Sinbe

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by Sinbe 4y ago
> There is no excuse of ignorance for receiving and selling stolen property or property used in service of a crime Let's say your public address is public, all your net worth is there. A tainted account can send a small amount to yo
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by Sinbe 6y ago
> But you also ignore ACH/wires/credit cards and all the ways most money moves today. What is the fundamental issue there that Bitcoin solves? Regarding this point, Bitcoin solves the freedom to move capital. People in the U.S.
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by Sinbe 6y ago
There is the reflexivity of bitcoin's network effect. The more institutions adopt bitcoin, the more stable it is, and hence more institutions will want to adopt it. Bitcoin won't be a unifying currency. It behaves like a commodity
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by Sinbe 6y ago
Shares of Facebook for sure. Bitcoin's value is in the network effect, you can easily create a bitcoin clone but it's worth nothing if you are the only one hogging all the coins.
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by Sinbe 6y ago
Ah, the value of a social network is in what the users bring. If the first users post crap which attracts more users who would post more crap, then that's not the network you want. Quite important that Facebook's first users are H
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by Sinbe 7y ago
Penetrating debris? Won't this potentially create smaller debris moving at higher velocity? A net capturing the debris is safer. ... after writing that, found this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/1787
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by Sinbe 7y ago
Simplest example of what not a manifold is the shape of the letter “Y”. Technically for a topological space to be a manifold, every small neighborhood around each point should look the same. But “Y” has a special point at the center.
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by Sinbe 8y ago
> there is no reason to believe that the true value is closer to 21 than to, say, 3. I find this very silly, since if we ditch the arbitrary 0.95 and go with 0.999.. confidence interval of [-998, 1040] for example. How can one say that o
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by Sinbe 8y ago
Yeah when you say "life coach", people get what it is, but it's boring. But there's a certain weirdness to the term "boss as a service" that make it seem interesting and people want to find out what it is, I th
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by Sinbe 8y ago
So this service the same as life coaching, but remotely through emails?
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by Sinbe 10y ago
Is it legal to access the docs on wikileaks? is it legal to post a link here to those docs?