explodicle

joined 9 months ago
[–] explodicle 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In addition to the other reasons, there is also the worry of surprise charges. You'll go in for a $100 checkup, only to find a bunch of other "standard" fees and services tacked on at the end. They'll act like this is normal, and you're weird for asking how much it costs up front.

This is twice as bad at the doctor than at the dentist.

[–] explodicle 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never forget that real technological progress is being made, but an ever-growing percentage of your labor is stolen from you.

[–] explodicle 1 points 1 month ago

My group almost switched over during the licensing fiasco. Musk would get us to do it.

[–] explodicle 2 points 1 month ago

All rolls must be on the blockchain now.

[–] explodicle 4 points 1 month ago

A little bit. But mistakes happen, it's a huge order, and they were transparent about it. I can accept that so long as it stays infrequent.

[–] explodicle 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

On the Electrum client on my phone, it's $0.53 for on-chain and basically free for LN.

[–] explodicle 1 points 1 month ago

Your wallet stores digital coins that are blindly signed by an exchange. The Taler Exchange keeps funds matching all unspent digital cash in a settlement account. (Source)

When you add dollars or bitcoins or whatever to Taler, you're making a deposit.

[–] explodicle 4 points 1 month ago

The only thing we all have in common politically is that we don't think social media should be controlled by a handful of gigantic manipulative corporations.

[–] explodicle 2 points 1 month ago

"Exactly! Simply do that for every product you need to live."

[–] explodicle -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why deposit your money with a central authority? The linked website points out that Taler adds instant confirmation to Bitcoin, but you can already get that using the Lightning Network - without custodial risk.

[–] explodicle 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

At work right now they're denying all the new vacation requests because we've got to make a bunch of products for customer. But they at least told us when the order was placed, so everybody took a vacation before the rush or planned one afterwards.

[–] explodicle 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It can start with as little as someone filming you do something you're already good at.

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