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Like the old saying: Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM.


Evil billionaire, really evil one.


Try that with your name as Mohammed, not everyone has your luxury.


Crypto isn't bullshit well most of it is but the utility is still used by millions of people around the world, specifically USDT and USDC which they proven a good way to move your assets without too much regulations.


So it is regulatory arbitrage. I think many of the critics never contested that crypto is good for doing crime. The critics just also think that either those crimes should continue to be prevented via the financial system or the financial system should be deregulated for all without a crypto backdoor.

A Money Market Fund gives you interest if you are able to access it.

This is kind of a pattern:

1. There is some regulation that is inefficient ( e.g. taxi medallions, KYC, copyright protection ...)

2. New technology comes about which allows startups to claim that they have invented a new area that should be regulated differently

3. Turns out (2) is not true and new technology can easily be mapped to existing regulation but it would look bad for the regulator to take away the punchbowl

4. There is some down-turn (bubble pops) and the regulator takes away the punchbowl OR investors have accumulated so much money/power that they corrupt the government to have new rules for their businesses


Buy a smart watch and start running and enhance your VO2 max.


There is no proof of these stories. They exist only to glorify the US army, this is why they allow them to spread these imaginary heroic stories.


Actually no president does.


US own the dollar why they need a sovereign fund? sovereign fund is profitable when you invest in a foreign currency.


GrapheneOS are living on the mercy of Google by the way.


Also the device vendors. Because it requires a bootloader unlock to install. And device vendors aren't exactly friendly to consumers.

If Google tells the vendors to jump, they ask how high.


Google is the device vendor. GrapheneOS is only available for Pixels.


So far. Apparently they're in talks with other vendor(s).


As opposed to Android, which is... not living at the mercy of Google? Wait, that's not right.

People say this same shit about Firefox. "Oh they rely on Google for revenue! Jump ship jump ship!"

Yeah, and what about Chrome? How much does Chrome rely on Google for revenue? Its got fucking Google in the name.


For example Telegram they have two app versions one in playstore where google can dictate what channels are allowed and one on their website where google can't force them to take down channels, so now Google will need to approve Telegram second app to be installed on Android?


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