eurleif

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by eurleif 14y ago
>The previous posts said there would be no possible way to transfer the item into dollars. "Possible" and "legal" are two different words, and two different concepts.
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by eurleif 14y ago
But the point is that it would be pretty easy to do it without getting caught. You could send multiple people to multiple banks, across a wide area. The cost of manpower and fuel would eat a percentage, sure, but presumably any form of mone
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by eurleif 14y ago
https://bitfloor.com/ which is not a particular shady site (in fact, apparently they're already registered with FinCEN) allows you to buy BitCoins by depositing cash into their Bank of America account. There's an upper limit, of course, b
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by eurleif 14y ago
An illegal market is still a market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_of_illegal_income_in_t...
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by eurleif 14y ago
They can make you pay because they're the government. They would make you pay taxes on the fair market value of the goods. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html The prohibition of exchange most likely would not enter into it, because th
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by eurleif 14y ago
One thing I love about gevent is that you can share code between async and non-async. Most of my project benefits from async IO, but there's one part that needs to use a lot of CPU within a single process. So that part uses multithreaded Jy
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by eurleif 14y ago
I understand that. But you should understand that, since you don't think morality exists, you can't call the guy who murders your family wrong. You can't call Hitler wrong. You can only say they're people who happen to have a different valu
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by eurleif 14y ago
I suggest you realize there is a standard of morality, then work on figuring out what it is.
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by eurleif 14y ago
I hope some day, you realize moral relativism is bullshit.
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by eurleif 14y ago
My point is that I hope you don't find out where I live, because I don't want to be eaten. Also, that if you ever say it's wrong for anyone to murder anyone else, you'll be a hypocrite.
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by eurleif 14y ago
So if you found out people taste good?
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by eurleif 14y ago
An anesthetized person has a mind with which to experience suffering. It's just not currently engaged. Genetically unique? So it's ok to kill an identical twin?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Do you think abortion is wrong from the moment of conception? I think a zygote is clearly incapable of experiencing suffering, just like an animal clearly is capable.
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by eurleif 14y ago
But the judgement process is different. You can only tell which brand is better if you've heard of the brands. It's an external judgement, internalized. But you can make an aesthetic judgement even if you've been living under a rock.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Sometimes I wonder what would happen if reddit got rid of the upvote button and only allowed posts to be down votted. That might actually make things worse. Astroturfers would systematically downvote everyone else, while legitimate use
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by eurleif 14y ago
>There really is no difference between buying a Hermes dress and buying Dickies overalls, right? There would be an aesthetic difference. But status symbols are about more than just aesthetics. It's not like you need to buy overpriced br
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by eurleif 14y ago
>A fake Chanel bag is made with the most inferior materials and craftmanship. But apparently the bags are durable enough to last for years, so the materials and craftsmanship can't be that bad. >And, those who are knowledgeable deal
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by eurleif 14y ago
Is anyone of any importance seriously clueless enough that they can't predict the consequences of taking money out of everyones' bank accounts? And if so, what is wrong with the system that allows morons of that magnitude to gain power?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Probably lost among the billion other reasons people hate airlines.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>fake $2000 Chanel (often learning that it's fake years later) If the fake is so similar to the real thing that it's possible to be fooled by it for years, who cares? Who is harmed besides Chanel?
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by eurleif 14y ago
On the other hand, my address is weird. Because of historical reasons, the address is on 14th Ave., but the house isn't actually physically located on 14th Ave. Sometimes when I get an Amazon package, UPS or FedEx can't find where I live. S
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by eurleif 14y ago
>You still have a chance to stop this outrage, as it must pass your parliament, and then other Eurozone parliaments too. Citation needed? My understanding was that this was already in motion, and is going into effect before the banks op
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by eurleif 14y ago
Or the "old Google" was just the first phase of embrace/extend/extinguish, and you didn't realize.
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by eurleif 14y ago
You can sell GPLed software all you like. You just have to provide source code to the people you sell binaries to, and allow them to redistribute the software under the terms of the GPL.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Google Reader didn't have ads. I've seen guesses that Google didn't want to risk upsetting media producers by displaying ads with their content.
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by eurleif 14y ago
The surveillance you describe is ephemeral. After you move, your neighbors will forget you ever existed. The bookshop assistant probably forgets you the moment you walk out the door. Internet data is not that way. It potentially lasts forev
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by eurleif 14y ago
First to file does not eliminate prior art. Prior art applies to inventions which were published publicly. First to invent applies to inventions which were not.
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by eurleif 14y ago
So if it's not about spam, what is it about? Trying to get everyone to use Google Talk? Do enough people use other Jabber servers to have the tiniest effect on Google's business?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Seems to me like drones should be treated the same as thermal imaging cameras, which the Supreme Court ruled required a warrant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States ) because they're not in use by the general public, and th
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by eurleif 14y ago
The rationale I've heard is that "first to invent" is not always easy to determine, which adds overhead. Note that prior art is still valid. If you publish your idea, that can invalidate someone else's patent. But an idea in a private noteb

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