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by beaner 8y ago
We're a pretty long way off, I'm sorry. Bitcoin is more popular than ever. The payments network (Lightning) being built on top of the financial sovereignty base layer is just getting started.
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by beaner 8y ago
Even if it did, on a pc you can still install apps from outside of the store without root access.
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by beaner 8y ago
Do you think this argument also applies to personal computers? If not, what's the difference?
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by beaner 8y ago
I guess a clause could specify exemptions to previous clauses.
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by beaner 8y ago
Probably related to the other thread on HN today about a guy having his site scraped by a competitor.
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by beaner 8y ago
The distinction is tools of force vs other.
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by beaner 8y ago
OkCupid began monetizing before being acquired and that's part of what made them attractive.
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by beaner 8y ago
You're talking about selling things that enable violent crimes against others, while the person you're responding to is taking about selling benign things with which one can only harm oneself. They seem categorically different.
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by beaner 8y ago
Can't tell if this is some kind of recursive sarcasm, but this is literally the point being debated. Are you even paying attention??
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Tim Wagner Joins Coinbase as VP of Engineering(blog.coinbase.com)
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by beaner 8y ago
Regarding them exiting, I don't really see what's circular about that if they simply changed their minds about how they perceive the morality of censored results inside if China. It just means they have a line, and redrew it, perh
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by beaner 8y ago
Can't it be censored, though? Isn't that the point? And if it can't be, what are we arguing about? Somebody told me once that they met a person from mainland China. They showed them a picture of the Tank Man and asked them ab
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by beaner 8y ago
To me, it seems that signaling what I belive is right vs wrong is less important than offering water to the prisoners.
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by beaner 8y ago
Regarding blackmail I suppose I would say that China already has search engines, which seem to have been able to provide a consistent experience for many years. I would imagine that if there were instances of them being blackmailed, we woul
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by beaner 8y ago
Thanks, this is a good argument. Being from the western world, it is very clear to me what Google's absence from China signifies. Given that China censors its media, do you think the Chinese citizenry are aware at all about Google&#x27
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by beaner 8y ago
For me, "somewhere" is the line between business and politics. People can use voice and voting to change their laws, and businesses are free to roam within those laws. Promoting politics through business is a conflation that doesn
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by beaner 8y ago
I actually do not think A is the proper argument here. Google providing a restricted search service is not doing a "bad thing." It will be a product that helps people find what they are looking for, which is a good thing. At the s
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by beaner 8y ago
Can't tell if you mean this as a joke, but the following this logically we'd find that every country is doing something immoral, and if we all exited/revolted at governments not 100% completely moral, we'd have a lawless
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by beaner 8y ago
I think this ignores the rest of my comment. Not sure I agree that trade deals and search engines work the same way. You could also say that the United States is an imperialist devil that kills innocents in the middle east with drones, and
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by beaner 8y ago
Why is it unethical to launch a censored search product in China? The alternative isn't to launch an uncensored search product. That's not possible. The alternative is simply to not be there. How do the Chinese benefit from that?
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by beaner 8y ago
Most of the ugliness in electric vehicles is not in their bulk/shape, but in the unnecessary and ugly flairs that manufacturers put all over them. Just freaking remove that crap. As for batteries, why can't they just make it wider
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by beaner 8y ago
There is more money in circulation and it needs somewhere to go. Investors put it in stocks. This is part of the reason the entire market has risen, amzn is just at the front of it.
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by beaner 8y ago
But they could potentially use you for more and users don't have insight into whether or not they do or if it will change.
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by beaner 8y ago
That makes sense. Maybe an alternative solution is that he is never surprised because he is expecting it every day.
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by beaner 8y ago
My thought is that there is no paradox, "Friday" being the execution day can be a surprise. If the prisoner finds out that Friday is the execution day on Thursday because he is not executed on Thursday, the specific day is still a
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by beaner 8y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard of "seed servers". Do you have any links explaining such a precedent?
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by beaner 8y ago
Centralized systems aren't vulnerable just because of uptime. They can also terminate your access at will, like if you forget to pay a bill, or if some government actor comes knocking on their door.
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by beaner 8y ago
I didn't read his comment to be a defense so much as a pointing out of the hypocrisy of only being outraged about this now, when it applies to illegal immigrants, but not when it applies to the US's own citizens.
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by beaner 8y ago
Crypto can still be fun to be in. If you pay attention to all the ICOs and the crashes and media hype, you're gonna get sad about it. But there are other places in this sphere you can find and still enjoy like the earlier days. For exa
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by beaner 8y ago
Doesn't this argument ignore the basic supply and demand of electricity? Even if the supply of electricity remained the same, if the price went up 100x, then that would allow for (1) current energy use of bitcoin, and (2) 100x price of

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