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  • Apple wants to have a word, Meta too.Nano had a rebranding and was called Raiblocks before. While it was a quite distinct name, people wouldn't even know how to pronounce it.I'm not overly interested in the name, I do like the attributes of "Nano, the digital money" though.

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  • Lots of the issues Bitcoin faces are not based on the design, but by and large what tech bros made out of it.

    If you really want to learn more about it, have a look at the blocksize wars and Bitcoin Cash. Or just wait until Bitcoin finally collapses, which will happen eventually, but I'm not able to tell whether this year, decade or century.

    What will break Bitcoin's neck eventually is the OPEX of its mining. Mining on the one hand is a crucial part of keeping the network secure, but on the other hand is expensive way beyond the money that can be earned from transaction fees collected when doing the mining.Bitcoins being generated from thin air when a new block is being produced are a major part of the revenue for the miners, but the amount of BTC getting created this way gets reduced over time until it reaches 0.The thing about the mining is that it's being done with more and more computing power, and it can't go below whatever the current amount of computing power is by a lot without putting the network at risk.

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  • Once people realize how unsustainable Bitcoins economical scheme is, some of them will get more popular.Don't get me started on all the other issues Bitcoin has...

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  • In case this is an honest question:Ripple and Stellar are popular examples of networks that can process lots of transactions fast and cheap, but in my perspective they're both examples of tech bros finding a new playground - especially true for Ripple.But there are other gems such as https://nano.org/en, which come to mind. It's true open source, was distributed for free, has transactions without a fee and can process hundreds of transactions per second with a tiny ecological footprint.Yeah, I know, it sounds too good to be true, but if you have a closer look, it just is good.Monero does not exactly have the capacity for hundreds of transactions per second, but offers a degree of privacy that's awesome.And then there's the OG Ethereum, which in fact can process lots of transactions per second often at a quite low cost, which offers a Turing complete smart contract language.You see, there are at least some alternatives, which offer lots of fast and cheap or even feeless transactions or transactions with other benefits, wuch as privacy.The development didn't stop with the "train wreck waiting to happen Bitcoin".I'm glad Bitcoin created the whole crypto sphere.At the same time I'm dumbstruck how most of the whole sphere is just a soulless, useless money grab.It's hard to find the projects that aren't, but they are here, hidden in a pile of shit.You might realize that the projects I listed are more or less random examples, which mostly have one thing in common: they've been around for quite some time.

  • Actual church sign in Mississippi

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  • I should've read more slowly.Could've saved me from reading "Rapist Church"...

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • Why talk if you haven't read the comment you replied to until the end?

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • What about https://www.kiaevforums.com/?As you can see it's a kind of niche forum for EV made by Kia, but there are several of these niche forums.Most often they're not very crowded, but I like them being more calm than some other places on the internet.

    I have some more of these, but they are really only helpful/interesting, if you fit into that niche and in that case you'll find them easily through search engines.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • I still use them, because they're awesome.They're not gone, although there are quite a bit fewer than some time ago.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Ok, let's call it 'taxable income' then to have a basis of what is going to be taxed (more).

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • This is not about wealth though, but income instead.I doubt those income millionaires can just leave New York and be better off than paying an additional 2% income tax while staying in NY.In all likeliness they'd have much more net loss from leaving NY than from additional measly 2% tax.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Frankly said, whether they spend their money or not is their business. If they are involved in shenenigans like you described that needs to be regulated, because it sure looks like tax evasion.And regarding the proposed tax (quoting the linked article): "The Millionaire Tax will impose an additional 2% income tax on the top 1% in NYC, who are earning over $1 million per year".

    So this tax in no way designed to tax their wealth, but merely their income by another measly 2%.Nobody will become poor because of this. Some income millionaires just become slightly slower even more rich than they already are.

    Have them move elsewhere and see whether they can keep their annual income in the millions there.I, for one, am willing to call their bluff.

    And once that is done, implement a wealth tax for the people who own x million USD.To keep them from freaking out, it can be as low as 5% annually, because that would still allow them to generate a net increase of their wealth.If they complain, increase the tax and start draining their fortune.

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  • And even if some of them really move: is it worse them not paying taxes while not being there at all?I don't see the the core of their threat.

  • Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?

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  • FWIW this is by far less dangerous and aggressive than oxygen, which caused the first global mass extinction when it started to amass in earth's atmosphere (and plays a major role in the corrosion of iron you mentioned).And yet people tell you to breathe in and out...

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • You're unfortunately right that a Linux phone wouldn't solve these problems and I'm with you that devs who bend the knee to Google have no interest in providing a Linux phone version - at least for the foreseeable future.Once there's a considerable market share for Linux phones (which may never be the case...), those users are potential customers and the tides will shift.Until then it would at least provide a portable computer that can do a lot of the things current smartphones are capable of, but without the restrictions created by Google and Apple.

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  • I have a more pessimistic view of bad scenarios.Combine Google Play Integrity checks with being unable to install apps except they're from the Play Store and you are at the whim of Google.Right now I'm battling an app provider (of an app I rely on) who decided to start Play Integrity check shenanigans, although that's in violation with their TOS. I know about not so great scenarios already. My alternative would be to cave and forfeit GrapheneOS, which I'm not willing to do.We. need. Linuxphones!

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  • I'm not saying I'm a fan of that, but at least Apple is upfront about the walled garden they offer and ever has been.Google started differently, but turned around 180 degrees.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • I wasn't aware of that.Thanks for letting me know!

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • Google is paving the ground for Linuxphones.It's so blatantly obvious how evil they've become that it makes striving for alternatives a necessity.

  • Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On

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  • Lucky me needs Proxmox only for self-hosting and loves it :)