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by QAPereo 9y ago
Ok, that’s certainly a reasonably cautious stance, although st this point I wonder if that can be Bitcoin.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
How can something as inimical to privacy as Bitcoin be resistent to control? Direct and technical, maybe not, but China for example seems to work around that.
633.
by QAPereo 9y ago
If it doubles again I’d be shocked at least, and certainly admit that I was laughably off about timing. That is possible, and betting against human stupidity/cupidity does have risks.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
About that, and I stand by it. Of course if I were some kind of psychic and could precisely predict the burst I’d be fuck-you rich. Seeing that I can’t, I’m not going to risk it all on tulips. Especially tulips that burn through soooo much
635.
by QAPereo 9y ago
I can’t see how... the bubble’s skin is already pretty taut IMO
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by QAPereo 9y ago
So... is there a “Bitcoin” now, that we’ll wish we’d taken seriously in ten years? What do you think it might be?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The universe's complexity is finite. For a given bounded region.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Isn’t there always a flaw?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Putting aside the ideological scree, regulation is the answer.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
But the question "is simulation possible, and if yes what it can look like" is new, and can have useful answers. That is pretty interesting, but now how most people formulate the issue. After all, what we could simulate, or wh
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Maybe it would be more helpful to stop trying to categorize people based on single posts?
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Hacking your office through your screen caster(pentestpartners.com)
3 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Nothing you said in any way justifies not paying tax.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The universe is big and scary, and decidedly not anthropocentric or even comprehensible,.. some people want it to be, decide that it is, and believe that.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I have to disagree and I can not really understand what is so appealing about the simulation idea to many. You can’t see the appeal of an unfalsifiable conjecture that everything including us, is an intentional creation of some manner of
646.
by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s exactly like homeopathy; it’s nothing. Well, except a dandy way to appeal to desperate and credulous selfhelpers.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Realistically, BI won’t save him, or his progeny when/if it comes down to “pitchforks” any more than the French aristocracy could throw potatoes at starving peasants and hope to live. I can’t imagine how much good someone would have to
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Even putting aside malicious use, which sounds hard, bricking the toy with a bad firmware patch sounds doable. “Mooooom! Jane killed my furbie with an exploit!”
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I did indeed lose track, thanks for pointing that out so gently.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
If this person is buying art from the unlisted web, if they're not going to be able to prove provenance... what do you think they're going to be able to say? "Oh gee, I knew it was stolen when I went to the "dark web&quo
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by QAPereo 9y ago
SV wealth is protected from taxation, see: Apple and Google and Facebook. That doesn’t scream, “helpful” or “trying to spread it around” to me.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Not only is the system in question dynamic, as another pointed out, but also subject to perturbations. Worse, orbital mechanics with many bodies is chaotic, in the strict sense.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Receiving stolen property is a crime. Edit: or not in this case, my bad.
654.
by QAPereo 9y ago
That’s just never going to happen; it would take a revolution to make it possible.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
By the same token, how United are these States really?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Actually there is a mission achievement in the latest Hitman game which has you using just such an implant to wirelessly hack someone’s mood.
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How Does “1+2+3+4+5+… = -1/12” Make Any Sense?(askamathematician.com)
7 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Gold also has practical and aesthetic value, is truly fungible and doesn't oxidize.
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Young Again: How One Cell Turns Back Time(nytimes.com)
1 points by QAPereo 9y ago|0 comments
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Common factor: Money to be made. Tobacco was the core of many states' economies, and still remains a massive industry which makes many people wealthy. Dealing with CO2 emissions would have required dealing with fossil fuel use... and t

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