Meekro

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by Meekro 9y ago
I couldn't care less if people say mean things about me on Twitter, and I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't lose any friends if I became the target of an online mob. My significant other certainly wouldn't think less of me.
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Russia Terminates the Daily Stormer(money.cnn.com)
16 points by Meekro 9y ago|6 comments
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by Meekro 9y ago
I don't think grandparent was equating them, but rather pointing out that someone in a position of power could one day equate them. If the rule is going to be "your website only exists if one of a handful of powerful people don&
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by Meekro 9y ago
Since no one answered your question about how much due process is needed, let me take a stab at it. To paraphrase the article, due process requires that the rules be known in advance, and that they be applied non-arbitrarily to each accused
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by Meekro 9y ago
It's hard to respond to that ranking site since I can't find what factors went into the rankings. If you could be more specific on why the US should rank below Western Europe in freedom of speech/press, I could look into the
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by Meekro 9y ago
I certainly concede that Google's firing of James Damore is a rejection of the cultural value I was talking about. I didn't mean that every institution in the US accepts it, just that it seems to be more accepted than it is in oth
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by Meekro 9y ago
I would not consider an idea more legitimate just because it has a website, nor would I consider it less legitimate just because some censorious asshole in a web host's abuse department decided to kick it out.
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by Meekro 9y ago
Free speech is not just a constitutional amendment, it's a cultural value. It happens when DreamHost protects a website that is organizing legal protests, spending more per hour on legal fees than the website will pay over its lifetime
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by Meekro 9y ago
Even in the bitcoin community, I think many people don't realize just how big Coinbase is. I have a paid Alexa account, so I can grab traffic data to for any website. Let me show you how Coinbase compares to several other sites you guy
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by Meekro 9y ago
"If Galileo had said that people in Padua were ten feet tall, he would have been regarded as a harmless eccentric. Saying the earth orbited the sun was another matter. The church knew this would set people thinking." -- Paul Graha
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by Meekro 9y ago
Even if your friends got the VC money, wouldn't the lack of "hustle" ability hurt their chances of turning the prototype into a successful company?
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by Meekro 9y ago
FaceTime is Mac only. Join.me seems geared towards business users and pre-arranged meetings -- I want something more like an IM client where I can see who's online and ask to video chat with them. Also, join.me doesn't seem to hav
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by Meekro 9y ago
What could I switch to (on both Mac and PC) that would give me better video chat functionality? Edit: Just to clarify, here's what I'm looking for: 1. Free plan; available everywhere in the world (I have family outside the US). 2.
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by Meekro 9y ago
Despite the blockchain hype, "money" is the killer app for bitcoin and ethereum. Before bitcoin, an online business would be taking a huge risk if it accepted a credit card payment from someone in Latvia. The fraud rate on such pa
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by Meekro 9y ago
The "Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble Inc" decision is absolutely relevant. It's true that they were arguing about whether an arbitration clause applied, but what's important is the analysis the court used to determine that
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by Meekro 9y ago
Pretty much the same thing. I recommend SWPPX for several reasons: 1. Schwab is pretty much the best bank in the world for many reasons. Most professional service, no fees for banking, and minimal fees for trading. 2. With a Schwab account,
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by Meekro 9y ago
I'd like to +1 this because it needs to be repeated until the whole world has heard it. Since 1950 or so, the S&P 500 has averaged 8% per year growth. Nearly all managed funds have done worse -- and that's before you pay their
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by Meekro 9y ago
Your claim that "the fad is over and nobody much cared" is measurably false. Coinbase is currently the top bitcoin exchange in the world. Have a look at their traffic: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coinbase.co
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by Meekro 9y ago
You're very right, and it still sucks. I wish we had a bitcoin community that was less like reddit and more like HN: well-reasoned submissions and replies and moon jokes (we are bitcoiners after all) from everyone are welcome, trolli
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by Meekro 9y ago
kbaker has done a good job of laying out the facts, but since he seems to lean towards the SegWit side, let me make the argument from the perspective of their opponents, the "big blockers." Satoshi Nakamoto himself believed that b
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by Meekro 9y ago
The saddest part of this whole thing to me is how it has destroyed the bitcoin community. Just a few years ago, we were close-knit and friendly. We loved "to the mooon!" memes every time the price rose. Every new business acceptin
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by Meekro 9y ago
Yes, it is feasible to sell $1 million in BTC (444 BTC at present) in one day. Assuming you're in the U.S., my recommendation is to signup for a Gemini account and read about their daily auctions. They do more than enough volume to fet
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by Meekro 9y ago
We've had 14 hour workdays in the U.S. and elsewhere during the industrial revolution, and yet people somehow found the time for relationships and babies. What's different now?
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by Meekro 9y ago
Pretty interesting! His answer makes it sound like teen dating in Japan is simultaneously idolized and condemned. I wonder how a contradiction this glaring actually works without making everyone's heads spin. For example, does "th
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by Meekro 9y ago
My experience was similar to yours. I immigrated from Russia at a young age so we had very little money. I attended a great college mostly on scholarship. My mom had always taught me to work hard and pick a major carefully, taking into acco
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by Meekro 9y ago
Have you ever heard someone who identifies as conservative complain about cultural appropriation?
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by Meekro 9y ago
Hey Brian, I'm glad to hear that you guys are still at it! Your original vision is exactly what I wanted. We got an account for our small business because paying contractors with a monthly cron job that initiates an ACH transfer is exa
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by Meekro 9y ago
Anyone remember Seed[1], the YC startup that tried to do programmable bank accounts years ago? They did eventually launch, and I have an account, but all the programmable stuff went away and we're left with basic business bank accounts
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by Meekro 10y ago
I tried your demo and it worked great! I tried saying similar things to see if it was just word matching, for example: "You should crawl under a rock and die." -> offensive "You should join a rock band, that music is
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by Meekro 10y ago
Can you point to someone who said one hour ago that the ETF is good for bitcoin, and is now saying that the ETF is bad for bitcoin?

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