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by DINKDINK 8y ago
We can use a simple hypothetical test for many of these issues: Say I read and memorize a book of poetry which statists and corporatists categorize as "copyrighted". I then go into my friend's house and tell him these poems
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>I really want to know how to buy a can of coke in Netherlands using Chinese Yuan/USD/Japanese Yen in cash in such a "no intermediary" no "cut off" fashion. It's almost like we would need a digital, glo
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>I like your idea It's the only peaceful way to govern copyright. >but it's hardly the case currently. You should advocate it to be the case or else you will suffer more and more socialized enforcement of a contract in which
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There's no need for violence and no need for taxation in such a system. The two parties willingly choose a court to fall back on if their contract needs arbitration. >if the contract is violated and the violator taken to court and
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Copyright is a contract between two groups where a copyright holder dictates the terms under which their material may be used or duplicated. If the receiving party to that material violates those terms (say they've received a movie sc
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An upload filter is censorship by another name. Have you written a text critical of the government and haven't copyrighted it? Congratulations, the state now has and issued a "copyright filter" on your manifesto.
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Related reading: "If plastic replaces cash, much that is good will be lost – Brett Scott | Aeon Essays" https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...
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Seems potentially useful for applications where you need a really high specific heat but different viscosity properties.
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>The fact is that you can't easily do the last part without a central server. Looks up DHT use.
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>Musk conspicuously smoking weed while running a factory that drug tests its workers To protect the safety of your workers, you do not want someone who is high/impaired operating machinery that can kill them or others. If you'
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Your argument is pivoting on the definition of ownership of data, that the fourth amendment doesn't apply to metadata because it's not 'your' data. Even if we accept that premise, the fourth amendment still protects agai
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And yet it still ~~moves~~ distributes.
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Pasted from another thread: If you think that Bitcoin's value is $0 long term, why not go short and make reams of money? After 10 years the market has shown that owning 100 btc has preserved more purchasing power than owning 100 USD, W
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Goal post moving. You claimed Lightning was a fork of bitcoin which is patently false. You lost your debate.
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>nobody uses it for the kind of decentralized transactions for which it was originally pitched You're misinterpreting absence of evidence as evidence of absence which is a logical fallacy. clearly there's enough of a market fo
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>that's not in the original paper. Bitcoin the protocol != bitcoin the paper. The main point of the paper was show that you can solve the byzantine generals problem in a completely untrusted. This contribution built on prior distri
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>where power generation and internet is lost you lose access to BTC You don't need the internet nor the power grid to use bitcoin. To use bitcoin via the Lightning Network minimally, you need a CPU and a method to transmit data. CPU
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CBP has no such right. The legal structure /supports/ such actions but they have no right. Say it with me "I am not a slave"
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>I felt absolutely terrible for those people and ashamed that this was their introduction to America. You are not your government. "Every citizen has the duty to protect their country from their government"
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>Unless you jailbreak your iOS device, there is no way to install apps outside the App Store Technically this is not correct. Practically it is. You can install Apps on iOS devices without the app store (called sideloading, and it&#x2
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I wonder if this article is being pushed by FirstNet[1] to sow public ire at Verizon. [1] https://theintercept.com/2018/07/29/firstnet-att-surveillanc...
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>if people died because of it, I would expect criminal charges to be filed I have a contract to rent you X fire trucks. I have other contracts with other people to rent Y fire trucks to them. There's a fire and X fire trucks are be
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Related: Measuring Internet Censorship in Cuba's ParkNets https://ooni.torproject.org/post/cuba-internet-censorship-20... ParkNet: Short Documentary on Internet Censorship in Cuba https://ooni.torprojec
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Nutrition + human bodies are systems which are too complex to reason about effects. From a Design-of-Experiments perspective, it's practically untractable.
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Shouldn't the headline read Bitconnect not bitcoin?
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Any report making conclusions about trends in data that doesn't defend against possible Simpson's Paradox issues shouldn't be taken seriously.
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Attacker: "Yeah so they told them to turn off their GPS devices when they go into operational areas so we just searched where there were holes in the GPS data and bingo we figured out the secret base's location." By producing
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Now politicians will be able tug at the precise, dollar amount your heart needs to get you to vote for them.
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>in general Google protects user data How is storing and cataloging reams of private data 'protecting' it? If your significant other was constantly noting every friend you talked to, every purchase you made, videotaping your e
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The author gives many product reasons to switch (X is superior to Y) There are ethical reasons (obligations depending on your moral framework): Google enabling the US government's war machine with drone image AI (Project Maven, 'r

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