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781.
by VMG 9y ago
I define "Socialism" as the inventors defined it: workers owning the means of production.
782.
by VMG 9y ago
Socialized health care is not socialism, and US health care is not free market health care.
783.
by VMG 9y ago
Great idea. What other code bases are there that lend themselves to this? Some kind of curated genius.com for source code would be interesting.
784.
by VMG 9y ago
Then neither is tax avoidance.
785.
by VMG 9y ago
I'm happy to enter into any voluntary transaction where the terms are decided upfront and where I can decline to accept your offer.
786.
by VMG 9y ago
The idea that collective agreement dictates morals is flawed and dangerous.
787.
by VMG 9y ago
> Yes, you may be able to justify this legally, but it is a morally highly questionable behaviour nonetheless. Same goes for taxation itself. Many in this thread will argue that it cannot be theft since it is legal, which is absurd.
788.
by VMG 9y ago
> What the state could have done with €31.8 billion If we start with these sorts of calculations, why not set the tax rate to 100%? Apparently the taxed populace doesn't ever do anything worthwhile with their money.
789.
by VMG 9y ago
Maybe related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
790.
by VMG 9y ago
A person owns himself or herself. Slavery is immoral and wrong even where it is legal or was legal.
791.
by VMG 9y ago
Why doesn't the market care? Where is the JS-less Facebook/Twitter/Airbnb competitor that blows the customers away with "properly built" websites?
792.
by VMG 9y ago
It will last even longer without CSS
793.
by VMG 9y ago
> Sure, dude, ignore anyone without a machine that can run MBs of JS within a reasonable time. I'd wager 90% can even run the strawman you're building
794.
by VMG 9y ago
I'm not
795.
by VMG 9y ago
> For me it’s a matter of elegance and simplicity over unnecessary complexity. Simplicity is having one place where the DOM is created and managed, and optimizing for the 99% use case. Complexity is splitting up DOM rendering over two ne
796.
by VMG 9y ago
> You should, ideally, try to fund improvements to both projects. And a thousand more. The question is where to channel scarce resources.
797.
by VMG 9y ago
Should I fund improvements to Signal instead?
798.
by VMG 9y ago
What is counterparty risk?
799.
by VMG 9y ago
You're right, the innovation is however the transfer of ownership without a trusted third party.
800.
by VMG 9y ago
There is more to crypto than that, right? The discrete logarithm problem is independent of integer factorization.
801.
by VMG 9y ago
Expecting the headline to be changed soon, original headline was: Fraunhofer promoted MP3 as “dead”, because they get money from AAC patents
802.
by VMG 9y ago
You were right, I did not consider bulk storage outside my personal use. Thanks.
803.
by VMG 9y ago
I could come up with electrical motors and generators. Before that I saw them for controlling the arm of spinning hard drives, and those aren't used that much anymore. What else is there?
804.
by VMG 9y ago
Sad, but predictable. There's a mantra in Bitcoin: if somebody else has the private key, you don't own your cryptocurrency.
805.
by VMG 9y ago
HN title is confusingly incomplete
806.
by VMG 9y ago
And yet there was a protocol change to fix the application failure.
807.
by VMG 9y ago
It's not clear you get to keep the good parts of PoW then.
808.
by VMG 9y ago
It's hard to find objective metrics. I would look at real-world usage and utility. The currencies fall in a very clear distribution there -- bitcoin and all others.
809.
by VMG 9y ago
You can't rank altcoins by market cap, it's a very flawed indicator. Unlike Bitcoin, none of the Altcoins currently have any use outside speculation, including Ethereum. There is significant skepticism that Ethereum could deliver
810.
by VMG 10y ago
... on the Blockchain!

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