• makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    I love em all except the coins at the outset. Uber is too expensive these days but air bnb is utterly fantastically.

    • mabeledo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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      3 months ago

      Is it? Because for any lodging of minimum quality, hotels are cheaper nowadays.

      • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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        3 months ago

        That just not true across the board. I’ve found solo they are expensive but compared to getting a suite at a hotel they are competitive. You ain’t beating the king room at a Hilton though, agreed.

        It certainly isn’t true AT ALL for group travel. I regularly stay in very nice homes for under $150/night per person.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Uber is too expensive these days

      That was always the goal. Uber and Lyft prices were heavily subsidized early on. Their investors poured billions into them in order to not just establish market share, but tk drive existing taxi services out of business. Taxi services that had things like: fleets of company-owned vehicles instead of personal vehicles, commercials grade maintenance schedules, stricter licensing requirements for drivers, unionized employees instead of independent contractors, etc

      Uber and Lyft just plain ignored a lot of existing regulations by saying “those don’t apply because this is an app” to legislators who were too old to know how to turn on a smart phone. They got the public on-board by temporarily offering artificially low prices and high payouts to drivers. Now they have established themselves and removed the competition, so the payouts are going down and the prices are going up.

      There are still some US cities that do not allow Uber or Lyft to operate, and there are other countries in the world that do the same.

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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        3 months ago

        It’s still miles better than Cabs, I can’t believe this even has to be argued! When was the last time anyone here defending cabs/shitting on Uber actually took a cab somewhere?

        The few times I had to/decided to take a taxi, I got absolutely ripped off. And with an Uber, even if it’s expensive, you at least know before hand how much you’re paying. You can decline if you think it’s too much. Good luck trying that with taxis.

      • makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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        3 months ago

        I couldn’t give a fuck any the regulations. They sucked and did nothing. Cabs were broken and Uber fixed that shit right up.

  • Dack@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Why is everyone so toxic? If you wanna discuss something be nice. (Even if you think that the person you are discussing with is a complete idiot)

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I miss when the tech business model was to find where buyers and sellers were interacting, insert an app in the middle and then add fees.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I know this is programmer humor but as a tech guy who actually likes tech that isn’t destructive, this just makes me sad

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I mean if we’re opposed to every new technology than obviously we’re all going to call it illegal. Doesn’t matter what it is. Maybe the pattern is saying something about us and not the tech

    • mabeledo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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      3 months ago

      The fact that big money keeps creeping in and forcing harmful stuff down everyone’s throats does tell us something about ourselves as a society, yes.

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Well the innovations clearly must be good because people use them so much. Frankly the term “illegal” doesn’t carry much weight for me. Piracy is illegal, but I think copyright is far worse.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which “app” you pray to. Am I right Trivago?

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The fake money for criminals is the best because there’s a lot of people that aren’t criminals that have bought in on it and among those the concensus is “I think a bunch of IT neck beards can build a better financial system better than the one that evolved over centuries”.

    The delusion is laughable.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Honestly I think pretty much anyone could build a better financial system, and more people should try. What we have now is the result of centuries of unchecked power. This monetary policy was created by Richard Nixon and then we adopted a Keynesian rationale post facto. It didn’t evolve, it was stolen.

      If you’ve got another idea (including moneyless systems) I’m down to try that too, but what we’ve got right now is pure garbage, and having no out before the modern era doesn’t imply that it’s good.

      • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        The modern banking system and monetary policy was created under FDR. Nixon just stoped pretending it was backed on gold and told de Gaulle to kick rocks when he asked for the gold back.

        Realistically the changes under Nixon are peanuts compared to the digitization of it all since the introduction of systems like Swift.

          • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Yes I am an American and I know what he did, but I also know that the Breton woods agreement was only a small part of the financial system, and that realistically, the economic downturn of the 70s was far more heavily impacted by several oil shocks and the hangover from massive spending on Vietnam.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Is a currency really that much better if it’s less stable than balancing two pyramods on their respective tips?

      • musicalphysics@discuss.online
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        3 months ago

        Bitcoin is the youngest currency around and u like all of the other currencies it isn’t mandated or controlled by governments. If inventions have to be 100% perfect out of the gate then you’ll never get anything new.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 months ago

          Bitcoin is the youngest currency around

          No it’s not, it’s the oldest (and as such, the worst in almost every way) crypto.

                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  3 months ago

                  Ok then I don’t know what to tell you.

                  Is your brain just skipping the last word because it comes after a parenthesis?

                  Hint: I said it’s the oldest and worst crypto.

                  Unless I’ve missed some huge news, none of the things you snarkily listed are cryptos.

                  You have to understand that I’m trying very hard to not be an asshole right now lol. Just read the entire goddamn comment

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          I think it had it’s time to cooldown from the extrme speculative volatility. It has lost it’s coolness factor in the mainstream after NFT and AI took over.
          Still as volative as ever.

          You can’t tell me a 11% drop in value can be considered a valid alternative.

          • musicalphysics@discuss.online
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            3 months ago

            You can’t be serious. Bitcoin is less than 20 years old and for most of that time almost everyone thought it was a joke. Most still do. Your timeframe for stabilization is disconnected from reality.

  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn’t have a local dealer. It’s also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.

    • drath@lemmy.drath.ru
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      3 months ago

      Fake criminal money more legit than government money. One day I woke up to the news that all my deposits are frozen indefinitely, that I am not allowed to carry cash abroad, and that I am not allowed to get bank accounts or transfers from any foreign institutions. .Thank fuck for crypto and that I had some. It literally saved my life, so yeah, fake criminal money by a long shot for me.

          • TotallyWorthLife (She/Her)@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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            3 months ago

            Also depends on your definition of privacy. Some people confuse privacy (not seeing what you do) with anonimity (not knowing who you are).

            Public blockchains (like BTC) have zero privacy, as everyone sees the transactions and balances, meanwhile private ones (like XMR) supposedly avoid anyone but two people in a transaction to know that transaction happened, or even to know each other’s balance.

            In both cases, I would say you are as anonymous as your way to turn the coin from/into fiat is (P2P, KYC or non-KYC platforms, etc.).

            Like with AI, I like crypto as a concept, but the practice… (specially the resources both consume for what little benefit they end up having)

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              3 months ago

              You can swap Monero with a more common coin on a decentralized exchange with no KYC, and then cash that out at your Coinbase or whatever.

              Also, Monero is very efficient for a proof of work coin, partially because it’s designed to be mined on regular, consumer grade PCs.

              According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.

              Bitcoin was the first, and as is usually the case, that makes it one of the worst.

              • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                3 months ago

                According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.

                sure but it’s also a much smaller operation

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Fake money for criminals is unironically a decent addition to the world, although it’s coded in a really dumb way. Plagiarism machine is overhyped right now, but it also has some legit uses.

      So, the poll actually seems about right.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Even the chatbots now can write code that compiles and does what you tell it to. I’m a system analyst and can code but I am slow. Now I can give a design to any of them and get code that works in a couple of hours, with most of the time spent iterating toward the right result

        In the past it often took a week of afternoons and late nights to turn an idea into working code. I can see why programmers fear for their jobs