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by DINKDINK 7y ago
If a company issued twice as much stock, would it have a market cap that's twice as high as it's 1x issuance? If Amazon offers 100 AWS-Bux for every euro/yen/dollar would they bring in 10x as much revenue if they offere
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Chain reorgs and double spends are two different sets. IIRC the 2010 reorg didn't have any double spends >It’s impossible to count how many of those abandoned transactions were successfully replayed on the new chain To detect if tr
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Archiveis link before being memoryholed: http://archivecaslytosk.onion/mtow1
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
A chrome fork w/o Google "Google Chromium, sans integration with Google" https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium The caveat with this software is that it doesn't really have good automatic upd
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Do Ungoogled Chrome next: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium And if it's relevant Tor Browser
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>My Google account isn't connected to my personally identifiable information in any way. Which personally identifiable information? The time of day you use your devices? Which languages you use? Which websites you visit? The type of
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
The only benefit a "Blockchain" can provide is decentralized time ordering. All other properties must be verified by the client, don't require a blockchain, and are typically some other cryptographic proof. There are many pro
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
How would those solve the instances mentioned in the article? >One woman claims that after spending an evening with a friend, she was “raped and sodomized” by her Lyft driver in his home. In 2016, another woman ordered a Lyft after a nig
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Help me understand, which ideologies are allowed to be discussed? The person I replied to didn't understand why people don't vote for certain policies. I tried to help them understand the position of people who don't agree
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>That doesn't explain why people who can't afford health insurance It's because doctors et al don't want to work for less than $x/hr and there are people who don't produce enough to trade with doctors or pre
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It appears that We has a functional product they're delivering to buying customers; but at severely-questionable future profitability. Theranos claimed they had a product that achieved results it couldn't, customers they didn&#x2
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
One of the people referenced in this account wrote their own summary of events: https://robertheaton.com/2019/06/24/i-was-7-words-away-from-...
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Because the administration of police/defensive-forces is monopolized by the state, citizens don't have the option to hire alternative service providers that might meet their needs better[1]. Similar to a municipality selling
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
I have a similar dim view of "making something illegal to patch a problem". Though I wonder if there are contract structures that require customer activity to be classifiable as "illegal" for a relationship to be termin
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>Proof of work is not foolproof, especially in LF where there is no intrinsic economic mechanism to incentivize the runaway growth of PoW "mining" investment. As a result a well financed or determined attacker willing to throw
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>It doesn't do anything for people who don't want their services used by bad actors, which is increasingly the case these days My comment illustrates precisely how such an incentive structure denies high-resource demand users.
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"Why would anyone put film in their camera, take a picture, have it developed, scan it, email it, all so that I can print it on a dot matrix? That's so complicated; I could just put it in a manilla envelope and send it through the
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
All the ways congestion controls are implemented on the web lead to a cognitively infantilizing UX, privacy violations, and even "skynet" enabling[1] (hyperbolic but nothing stopping it from happening). "Are you really human?
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>The attackers also inserted code that allowed them to capture plaintext passwords as they were entered by users at the time. >Today we are resetting passwords for all accounts that were active at the time of the 2015 incident Ok so S
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Maybe it's denial stage but something doesn't add up about 25/"33" dead[1]. Is it possible that there's something being lost in translation? EFL People often mistake casualty to mean a death/mortality whe
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>contracts with unlimited time periods non-binding? I've noticed in countries with Natural Rights frame works for their law that typically contracts that commit /an individual/ to work when it's not "bonded"
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement. What does morality have anything to do with the market expectation of "When I shop with firm X I want to have a good experience"? If a consumer has to always second guess whethe
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>people nowadays is using IR cameras without any calibration or understanding of the physics behind the measurement The four factors are Emissivity (ε), Absorptivity (α), reflectivity (ρ) and transmissivity (t). Emissivity is only one f
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
"At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more [private speech] — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that [requires speech permits] with proper [deanonymizing] practices, combined with the abi
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>Why would it be humid? The hotter air is, the higher its capacity to hold water vapor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PsychrometricChart.SeaLev.
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Several co-related factors affecting this: Worker productivity increases cannot be legislated. Such productivity increases can only come from workers improving their skills or technology that increases their productive output (as simple as
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
It wasn't clear to me, after a quick skim, if the public-access channel had received state funding and therefore was effectively the state but outsourced. I would assume it had, which in my eyes doesn't mean it's a 'pri
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
The point was, in fact the bitcoin and bitcoin clones are not "functionally the same thing". If they were, there wouldn't be discrepancies between the two. Clearly the market punished the clone.
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Is the following an accurate summary of your position: "There actually aren't dollars that are being moved into tether's accounts but fabricated database numbers. These fabricated numbers are then exchanged for bitcoins but
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>all of these random tokens are functionally identical from the perspective of most users. If a clone of Bitcoin is identical to Bitcoin then why does Bitcoin trade 25x the price of a clone? Your argument would cary weight if the protoc

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