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by alva 9y ago
Early estimates suggest $270m worth of Ether has been permanently frozen. Coming 4 months after multimillions stolen from the same wallet.
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by alva 9y ago
CME has announced they intend to introduce a Bitcoin Futures product. If this is allowed it will allow institutional investors (think pension funds, hedge funds etc) to legally indirectly invest in bitcoin. The amount of money in the hands
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by alva 9y ago
> Is that unusual? That specific Canadian criteria is particularly strict compared to others. In the UK an immigrant is allowed in even if they may place a larger than average burden on health/social services (autism would be covere
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by alva 9y ago
Canadian reputation as a haven for immigration is a very well engineered and effective meme. Child has autism? No immigration for you. They have pretty severe criteria for immigrants compared to other western countries. After the '16 e
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by alva 9y ago
Advertising for me, propaganda for thee..
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by alva 9y ago
When can we start blaming Putin?
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by alva 9y ago
> I believe that Russia, and only Russia, won the election in 2016 Who stands to benefit or avoid harm from such a belief? Arguably the people responsible for the national circumstances that lead the population to vote for someone like T
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by alva 9y ago
Also revealed today was slides from pitch desk Twitter provided RT, proposing RT spend a large amount of money advertising during and about the US election. https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/923519609269116928
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by alva 9y ago
"while browsing the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s website, a site she said she checks weekly to see “if there’s anything new.” does anyone believe these stories? they seem to be popping up more often.
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by alva 9y ago
That is literally the point I am making. You are misunderstanding me completely. No matter how unlikely an extreme event might be, if/when it does occur it has earth shattering effects due to the complexity of the world. This is why we
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by alva 9y ago
> There's no evidence that their use against people is likely to substantially increase over the next few years, so it's not something that is worth worrying about It does not even matter whether there is evidence that the risk
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by alva 9y ago
Risks of day-to-day activities are known, their distribution effectively fixed and the magnitude of the risk also understood. The probability of ladder falls tripling year-to-year is of order 10^-14. I understand that driving my car could p
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by alva 9y ago
This argument is repeated ad nauseam and a bit of thinking on distribution and magnitude of risk will show you why it is nonsense in this context.
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by alva 9y ago
No. The rhetoric and threats are off the scale for both sides at the moment. What gets missed in the (profitable) news din is that UK Gov has all but guaranteed EU folk can stay in the country as before. This has been reiterated since day o
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by alva 9y ago
"articulating a complex argument well" This is the transcript of the first two arguments in the video. This is the winning team of a national debate. "they say the n * is always already queers thats exactly the point it me
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SmartContract bounty hacked, Company rescinds full reward(reddit.com)
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by alva 9y ago
I am certainly not a member. Blue checks appears to be common parlance in left and right communities discussing journalism and politics. Perhaps it is more prevalent in the alt-right? I could well be wrong on this.
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by alva 9y ago
4chan can be extremely effective in shaping online conversation and mainstream news coverage. The strategy is never explicitly stated and is most likely done unconsciously, but is powerful. A relatively small number of people shape the main
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by alva 9y ago
I hate this grubby finger-pointing to a state actor. Sadly, the majority of non tech readers will take is as given.
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by alva 9y ago
Fantastic, entertaining editing for what can sometimes be a dull topic to watch!
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by alva 9y ago
The position of the article is one which will become extremely prevalent if this area of research gets results. If certain behavioural indicators can be identified reliably with this method, it will be the atomic bomb of political-incorrect
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by alva 9y ago
40,000 jobs.. No coincidence this comes a day before Labour Party conference.
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by alva 9y ago
The UK educates more world leaders than the US, which is impressive considering the difference in size. Although this of course could simply be down to prestige rather than quality of education. This sort of challenging of grades would almo
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by alva 9y ago
It is interesting to see the demographics of these schools change. 20/30 years ago it was as has been for hundreds of years, the British aristocracy. Some parents/teachers express their frustration that a large segment of students
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by alva 9y ago
Assuming the majority of applications come from natives UK 65 million US 323 million Of course however these universities are very popular internationally.
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by alva 9y ago
> should a company be forced to bake a cake for gay people? should a Muslim bakery be forced to bake a cake for a gay couple? genuine question.
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by alva 9y ago
Sometimes I think other nations should be a bit more pragmatic in generating revenue from the huge costs of healthcare in the US. In the UK we can charge foreigners for use of our NHS. I believe that using this private service, is significa
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by alva 9y ago
Seems like they felt the squeeze after that expose
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by alva 9y ago
> Yet, I felt that if my name was in any way affiliated with a service also used by neo-Nazis it was my moral responsibility to break that affiliation. By that logic your name is associated with a service also used by child pornographers
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by alva 9y ago
The beauty of decentralisation. If Bitcoin (or other) continues on it's path and becomes widely used globally, the government has a huge disincentive to ban it. Lets say China, EU etc integrate $Crypto into their financial system, it w

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