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by MCRed 11y ago
"To leave that metaphor, let us grieve at what twitter has become. A stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous who love to second-guess, to leap to conclusions and be offended – worse, to be offended on behalf of others th
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by MCRed 11y ago
All to protect mafiosos who pretend to be organizing "unions" for the "workers" benefit (which is illogical if you think about it due to the Principle-Agent problem, and makes no sense economically- the bosses will cut d
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yet another tragedy of regulation. Yes, I know unions want to keep competition for their services low, in the theory that they can extract higher wages. But the reality is, the people who want to come to america to work for companies are a
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by MCRed 11y ago
Slightly off topic but the general hacker community seems to somehow missed it-- the creators of CouchDB formed a company and merged with the creators of Memcached, and the new company is called Couchbase. This is the best NoSQL database g
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by MCRed 11y ago
Stealing less money is not "welfare". The need to twist words like this is Owrellian-- and revealing.
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by MCRed 11y ago
I think both of them are, because none of the problems are really good for explaining your thought process. In fact, it is a contradiction to try and think about a solution to a problem and to give a dissertation on how you're thinkin
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by MCRed 11y ago
I have seen an astounding amount of "biz guy" entitlement in this industry. It can't tell you how many times I've talked to potential co-founders who were a pair of frat boy types who had business school degrees. They pi
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by MCRed 11y ago
Business guys make more money, only because they convince developers to take less than they are worth. Your friend hired a developer who, by your account, was doing all the work, and then the business failed because your friend was too gre
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by MCRed 11y ago
As an old guy, let me share with you which of these I think was the biggest lesson for me: -- We do not need to be lead by business people. MY new rule for startups - the big engineer should be the CEO. You can have a CTO and other engin
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by MCRed 11y ago
Consider that much of the opposition to Core comes from the perception that Blockstream, which employs many of the core developers, is usurping it to be a high-fee, low-transaction network so that they can incentivize (and profit from) the
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by MCRed 11y ago
They won't be forced to switch but they will be highly incentivized to do so, as people in the minority coin sell them out to buy the majority coin. Will be really interesting if any exchanges support this concept of two bitcoin chains
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by MCRed 11y ago
The white paper goes into the issue to some extent with the "longest chain wins" method, which is effectively, hash power based voting for bitcoin software. (the software with the most hash power wins.)
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by MCRed 11y ago
The voting is built into the bitcoin protocol-- the miners that find the next block are voting for the piece of software they are running. If there is a schism and some miners are running other software then two chains could -- COULD -- em
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by MCRed 11y ago
He didn't compare the publisher to nazis. He talked about one of the essential components that allowed the nazis to have power in germany. The nazis existed. They were real. I don't like the modern fad of holocaust revisionism th
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by MCRed 11y ago
The code uses elixirs built in doc system so you should be able to build docs after cloning the repo. At a cursory glance it seems pretty reasonably well documented.
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by MCRed 11y ago
What do you mean by "austerity"? The US government has spent $8T under Obama in new debt (and that beats the previous record set immediately before by George W Bush- it's not a partisan thing, both parties over spend.) As an
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by MCRed 11y ago
Calling Ron Paul a "tea party" candidate is accurate only if you recognize the Tea Party as a grassroots libertarian movement that, among other things, supported gay rights. Calling him a "libertarian" candidate would h
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by MCRed 11y ago
Snowden exposed a vast amount of criminal activity within our government, and the governments response is "lets prosecute snowden!" ... no reforms, no groundswell for reform. The spying isn't even a topic in the upcoming elec
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by MCRed 11y ago
I saw an economic study from several years ago showing that the arrival of a Walmart actually stimulated the growth of "Small shops" around the Walmart. That it stimulated commerce in the area-- in part because walmart brings in
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by MCRed 11y ago
Double plus good comment, comrade. Absolutely absurd that there could be propaganda or control, after all, if that were the case, we would have heard about it, right! PS- Prove there is no evidence. PPSS- A negative four vote count on an ar
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by MCRed 11y ago
I would love to see your source code get audited by a third party. I have a lot of faith in your cryptographers, but your methods are harder to grasp than bitcoin and thus harder for me to audit myself-- I admit, I don't have the crypt
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by MCRed 11y ago
I wish I knew, I would go there too.
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by MCRed 11y ago
There is a strong bias, and the amazing thing is that its very difficult for the people who have this bias to realize it. As far as they can tell it is fact, and this is in large part because they live in a filter bubble where they only se
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by MCRed 11y ago
http://poloniex.com is a US based alt coin trading system.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Zcash gets %10 of the mined coins for the first 4 years and %1 goes to a foundation. This is their business model. It seems reasonable to me... using the currency you're creating to fund the development of the currency. If Zcash ends
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by MCRed 11y ago
I'm a guy with 40 years of experience, and I'm working with a 20 year old. I learned a technique awhile back and a strategy that is-- whoever has to implement it gets to make a lot of decisions. So I give advice and suggestions
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by MCRed 11y ago
When all you consume, day in and day out, is propaganda, it becomes reality for you. I spent 6 years living abroad and got to see the perception of the USA (south america counts as "americans" too) -- in the media in foreign count
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by MCRed 11y ago
> A gun doesn't keep you or your family safe Defensive gun use is far more common in the USA than murders by firearms: http://guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html > when we look at the data, all of these provide
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by MCRed 11y ago
> work to mask the consistent refusal by the courts in the Eastern District to end meritless cases before trial. More trials should mean more money for lawyers in the area, judges, ancillary people like stenographers and clerks.
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by MCRed 11y ago
So, imagine what negative interest rates will do. Seriously, I can't imagine it, I sense it will be bad, but I'm not sure how it will play out. On the other hand, if the fed will pay me to borrow money, I'd love to borrow as

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