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by alexmat 9y ago
You don't have to swim faster than a shark, just faster than the guy next to you. It's harder to trace a bitcoin transaction then a credit card payment, even without a tumbler.
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by alexmat 9y ago
I access them over a public library wifi or starbucks connection and tunnel that through a vpn, and randomize my mac each time I connect.
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by alexmat 9y ago
Make that two of us. And since they take Bitcoin payments, Put.io has no idea who I am.
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by alexmat 9y ago
ideological beliefs about the nature of money (liberals not interested in non-state currencies, and Austrians believing that currencies must have intrinsic value) https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-w
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by alexmat 9y ago
I can't take it with me when I die, so I'll spend it at some point. Also, see marginal utility of value: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalutility.asp
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by alexmat 9y ago
That's like, your opinion, man.
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by alexmat 9y ago
Just because you don't know why something is going on, doesn't mean it's arbitrary. In this case it's because of a path to mass adoption: http://coinivore.com/2017/11/26/bitcoin-reaches-tim
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by alexmat 9y ago
Listen to your enemies, they have more to teach you than your allies. "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor rema
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by alexmat 9y ago
In order to "hold onto the assets" the FED actually has to buy US Treasuries when its current treasury holdings mature. The way the FED sells assets is to simply allow the treasuries to mature without buying any to replace it. The
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by alexmat 9y ago
"Distilled to its roots, the Fed has been manufacturing “savings” from thin air for the better part of a decade. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, American savings were depleted, so the Fed had to step in to produce savings (to fi
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by alexmat 9y ago
I think it will be big for virtual gaming assets: https://spellsofgenesis.com/ and https://www.ageofrust.games/
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Cost of Push Notifications for Smartphones Using Tor Hidden Services(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
1 points by alexmat 9y ago|0 comments
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by alexmat 9y ago
What is the issue with federation? It seems to be working for me between different domains and servers.
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by alexmat 9y ago
What happened to XMPP? Not trying to be snarky, I still use it. Is there an issue I should be aware of?
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When the Cookie Meets the Blockchain [pdf](arxiv.org)
14 points by alexmat 9y ago|2 comments
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by alexmat 9y ago
Cautiously optimistic about this dual boot Android/Linux device: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-...
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by alexmat 9y ago
You don't have to trade for dollars. You can use one or more intermediaries such as gift cards and high resale value goods, just like using proxies to distance yourself. The more hops, the harder it is to connect.
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by alexmat 9y ago
https://github.com/nopara73/ZeroLink/blob/master/README.md
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by alexmat 9y ago
Stores have cameras and Visa cards have unique numbers. Not too hard to put the two together. Bitcoin let's you transact without having to interact in physical space to acquire or spend them.
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by alexmat 9y ago
You can add this list to get around admiral domains: https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/admiral-domains.txt
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by alexmat 9y ago
This can be said about so many tech innovations, not just Bitcoin.
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by alexmat 9y ago
That was my first assumption, and none taken :)
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by alexmat 9y ago
Everything is debatable. Even this.
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by alexmat 9y ago
So everything is black and white now and we've lost all room for nuance and grey areas? Seems like that kind of environment would stifle the exploration of difficult subject matter.
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by alexmat 9y ago
If I quote Hitler in a debate about world war 2, am I normalizing the Holocaust?
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by alexmat 9y ago
My Dad was a smartphone holdout until last year. I deeply regret getting him one. He is now nose deep in it whenever I see him and much less interesting to be around since his conversations are now about what's popular online and not t
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by alexmat 9y ago
His point about hiking is spot on for me. And it's not just a means to get away from the internet, it's also great for removing all social noise and enabling a long stretch of contiguous thinking. Running also works well but it ne
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by alexmat 9y ago
The article suggests that racist jokes are a problem to be solved, but racist jokes serve a noble purpose according to Slavoj Zizek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IISMr5OMceg
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by alexmat 10y ago
I use passwords.google.com It works well with chromium on linux and on my android phone. It's free, has all the security of a google account including u2f, chromium integration is flawless on linux, and works well with chrome on Androi
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by alexmat 10y ago
"(of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period. "there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular""

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