MichaelGG

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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Yep. I'd recommend the Mi A1. If you can find one, they're pretty cheap, $200 I paid at a retail store. Great specs, very little trash (Moto X4 is Android One, but ships with Moto specific stuff that is annoying.)
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
The rest of his emails are about pushing sales, saying he'll fix issues to make it more legit looking, but encouraging his sales guy to move the product.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Miners take Bitcoin directly giving you a way to launder a big chunk of money. They don't ask questions and it's not a big visible thing like buying cars in your name. Hosters are fairly cheap and aren't going to be a problem
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Well suppose you have a million bucks of cash or Bitcoin from selling drugs. If you just buy miners and get clean Bitcoin, that might solve the issue by providing a clear and legal source of funds. But if they ask how you bought the miners
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I think one might find that if you go buy a million bucks worth of Amazon gift cards and try to load them into a couple of accounts, it'll probably be flagged. The article is not about money laundering, but using stolen credit cards. I
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Their source is an author that doesn't know what money laundering is. What he described is just a way to cash out a stolen card (fraud). Can you tell me how you can laundering, say $100K in cash via Amazon? If you already have it on a
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Bad title, this is Office Space levels of misunderstanding. The claim of money laundering is by some author that has no idea what he's talking about. All it really is: scammers use Amazon to cash out stolen credit cards. That's no
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
A stolen credit card isn't money laundering, that's just fraud.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Your argument hinges on your word "abuse". Except there's no abuse. Nothing stops Ian from conducting business legally with that company name. If CAs have a problem, they need to fix the cert system. What should those guideli
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
>cannot be considered offensive >Both of these appear reasonable to me. That is the issue. Just because someone considers something offensive does not make it so. With a tiny bit of effort, so many things can be "considered offen
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Apartheid killed very few, 7000 is the number I can find (then 14k during transition). This doesn't square with "needs to kill increasingly large number of people". That's my only point. It doesn't matter because it
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
How many people were killed during apartheid vs transition vs nowadays?
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Yes it was an obviously disastrous policy, as anyone should have been able to predict. Some politicians at the time accurately stated this obvious truth, and years later they've been proven right beyond a doubt. So right are they that
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Not at all. If my neighbor breaks his bathroom, he's welcome to use mine. But after a month, when his whole family is now frequently coming over, I will ask him to get a plumber. If he won't, I'll do it and lock my door. For
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Define "synchronized". If you already have a way for nodes to determine something was valid as of a certain set of data and time, you've already solved it.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Blockchain adds neither things you mention. Both can be accomplished with digital signatures and timestamping, which are not new. Blockchain alone doesn't prevent you from modifying data -- just rewrite the entire chain. As an example,
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Of course you can delete, just create a new DB and insert the records except the ones you don't want. If you want to have integrity control, you can use digital signatures without blockchain. If all you're trying to fix is making
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
You've described merging/replication which has nothing to do with blockchain.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
In only responding to the claim that the stats are wrong because of police oversampling blacks. With homicide, no one can make that case. If lack of money causes homicides, we should expect to see all poor rural areas have high homicide rat
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Homicide rates are unlikely to have this kind of bias though. And they're heavily against blacks. It's unlikely whites being murdered go unreported, or that anyone gets off with a warning. But inner city homicide has a low solving
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I greatly appreciate your responses. Putting it as least-worse is a great idea. Had someone told me up front that it would still have religious aspects, chanting, etc. maybe I'd been more likely to stay instead of feeling mislead/
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
This is a great reply, thank you. I thought Harris was also explaining that full motor control remains by "me" until the corpus callosum is severed. Hence patients being unaware that their other hand is writing notes. Do you have
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
The parable in question, about the child not eating the "black stone" in his pudding, is one that many people report hearing. It might have been in one of the discourses. I must stress that the individuals and teacher in person we
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Most religions are fairly open source and not really hackerish. Does Dhamma org actually publish the discourses? I got the feeling they were only available via the retreats, but have been leaked.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
No, the complaint is that they make a big point about only being pure technique, no faith, dogma, etc. Then they act like any other place. If they were honest about it from the get-go, then it wouldn't be worth mentioning.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
>you're free to pick and choose what you find valuable This is what they say, and sure, they cannot force you. But if you do this, they criticize and condescend, telling you you're like a child not eating all his food and that
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I highly recommend the guided meditation that goes along with that book, Waking Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OboD7JrT0NE It has helped me attain the deepest level of meditative state, where I am almost aware of my co
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I cannot say it is true because I would not consider myself learned. I will say that the 10-day retreat thing comes off very culty, and it is in their interest to encourage the course. They've built a massive monument apparently funded
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Excellent review, thank you. You capture the vividness of it very well. I will add a disclaimer, if you are talking about Goekna / Dhamma.org retreats. They are absolutely not just about technique or dogma-free, despite their marketing
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Exactly. At the same time igniting Israel using chemical weapons in Palestine.

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