bruiseralmighty

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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Yes. You're a bit vague in what you mean here, but I will assume that you mean a private monopoly like Google or the Coke-Pepsi duopoly. I don't necessarily disagree with your take, but I take the same concept and run it one step
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This is quite correct. All of the parts of the United States that actually work are absolute monarchies.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Not the author, but even if 17 is undercounted, it seemed their argument was more about the perception that the number was closer to 1700; which is patently ridiculous. And the propensity for a single political team to believe that. Or, jus
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I used to be a lifeguard. I am glad I never had to deal with a pool like that with so many people and inner tubes in it. Makes line of sight so much more difficult.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This is one of the fundamental principles behind Satoshi's white-paper and all of crypto currency.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This actually highlights the point well I think. The cost of walking away from Facebook is too high for most people even though they know its' bad for them. Take myself for example. I only ever get angry when I browse my facebook feed
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I am intrigued by the framing of the 'banning' of non-competes as regulatory intervention. It seems to me like we would be asking the court to refuse to enforce a contract. But this refusal manifests as a distinct lack of interven
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
> Harmful content is disinformation about what something is. This is the crux of the issue. Legacy institutions are used to determining what is true and therefore what is inside the bounds of allowable opinion. This was their domain for
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I think this is ignoring the problem of the global market. Studios found that it was more profitable to cater to multiple countries and cultures simultaneously. For example, even if 100% of America went to see a film, that only represents a
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
2021 being the new 1791 makes me very happy. Please god make King County (Seattle) its own city-state. We've had enough. Had it with these Federalists. Why did we even rebel if it wasn't to say 'screw you' to Georgie. I&
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I would like to agree with this, but given the state of corporate media in the United States its difficult to determine whether even bottom-up movements are organic. I got a mask early and asked to stop travel as well, but that was from lis
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
About Insulin? Look for ways to make the patents unenforceable. If diabetics had the ability to make their own safe insulin at home that would be best. Then all they would need is an internet connection and some basic components. The closer
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I guess I am not understanding something still about this spoof protection. What prevents me, an attacker, from making (or simulating) a bunch of hardware with different identities? Perhaps by setting up my hardware to run through multiple
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I really feel like both the author and the post on HN should specify that these vulnerabilities are specific to browser/online password managers. Got very confused until reaching the end of the article where 'online' was ment
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I think you make a good point that centralization provides a lot of value today. However, if the protocols that youtube used where open-source then it would be easier to create generic user interfaces open to all content makers. Similar to
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Hmm, it's such a shame that we have a single point of failure for so much of internet culture, not to mention people's actual creative lives. This is one of the reasons I started using youtube-dl. I wanted to create an independent
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I find it a bit odd how accepted a child mandate has become when it comes from the CCP with the global community. For instance, it seems that a large reason that China is hesitant to lift any limits whatsoever is a belief that rural women w
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This is also the most compelling aspect of it to me as well. Domains being essentially free allows for too much easy spamming of internet users. Raising the cost of an identity online really helps solve a lot of the bad actor problems.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Crypto currency itself can be completely anonymous, but the difficulty is in the on-ramp and off-ramps to and from state fiat money. For example, I want to buy ZCash that is untraceable to me. I need to exchange ownership of a hardware wall
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Isn't this just a better reason to switch to decentralized anonymous exchanges like Bisq or used anonymized transaction technologies like ring signatures and zero knowledge proofs (Monero/ZChash)? I've used Coinbase so far to
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
This points to the heart of the issue. A single BTC key is not fungible in the proper sense as it can be tracked. There are ways around this on BTC that do not require protocol changes. For example, you can use a coin mixing service like wh
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
> "Look Chuck, I'll believe it when I see it." Fed only reluctantly raised rates several years after '08. I would be surprised if they began staking them higher anytime soon regardless of any 'strong recovery&#x
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Yes you are correct. I should amend my previous statement. >It was only afterwards that evidence of holocaust was verified and/or believed.* The reports from the Polish government in exile did not make front page news. I'd stil
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Man I never thought of it that way, when you state it like that its almost poetic. What could make me love the established media more than a narrative that 'uncensored truth' would turn me into some kind of QAnon zombie. I simply
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Saving the Jews was not on any country's radar entering WWII. It was only afterwards that evidence of holocaust was discovered.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Isn't this just a case of increasing irrelevancy? I can't think of a single release from them I would describe as 'ambitious' other than Diablo Mobile which has the distinct honor of being dead before arrival. Speaking
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I keep a non-commercial installation of SQLServer on my machine for this reason, but this is likely overkill for most purposes and requires a Windows machine. It does have some nice import features for CSV data though.
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
I bought some address space (like for a web server) in ETH the other day. I think the Ethereum contracts system is quite nice and logical to put on the block chain. Changing stock trading protocols to go on a block chain with full public tr
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
Actual nonsense coming out of this government. As a life-long resident one of the main reasons I continue to work in Washington is the lack of an income tax. Exempting real estate is just an extra middle-finger to anyone young and trying to
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by bruiseralmighty 5y ago
> Progressivism is the new Christianity > No conservative in the 1970s would have thought, everyone in Britain should be a conservative Like the points your making. I would add that by the standards of the early 20th century when prog

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