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by 21echoes 12y ago
Libertarianism is the belief that the only valid rights are 1) private property, and 2) no initiated direct physical violence. The only time either of these rules can be violated is: the second one may be violated to punish those who violat
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by 21echoes 12y ago
I'm sorry, but you really did not make good points. > Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need t
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> To Mr. Summers, the potential contained in bitcoin’s breakthrough technology, with its fast, low-cost system for confirming transactions any article that touts Bitcoin as "low-cost" is a joke. paying 3-5% transaction fees[1]
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by 21echoes 12y ago
The huge problem with dividing rent this way is that it's effectively saying that a house is only as good as its bedroom. It puts the price of the kitchen, bathrooms, common spaces, yard, etc. at exactly $0. Meanwhile, those rooms are
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by 21echoes 12y ago
I would love if Google did this, but I see two significant problems. 1. Who stores my private key? Google? Chrome? Both seem troublesome 2. "Also, Google wouldn’t be able to scan and index the text of your e-mails. That’s a problem if
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by 21echoes 13y ago
while i agree that i'm going to keep using google maps for this, road.li does do something that gmaps doesn't really do: going from SF to PA, for example, there are quite a few different In-n-Out's I could stop at along the w
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by 21echoes 13y ago
given that bitcoin processing fees are on par with credit card processing fees ( http://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction-percent ), i bet they won't.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> most people who use inheritance directly access properties defined in a superclass i think the problem is you're both just running on anecdotes. to add fuel to that fire: i would definitely side with jdlshore on this one. in Objec
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by 21echoes 13y ago
did you read who the blog post was written by?.. Nick co-authored the paper that defined source maps, and implemented the Firefox dev tools part of it. In other words, if there's going to be a "super cool [Google/Firefox] dev
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by 21echoes 13y ago
There are things that are open source but not "Free Software" in the FSF sense of the term. Android springs to mind (not all pieces are open source, largely developed as close source with the source published after the fact, etc.)
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by 21echoes 13y ago
those foreign providers provided a service with government regulation, oversight, and pay taxes. the proposed google and facebook solutions do none of those things.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
... with the stated intent of fostering freer markets outside of government regulation, and bringing these tools to people outside the scope of regulation, oversight, and tax burden. these points are what the article is about, if you actual
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by 21echoes 13y ago
w3c standards are for what gets rendered by Gecko. The browser itself has many things that do not involve w3c at all (search box, bookmarks, sync, etc.)
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by 21echoes 13y ago
another example of the bitcoin community slowly learning why financial regulation and oversight exists...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> it won't solve the real problem. you keep saying this. what, in your mind, is the real problem? the article lays out a very clear real problem in its view: lack of aggregate demand. they then offer a solution to fix said problem
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by 21echoes 13y ago
hey anant! i was your intern at mozilla 3 years ago... great to see you popping up again :) this plugin looks awesome
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by 21echoes 13y ago
whatsapp doesn't have end-to-end encryption
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by 21echoes 13y ago
yes, bitcoin's slow-inflation-soon-to-become-deflation is preferable to hyperinflation. no, slow-inflation-soon-to-become-deflation is not preferable to a well-managed economy.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
So you need a huge amount of capital, talent, and fresh faces, but will be plagued by launch delays... sounds like Clinkle to me. Maybe this is what they're up to?
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by 21echoes 13y ago
4-5% transaction cost ( http://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction-percent ) is certainly not "near zero", and in many cases is higher than credit card transaction costs. just because the current transa
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by 21echoes 13y ago
.... in what world did Hitler want to solve income inequality?
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> I am disappointed by the development of unnecessary peripheral functionality such as this. users expect their browser preferences, history, bookmarks, and passwords to be synced across devices. for a significant chunk of ff users, this
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by 21echoes 13y ago
looking at the unzipped ipa file, it looks like a solid 40.7 MB of the app is just the binary ! another 9.8MB is the FBMessenger assets.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7154027 also, apparently the doxxing was by a Venmo employee, and the cash in the photo was fake: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/clinkle-deni
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by 21echoes 13y ago
later on in the thread, the engineer specifies that users can make their phone numbers private.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
so i'm about to go to jail for using the facebook search bar? and weev actually had to do work to break the AT&T service... this looks like he just searched for users.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
in what world is a public profile search by name called "hacking"?
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by 21echoes 13y ago
the main problem with this analogy is that you have it structured so that Bjork is the "daughter", which is what your whole denouement relies on (where we're supposed to be pissed at Icelandi for not covering for Bjork's
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by 21echoes 13y ago
it's also free because the payment processors, the "miners", are payed by freshly-made bitcoins. once we hit the max number of bitcoins, they'll charge fees to run the "mines".
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by 21echoes 13y ago
they trade/change boots at that convergent stomping point (i.e., use a new wallet address)

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