Hirom

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Great point. Announcing tariffs should be painful for the US, not an easy way to get a sweater deal. If the EU accepts an unfair deal under pressure, the US will announce new tariffs again to put further pressure, and further change terms.

The commission is pushing back on tariffs, as it should. Each time the US' shameful leader announces upcoming tariffs, the EU executive prepares and publishes a list of US product that will be hit by retaliatory tariffs.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Could you share a link to the infographic? I'd be curious to see the details.

Renewables like solar have a great potential at reducing CO2, but ONLY IF it replace fossil fuels.

As an example, big tech is wasting so much energy of AI they're increasing both renewable and fossil fuel consomption to cover rapid rise in energy use. The end result is more pollution.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 7 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

The amount of energy wasted on stupid shit is unbelievable as well.

We need to laud efforts put into renewables, as much as we need to decry wasteful energy usage.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Ça fait longtemps que le réseau mobile est réputé non-fiable pour l'authentification, mais de nombreux services continent à proposer le SMS comme moyen de "sécuriser" son compte.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maglevs are overhyped. Adam Something call those GadgetBahn.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't doubt Monero has decent privacy. I may have been cryptic in my latest reply, sorry.

My point is, privacy isn't the only thing that matters. IMHO a decent currency/payment system shouldn't cause signifiant harm through pollution. Also it shouldn't make it too easy to launder large amount of money, which undermine taxing/funding of things which keep society working (infrastructure, school, public health, research...).

Fiat has downsides, but all things considered it seems better than crypto. And it's possible to have privacy with fiat by using cash, so it's not as if only crypto allowed some privacy. There is also project GNU Taler that may one day provide decent privacy for online fiat payments without facilitating money laundering.

Do you know of concrete plan/solution on the horizon to solve or mitigate Monero's problems? You might not consider those big problems, but those are absolute deal killer for many.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Better enforcment of GDPR and DSA may be enought to effectively ban big US tech without passing any new law.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

We don't use USD here. Even so, USD isn't as bad a Monero, there's even privacy when using cash.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

Except the lack of government AND the massive amount of pollution and resources waste.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Monero is more about polluting and money laundering than privacy.

There is some privacy in it, but it's overshadowed by the other things.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 13 points 4 days ago

Please, do name and shame.

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