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by castis 9y ago
Isn't this a tenet of bitcoin? Not being outright controllable by the will of a government?
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by castis 9y ago
That man may still be in prison, but that drive is still encrypted. If you are unwilling to give something you know to someone, no amount of force can take it from you. Had that drive been encrypted using facial biometrics, they could have
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by castis 9y ago
Asking an annoyed rhetorical question doesn't seem productive to the point you're trying to make here. As an actual answer, it would be variable proportional to the size of the window between releases mentioned here: https:/
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by castis 9y ago
I gladly pay them $5 a month because hosting my own email server sucked and I'd much rather pay someone else who does it well.
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by castis 9y ago
Probably some time after Let's Encrypt shows some form of negligence while issuing certificates.
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by castis 9y ago
Most of us would agree with you, I think what OP is saying is that it's irrational to say things like "It's 2017, who murders people anymore!?". People still murder, but we should definitely continue to try suppress that
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by castis 9y ago
Over the past few years, I have been conditioned to be weary of handing even more control over my personal life to the government than they already have. Assuming they open this up to private businesses (which I don't believe they&#x27
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by castis 9y ago
That 404s, did you mean vanilla-css.com?
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by castis 9y ago
What OS do you run and what machine would you suggest for it instead?
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by castis 9y ago
At the time of this comment, this post has 70 votes and 25 comments. 70 people that liked it enough to upvote it, and not all of these comments are negative. I know absolutely nothing about you, but if this HN thread is representative of wh
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by castis 9y ago
Scalpers are greedy, plain and simple. At this point, your attempts to justify it make me think that you're trying to make yourself feel better about your own behavior. Whatever makes you sleep better at night.
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by castis 9y ago
Look, it's fine with me that you don't understand the concept of imposition. I'm not talking about fairness or economics, I'm talking about greed , and how a person inserts themselves into a process solely because they
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by castis 9y ago
Watching you try and justify greedy behavior is almost as impressive as it is pathetic.
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by castis 9y ago
Not sure if you missed the entire rest of the thread, but we're talking about the scalpers. The event attendee in your scenario would have gone with or without the scalpers existence.
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by castis 9y ago
Just because the end user doesn't mind paying higher, doesn't mean a higher price has not been imposed on them.
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by castis 9y ago
> Couldn't we also say that those that buy scalped tickets are greedy? No, they were most likely going regardless of the ticket price, they are just less deterred by it.
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by castis 9y ago
> The value the scalper provides can still be analogous to transporting some goods across a distance Sure, can be, but isn't. More often than not, it's moving the point of sale from one website to another with an absurd markup.
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by castis 9y ago
The value here is entry to an event. The scalper does not create this value. Their service degrades this value in the form of a higher cost. The end user pays this because there are usually no other options. It's greedy reselling.
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by castis 9y ago
Sugar coat it however you like, it's greedy.
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by castis 9y ago
That's an impressive amount of water to drop anywhere. An xkcd 'what-if' article explores what would happen if a storm were to release all its water in a single drop like this. https://what-if.xkcd.com/12&#x2F
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by castis 9y ago
> they would have done so What actually happened proves that this would have been unnecessary.
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by castis 9y ago
Invoking philosophical razors does not change the reality that the missile did not hit anything of importance. If you throw a punch and miss me (whether intentional or not), and I do not immediately react, it does not imply that I am incapa
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by castis 9y ago
It is (from my extreme sideline position) unknowable whether or not this particular weapon was capable of adjusting trajectory mid-flight. The point, however, is that it didn't and no shield test was deemed necessary. If it was calcula
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by castis 9y ago
It's easy to call this clear cut when you don't know that persons situation and what losing their job would have meant to them at the time.
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by castis 9y ago
And none of it means anything if we all die because the planet cant sustain us any longer.
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by castis 9y ago
What if it's all a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
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by castis 9y ago
> If it's different for you, then Atom might not be the best tool for you! Likewise for tools that imbue the user with a blind eye and patronizing tone.
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by castis 9y ago
> I'm not blaming the file, i'm saying that using a hammer as a drill is silly, and that it's not the screw nor the hammer's fault, it's the user's. No one is claiming the opposite. An appropriate argument i
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by castis 9y ago
Im just getting started with hardware electronics so forgive me if this is way off. Also, not to defend the title... Is a standard transistor just two diodes with similar sides facing each other?
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by castis 9y ago
Same. Using 'with the same material' would have made that way more clear IMO.

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