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by garmaine 6y ago
I will add my voice to the list of complainers. I stopped using Facebook after they forced me to upgrade to the new site.
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by garmaine 6y ago
> See California Champagne You mean the labeling that the EU agrees (if reluctantly) to be legal? https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/loophole-california-champagne...
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by garmaine 6y ago
You can pay them money to attend classes they hold (which you can find example Youtube videos of--basically 50min TED talks), and at the end of it you get a certificate. It was modeled after the International Space University, which in Fra
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by garmaine 6y ago
Two things can be true.
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by garmaine 6y ago
If you are bootstrapping, certainly. If you are a VC-funded growth company, trading money for time is often one of the smartest decisions you can make. It’s the old saying: penny-wise, pound-foolish.
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by garmaine 6y ago
You’d better add that to the proposal!
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by garmaine 6y ago
Regulating USD on-ramps and endpoints is not regulating bitcoin itself.
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by garmaine 6y ago
That's not how markets work. There isn't an infinite buy wall at the current spot price.
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by garmaine 6y ago
LedgerX options.
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by garmaine 6y ago
What irony? I've been involved with bitcoin since 2010, and I too think all exchanges should have reserves enforced and audited. Not all bitcoin enthusiasts are anarcho-capitalist extremists.
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by garmaine 6y ago
How would you sell USDT? You’d buy on a BTC/USDT market. These markets aren’t unified—there are different markets for tether and backed USD. Who would be counterparty to a tether exchange? Thise specific USDT pairings would crash. If t
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by garmaine 6y ago
Distributed, not decentralized.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Maybe it's 4am and I ought to sleep, but I'm having trouble understanding this article. Is this phenomenon the same reason some PC game engines render objects in alternating reverse order each frame, rather than something theoreti
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by garmaine 6y ago
I think you or your friend might be conflating malleability, which was a UX issue in 2013 that caused people to be confused about whether a tx was confirmed or not, with the disabling of a handful of script opcodes in 2010 for security reas
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by garmaine 6y ago
He has no idea what he is talking about.
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by garmaine 6y ago
And then COVID happens and people want to express a legitimate concern about taking a hastily approved vaccine, but can’t. And then some politician claims ancestry from Holocaust survivors to score political points, but the details seem que
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by garmaine 6y ago
Because reality isn’t so stark as your neat examples of antivaxers and Holocaust deniers. Real issues are complex and multifaceted with room for multiple seemingly contradictory viewpoints. Allowing somebody to arbitrate truth will inevitab
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by garmaine 6y ago
All slippery slopes start from a pinnacle of reasonableness.
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by garmaine 6y ago
I’ve never understood why a referendum like this would be a simple majority. Shouldn’t such a drastic result require a 2/3rds clear win?
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by garmaine 6y ago
Right now if there was just 1 independent / third-party senator, they would hold all the power.
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by garmaine 6y ago
> In that case, I would urge people to remain patient and avoid making conclusions and long term decisions based on this response. It’s likely things ease up once “calm” is restored. Just like airport security theatre and the PATRIOT Act
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by garmaine 6y ago
Not impossible, just can't be done by vaccination alone. The remaining required percentage of the population would have to get immunity from getting sick. This is what I was getting at in the grandparent post. 50% -> 60% and 85% -&g
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by garmaine 6y ago
GNU has done well.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Yes, actually. That’s right at the inflection point where each added percent effectiveness is maximally beneficial to herd immunity. E.g. the difference from 85% to 95% is much less important than 60% -> 70%.
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by garmaine 6y ago
https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibab...
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by garmaine 6y ago
I have no interest in pursing this further.
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by garmaine 6y ago
> That means for a third party to access the chats, they need Google to hand over the data, and Facebook to hand over the key. National intelligence agencies (plural) would already have both.
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by garmaine 6y ago
> But we are passed the point of objectivity in what may be the first battle in a civil war. A small crowd of extremist nut jobs walked from one end of the national mall to the other and pushed their way past an ill-equipped police squad
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by garmaine 6y ago
I wonder what you think my positions are, as I haven't voiced them yet. But you nevertheless feel certain I should change them. Be careful of projecting your own expectations onto other participants in a discussion.
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by garmaine 6y ago
Using scare tactics to force someone to “choose sides” is not the hallmarks of a classical liberal philosophy. Please stop escalating things with hyperbole.

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