementing certain protobuf-based payment protocol. Which made them slide into obscurity pretty fast.

It was the support cost as far as I remember. Way too many people were too confused about how Bitcoin works.

Volatility was not the concern, at least for Valve. They’ve utilized a payment gateway that just swapped the BTC to USD right away. Which was still a single point of failure, but in case of bitcoin, the company switching a payment gateway does not affect the UX for the customer as much.

Next up: Un-inventing fire!

It is a buerocratic nightmare, but filthy bolsheviks has zero rights to criticize it.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Capitalism, is in fact, Fascism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Government with Benefits.

Do we want mandatory ID checks? Because this right here is the way to get them.

There was no $70 alternative back then. There is now. Hell, my first smart watch was 30€.

https://en.nothing.tech/products/cmf-watch-pro-2?Colour=Dark+Grey

It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people…

But this is not new. People have been drinking bleach and giving themselves cyanide poisoning long before the spread of LLM chatbots. Some dare to call it “doing their own research”

A man uses the internet to poison himself. The story as old as time But if we stick the AI in the title, we can get some sweet clicks out if it.

Having a union-wide regulatory framework for soda bottle caps, or mandatory categorization of cucumbers seems a lot less like a government overreach in comparison. Thanks, I guess… 🥲

This would be cool 20 years ago. Now it’s just a stunt.

ID checks on the streets and everywhere you go in the city, except much of the city got virtualized

Except on the internet, you can still create your own street with your own rules.

I used to buy a lot of pizza and burgers with bitcoin when I did night shifts. Still use it to buy electronics at least once a month.

It’s also the best way to donate to nonprofit projects. I can just send ~ $10 of value, one time. No need to risk accidentally signing up for a monthly subscription or being bombarded by spam.

If you don’t keep 100% of your monthly budget in BTC, you don’t really care about the volatility either, because long term it always goes up.

https://wondery.com/shows/kill-list/

Not really. Just a bunch of volunteers trying to get the police all over the world to do their job.

You know the old saying… The politicians don’t want children to be able to recognize a cunt.