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Are you proposing taxation without representation or that people after 61 wouldn't be taxed?
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The Dickey Amendment does not prevent individuals from funding studies. Start a community-donation campaign to fund such a study, you cannot be stopped. >Previous studies have showed that owning a gun increases the odds of injury by gun
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>I don't understand why more people don't understand this Because of the round trip fallacy: People equate the absence of evidence as evidence of absence P(E|A) != P(A|E)
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BitTorrent, bitcoin, Chat/forums (AOL->OSS Forums). Everything else had too high development, infrastructure, product demands.
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>impossible to fund gun violence studies. How is the NRA stopping anyone from funding studies? >study shows as is already implied it means that person may be hurt or killed Your arguments are epistemologically broken. Would giving, l
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>Just owning a gun means you are more likely to be injured or killed in a gun related incident[1]. Correlation does not equal causation. Wet streets do not cause rain. Until you provide a study that shows a baseline population and anot
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>The game provider knows the scratch-off ticket is a winner or a loser the instant that it is printed. Yes, this is the way it works today but it isn't required by design. My reply illustrates how you can have a "scratch-off&q
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Methods for choosing to ensure a market that operates how the public wants: Regulation: Laws that mandate exactly how something should be done and if the company doesn't do it that way they are shut down - with no regard to whether or
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>One could argue that scratch-off games are inherently unfair There's nothing inherent about scratch-off games that forces sellers to be in a privileged position about whether tickets they are selling are winners. If the buyer supp
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Contract For Difference is being used to sell cryptocurrency exposure by some companies. I wouldn’t be surprised if CFD is marketed in other areas too.
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I said: If there’s a MITM, server side PGP is meaningless. I didn’t say that server-side PGP has no security value in all domains.
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The reason why Bitcoin will cause the mother of all bank runs is because Bitcoin will eat up banks' liquidity that is desperately needed to keep the leverage ratios in check. Rather simply, because banks take in deposits and then gene
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>you probably should not do your PGP-encryption server-side PGP-encryption server-side is meaningless, even if it was done client side, there's a MITM. Eve can replace public keys (though at the risk of exposing her MITM if people
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Are you arguing that opposing regulations that require people to publish manuals online is equivalent to child slavery? If not I have no idea your point as I already discussed allocating externalities of pollution.
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>The root problem here is that they're using a public number which was never designed for identification purposes and has no security. The solution would be a national ID, or expansion of the US Passport with in-built security measu
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The cost to bring any good to market is a combination of: (1) R&D (technical and non technical), (2) Manufacturing, (3) Sales (compensation to intermediaries bringing the product to marketing), (4) Regulatory and Compliance (5) Consumer
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When Ethereum ICO'ed it definitely met the Howey test for securities criteria. The SEC even stated that.
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The potential for this fund to motivation market manipulation is large: Given that the fund rebalances annually, all market manipulators need to do is 'paint the close' on the year, Coinbase is dictated by their terms to go in an
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Using a linear scale implies that the growth rate is independent of scale. Using a log scale implies that the growth rate is dependent on scale. Depending on your opinion of the market, choose whichever you wish
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>It is very well known that intelligence or talent exhibit a Gaussian distribution among the population Why should we assume that intelligence in the total population is Gaussian distributed, even if you assume that you can measure &#x27
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Imperative programming languages in a global machine state
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Iatrogenics / Iatrogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
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>rely on some older aspects of Monero no longer present My understanding is Monero recognized these weakness and patched to avoid them.
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>To-date there is no public research on fundamental aspect of Monero What about these papers? "An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04299 "A Trac
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Other guides and discussion: https://rnorth.org/gpg-and-ssh-with-yubikey-for-mac https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16145586 https://malcolmsparks.com/posts/yubikey-gpg.html https:&
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>Californian citizen here that is worried that the IT companies will move fast and break things? I'll only have faith in driverless-car technology when, the companies who make the cars, have their own families drive by the cars and
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>The drumbeat of hires crescendoed in November when Ripple, [...] added Ben Lawsky to its board. He earned a tough reputation as New York’s top financial watchdog by pushing banks to scrutinize client transactions for illicit dealings. &
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Your claim was that cryptocurrency exchanges "are completely unregulated" which by own you admission isn't accurate because there are many exchanges that are mandated by regulations to register with FinCEN as a MSB. It'
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I'm surprised that Circle and by extension Goldman-Sachs would acquire Poloniex. It was always my relatively unconfirmed belief that, at best, Poloniex had horrible customer support and infrastructure and at worst was insolvent and or
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>Crypto exchanges are completely unregulated Cryptocurrencies are far from unregulated[1]. [1] https://coincenter.org/entry/cryptocurrencies-are-far-from-u...

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