my headlights aim down, and I've taken pains to ensure that they don't aim higher than they were supposed to stock. I recognize that others do not do this.
> @apply is the directive that Tailwind recommend to extract repeated utility patterns. Since it's a static definition, you would only abstract those lists into a CSS file. I don't want to get into much details about it, but it does not solve the problems mentioned before.
I would like to know why @apply does not solve the issues in the author's opinion.
This is exactly the part where the author should have gone into details.
> Even that this snapshot of code-UI is doable in Tailwind, at some level of those components you will find a layer with a bunch of classNames that you need to parse in your head in order to imagine the UI.
So he would probably say that @apply just abstracts away the problem but it still exists somewhere that you'd need to parse through to understand the styling.
But this doesn't resonate with me. This isn't avoidable in any scenario. Either you have a styled component with a bunch of css-in-js, or a bunch of css, or a bunch of utility classes. In all scenarios there is an implementation that you have to parse. Which basically means it has nothing to do with @apply and everything to do with css vs. utility classes.
Uranium is everywhere, but I'd probably be uncomfortable too if my neighbour had plutonium at home.
I think there is a middle ground. The bar for prohibiting things should just not be too low and I feel that it has been pushed lower and lower to crazy mom levels over the last couple of decades. It is time for the pendulum to swing into the other direction in my opinion.
People seem to realize now that banning things has negative side effects and can enable criminals.
You'd need to find people/businesses who are willing to accept crypto in exchange for goods or services, and if that is not an option, you'd need to exchange crypto for local (or another accepted) currency.
If your government tries to stop you from doing that, it is of course much harder, but not impossible, since decentralized exchanges such as Bisq would be an option, as well as LocalMonero or regular old black markets, assuming that you have coins that someone is willing to pay for.
In 2022, when some Chinese banks decided to freeze depositors accounts for shady reasons and debitors planned to protest the issue, authorities used Covid codes to block them from accessing the banks. That also does not seem stable to me.
That's quite different, and virtually no one lost their money in that it was simply stolen by the owners of an accredited brokerage/exchange/bank, like what happened to FTX. And FTX wasn't simply gambling with other's money, they were defrauding their customers (to whom they claimed they are holding all of their money in custody) and also directly embezzling this money for their own gain (houses, publicity, illegal political investments).
That's not the point. Everyone knows that crypto is full of scams and everyone tells you that you are supposed to hold your own keys instead of leaving coins on an exchange. Almost nobody tells you that keeping coins on an exchange is good practice.
The average person has no idea what you’re talking about when you say you have to hold your own keys, and would be absolutely screwed if/when they lost them.
Getting locked out of your own crypto wallet is a much more significant threat than government seizure for 99% of the global population.
And yet, there are many times over more people using exchanges than holding their own wallets. I don't really care about crypto-in-principle, when crypto-in-practice is anything but safe.
The government has the ultimate say!, what happens if they order all ISP's to stop traffic to BTC trading sites (or even shutdown internet if it wills)
Solutions like the great firewall exists that constantly "learn" and will lock you out immaterial if the government decides so.So the argument that BTC / Crypto will take me to the moon (SafeMoon) is wishful thinking
If your government decides to kill the internet, I think that's a very good reason to try to emigrate. The fact that China is doing it, may make them look powerful, but it also makes them look tyrannical.
