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by bluetwo 9y ago
Sounds like it. Shame, because micro-transactions was the only legal use case I could think of for it.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
And yet we are letting the president neuter the CFPB.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
I hate to whine but I hope ads are clearly labeled as ads, and also that this doesn't replace their efforts to make the app store and app discovery more friendly.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
All companies make both good and bad decisions. They don't fall apart when they make a single bad decision. They fall apart when he sum total of the impact of their bad decisions outweighs the sum total of the impact of their good deci
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by bluetwo 9y ago
As someone who is often mistaken for other people, I'm not looking forward to this.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
"Fixed scope, fixed price. Flexible scope, flexible price."
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Are we sure we're not just re-inventing paper currency?
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Thank you for putting this together. Very insightful.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Jeebus. I love Apple but Tim has got to tighten that ship.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
I'm curious if people have any recommendations for good strategy iPad games based on board games. Catan is good. Carcassonne is good. Monopoly is painful. What others do people play regularly?
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Banks work in a legal and regulatory environment which bitcoin lacks. That's the problem, there are a lot of details that would have to be worked out to make that happen.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
China's art factories produce both art and a series of articles about the production of mass-made art. Every few weeks there is a story about this here.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
But a loan is an enforceable contact. You would have to marry the loan somehow with something that would give it teeth. This is an interesting problem.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
That's an interesting point. Unlike dollars, made money doesn't sit in a bank, to be loaned to lenders creating a profit for the bank, part of which gets paid as interest. This drives economic expansion. I don't even know how
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by bluetwo 9y ago
And never found 90% of the loot.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Let me make it easy: I disagree with everything you posted.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
No amount of debate over the validity of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and resolution makes bitcoin any less of a fiat currency.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
The type of organization that created it doesn't matter.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
See: Mt. Gox.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
The key quality of a fiat currency is that it is spun out of air without intrinsic value.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Exactly. Who is going to bail out the first big BTC crisis? No one.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Rubbish
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Great. I'm none of those things so I'll keep my money out of it.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Yes, and you connected with AOL and used Netscape to search with Yahoo to buy music from CD-Now.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Errrrr.... Bitcoin is a fiat currency, so be careful with your generalization. And whose job is it to investigate bitcoin fraud and theft? No one.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Between closing and opening, yes.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
Anyone who wants to tell me about how net neutrallity is killing innovation needs to show me they understand how peering agreements work. They area prime example how capitalism can be constructed to benefit consumers, drive down prices, and
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by bluetwo 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accEKtBebaU
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by bluetwo 9y ago
I'm beginning to have doubts about Facebook's commitment to Sparkle-Motion.
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by bluetwo 9y ago
OK, show me a community for which Basic Income has worked out well. Anywhere in the world.

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