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by beaner 9y ago
IMO it seems weird to be interested in a technology which enables digital scarcity and therefore value, but not be interested in the value created by a practical implementation of the technology. It's a strange enough position to me th
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by beaner 9y ago
People could just post these encrypted messages on pastebin, Dropbox, whatever. It's someone else's choice to send you the message and paste it somewhere. You can choose to ignore it, but it's not really your right to tell so
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by beaner 9y ago
All information trends towards fast, cheap, and global. We saw this first with mp3s. You used to have to pay $20 for a CD with 10 songs that you could only play in your own stereos. Then Napster came along. Music is just information. It was
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by beaner 9y ago
Some are positive, some are negative. Introvert, liberal, wallflower, and humble (or fake humble) definitely don't all seem like they're necessarily positives to me, either. Even some of the ones that are positive can lead to nega
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by beaner 9y ago
If you read my comment as saying men in tech are superior, you got the wrong message. Edit: By that, I mean the traits I pointed out above are debatable in terms of desirability. Things like self-sacrificial and feebleness definitely seem l
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by beaner 9y ago
Pieces like this sometimes make me wonder if sexism is not actually more rampant in tech, men in tech are just more open to self-criticism and accepting that something is wrong with themselves and their industry. All the things you hear abo
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by beaner 9y ago
"1 Transactions made between financial institutions in the Zelle NetworkSM typically complete within minutes. If your recipient does not have access to Zelle through their bank or credit union, transactions could take between 1 and 3 d
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by beaner 9y ago
As one example, maybe we would have an alternative to ACH, which would allow money to be settled in seconds, instead of several business days. Maybe we could have this at the protocol level (banks) instead of having to use private 3rd party
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by beaner 9y ago
Just seems like part of an evolutionary process. Very rarely is software released where version 1.0 is perfect. Maybe if government currencies allowed for these things, they would also be better by now. This is part of the reason why bitcoi
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by beaner 9y ago
Can you explain what a "long term counteract" is and how it relates to a currency's inflation rate?
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by beaner 9y ago
Lots could go wrong, but Ethereum launched the same way and it's now got a market cap of ~$20 billion.
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by beaner 9y ago
> any changes require consensus from the miners who create Bitcoins and process transactions, and because it's not in their best incentive to do anything to reduce those transaction fees Can you explain how this jives with miners su
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by beaner 9y ago
> everyone managing their own funds with their own private keys is still ultimately goal of Bitcoin No it isn't. The goal is to enable financial freedom, so that the people who want that level of control over their money can have it
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by beaner 9y ago
I did, thanks, should've been more clear
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by beaner 9y ago
I feel like Google generally takes the right side of things. Defensive patents, tight security, easy to use, friendly products. Their stuff is mostly open source and free. TBH Google are relative angels. Microsoft before them had shitty pro
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by beaner 9y ago
I guess how you read my comment might depend on how sensitive you are to the criticisms. All I mean to say is that bad business gets economically punished. Internal culture is part of a business' reputation. I do not condone hostile wo
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by beaner 9y ago
I don't really see how it's privatized crime and punishment. Being a jerk isn't illegal. And the "punishment" is economic, not forceful. I don't think your analogy works.
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by beaner 9y ago
I feel like it makes perfect sense. It's capitalism in action. They are free to act like jerks, and their users and stakeholders are free to punish them for it.
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by beaner 9y ago
Honest question: why is anything that is patented ever made to be part of a standard?
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by beaner 9y ago
This is a global phenomenon, not just happening in the US. How would they enforce it?
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by beaner 9y ago
https://exchangewar.info/coinprice?eth_usd
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by beaner 9y ago
He should just start a crypto coin. He'll get funded immediately.
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by beaner 10y ago
Could they call it anything less self-explanatory?
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by beaner 10y ago
What makes it useless?
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by beaner 10y ago
My problem is I don't know how to talk to people for 4 hours straight. That only happens if we have very specific interests in common. When that does happen, it might only be with one person, then everybody else gets bored and leaves.
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by beaner 10y ago
What on earth are you talking about? These are some of the most off-base generalizations I've ever read.
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by beaner 10y ago
It is for Thom Yorke, that doesn't mean it should be for everyone else as well.
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by beaner 10y ago
This article seems to be capitalizing on the popularity of Susan Fowler's blog post earlier today, which was rightfully popular for its outrageousness. This one is just a weird uninformative rant that is mostly just a description of an
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by beaner 10y ago
RTFA, it agrees with you.
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by beaner 10y ago
The article says departures increased during 2016. The pay structure only just changed in December. Departures were increasing over time before the pay structure changed.

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