Talking about logical fallacies while summarily hand-waving away all of crypto is pretty interesting.
I guess some random HN user is smarter than the research arms of these companies who are all building on and utilizing crypto: https://ethereumadoption.com/
😂
Edit: stablecoins have already reached parity with traditional payment networks
And yea, like the other user said, just don't use it! Nobody will be mad that you don't use it, or care. I don't have venmo, so I don't use it. I don't get mad when somebody offers it. 🤷♀️
EDIT: to answer slightly more seriously, crypto is just a tool. The great thing about crypto is that anybody can use it. The bad thing about crypto is that anybody can use it. Yes, there's lots of dogshit out there (by lots I mean like 95% or more). But the big projects, BTC, ETH, defi stuff like AAVE, Compound, etc are very useful tools. I don't think people realize how exploitative the banking and finance industry really are, and crypto bypasses most of that.
I remember seeing Iron Maiden open for Ozzy back in like 2002. They blew Ozzy off the stage with their set so Sharon literally unplugged them. She is so petty.
The USA has one party: the capitalist party. They do not represent you, they represent corporate interests. Your vote doesn't even really matter because of the electoral college, and other racist relics such as the Senate, giving ridiculous power to to just a handful of "swing voters".
Voting once every 4 years for either the capitalist war monger or the other capitalist war monger, while they both ban 3rd party candidates from the ballot, does not make the USA "democratic".
Edit: also who cares if it's one party? In each of these cases the party has brought the entire population out of abject poverty (usually the result of capitalism exploiting them), increased education surpassing the USA, brought healthcare to all, have higher home ownership rates than the USA, etc.
Objective quality of life measurements all surpass the USA.
Where do you fit in? Do you own capital? Are you a business owner or a factory owner? If not then you are a tool for capitalists to exploit as they wish
USA funded the killing of millions in South America, Asia, and Africa in the 50s-60s. Genocide of Native Americans, Manzanar, slavery, prison slavery, nuking japan...
Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it… leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can’t fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands.
This was my experience as well ... 20 years ago. I've not had many of these issues over the past few years using any distro. I used Debian for a couple years and now I'm on Arch. Really, it just works for me...
TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.
I believe Norway still has a lot of good systems to take care of its citizens.
Sure, I'm not saying welfare programs are bad, but the system is still Capitalist. We're already seeing policies being rolled back as the pendulum swings. Norway is able to afford its citizens these luxuries because of its historical exploitation and wealth. That, and because of the proximity to the Soviet Union; they feared uprising similar to what was going on there, so concessions were made. It's always concessions.
Talking about logical fallacies while summarily hand-waving away all of crypto is pretty interesting.
I guess some random HN user is smarter than the research arms of these companies who are all building on and utilizing crypto: https://ethereumadoption.com/
😂
Edit: stablecoins have already reached parity with traditional payment networks
And yea, like the other user said, just don't use it! Nobody will be mad that you don't use it, or care. I don't have venmo, so I don't use it. I don't get mad when somebody offers it. 🤷♀️