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De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together

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5 points·by occamrazor·8 tháng trước·0 comments

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occamrazor
·7 tháng trước·discuss
I’m curious, what was the rationale for forbidding it?
occamrazor
·3 năm trước·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
·4 năm trước·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
·4 năm trước·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
·6 năm trước·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
·7 năm trước·discuss
This link refers to Chrome devises, like Chromebooks, not to the Chrome browser.
occamrazor
·10 năm trước·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)