aneth4

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by aneth4 14y ago
Humor is the last refuge of those who refuse to be tied down by other people's issues.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Ahh.. BC = British Columbia, not Bitcoin. I thought there was some loophole in shipping or tax regulations with Bitcoin :)
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by aneth4 14y ago
> Since they're in BC, they can ship to Alberta too! Is that right? How does that work?
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by aneth4 14y ago
More of a rocket ship than a roller coaster. I call a top at 120 and back down to 20, all within the next few months. My sell order is at 112.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'm sure if you write a nice letter of complaint, you'll get your $100 back and have a pizza party.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Ok - that means people associate multiple email addresses with their identity. That doesn't change anything.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I haven't found this to be true, and I've dealt with a lot of customers. Even Facebook uses email for login, as does google and just about every other website I use. It's an interesting and bold statement that needs some supporting eveidenc
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by aneth4 14y ago
Powerful weapons can have unintended consequences.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I have not read the article, but I agree with the premise. The Iraq invasion will be looked back upon as the day America lost its status as the moral superpower. Since that decision, people began to give far more weight to Putin, Chavez, ha
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by aneth4 14y ago
I would say it's the mark of a sensible man who understands how to be aware, influence, and the effect of what other people think of him, but does not actually care. Someone who actually cares what someone thinks of him based on whether he
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'm not rich enough that my life wouldn't be changed by lots of money, but I know startups pretty well. I invest around $10K once a year in a startup, usually with a friend who I believe strongly in. One of them so far was a disaster, and o
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by aneth4 14y ago
Unclear whether the virtual currency itself would be considered of value by the government. If not, the person paying in bitcoin would probably have to pay income tax on the fair value of the goods or services.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Yes, within the USSR. That's equivalent to Bitcoin being "widely accepted" among merchants who accept Bitcoin.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Sorry, forgot about all those software engineers in the US making less than $455/week or $27.63/hr. Right on.
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by aneth4 14y ago
As long as you can convert bitcoin to some relatively stable currency somewhere in the world, the US government will have a tough time getting a handle on it. There is no reason bitcoin needs to be converted to USD on US soil. If you have t
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by aneth4 14y ago
Given that it's not a currency according to the government, you probably don't need to pay taxes when you earn a profit in it. When you receive goods and services in exchange for it, you may need to take those as income (since you didn't pa
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by aneth4 14y ago
Overtime doesn't apply to white collar workers. I've not heard of OSHA being involved in employer IP issues, nor in any software engineering environment. Destroying something the company claims as their IP would subject someone to some seri
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by aneth4 14y ago
Maybe you're in the business or have a moral mission of providing life lessons to customers. I'm in the business of helping them avoid life lessons by having stuff behave as expected.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I'd also add to the list advanced technology and knowledge of the universe and consciousness.
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by aneth4 14y ago
How many users turn off JavaScript when visiting an untrusted site? I for one never have in over 15 years. And if you did turn it off, and the site doesn't work, what do you do? Read the source code and look for malicious JavaScript? Your d
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by aneth4 14y ago
> If users go messing around in the important internals of the necessarily complex machine that is the browser then they deserve what problems they have. In short: If you don't understand an advanced option, stay the fuck away from it.
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by aneth4 14y ago
I often wish software would insult my intelligence in this way more often. I have enough choices in life. Most of Ye time I just want other people to make the best choice for me.
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by aneth4 14y ago
> 2. Evolution is the process of continual genetic diversity - natural selection is the process of eliminating the unfit. So you can't flip this. > B. Sperms, no. Zygote potential, yes. Therefore I would find it ideal to generate ev
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by aneth4 14y ago
I don't really need a definition of success, but I'd say a society that has a high chance of survival, has minimal suffering, and creates beauty. Given all those things being equal, certainly a higher population would be more successful. Ho
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by aneth4 14y ago
Evolution is natural selection. They are precisely the same theory. Directed evolution is a whole different ball game that presupposes an active god or a detailed master plan. Either way, that is not evolution as most scientists would view
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by aneth4 14y ago
The explosion of humanity is possible because of the development of technologies, most importantly agriculture. Population is certainly a measure of success for a species, however it is not a particularly good one in my opinion. China's pop
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by aneth4 14y ago
Ad Hominems attacks are against the person, not the idea. Calling you an idiot or ignorant would be ad hominem. Calling your ideas silly is certainly a rhetorical fallacy and not polite, but it's not ad hominum. I stand by my characterizati
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by aneth4 14y ago
Mark, your response is dead, so I can't respond to it. I don't do much voting honestly. > I don't understand how if one is viewing the subject from a evolutionary genetic perspective, why it is wrong to say that mechanisms that go again
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by aneth4 14y ago
Bio 101: The part you slept through Each sperm is also genetically unique.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Unedited version of wikipedia? No idea what you are talking about. Isn't wikipedia all edits? Are you implying I edited wikipedia? I scrolled down to the part titled "Defining ethics," which happened to be the first section, thinking that w

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