f3llowtraveler

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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Try hailing a cab in Manhattan once it starts raining.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
You think 60% in taxes scales better than 2%?
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
In Zug, Switzerland they have an excellent health care system with universal coverage. They also have very nice roads and a high standard of living, and low unemployment. They also have a strong defense based on armed neutrality, which kept
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Yeah but they don't have an automatic veto before legislation goes into effect. As he said, they only examine the issue, if at all, years later.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Bitcoin is not free, it's just cheaper than legacy banking alternatives.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
> anyone who accepts payment from them is guilty of a crime That could never happen in a free country. Also there's nothing stopping someone from evaporating the coins via mining fees. So you'd have to have dictatorial control
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
> Once you have a central authority that everyone trusts ...Which we most definitely do not have.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
> Some possible mechanisms include forbidding all brick and mortar + other non-anonymous entities from interacting with anonymous ones That could never happen in a free country.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Reversibility itself is the most extreme example of things gone terribly wrong.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
I am extremely disturbed by this report. I have been a faithful Apple user for years, but this single report causes me to seriously consider switching to Linux for good.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
If our math says black holes do not exist, maybe the system of math itself is wrong.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
If violence weren't central, why would people even care to argue about it in the first place?
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Increased regulation of health care == increased cost of health care.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
The future of payments is Bitcoin.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
I don't see how they could admit it into evidence without the packet logs. The defense would have no opportunity to examine the same evidence.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Lesson #1: only use software that encrypts the data on the client side before storing it on the server.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
A physical button is what I want.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
All that matters: Does Dropbox encrypt my data on the client side, before storing it on the server? Or does Dropbox have the power to pilfer through my data, along with official snoopers and hackers?
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
How about a hardware switch that physically cuts the electricity to the microphone, the camera, the transmitter, and even the battery itself? With my own phone, I'd love to be able to switch that off/on. Why is that option not ava
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
MPLv2 is compatible with both the GPL and the App Store.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
Fantastically rare? Do a google search, it's a huge percentage.
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
I thought America had free markets? So then why do people need permission from government councils in order to compete in Internet access?
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by f3llowtraveler 12y ago
For me it has nothing to do with .NET's qualities. Rather, it has to do with trust issues arising from the fact that I lived through the 90s and I remember what it was like when MS was dominant. Unfortunately Apple is stepping into the
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
As long as all cars involved in a crash are insured, then the insurance companies can split the cost equally. If any additional liability can be pinned on one car or another, or one manufacturer or another, then they can pay additional cost
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
Hell, that's nothing. Here's something truly criminal: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
The problem with the new plans is the same as the problem with the old plans: there's no free market. People don't have any "choices" except what's forced onto them in a "market" where everything is all se
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
Bitcoin code was used for Namecoin, which provides decentralized DNS as well as decentralized CA (credentials free of any certificate authority.) Bitcoin can be used for proving notice. (Replacing say, newspaper classified ads for the same
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
Why doesn't this web page mention Snowden at all? For example, the fact that he was right, and is a hero, and deserves to have all charges dropped? Weren't all these people collaborating with authorities at the expense of our libe
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
The price of Bitcoin in January was $13 -- no one was willing to pay more than $20 for a Bitcoin back then. But BTC is trading for over $900 now... and plenty of people are paying. What you do not understand is that Bitcoin is a new technol
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by f3llowtraveler 13y ago
Austerity is where you coerce a huge amount of money from the population, ostensibly in order to pay for services, but then because you ran up a huge debt, you instead use that tax revenue to cover the interest payments on that debt, instea

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