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by beaner 6y ago
> you need that much capital flowing in to maintain the market price There's something off about the argument that you're making and I think it's that you have cause and effect backwards. You keep phrasing this as if minin
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by beaner 6y ago
"double spending" as a technical term means double spending within the blockchain.
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by beaner 6y ago
> so you execute a 51% attack that mass double-spends coins 51% attacks don't double-spend coins. It just means you get to control which blocks are accepted, it doesn't mean you can violate the rules.
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by beaner 6y ago
The point wasn't missed, because the predicate of global warming is not in question here. > And where else in the USA has been a bastion of oil/petrochemical industry climate change denialism, than Texas This is a ridiculous st
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by beaner 6y ago
I'm a cryptocurrency holder and I would love it if it were easier to spend.
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by beaner 6y ago
What would constitute an "inappropriate takedown"? Just one month ago the popular opinion seemed to be that there is no such thing. Even if the content is benign, it's private companies making private decisions - completely w
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by beaner 6y ago
Any argument becomes easier if you're willing to dismiss data to base it on.
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by beaner 6y ago
Seems hard to make an argument either for or against racial disparities in police shootings then, if the data is unreliable. In which case the answer is to not make assumptions, but collect better data. A lot of people seem to take the appr
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by beaner 6y ago
Yes seriously. If the data show something else then maybe your reaction isn't actually justified.
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by beaner 6y ago
I'm not sure that page shows what you want it to. It doesn't seem to account for the demographic distribution of people being caught committing crimes to begin with. Here's a thread with numbers from 2019 claiming blacks are
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by beaner 6y ago
Literal death does not tend to be misreported in the first world.
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by beaner 6y ago
Surely statistics might help us resolve to what extent things like public torture and killing of black people by authorities is a problem (as distinct from police brutality against all people generally). What do the statistics say? Edit: Th
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by beaner 6y ago
I think it's certainly a more fair criticism to say that bitcoin adopters are consistent fools rather than hypocritical smarties. I would say that that isn't the case either, but it more honestly focuses the argument on the merits
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by beaner 6y ago
Stability rather than inflation or deflation is probably the best. Inflation being good is a myth that was made popular by the fact that it gives the government and banks power, so economists who promote inflation are themselves promoted an
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by beaner 6y ago
> while day-dreaming about selling it for a huge profit (in FIAT currency) This isn't really true. The dream is that crypto becomes the reserve currency itself, and spendable after hard work on scaling solutions. There is no hypocri
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by beaner 6y ago
I think we should keep asking that question about everything spoken or printed that someone, somewhere might potentially disagree with or find objectionable. Free speech means freedom from disagreement and objection. So all speech should be
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by beaner 6y ago
I guess I interpreted the original comment as RISC vs CISC and an M1 is RISC, though not RISC-V.
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by beaner 6y ago
> You dont want RISC-V in your PC Why not? Isn't the Apple M1 showing exactly the opposite?
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by beaner 6y ago
The user count on r/thedonald was frozen as to not influence popularity, you are likely wrong about their relative size.
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by beaner 6y ago
Yeah but what does grayscale have to do with it? Doesn't make sense.
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by beaner 6y ago
This is exactly how many Trump-supporting forums were shut down.
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by beaner 6y ago
But how much was it relative to the total volume of concrete?
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by beaner 6y ago
I can't say that I know enough about that part of WWII, but yeah I agree with that statement. Which isn't to say that it applies here. Simply pointing out that stripping out context can lead to false equivalences is lazy, it needs
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by beaner 6y ago
Examples are everywhere, you just have to not be in a bubble and be open to seeing it. I could keep going but you tell me, do you need more? AOC: "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable." [-1] Slate: "Non-
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by beaner 6y ago
What makes you think I'm on a side? I see hypocrisy all around. I think the capitol protests should not have happened, and the people who participated in them should be held accountable. I agree with you that the capitol riots and the
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by beaner 6y ago
I'm just surprised because somebody said that the concrete soaked up so much carbon that the trees alongside it in the biosphere were unable to grow. That sounds like a lot of carbon. Like, a lot. I'd expect that it would have to
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by beaner 6y ago
But it continues to take up the same volume of space, so isn't there a limit to how much carbon dioxide it can remove from the atmosphere and store?
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by beaner 6y ago
Concrete absorbs carbon dioxide even after it's set? Shouldn't it like... grow, then? From accumulated carbon? Don't mean to waive you off or anything, just never heard this before and it doesn't seem to make sense at fi
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by beaner 6y ago
This feels like when all those doctors signed a letter saying that they supported mass pretests in the middle of a rampant pandemic.
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by beaner 6y ago
I think the author might be confusing volume for inflow, but they're 2 different things.

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