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by etrabroline 6y ago
>not an app That foible stands out as humorous. Why does a solution to a problem need to be a smart phone app? lol Otherwise excellent points.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
yea but not being able to keep up with demand is a good problem to have, and much easier to solve than having an inferior product
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Here is some kind of internet poll: >one in five voters (21%) say they support the goings-on at the Capitol So much closer in magnitude to half than to 0.00001%. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles
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by etrabroline 6y ago
This is a great analysis. The shocking thing is how Trump stole the Democrats' pre-Bush era positions on trade, immigration and foreign policy and won. Bill Clinton opposed NAFTA, Barbara Jordan wanted to slash legal immigration, and D
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>scheduled to be launched in 2022 in China >it's worth pointing out that Nio calculates range based on the Chinese NEDC system I'm pretty skeptical that a brand new company would beat tesla on range so easily. I hope it does
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Thats correct. Im surprised 50 people upvoted it to the front page without anyone commenting. Maybe that happens a lot I haven't checked. EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest Nothing else in new has more than 10 u
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by etrabroline 6y ago
this was posted over an hour ago and I was the first to comment
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by etrabroline 6y ago
"Former" means the first thing, which was "make". He's saying he hopes GDPR helps adoption.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>platforms The answer to your question is embedded within it. Apple Spotify and Google don't want you to leave their control.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>$89/year, which makes it a non-negligible expense for anyone wanting to run a full node. Why on earth would a non-miner run a full node just to observe other people's transactions? Satoshi addressed this all the way back in 20
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>USB device manufacturers want to cost optimize everything, which probably forced the standard to become so Byzantine As Intel loses its raw CPU performance advantage, it's new marketing materials promote "features" and &q
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by etrabroline 6y ago
If a company's marketing strategy allows it to pay spammers to place illegal phone calls, then that marketing strategy is clearly negligent and should be illegal. The US phone system has existed for over a century and this only became
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>Saj Huq >cyber innovation lead - Plexal >Saj Huq leads cyber innovation at Plexal and is director of Lorca, the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement. His work at Lorca involves facilitating collaboration between start
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Except these are huge publicly traded companies. They money flow could easily be tracked from the advertiser to the scammer if efforts weren't being made to hide it. So this is a moot point.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
It's not just that Fred was signed up using illegal tactics. The culpability comes from the fact that these US companies are paying the scammers to do this. The number or complexity of intermediaries is morally immaterial. That's
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Can someone summarize for us what this is used for? What features or functionality does it enable above and beyond what's in the common standard?
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Great response. Thank you for taking the time to write it. I'm curious why did you get interested in Bitcoin to begin with? If credit cards and fiat currencies are just fine, gold is still a pretty good store of value, why work on cryp
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by etrabroline 6y ago
> In 2021 So they are still putting money into the project and promising things in the future. Years ago, before venture capital took over BTC, I could buy games on Steam with Bitcoin. Can I buy video games with Lightning? https:&#x2F
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>The US government is actively trying to suppress Bitcoin/crypto growth It's complicated. US regulators would absolutely ban all crypto if it started threatening the dollar and they had no other choice. However right now that i
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Could you expand on why you think that? I very much agree with the substantive arguments made by chemmail, and would like to hear yours.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
>bitcoin is 100% doing exactly what it was designed to do Bitcoin was designed to allow low-fee small amount internet commerce. From the first paragraph of Satoshi's white paper: >The cost of mediation increases transaction costs
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Lightning is not reliable the way Bitcoin is, and correspondingly has not seen any real-world adoption. It is effectively dead.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Before wall street involvement there was a single fork of Bitcoin that was a viable currency with low transaction fees. After Wall Street involvement there are at least 3 forks, the biggest of which had fees spiking at 60 USD per transactio
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Wall Street doesn't want Bitcoin to serve its intended purpose of removing their control over the money supply. They did this by co-opting the software project with venture capital money and making technical decisions that make Bitcoin
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by etrabroline 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4&list=PLPnz7ojKD2... Thunderf00t has some really entertaining videos about that.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Most nerd-types I talk to are in complete denial about this. Almost every US federal judge is the spouse of a corporate lobbyist or political apparatchik. They even get caught sometimes having their spouses taking money from parties to the
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by etrabroline 6y ago
That's because it was probably just one guy who had the authority to put that there without any threat of getting fired. Google today would set up a committee with diverse groups represented (including HR, PR and Legal) to focus test a
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by etrabroline 6y ago
When you suggest an alternative I will weigh it against asking the locals.
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by etrabroline 6y ago
Lots of nice countries to live in do that.

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