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by beaner 8y ago
But this is still in line with my expectations. The advertiser knows someone matching a profile sees the ad. They don't know that person is me.
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by beaner 8y ago
If it was a multisig account, they don't have the keys. That was the whole point of that feature.
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by beaner 8y ago
The question was based on an assumption that the data is shared. It was that assumption that I was calling out, an assumption that is very much in the news, and which is untrue, but also known to be untrue by some and still promoted, making
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by beaner 8y ago
Yeah, but now you're changing the argument from selling data for profit to simply complying with the law. If Google complying with the law is something someone feels at-risk for, then I understand not choosing to use them. But that&#x2
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by beaner 8y ago
That seems like an argument against centralized mail hosts, which is a very different thing that what this thread is ostensibly for.
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by beaner 8y ago
They already have my email receipts, what's the difference? I use venmo - they have it too. My credit card companies are private companies. Where's the outrage regarding them? Google does not reveal my identity to partners; What y
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by beaner 8y ago
I think this comment is a great example of why I think most of the privacy concerns, especially around Google these days, are mostly overblown. I am not afraid of that example happening because that is not how Google operates. Google makes
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by beaner 8y ago
I kind of like this. It's already in my email, which they host. I don't see why I should not want this feature, where they aggregate helpful information for me.
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by beaner 8y ago
> the purging of big-block voices from the subreddit was unethical I don't know why. It clearly became a distraction at some point, and so the mods took a side and enforced it. I don't think that's unethical. A specific pr
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by beaner 8y ago
> It certainly has major shortcomings, and consequently being used very little, right now Its use is low because it is still in the testing phase and there are purposefully few mainnet clients. > There is absolutely no scientific evid
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by beaner 8y ago
Bitcoin cash isn't censored. It has its own subreddit (and the rest of the internet) where discussion can be had about it. Equating "censored in r/bitcoin" with censorship in general sort of proves that it's mostly
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by beaner 8y ago
Yeah, if the government wants something then it's going to get it. There's this, obviously, and you're right: https://xkcd.com/538/ . I am not advocating that crypto can help you bypass the law. But at le
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by beaner 8y ago
TBH, it doesn't matter what the original intention was if it doesn't work. 2nd layer works. Maybe so do bigger blocks, for now, but certainly at the cost of decentralization. I'm sure you can post some theory or statistics th
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by beaner 8y ago
FTA: > While surfing the web at his parents’ house on Christmas of 2009, he encountered a nine-page paper written by a pseudonymous author named Satoshi Nakamoto.
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by beaner 8y ago
Hard forking Bitcoin doesn't increase Bitcoin's supply.
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by beaner 8y ago
> That destroys the point of the whole "decentralized systems" thing. Why? > What is it solving that isn't some sort of political science question? - Why can't you send money between PayPal and Venmo, even though t
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by beaner 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I agree that there is a difference. So there should be a law blocking the 2nd type of activity. The lack of a law is implicit moral approval of the American people.
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by beaner 8y ago
If that's true, it says to me that governments should put a blanket block on doing certain types of business with that specific country. Such a block should apply to all companies equally. It doesn't require them to be more involv
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by beaner 8y ago
Not many disagree with that. The question is whether it should be enforced by politics or if people/companies can be allowed to make the decisions themselves.
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by beaner 8y ago
Can you explain how that works? I thought that once a company's stock was listed, third parties just trade it amongst themselves. How does that activity affect Tesla in terms of how they're able to execute?
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by beaner 8y ago
And now readers still aren't popular... There is no big replacement that people are using. Google didn't kill the category, it was already dead.
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by beaner 8y ago
Easy to say, difficult to verify.
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by beaner 8y ago
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it? Seems like a
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by beaner 8y ago
I feel this way about the Nexus 6p, another beautiful phone that will never be back. These phones had a kind of identity that modern ones don't. Nowadays they're all the same.
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by beaner 8y ago
Ok, not sure how that changes the point.
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by beaner 8y ago
For the clueless like me, is there a joke here?
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by beaner 8y ago
Many do not. There is a theory of something called the Power Process, which states that for people to be happy, they need goals which require effort, and need to achieve at least some of those goals. The lack of meaningful goals which requi
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by beaner 8y ago
You shouldn't start with them because they have not started in China. Others have. This targeting is hypocritical. Especially for Apple, who promotes themselves as so privacy-focused. That was always a marketing gimmick, and this is pa
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by beaner 8y ago
Nobody's bullying you, you just say inaccurate things or bring up things that were not your original argument. Even this response disregards my point. Everyone agrees with you that being able to handle payments is important for Bitcoin
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by beaner 8y ago
It's a technical caveat that exists now, but there's nothing categorically preventing additional technology to help users prevent this fate without much work. One thing I don't understand is why so many people seem to have th

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