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by felipeko 8y ago
Then we setup rules and processes to deter "primitive shitheads"
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by felipeko 8y ago
SpaceX is supposedly selling F9 flights for $50 million already, while the competition is selling comparable flights for $150/$170 million. As SpaceX is still recouping the technology research investment, 95% may be a stretch, but 80%
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by felipeko 8y ago
Evolution on earth is heavily influenced on dark/light cycles through its entire history. No evolutionary path that has received this influence can tell us anything about what would happen, on things that are highly correlated to it, f
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by felipeko 8y ago
Accepting that I don't have free-will does not stop me from understanding I am an agent of change. Even if I can't alter the laws of nature to be an free agent, I can use the laws to my best interest.
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by felipeko 8y ago
Yes, you can be blamed as much as an earthquake, would try to stop earthquakes from happening if you could?
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by felipeko 9y ago
Thanks, I see the similarities now. I think the system will work only as far as you have power players that are able to punish everyone who gets out of line - by racing to the bottom and driving profits out as a punishment [1]. That's
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by felipeko 9y ago
Can you elaborate on that? I'm not sure how this is comparable. Ireland's low tax works for Ireland because it has no competition, so it gets the "market" all to itself. If competition arrived, Ireland would have no opti
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by felipeko 9y ago
That's my point, isn't it? Ireland can't win a race to the bottom, and it will have to have higher taxes if others will lower theirs. So all other countries have to do is lower taxes to force Ireland to raise its own, and rea
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by felipeko 9y ago
1) Why would Germany and France care? They have not been collecting taxes anyway, race to the bottom until Ireland can't anymore. 2) It works for Ireland because other countries prefer not to engage. If Germany had the same tax rate it
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by felipeko 9y ago
Why don't Germany and France offer the same as Ireland?
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by felipeko 9y ago
Only the companies that sell the devices hate it. For every other entity it is a win as more money will be available to be spent on something else.
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by felipeko 9y ago
Having more control would be valuable, and thus, more expensive. You will have to pay more in order to have more control, while you could pay less and earn the same. It appears to me that it will, at least, make more expensive to think shor
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by felipeko 9y ago
Does the transaction price go up when fewer people mine?
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by felipeko 9y ago
Its ability to create/enhance economic crises also becomes very diminished.
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by felipeko 9y ago
I don't think it is debatable considering we have had successful governments without it. Saying every country does it is not a good point, as it could be applied to slavery once upon a time. But I agree that it's debatable if it i
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by felipeko 9y ago
There are things a government needs, like revenue source and public servants, to exist or do its job. Government does not need to have its own currency for exist or to do its job. It's debatable that government having the ability to me
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by felipeko 9y ago
Government does not need this ability, it just wants it.
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by felipeko 9y ago
The title is so misleading. It's just a interview, and there's nothing in the interview that gives room for what the title is saying. > Barzilay: Do you believe Bitcoin will ever be embraced by the U.S. government? > Dr. Hos
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by felipeko 9y ago
That is true, and this should really factor in the decline of gold in the future, but this does not help Bitcoin against it's e-coins rivals. And isn't Bitcoin hackable in a near-ish future with quantum computing?
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by felipeko 9y ago
You got me! :) Now find a few hundreds more and we will be closer (not really) to Bitcoin's rarity of kind.
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by felipeko 9y ago
You can't find another precious metal that will have the rarity of gold and it's "non deterioration" property, both that made gold what it is (it's also a really useful commodity). But i agree that's not enough
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by felipeko 9y ago
There's a difference about Gold's rarity and Bitcoin's. Gold is rare on its kind and rare on its abundance. It may be hard to mine more gold, but it's way harder to find another gold-like commodity. Bitcoin is only rare
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by felipeko 9y ago
As price rises, recycling will be more advantageous and will compete with mined materials reducing their future economic power by the same amount as it would if you recycle now. The maximum effect of your policy will be to delay the moment
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by felipeko 9y ago
I'm all for people helping, looking for help or education. I'm against someone deciding that I cannot do something because it can be bad for me.
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by felipeko 9y ago
I don't understand why do you think that. The biggest problem of big companies is when they hurt consumers with predatory practices. With Facebook I fail to see how that's the case. Everybody is perfectly capable of not being hurt
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by felipeko 9y ago
When Facebook was growing there was a fear on Google that Facebook would lead to Google's irrelevance. Google+ was a very clear response to that. Still, Google couldn't buy Facebook and couldn't kill it. Microsoft couldn&#x27
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by felipeko 9y ago
The definition of the word colony From google: > a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country. From wikipedia: > In politics and
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by felipeko 9y ago
So Spain gets to keep Catalonia as a colony because it is the one with power to make the rules?
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by felipeko 9y ago
So, who gets to decide what it all look like? The broswer vendor? W3C? What if one browser does something others won't, and you can't do it custom, how do you get around it? Wouldn't that put us back to IE6 web? What if your
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by felipeko 9y ago
I'm not sure if i follow you. But i will try to answer the best i can. When i go to the bank, i may be participating in bank run, and i may the reason the bank collapses, and then the economy. My action of going to the bank does not us

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