explodicle

joined 9 months ago
[–] 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.

[–] explodicle 5 points 1 month ago

Vermin Supreme for President

[–] explodicle 0 points 1 month ago

Of course! Relax. It's more precise to be clear they're talking about people unhoused.

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

No, you'd have to say a bunch of other stuff around that quote too.

[–] explodicle 0 points 1 month ago

"Percentage of years positive" isn't as informative as average inflation, which has been significantly higher since the Nixon Shock.

Deunionization absolutely is a major factor around the same time, no disagreement there. We need more savings to strike effectively. We deserve to both earn and keep the full value of our labor - without being forced to invest in the exploitation of others.

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

I knew a full-on singulatarian who killed himself due to mental illness. Someone dying of despair will never preserve their brain for (what they see as) unending torture.

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