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De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together

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5 points·by occamrazor·il y a 8 mois·0 comments

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occamrazor
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
I’m curious, what was the rationale for forbidding it?
occamrazor
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Do you have CPU or memory heavy background tasks? On my M2 spotlight is instant and Notes opens in less than one second.
occamrazor
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
I use Wise regularly and pay about 0.5% for EUR/GBP/CHF transactions.

The reason why DeFi exchanges offer low fees is that they are not “companies”, they are fully automated and have no overhead. For a company offering forex services the main expense are salaries, not fees (that on wholesale markets are on the order of 0.01%), therefore they would not benefit from using a blockchain as an underlying layer.
occamrazor
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Currency exchange. In the banking system it’s hard to exchange currencies for a fee lowe than ~0.5%, even for amounts in the tens of thousands USD.
occamrazor
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
McDonalds provides on-demand fast food and its employees are not independent contractors.

There are peculiarities to Lyft and Uber’s business model, being on demand is not one.
occamrazor
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
This link refers to Chrome devises, like Chromebooks, not to the Chrome browser.
occamrazor
·il y a 10 ans·discuss
And completely unrealistic in Zurich. Unless the price refers to a 1-room apartment (which in US English would be a studio, in Switzerland typically all rooms are counted for apt descriptions, a 1-bedroom apt is called a 2- or 2.5-rooms apt)