Sambdala

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by Sambdala 13y ago
Prefacing this with that I'm about as Libertarian as they come, and I'm under no auspices that the US/anywhere has a free market in healthcare. edit: I also went from dirt-poor (and I'm assuming really horrible) healt
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by Sambdala 13y ago
When the subject at hand is about companies that don't have an option?
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Edit: And my actual main point is: A) Speed limits are currently set politically, not scientifically, and B) Yes! let's have this conversation rather than shouting down anyone who wants to change the status quo and painting them as a c
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by Sambdala 13y ago
The flaw in my argument is that I'm calling for reasonable and evidence based traffic laws and road planning, rather than making it a political fiasco that's more about revenue generation than safety? Whereas your argument is, the
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by Sambdala 13y ago
This is exactly what I'm talking about. You're conflating all instances of speeding with "the idiot who drives 50mph on my street, which is 1/4 mile long, and has children under the age of 12 in all ten houses on this ro
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I did read until the end. I quoted the end. He then added a second paragraph that is more reasonable. In his initial post, Op didn't ask for 100% enforcement so that we would then get sane laws, he called for 100% enforcement because c
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Edit: op added his second paragraph after I, and several others, replied. While the second paragraph is more reasonable on it's own, I still highly disagree with the implied reasoning of the first paragraph. I disagree vehemently. Peop
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by Sambdala 13y ago
"A 48Kx32K pixel monitor with 24-bit-per-pixel color needs 4.6 GB videoRAM, so it will probably be about seventeen years (2012) before these perfect monitors are commonplace."
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by Sambdala 13y ago
That's the half of the transaction the grandparent comment didn't talk about. He was talking about the fact the customer in question paid using his Coinbase account so no crypto currency was technically moved as a result of that t
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Leaving aside the issues of whether or not there is such a thing as intrinsic value (I would argue there isn't), any industrial/jewelry/etc uses of Gold would put a floor on it's price of something in the low double digi
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by Sambdala 13y ago
For a transaction that either isn't shipped immediately (any retailer of physical goods) or that you can rescind (digital item with DRM), it's perfectly safe to accept a transaction that has been propagated to the network but that
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by Sambdala 13y ago
For this customer specifically, yes. However, anyone that doesn't use a Coinbase account will be sending actual Bitcoin.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
It's just as simple to use a variety of other services to pay. With any BTC payment service (including Coinbase), you also get the option to pay by QR code (if using a mobile wallet is easiest) or copy/pasting an address (if you&#
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by Sambdala 13y ago
There's a list of other communities at a spoof site I made a while back: http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I would argue in this case that Bitcoin is likely to be more effective in a huge number of cases, not less effective. I agree with the first part of your second paragraph, but I don't necessarily think it's going to apply here for
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Yeah, this is likely to be the case. Part of the genius of the block award being so top-heavy in the beginning is that it made the network much more secure than it would have been if it had relied on transactions from the beginning which wi
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by Sambdala 13y ago
"Some guy in Arizona can set himself up online, sign up for Stripe, have no set fees, and accept a payment from someone in Germany (or NY or Australia) that afternoon." Anyone can take payments using Bitcoin in less time than it
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Some people are interested in the rising price, some people are interested in the interesting things that can be built with and/or on top of it, and some people are interested in some other aspect of the technology that has sprung up a
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by Sambdala 13y ago
The only reason is that credit card companies haven't implemented such a system. I'm actually shocked that we've been able to use our current pull payments system for so long without more problems than we've currently se
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by Sambdala 13y ago
If it's not a core competency (although for certain marketplaces, it may be), you can use a 3rd party escrow. You're already effectively using an escrow service when you provide a Credit Card payment option; you just don't ge
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by Sambdala 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure what point you're making?
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by Sambdala 13y ago
...currently. I don't think most people are interested in Bitcoin primarily because of the utility it currently provides and the infrastructure that has so far been built.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Such an online marketplace should have an escrow included then if they wish to use Bitcoin as a payment method. I believe the Silk Road(s) have used such systems.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Braess' Paradox "states that adding extra capacity to a network when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance. This is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not n
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Well, they are 'balla-sourcing' now...
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by Sambdala 13y ago
$200k in Bitcoin is relatively easy to cash out without affecting the market much these days.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Shameless Plug: http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com
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by Sambdala 13y ago
The layman is going to be familiar with "Know Your Customer"?
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by Sambdala 13y ago
This hypothetical new device was the Internet not too long ago, and the PC not too long before that.
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by Sambdala 13y ago
Gold's other uses wouldn't make gold worth much on their own. "Legitimate" uses of a commodity that trades more for its properties as money should be thought more of a really crappy put option, that is it sets a low pric

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