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New comment by Akujin in "Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail"

Akujin — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 01:24:55 +0000

Screenshot to an OCR reader defeats that really quickly.

New comment by Akujin in "Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content"

Akujin — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:23:25 +0000

I didn't consider using it for piracy cause I didn't even know Telegram had groups. Heh. Talk about drawing attention.

New comment by Akujin in "Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?"

Akujin — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:32:50 +0000

I just recently replaced FB messenger between my GF and myself with Matrix.org + Riot.im.

Hosting the server (synapse) yourself takes about 15 minutes to setup.

I highly recommend it.

New comment by Akujin in "Modern PHP without a framework"

Akujin — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:52:33 +0000

It's not multithreaded so it's impossible to use in production.

New comment by Akujin in "Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’"

Akujin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:41:38 +0000

If people are being stupid I'm gonna call them stupid.

New comment by Akujin in "Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’"

Akujin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:38:31 +0000

This is like me talking about dollars and you go "paper has existed for much longer than dollars".

This is why I (almost) never comment online. Too many idiots posing as experts.

New comment by Akujin in "Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’"

Akujin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:43 +0000

Comparing two financial instruments during their lifetimes is now a false comparison apparently.

New comment by Akujin in "Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’"

Akujin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:44:14 +0000

Reading comprehension is hard. I know.

(No where did I say Tulips)

New comment by Akujin in "Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’"

Akujin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:43:21 +0000

The worst part of all of this Bitcoin speculation is that you have someone like the person you're replying to get on and talk out of their ass. Literally. And then they are the ones getting upvoted cause all the haters love to talk to trash with zero intellectual honesty.

This is actually bubble #4. Here's an analysis of the previous 3: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@huku/bitcoin-bubbles-a-brief-hi...

New comment by Akujin in "Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’"

Akujin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:36:32 +0000

Tulipmania lasted 6 months. Bitcoin is now 8 years old.

Stop comparing Bitcoin to flowers. It's not even close to the same thing.

New comment by Akujin in "Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'"

Akujin — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:00:08 +0000

This was part of Twitch from the very beginning. The idea that it's "new" is really just ignorant people finding out after the fact and then complaining about it as if it wasn't always there.

New comment by Akujin in "A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin"

Akujin — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:05:31 +0000

MP3s are so small compared to the rest of the internet now that there's a glut of shady websites that cater to people trying to get MP3s. Rings tones are a great example why someone with a Spotify account might google an mp3 for a song. Meanwhile you've got tons of semilegal mixes on Soundcloud and Mixcloud. Spotify and Apple Music is just convenience.

These sites also cater to the leaks scene. Every single hot album to drop recently was leaked 24-72 hours before dropping on "official" sources like Spotify. This makes even those people that have Spotify accounts look for MP3s.

New comment by Akujin in "A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin"

Akujin — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:34:43 +0000

Napstar was replaced by torrents. People still download music without paying for it all day every day.

New comment by Akujin in "A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin"

Akujin — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:10:24 +0000

Newegg takes Bitcoin...... so electronics?

You can also buy fiat currency (dollars, euro, yen).

New comment by Akujin in "Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS"

Akujin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:17:42 +0000

I vote liberal actually.

It's odd..... you write down an opinion and people make all these ideological assumptions.

Maybe just chill the fuck out for two seconds and be a little bit introspective on why you get so mad when a stranger speaks his or her mind?

New comment by Akujin in "Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS"

Akujin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:15:50 +0000

Yea.... I'm sure you report all your purchases at the duty free as soon as you get to American soil.

New comment by Akujin in "Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS"

Akujin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:05:22 +0000

> If you go to Newegg and buy stuff, you are obligated under US tax law to pay the capital gains taxes based on the fair market value of the products purchased. If you go to a bitcoin meetup and sell with cash, you are still obligated to pay taxes.

I recently bought a GTX 1080 TI with USD

Amazon wanted to charge me 7%. Newegg charged me no state tax.

Which do you think I went with?

Like our president said.

> "I'm smart for not paying taxes." - The president Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/donald-trump-federal...

This is also why people shop in Delaware. I wonder how many of those people reported their purchases to Pennsylvania.

New comment by Akujin in "Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS"

Akujin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:57:13 +0000

My intention is to HODL and have a discussion. These are all hypotheticals.

New comment by Akujin in "Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS"

Akujin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:52:00 +0000

What bothers me about this whole thing is that I never bought it like a stock. I mined it YEARS ago when it was worthless.

Now all of a sudden I have to pay tax on something I already own? Seems like the government is double dipping. After all I already paid tax on the hardware, the internet connection, the electricity, and countless other market products that allowed me to mine said coin.

I have a couple of choices now.

I can either sign up for Coinbase and sell it and kiss 15% of it good bye or I can go on Newegg and buy stuff directly with Bitcoin.... or go to a bitcoin meetup and sell with cash in-person..... or go on vacation in Europe and get Euro and again keep it off the books.

Which do you think I'm gonna end up doing?

PS: My address has never been tied to an IRL transaction.

PPS: God damn it's easy to troll HN. More salt than the dead sea.

New comment by Akujin in "Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT"

Akujin — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:37:01 +0000

Philadelphia is quickly gentrifying and this has caused massive lines in voting districts in the recently gentrified neighborhoods. Where voting lines used to be 15 minutes long they are now 2+ hours. We've been trying to get them to split the voting district into two here in Northern Liberties for a while but apparently it's falling on deaf ears. These are by the way "well-to-do" young professionals so it's in the interest of both Republicans and Democrats to fix this.

Meanwhile 10 minutes away at Temple University you have 2 hour lines at polling close. If the dems want to win PA they need to get their voting district shit together in the city.

It would not have made much off a difference. The spread in the entire state was about 90k but when I saw the lines at the universities it made me wonder about the entire state.

I used to live in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a new "rich" neighborhood and the lines there are usually 15-30 minutes. Granted the population there doesn't fluctuate much.