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by beaner 11y ago
So what is actually being advocated here? Pay higher salaries to everyone, or don't budge for competing offers?
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by beaner 11y ago
You might not, but if Pepsi produced 90% of the demand for drinking bottles, the bottle makers might. Similarly, bitcoin companies which are not currently miners but which profit from providing bitcoin-related services might have incentive
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by beaner 11y ago
Increasing the block size doesn't increase the transactions per block. Usage does.
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by beaner 11y ago
Two points, which are not by any means the whole story but simply things to consider: - Hard drive space is increasing faster than the blockchain size - New protocols like sidechains and the lightning network could help offload much of the
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by beaner 11y ago
Does anyone know what kind of processing these images go through? Does Ceres receive enough light for the satellite to see it plain, or is this the result of X-ray vision or something similar? And the bright spots - I can understand those b
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by beaner 11y ago
It's too bad, larger artists pulling their listings during that period could have given less listened-to artists more promotion.
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by beaner 11y ago
I wonder what the plea bargain is.
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by beaner 11y ago
You're misunderstanding the feature. Coinbase has supported off-Blockchain transactions for a while now, and it does not require a USD wallet; it can be done with any transaction internal to coinbase. Instant exchange let's you se
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by beaner 11y ago
This isn't an actual solution though, because space is still limited. Bitcoin cannot be a currency if it can only fit 2,000 transactions per block. Even if everyone is willing to pay $100 in fees for their $1 transactions, they won&#x2
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by beaner 11y ago
> So the free market will solve any overload problem. What do you mean by this? If 2mb of transaction data is generated every 10 minutes, but only 1mb of it is mined, what is the free market solution? If the goal is to have bitcoin be
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by beaner 11y ago
I'm not sure the author actually understands what libertarianism is. What is un-libertarian about open and free software? The whole ethos of libertarianism is around mutual, non-forced, consent. Free and open software absolutely repres
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by beaner 11y ago
I remember the response here on HN was generally similar to that of the mainstream media.
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by beaner 11y ago
re, the first part: So you're saying that if I run some private business, and the gov't gives a loan to somebody else to buy the product I'm selling, that makes me a publicly funded business and forces me to abide by rules fo
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by beaner 11y ago
What is a submarine piece?
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by beaner 11y ago
I keep hearing this over and over, products don't actually exist for anyone's sake, they only exist to "sell your data". Where's the evidence? What does it even mean? It's like somebody came up with this line b
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by beaner 12y ago
My only point was that a higher IQ is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage for modern day humans and you seem to agree with me.
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by beaner 12y ago
Have you ever heard the phrase "there is truth behind every joke"? It is relevant here. The joke is in the exaggerations and charicatures. The truth is what is real that would cause this joke to be made in the first place. Obvious
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by beaner 12y ago
Yeah, we did have a dark ages that lasted for a thousand years. Nothing says the same thing can't happen again.
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by beaner 12y ago
First, I never said anything about western culture. (Note that the example is inside America.) Second, the poor generally don't have the same access to good education so in general it is true. Third, I edited my comment because I kno
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by beaner 12y ago
Another example of where more brains doesn't necessarily mean evolutionary advantage is modern humans. It can be seen all over the world that the less intelligent procreate more. The intro to Idiocracy makes the point well: https:&#x2
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by beaner 12y ago
It read to me more like he was whipping out something casually in short time, instead of taking the time to impress with grammar. The context is missing here. They could've been chatting online or in person and he sent a quick 15 minut
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by beaner 12y ago
I don't think the point was to say that it wasn't small, only that it's definitely much larger than a soccer field.
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by beaner 12y ago
And also this thing called the blockchain.
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by beaner 12y ago
It works for some people, it doesn't work for others. It's a mistake to think that more screens means more distractions for everyone. It certainly doesn't for me. When I'm focused on an app, it gets my attention, and the
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by beaner 12y ago
People keep saying this, but I haven't heard a Japanese chef voice opinions that don't agree with these "commandments." It does kind of come off as not "eat this way because I am idiosyncratic chef," but &quo
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by beaner 12y ago
That's because everything is growing in China, including probably Android and Chromebooks. Google just had the guts to do the right thing.
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by beaner 12y ago
That's exactly it.
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by beaner 12y ago
Task Rabbit is pretty good and well known, and now there's Magic which sits on top of it. There's a lot more but they're smaller.
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by beaner 12y ago
Selection bias. The people most likely to respond are those who have more than "no" to say.
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by beaner 12y ago
It's all about perception I guess. Even if you have fewer occurrences of it per X employees (not saying they do - I don't know) and you actually are better, it's easier to talk about it like it's the new norm.

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