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I actually hope it's not a bug. Could come in very handy.
Neat URL you've got here, taking us to a specific sentence within The Wall Street Journal piece. Never knew that was possible. TIL.
I just have to try that myself. Let's see:
Interesting read, BTW.
Not sure how achievable or sustainable their solution is going to be, but if you need a reason to hope it works out, it may just be this. From the article:
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t put a single open-source advocate on its 22-member AI Safety and Security Board.
While also ...probably a decade or so ago...., I remember someone arguing that one could view BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed News as essentially two different entities, with the latter apparently more trustworthy. Not sure how accurate that was back then -- or if it's still the case today.
It may have been possible back in early 2020 (when this review of the HTC Exodus 1s was published), but as the article actually revealed: even then it was already rather impractical.
The "limitations" they referred to are probably even more limiting 4+ years on.
Anyway, it was still an interesting read. Just no longer all that relevant, I think.
Probably over-hyped. I mean "BIGGEST Crypto Debate In History"?
Could be interesting to watch, though.
Starting today at 7pm ET:
Gaming rewards will be the end of SN
I've been thinking the same thing... Haven't said it, though.
Mark my words.
Thusly (book)marked. :)
A great read, thanks. A commentor below that article wrote:
The most influential thing I ever read was from the Applesoft Tutorial:
"There is nothing you can do by typing at the keyboard that can do any damage to the computer. Unless you type with a hammer. So feel free to experiment. With your fingers."
That brought back some fond memories!
A friend of mine ordered an Apple IIe and had it delivered to me, because he didn't have a fixed address at the time. When it arrived, I phoned him with the news and he asked me to unbox it and "see if it works".
After switching it on, I had no idea how to determine if it worked, so I just literally started to hit every key on the keyboard starting from the top left corner and working my way - very methodically one by one, mind you - down the whole keyboard and watched as the characters appeared on the screen.
Hmmm... So it "works"? I mean, the characters do show up, right?
It wasn't until I came to hit the <Enter> key that the screen suddenly did something: It said "Syntax error." Great, I guess it works!
I saw a familiar name in the credits for this track and wanted to see if it was who I thought it couldn't possibly be. Turns out it is in fact the Snowden.
Thanks to a refractive lens exchange procedure yesterday, I woke up to spectacularly clear vision this morning. Made possible by stacking sats, of course.
The interviewer in the linked article (Frank Corva) asks:
On the topic of America and KYC-free bitcoin, do you see people using Azteco because they want KYC-free bitcoin?
And the answer he gets has nothing to do with KYC.
These were the events that lead to the response I quoted:
After seeing several mentions of Azteco in your typical how-to guides for obtaining non-KYC bitcoin here on SN and elsewhere, I decided to try them out.
At the time (around a year ago if I remember correctly, could be a bit earlier) the only option I could find to obtain Azteco vouchers without KYC, was to buy a different brand of gift voucher with cash from a local grocery store that sold them. The store had no knowledge of bitcoin, but the brand, 1Voucher, was listed on the Azteco website as being redeemable for bitcoin.
One could also buy Azteco vouchers via a number of other payment options, but those (again, at the time) all required KYC, so I wasn't interested in going that route.
So I bought a "test" 1Voucher for a small amount and easily and near instantly redeemed it on the Azteco website for bitcoin - although the Azteco fee did seem somewhat excessive. Great, what could go wrong?
Rinse and repeat weekly, slowly increasing the amount of each cash purchase & redeem cycle.
Then I reached the limit of what the grocery store could process for a single 1Voucher. Which was still a rather insignificant amount, by the way.
Then by around voucher 5 or 6 in as many weeks, suddenly the Azteco website would not redeem the voucher. OK, that's odd. The error message does say to "please try again later", so maybe they're having some technical issues, right?
Except, it never got resolved regardless of the number of retries. Which is when I decided to "Contact support" as listed on the Azteco website to find out what the issue was.
Azteco "support" advised that I should use one of the other payment options available. When I stated that those options all require KYC, I got the response I quoted earlier. I stopped communicating with them at that point.
I only discovered afterwards that the name of the Azteco support person was the same as that of the founder of Azteco.