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6y ago
>It's kinda sad that the pricing or market capitalization is the only thing that is being talked about in the "cryptocurrency community", instead of focussing on how the technology can be useful for society. The serious cr
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>allowing them to possess and use psilocybin for personal training without fear of prosecution under the country's drug laws. There are literally hundreds of websites that will mail you magic mushroom spores, live magic mushroom myc
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6y ago
Every time I go on vacation I visit a local brewery. There are over 10 massive breweries local to where I live, and I have never even considered visiting a single one of them. Same typically goes for the using/living near a beach and u
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6y ago
Landing page looks almost exactly like the hundreds of other scamcoins I have researched over the past few years tbh.
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6y ago
I too thought that we need the oceans and trees etc to breath... And then this article blew my mind wide open. [0] I am definitely not advocating for the destruction of our ecosystems or cheering on their decline, just thought this was a gr
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flyGuyOnTheSly
6y ago
Engineers work in terms of 10 thousandths of an inch. 25 feet of difference is massive.
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Was that Sam Reed? Damn. I wonder if the fact that he continually provoked trump... while running an illegal exchange... from within the united states... had anything to do with the charges today? [0] [0] https://twitter.com/
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6y ago
They're all located in countries that hold no extradition treaty with the United States iirc.
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6y ago
>REED allowed a friend of his who he knew resided in the United States to continue to access BitMEX's platform up to and including at least in or about October 2018. How could they possibly know this?
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6y ago
How expensive/difficult would it have been for bitmex to register with the SEC and/or CFTC? Jumped through all of the hoops, so to speak?
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6y ago
Why doesn't/hasn't some American three letter agency simply seized the bitmex.com domain? Or will it be seized once they are charged in absentia I imagine?
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6y ago
Interesting timing as BitMEX just announced in late August 2020 that they will be enforcing KYC/AML measures early next year. I wonder who was trying to get the jump on who, both here and there.
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6y ago
One thing a lot of people fail to see or think about is the federal reserve literally propping up the stock market with cheap available cash. This year, the federal reserve not only added over $3T (trillion) USD to the money supply, they ef
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6y ago
That smog was mostly caused by coal and highly localized. Inhaling smoke is bad for your health, absolutely, but I fail to see many similarities between the two situations.
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6y ago
I've purchased an address from registeredaddress.co.uk and should have it by Tuesday, fingers crossed!
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There is definitely an estonian consulate near me, but given the cost and the time required (6-8 weeks for a background check) I have decided against it. I should have my UK private limited company setup within a few days time and for less
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6y ago
I am not evading any local regulations, BitMex is. The Ontario Securities Commission trying to keep Ontario residents safe by not allowing them to trade on exchanges that have not been regulated by them. I was already in violation of the OS
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Do you have a link to more information? Can I do that from within Ontario for 15 pounds or do I need to by phyiscally located there? I was just looking at the estonian e-residency program and it's 290 euros to get a business setup in t
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Ask HN: If you had to setup an offshore corporation in a few days
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I don't understand how various governments cannot simply seize the domain at the registrar level? Why chase them around the world through VPN providers if you can cut them off at the knees?
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>it is really strange that people feel they have to go work out in groups. Or get together, or go to bars. We're not all satiated simply by popping pills and plugging into the cloud or whatever it is you do with your free time. Most
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I wonder if changing the cow's diet could limit the amount of methane generated? I've noticed that changing my own diet by eliminating animal products has cut down significantly on methane production in my own gut. My farts litera
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Wages constantly increase due to economic prosperity (on average, I realize they have dwindled in the past 50 odd years), and every single year the majority of people have nothing in their savings accounts. It's been that way since the
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I would argue that studying music (especially music theory) at a young age has helped me tremendously as a programmer in my old age. I am writing an algo trading bot right now and I make a habit of reading the entire codebase fairly regular
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MIT researchers create a reusable silicone mask to replace the N95
(fastcompany.com)
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The concorde didn't fail because it was expensive. It ran profitably for 27 years. [0] It failed because it crashed and killed 109 people 3 years before they threw in the towel. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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No we haven't. There were a few news articles about changing the name, heard it on the radio for a few weeks, etc... but literally everybody in my bubble refers to it as social distancing. Social Distancing has the first mover advantag
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Game of Pawns
(en.wikipedia.org)
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I wasn't calling Americans stupid. I was simply pointing out that their ways of doing things are a bit dated.
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The USA still uses miles and inches... I'm not surprised that their baking recipe protocols are 230 years out of date as well.
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