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by beaner 7y ago
This is a really stupid thing to say. SV coins are SV coins, not BTC coins. Their chains don't interact and can't inflate each other, so pointing out that there are multiple blockchains doesn't make any sense.
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by beaner 7y ago
Miners have to sell their coin to remain profitable. This distributes the coin well, and ensures a highly liquid market. The largest brokerage is US-based (coinbase) and the largest exchange is Binance, which has most of its funds auditable
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by beaner 7y ago
If the protection of wildlife is profit-driven by governments, I'm fine with that. Maybe these other places where endangerment is a problem can learn from the other ones. If they can make more money from milking foreigners for protecti
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by beaner 7y ago
Couple naive questions: 1. How does a piece of spent fuel end up in a "grassy bit of ground" outside the reactor? Thought it would have all melted in one big clump in the same spot? 2. Why is Chernobyl still so dangerous if litera
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by beaner 7y ago
I agree, but I don't think that was the issue being discussed.
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by beaner 7y ago
I don't think the things you're saying are really accurate. Bitcoin isn't used very much for payments because it isn't easy to use it for payments. The scaling technology to enable it is in development but not good enoug
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by beaner 7y ago
If it in effect doesn't exist, then the rest of the money in circulation is worth more due to its scarcity being increased. Net economic activity is thus unaffected.
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by beaner 7y ago
Google lets you delete more of the things they record of you doing. Google gives you more control.
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by beaner 7y ago
How? Google respects privacy more than Apple does.
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by beaner 7y ago
Also the internet has always been this way and it's never been a problem. It was only once Trump was elected that the media started to promote the idea of censorship.
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by beaner 7y ago
I was hoping I could get away with an honest simple question without having to qualify all the assumptions and naïvities in it.
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by beaner 7y ago
Wonder if someone could elaborate on the hardware or what makes cell network hardware unique? Isn't it all just chips, boards, and cables?
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by beaner 7y ago
Isn't the wide availability of internet pornography an obvious theory for one potential factor?
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by beaner 7y ago
This sounds like a theory without evidence, but it would be interesting to actually study.
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by beaner 7y ago
I don't think my comment implies isolation. What I'm saying is that it would be better for students to not all be pushed through school at the same rigid one-size-fits-all pace, not only so that they can learn better, but so that
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by beaner 7y ago
Generally a pretty shitty one at that, full of bullying, cliques, popularity contests and anxiety. Being constantly surrounded only by people your own exact age for 18 years isn't a great design.
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by beaner 8y ago
Because laypeople don't think of those things. The divide in the way people look, the environment of their countries, how they sound, and what they believe, is split in Asia by the Himalayas. Obviously there are many differences betwee
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by beaner 8y ago
Just a cursory Google search shows that countries like Mexico and the Philippines are way above the replacement rate as well so I don't think your comment is accurate.
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by beaner 8y ago
I wonder how much of this is practical use of ACH vs using it to enter and exit other modern payment networks like venmo and coinbase, because ACH is actually abysmal.
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by beaner 8y ago
A fork can be made with any amount of hash power, it doesn't need to be the majority. A fork happening doesn't mean it will be followed, or even contentious. 51% attacks do not allow double spending on the blockchain. If a block i
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by beaner 8y ago
This isn't really true. The only thing you can do with 50% of the hashpower is determine the most recent block. And it still has to be a legitimate block. You can't undo history very far. And to the extent that you can, transactio
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by beaner 8y ago
And maybe it's not, and the government is taking advantage of it's position of power? Competing tethered currencies aren't gone because they're a bad idea, they're gone because they've been made illegal. Crypto
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by beaner 8y ago
Some people think this is a problem. Others, a feature. At least now we have the ability to see what happens.
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by beaner 8y ago
Companies don't own the blockchain. Not sure if you're familiar with crypto by this comment, but inflation control was the key feature that enabled Bitcoin (and the rest) to exist. The whitepaper is worth a read: https:/&#x2
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by beaner 8y ago
Quote: "Even for double digit addition problems they jump right into 'cool tricks' and 'mathematical thinking' while there are just really a few steps to memorize and, guess what, kids are great at memorizing stuff.
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by beaner 8y ago
It is also a better use experience.
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by beaner 8y ago
My comment explicitly mentioned yachts if you read it.
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by beaner 8y ago
> I'm talking about one person consuming as much as 100,000 others Most rich people, even very rich, have mostly normal things, just at the higher end of the scale. A Mercedes instead of a Ford - Restaurants instead of cooking at ho
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by beaner 8y ago
Agree with the criticism of the acquisition but neutrino isn't product that helps them list assets faster
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by beaner 8y ago
> By doing so, the article makes the exact same mistake Read further, the article talks about this

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