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New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

wegwerfbenutzer — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:21:05 +0000

BYD+CATL is Android. Tesla is Apple.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Uber's Still Not Profitable"

wegwerfbenutzer — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:50:47 +0000

Not if these taxi drivers do their best to scam you.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII"

wegwerfbenutzer — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:14:16 +0000

How do you know it was dug up in Italy?

It could also be from the following countries:

At its zenith, the Roman Empire included these today's countries and territories: most of Europe (England, Wales, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Gibraltar, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine), coastal northern Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt), the Balkans (Albania, Greece, Hungary, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey), the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, Asia Minor, and some parts of Mesopotamia and the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Israel).

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII"

wegwerfbenutzer — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:11:10 +0000

Not if the good is of historic significance.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]"

wegwerfbenutzer — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:16:16 +0000

Please make the effort to understand the difference between frontend and backend.

The nice thing about the decentralised exchanges such as Uniswap or -dydx- is that you do not need their websites/ frontends because their smart contracts/ backend is available on the blockchain. Anybody can make a website that interacts with any smart contracts on the blockchain. There are even aggregator websites (e.g. https://app.defisaver.com/).

Do you know any website that aggregates the services of any TradFi banks and brokers?

Edit: Actually dydx is layer 2 now: https://dydx.exchange/blog/layer-1-wind-down

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]"

wegwerfbenutzer — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 22:22:58 +0000

one is running next to me (geth + lighthouse)

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Report on Stablecoins [pdf]"

wegwerfbenutzer — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 20:18:16 +0000

DAI is not considered an algorithmic stablecoin, but an asset backed stablecoin. Algorithmic stablecoins like FEI do not seem to work as well as asset backed stablecoins.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies"

wegwerfbenutzer — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:10:47 +0000

That is a myth. These defenses you talk about were built partly with cheap material and therefore significantly less effective. This caused a major post-war corruption scandal.

Nazi Germany did not invade Switzerland, because Switzerland was actually more useful as a neutral state for Nazi Germany to exchange gold for commodities, for spying and Switzerland produced militiary equipment for Nazi Germany anyway.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Zuckerberg is creating a new criminal justice reform group backed with $350M"

wegwerfbenutzer — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:04:13 +0000

It is miserable because they have too much wealth and too much power.

If Zuckerberg cared about doing good instead of accumulating money and power he would have made a few different decision in the past.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags"

wegwerfbenutzer — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:53:16 +0000

DigixDAO works on tokenized gold. If there is demand, we will see every possible good as a token. It shouldn't be that difficult to make an virtual product like an ETF into a token on a blockchain.

There are financial incentives to create and destroy DAI. A user of DAI doesn't need to collateralize, he just buys DAI.

DAI demand will grow, if the use cases grow. It is also a good safe heaven for crypto traders.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags"

wegwerfbenutzer — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:46:12 +0000

There are mechanisms in place for this scenario. Incentives for people to "break the contract" of contracts that come close to undercollaterization.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags"

wegwerfbenutzer — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:41:15 +0000

No, currently DAI is backed by Ethereum. You only need to spend one minute on their website or subreddit to get this information. I follow them for a long time and never even heard of them being backed by fiat. They only try to use virtual goods like virtual gold, cryptocurrencies etc. as collateral.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Huawei, Failing to Crack U.S. Market, Signals a Change in Tactics"

wegwerfbenutzer — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:07:41 +0000

Huawei has lots of big customers in Germany and invests big money into 5G. I think nobody can compete with Huawei in Germany. Huawei themselves see ZTE as a big competitor in China and they also think they already "won" the race in Germany. You need lots of money to change the infrastructure to some other hardware provider. And I think noone can compete with Huawei's prices.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp"

wegwerfbenutzer — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:52:45 +0000

>> planned obsolence.

>That's blatant lie, and you know it.

So you want to say the recent battery fuck up by Apple was totally unintentional? Of course software updates are designed to slow down your device after some years and it doesn’t matter if you use Apple/Microsoft/Google.

New comment by wegwerfbenutzer in "The Battle That Created Germany"

wegwerfbenutzer — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 21:34:57 +0000

As an german: No, Germany wasn't created 2.000 years ago. That kind of history telling was made by Hitler. Modern historians say Germany was created in 1871.