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by game-of-throws 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220807141055/https://init8.lol...
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I'm not aware of where large cash transactions are banned, but if they are surely it's because cash is largely untraceable. Meanwhile bitcoin is easily traceable, and the IRS is not afraid to crawl the blockchain to piece together
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Tax evasion is no less real of a crime than other financial crimes. And in any case the parent post mentions taxes, so I think the numbers are still relevant without excluding it.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
0.5% of Bitcoin's volume is illegal activity. [1] 11%-12% of the USA's economy is illegal activity. [2] If you wanted to commit a crime or evade taxes, probably the dumbest thing you could do is record permanent evidence on a publ
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
> “Because he [Wright] advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial, he will recover only nominal damages,” wrote the judge. He should be charged with perjury. Why are the courts
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Yep, rewrite it in Rust please. I hate having to pause for garbage collection every night.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
> I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control. This is interesting to read. When I first played it I was dying for touch controls. It seemed like such a natural fit for the gameplay of sliding p
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I think decidose would be even less accurate. A normal dose is 3g-5g. A microdose is 0.1g-0.2g. That's not a ratio of 10. At least microdose has a widely-agreed on colloquial meaning.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I'm curious, what is the business justification for funding development of Demucs, if you don't mind me asking? It doesn't seem very related to FB's core business.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
To be fair that's how a lot of software worked in that era. MS Office worked that way too (doc files, not docx files).
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
No, this attack wouldn't work on bitcoin. Bitcoin chooses the chain with the most total work (which is blocks x difficulty), not the most blocks. Else someone could fork the chain from a block sometime in 2009 when difficulty was very
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
The problem is brand management doesn't come up on leetcode, so they can't test for it in interviews
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I wouldn't want anything killing pods every time there's a network timeout. That sounds like a quick way to turn a tiny problem into a huge problem.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
This article isn't about the app called Microsoft Teams. It's about a lowercase-T team of people.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I just confirmed that 640 KB fits in RAM. That's enough for me.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Is it really what "normies" want? Or is it just what drug companies/lobbyists want?
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
If someone is trying to escape their local currency, they won't want an on/off ramp. In foreign nations with a large underground USD economy, people skip the local currency and trade/spend USD directly. The same could happen
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
My theory is that the likelihood someone understands the use cases is inversely correlated to their trust in government. For example: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60912789 These articles all follow a common patter
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Options. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/put.asp
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
There are ways to bet against stocks that don't expose you to unlimited downside.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
It only costs a few thousand to "run for office". Anyone can do it. People already abuse this for advertising and even just memes. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/udw7ca/w...
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Right, but how is this any different than a camera? Nobody goes around saying Nikon designed their cameras upside down and then had to hack around the mistake in software. It's just how lenses work.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Did you mean write calls? Yeah the problem is liquidity, and the "bespoke" nature of this kind of bet. I can't just stroll into Bird HQ like Christian Bale and ask them to do all the work for me. I only want to risk a few tho
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I wonder if these wild valuations could be kept in check if there were a way to short/buy puts on private companies. There's positive pressure on valuations from the funding, but scant negative pressure. Scooters-as-a-service can
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
RIP Google Timer, 2013-2022 To be fair though, the entries on killedbygoogle seem to average ~5 years before death. By that metric 9 years is a respectable run.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
VDOMs aren't inherently slow... Inferno uses a VDOM and scores within a few % of SolidJS on js-framework-benchmark. (Never used it myself) https://www.infernojs.org/
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
I was just responding to the specific question I quoted. More broadly I agree with you that it's a risky idea to immortalize your criminal activity on a public, immutable ledger.
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
> What if they just turn off the external internet? No government is capable of this. Even North Korea has people smuggling phones over the border. A single cell or satellite connection that can sustain 2-3 KB/s is all you need to k
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by game-of-throws 4y ago
Made with Dear ImGui. I'd recognize that font/style anywhere.

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