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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Taxis are cypherpunk. You can get into a taxi without showing anyone any ID or even phone number, or installing any proprietary app, and you can even pay in cash.
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barabazs
@barabazs.eth
the bar seems very low to be qualified as cypherpunk
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nicholas 🧨
@nicholas
yes, and calling a reliable cab company on speed dial is a fast natural language agentic workflow—versus navigating a touchscreen, typing destination, and dodging the myriad upsells. taxi drivers on average more confident and talented than ride share gig worker drivers.
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Dave Shake
@daveshake
By this logic, the whole world before 2010 was cypherpunk
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
dash cams?
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@diiice.eth
Taxis are Centralised ✅ 🌐 Surveilled ✅ 👁️ Regulated ✅ 👨‍⚖️ All of which seem very anti-cypherpunk to me 🤷‍♂️ At best, they are relics of a bygone era and IMO not inherently nor progressively cypherpunk. But I do agree they have a cool level of nostalgia about them.
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links 🏴
@links
I often get mocked for taking taxis instead of uber but punk always seems mock worthy to the masses.
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sardius.eth
@sardius
main character in the 5th element was a taxi driver (consider that movie loosely cyberpunk)
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Apex777.eth
@apex777.eth
Just like vending machines. Cypherpunk candy.
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antimo
@antimofm.eth
You can also shout "just drive" or "follow that car" which you cannot do in an uber
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Thumbs Up
@thumbsup.eth
I’d rather have a zk-uber personally. The untraceability of taxis enables a lot of rape. While it happens in Ubers it’s easier to report and a deterrent in that “surveilability”
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Idan Levin 🎩
@idanlevin
Not for long..
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Garrett
@garrett
Need to pay digitally with the privacy of cash
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lily
@lobstermindset.eth
is the driver side of the market cypherpunk? 🫥
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@garyweinstein
So true. Might be why so many futuristic movies (like Gilliam’s Brazil) use so many retro references!
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Hugo Montenegro
@hm
Hitchhiking is also cypherpunk! Although I suppose there's no real economy in here, unlike with a taxi network
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Lurks
@lurks
safer than rideshares too imo
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eggman 🔵
@eggman.eth
You have a camera pointed at you, and are usually navigated by GPS 💀
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Winder 🎩🔵
@windump
Try fake taxi. It'll decipher ur (s)punk
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Push
@push-
Wen crypto taxis?
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