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bitcoinusername
9y ago
> There are places where farming is either not feasible, less energy efficient, or where exclusively plant-based diets aren't feasible. I guess by this logic, since Sahara exists, eating food is a luxury. Your definition of luxury h
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
Where exactly is it a luxury? In India? In Africa? I'm pretty sure ex-Yugoslavia area has a very good geography, if not better than most countries. You can grow soy there, just like in the USA, you can grow corn, wheat, you can raise c
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
How is eating a vegetarian diet a luxury? During poverty in Yugoslavia my family and I subsisted on a diet of beans and rice. Complete protein in that combo, enough fiber and calories, we didn't die despite eating that for years.
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
Any docs on designing trading engines? How to process trades efficiently and correctly? What kind of algorithms, datastructures to use to make the trading engine scale? I thought this kind of stuff is a solved issue, some kind of distribute
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
Of course, but almost everyone asking questions and acting on the answers, in the framework of virtue ethics, would do it. It's the pragmatist philosophy.
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
Discussion about metaethics can go to infinity, you might not agree with what I find virtuous and we can discuss infinitely of why the things we will be talking about are important. I'm pretty sure virtue ethics is as practical as you
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
There's no need to define boundaries that give rise to bazillion exceptions. Nihilism isn't the ultimate end. I'd say that if you can choose between eating a fruit, and killing a bird and eating it's flesh, a virtuous ag
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
People living on the island Hvar speak quite a unique version of Croatian. The Venice influence is huge there, graveyard is filled with gravestones of 16th+ century elite. I sometimes find them hard to understand due to heavy usage of words
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
In Croatia it is "čaj". Although it has a coast on Adriatic and coastal people use "čaj" as a word too, despite Italian influence (which uses tè for tea). Even people on islands that were influenced hugely by the Republi
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
I think it was a patent issue. No one is allowed to use p2p for chat.
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bitcoinusername
9y ago
Yep, given that practically all altcoins are priced in bitcoin, market cap artificially rises extremely, or lowers extremely due to the inertness of the open trades.