It's not an either-or. You can have streets which are car-friendly, bike-friendly, and pedestrian-friendly at the same time. Just look at the Dutch, they've been doing it for years. That is until recently in some big cities, though, where some less knowledgeable politicians have also adopted this false populist either-car-or-bike concept. Though the traditional principle still applies to about 99% of the country's roadworks, and it works really well.
> Tempo is a neutral, permissionless blockchain open for anyone to build on.
> A diverse group of independent entities, including some of Tempo’s design partners, will run validator nodes initially before we transition to a permissionless model.
> Protect your users by keeping important transaction details private while maintaining compliance standards.
Sounds like it actually has potential. This could enable global QR-code payments using and open, decentralized, and private system. Something like fiat cash payments, but digital. I hope that Valve is keeping track of it, for starters.
In what currency? As I understand it, Stablecoins are bound to an underlying currency. If you do not wan't to tie it to a currency, bitcoin would be the prime candidate. And with its layer 2 solutions such as Lightning, there is already a decentralized system for fast, cheap and private payments.
If this Tempo blockchain truly delivers, it'll not be that difficult for anyone to create a decentralized exchange using smart contracts and AMMs. And you can create a Wrapped BTC to use as well. Also gold-backed stablecoins.
Lightning is not a solution. Having to run a node that's online 24/7 is unreasonable, and so is having to convince others to allocate inbound liquidity to you. Any wallet which does not require this is heavily centralized and often custodial.
> Lightning is not a solution. Having to run a node that's online 24/7 is unreasonable
I agree, but with trampoline payments approaching standardization (it is in use by electrum and ACINQ/Phoenix wallet already) and async payments, the 24/7 issue should be gone.
I DO agree that stablecoins are different and probably have a different setup - they are still centralized and require trust (that the underlying asset is held accordingly), while Bitcoin/L2-Lightning are completely decentralized.
Oh, interesting. The proportional font looked pretty terrible to me, but I threw the mono at some C++ and it's actually not unpleasant. Maybe worth a longer trial.
The idea of a federated messenger is great, but there's no good implementation. Matrix only ever looked good because its only competition is XMPP, which is good but ancient compared to what we expect from messaging apps today (e.g. Discord + Signal).
I'll try to explain this in a nuanced manner, as someone who dislikes both sides of the narrative.
The Democrats are sort of pro-immigration. Though for some reason, they strongly support illegal immigration, and seek to decriminalize it through so-called "sanctuary cities", rather than starting serious efforts at making permanent legal immigration liberal and approachable for most people.
Illegal immigration comes with major problems. It's an avenue for organized crime, and a recipe for a major humanitarian crisis. It's a driving factor in the Opioid Epidemic. Most people are aware of this, which is part of why the Democrats lost.
So now the Republicans are in charge. They are anti-immigration, and want permanent immigration to be unreachable for 99% of people. They are now running mass-deportations of illegal immigrants. The grievance which opponents have with this is that they're actively looking for illegal immigrants who are otherwise doing nothing wrong, using military-style police, in a system which doesn't allow for easy legal immigration.
Most people are somewhere in the middle, but they have to pick between two extremes. A) unsecured borders which get taken advantage of by criminal gangs, or B) your local contractor Juan getting deported by military police.
> I'll try to explain this in a nuanced manner, as someone who dislikes both sides of the narrative.
Same, and I agree with what you said, but would also like to expand on it:
> So now the Republicans are in charge. They are anti-immigration
The republican business owners/investors who employ illegal immigrants cheaply are not anti-immigration in the instances they benefit from directly.
> Most people are somewhere in the middle, but they have to pick between two extremes.
They had an alternative in the 2016 and 2020 elections with Bernie "but he isn't a Democrat" Sanders, as he understood the topic better and more honestly than any other politician, but his presidential runs were sabotaged by corpo Dems and their media outlets.
It's not a coincidence that voters are regularly backed into a corner with "lesser of two evils" to vote for. Evil is evil. Democracy in the US is illusory.
> Though for some reason, they strongly support illegal immigration, and seek to decriminalize it through so-called "sanctuary cities", rather than starting serious efforts at making permanent legal immigration liberal and approachable for most people.
Like DACA?
> It's a driving factor in the Opioid Epidemic.
Most opioids coming through the border are happening via ships at ports, not via immigrants. Not saying they don't bring drugs with them - but not remotely at the scale you describe.
> The Democrats are sort of pro-immigration. Though for some reason, they strongly support illegal immigration, and seek to decriminalize it through so-called "sanctuary cities", rather than starting serious efforts at making permanent legal immigration liberal and approachable for most people.
I think the reason for this is that illegal immigration is more beneficial to Democrats' donors than broadening legal immigration. Illegal immigrants are easy for employers to exploit beyond the limits allowed by labor law, because they are unable to turn to the police or courts for protection. The Democrats are fundamentally a business-owners party, despite their usually symbolic gestures to the left, so this is typical for them: implement anti-worker policies with a veneer of human rights.
The Republican policy is actually somewhat worse than your description. Besides using militarized policing to pick up illegal immigrants that are otherwise doing nothing wrong, they are also cutting out many of the systems of due process that would allow illegal immigrants access to the courts to appeal their deportation. As a result, ICE is also sweeping up refugees, asylum seekers, legal immigrants, and even citizens, without any real oversight.
ChatGPT app is annoyingly triggering it with every prompt reply.
But there is this escooter app in Norway called Ryde, that blocks itself from even being seen on Play Store. They are otherwise very good, excellent support, responded positively to some UI feature requests. They also have a living wage policy for their battery maintenance mechanics.
How would I approach them about changing how they verify phones? I'm no dev really and feel like it's a little above me.
Monero is the cryptocurrency everyone uses for this. The userbase and community is completely separate from the Web3 NFT dog-coin crowd (unlike Bitcoin).
There's also systems like PaySafeCard, which is accepted by Steam.
I'm really interested in Monero. I feel kinda nervous about using it, though, since even though everything I'm buying is legal, it feels like I'd be calling a lot of attention, and I want to make sure I'm buying and exchanging it in legal (if private) ways.
Using Monero is not much different from using Bitcoin. It's actually safer than Bitcoin in this regard, as you can't accidentally receive coins that are "tainted" by what previous owners did with them.
The source behind that comment doesn't verify the claim that your browsing history is being shared. Only that the app currently being developed is a temporary app for use until the full app has been finished.
In fact, the linked article links to the EU website where it is specifically stated that the final protocol will be compatible with the temporary app (the anonymous age verification protocol).
The final app will also serve as a method to identify oneself (i.e. to a police officer) but that's separate functionality from the token based authentication.
The current lack of zero knowledge proofs does pose a potential privacy issue when websites and governments work together to track you across a length of time and re-authentications, but it's not like you're inherently sharing your browser history with the government. As far as I know, the temporary app intents to implement ZKPs but ran into standardization issues, so it's not like this is an intentional shortcoming either.
I'm tired of "normie AI" as well as the extreme hype & fear from people whom do not understand it. I like local open-source AI, LLMs are very useful and AI art is really cool.
I disagree. If the market is stacked against you and it takes even 30 attempts to get a job through the usual job seeking process, then I question whether you're truly going to be happy and satisfied with whatever you happen to get offered after months of searching. If you're lucky, maybe. But the most probable reality for most people is that you'll be an expendable employee with zero leverage in a position that doesn't suit you. Not to mention the probability of getting serious burnout from getting rejected and ignored hundreds of times. A fair, healthy job market does not look like this.
If something is not working out, change up your approach. The first obvious step is to try networking instead of applying. Perhaps start something on your own, becoming a B2B service provider rather than an employee. Or try to out-compete the companies which have rejected you. Be a stalwart, not a pushover.
It's not an either-or. You can have streets which are car-friendly, bike-friendly, and pedestrian-friendly at the same time. Just look at the Dutch, they've been doing it for years. That is until recently in some big cities, though, where some less knowledgeable politicians have also adopted this false populist either-car-or-bike concept. Though the traditional principle still applies to about 99% of the country's roadworks, and it works really well.
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