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by VMG 9y ago
Why does them being from a different place allow you to discount the value they derive?
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by VMG 9y ago
from the link > Many thousands of years ago a technologically advanced race of extraterrestrial beings came to planet Earth to mine metals
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by VMG 9y ago
> I would say that it is not a particularly good deal for the city and for the locals. What about the visitors?
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by VMG 9y ago
> There's just a contingent of people who say that such social parity has already been achieved (or maybe we've gone too far), and another contingent who say that parity has not been achieved. There also is a contingent of peop
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by VMG 9y ago
Recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833508 > The growth of “zero-sum” activities may, however, be even more important. Look around the economy, and it’s striking how much high-talent manpower is devote
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by VMG 9y ago
isn't "censorship" the main talking point of the BTC-detractors?
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by VMG 9y ago
Why should lightning fees be high if there is an open market for hubs and they compete on fees?
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by VMG 9y ago
wait until you learn about these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies
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by VMG 9y ago
Prime Day paid off it seems
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by VMG 9y ago
> Monetary transactions are already pretty well protected To borrow some progressive terminology: check your privilege. Also let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point https:/&#x
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by VMG 9y ago
> However I feel like we're having the bad engineer reflex, trying to find a technical solution to a societal issue and we might end up making things worse. Same is said for encryption. My perspective is that tools empowering indivi
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by VMG 9y ago
One the one hand, you list a number of non-speculative use cases, on the other hand, you call the capital investments wasteful. That tells me that your judgement of the wastefulness is subjective. Other people obviously derive value from it
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by VMG 9y ago
That's one of groups, correct. Who benefits from a financial transaction system that law enforcement cannot censor?
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by VMG 9y ago
> How it'll do any of that and why it's a good thing, that's left as an exercise to the reader. I'll give an additional hint to reader: who benefits from encryption that even law enforcement cannot break? Who benefits
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by VMG 9y ago
Copy an existing ICO website, change the name, the color scheme and the deposit address.
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by VMG 9y ago
> Then do the same with Ethereum. As long as you only ask him to do it, it will be fine. What if everybody using bitcoin did it though?
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by VMG 9y ago
From the consumers perspective, a definition centered around the production process is not very useful. One could try to define it by the measurable attributes of the final product.
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by VMG 9y ago
> The trouble of course is that LN is just a bunch of proposals right now, There are multiple implementations of the spec.
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by VMG 9y ago
The blog author and you need to learn about lighting network and graph theory. Edit: responses to the specific "proof" you linked https://medium.com/@murchandamus/i-have-just-read-jonald-fyo... https:/&
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by VMG 9y ago
With segwit, you can use http://lightning.network . Lightning network gives you essentially unlimited transaction speed.
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by VMG 9y ago
> Is it all pump and dump? Unless proven otherwise, yes.
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by VMG 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_large
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by VMG 9y ago
Can the EU legitimately complain that tech companies prefer to operate outside then?
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by VMG 9y ago
Hope this increases the chance of E2E encryption
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by VMG 9y ago
I don't think "essays" are in great danger of being censored on the internet.
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by VMG 9y ago
Here you go: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena
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by VMG 9y ago
What's bad about VC billionaires giving cheap rides to other people?
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by VMG 9y ago
> We really need pro-competition legislation to stop this sort of predatory capitalism. That's a non-sequitur
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by VMG 9y ago
Or educational systems could simply compete. People would be able to pick, and the most productive and effective system would win out.
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by VMG 9y ago
I'd imagine it would look less continuous: some of the areas would be ripped apart and spread across the map.

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