What else?

May 15, 2017 ∞ https://ix5.org/stream/e/tx7p2t8b read comments

[Some dipshit] quits working and writes spammy blog shit for a living. Hackernews decides people don't like to work because all work is either meaningless or evil, but it's definitely everyone else's fault. Also the entire monetary system is worthless, we should envy the impoverished, capitalism will kill us all, and they all quit jobs they loved because someone was mean to them. The unanimous consensus: take a couple years off and just fuck around.

n-gate on 'cutting ties with the evil corporate world and pursuing your passion' types

Traveling, writing, photographing, ESL teaching etc. is just, to borrow the phrase, ‘fucking around’ and will not make a positive impact on the world. Do what makes you happy in your spare time and start shouldering some responsibility.

Payment anonymity

Jan 09, 2017 ∞ https://ix5.org/stream/e/371ku19e read comments

so random schmuck today finds himself in the following situation: if he goes anywhere, taking uber, all his travel is in [some usage database].

if he visits any website, both amazon and cloudflare have records, which can even be compared. how's that for ECC asciilifeform !

obviously if he pays anyone anything that's tracked. and in his dumbass case, this includes bitcoin

which he buys via amazon instance > cloudflare and he spends via amazon instance > cloudflare.

might as well use fucking visa rather than all this wastage.

then when i say bitcoin is not for the poor, people are like ‘oh noooo…’

why waste all the fucking cycles to do visa poorly ?

Mircea Popescu on payment anonymity

Tom Whitwell: Why Do All Records Sound the Same?

Dec 11, 2015 ∞ https://ix5.org/stream/e/o8zcn4zp read comments

Read this should your inner cynic require nourishment.