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We live in the future! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9525207

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[–] 44 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn't have a local dealer. It's also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    I demand privacy, so I'm a criminal anyways

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Crypto is not privacy.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    depends. not universally, that's right. don't buy dogecoin for privacy.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    Also depends on your definition of privacy. Some people confuse privacy (not seeing what you do) with anonimity (not knowing who you are).

    Public blockchains (like BTC) have zero privacy, as everyone sees the transactions and balances, meanwhile private ones (like XMR) supposedly avoid anyone but two people in a transaction to know that transaction happened, or even to know each other's balance.

    In both cases, I would say you are as anonymous as your way to turn the coin from/into fiat is (P2P, KYC or non-KYC platforms, etc.).

    Like with AI, I like crypto as a concept, but the practice... (specially the resources both consume for what little benefit they end up having)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You can swap Monero with a more common coin on a decentralized exchange with no KYC, and then cash that out at your Coinbase or whatever.

    Also, Monero is very efficient for a proof of work coin, partially because it's designed to be mined on regular, consumer grade PCs.

    According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.

    Bitcoin was the first, and as is usually the case, that makes it one of the worst.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Fake criminal money more legit than government money. One day I woke up to the news that all my deposits are frozen indefinitely, that I am not allowed to carry cash abroad, and that I am not allowed to get bank accounts or transfers from any foreign institutions. .Thank fuck for crypto and that I had some. It literally saved my life, so yeah, fake criminal money by a long shot for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Selfhost instance on .ru

    Checks out. Hows the outlaw life?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Praying for Georgia and Georgian people everyday for letting me stay effectively indefinitely. Otherwise, living like stateless person would've been terrible. Though, technically, despite everything I've posted on the internet, police is not very interested in me, my track record is clean and I can go back anytime, it's just that I'd really, really rather not...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Fake money for criminals is unironically a decent addition to the world, although it's coded in a really dumb way. Plagiarism machine is overhyped right now, but it also has some legit uses.

    So, the poll actually seems about right.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Even the chatbots now can write code that compiles and does what you tell it to. I'm a system analyst and can code but I am slow. Now I can give a design to any of them and get code that works in a couple of hours, with most of the time spent iterating toward the right result

    In the past it often took a week of afternoons and late nights to turn an idea into working code. I can see why programmers fear for their jobs

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