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by genwin 13y ago
Thanks for that explanation. So the fraud is unrelated to Bitcoin, I take it.
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by genwin 13y ago
> was the subject of massive fraud in Italy due to its recent decision to accept (only) Bitcoins Can you elaborate please? What's the fraud angle?
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by genwin 13y ago
I think I get it now, thanks. So if Telegraph provided a much longer conversation to decrypt, the contest could be fair.
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by genwin 13y ago
I don't get it. If it's not secure why can't the message be revealed? What's the value of breaking someone's crypto if you are still unable to see the data unencrypted? Was the recipe for decryption given, with the
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by genwin 13y ago
Why give the prize for not doing what was needed to win the prize, namely reveal the message?
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by genwin 13y ago
Workers using more of their potential is labor better utilized to improve the economy. When minimum wage workers become software developers a software company arises, and then a restaurant to serve them, and so on. A basic income (welfare f
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by genwin 13y ago
Some people got beanie babies because they liked them, others because they thought their value would increase. The same thinking drives Dogecoin.
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by genwin 13y ago
One of many ways to see it: Ultra low wage workers work long hours and spend all their money to barely survive, thus confront great difficulty in improving their skills. In the US a minimum wage worker can have the funds and time to become
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by genwin 13y ago
It's feasible. The US prosecutes Americans who molest children in Thailand.
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by genwin 13y ago
> reverse-engineer it Or bribes to get the command
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by genwin 13y ago
It's not straightforward hypocrisy when the legal system or jail system in the other country is substandard to the US's. That may be unlikely nowadays but it's something to consider.
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by genwin 13y ago
There you go. I'd start with step 5. At the root level of India's problems is the widespread belief that not everyone deserves equal opportunity. The faster that belief is changed the faster the other steps will be achieved.
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by genwin 13y ago
Income taxes, enforced. India has plenty of money and resources, and would have more of both after adopting a minimum wage because labor would be better utilized. It might be hard but don't tell me it can't happen or that people w
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by genwin 13y ago
It's impossible to create a social safety net? When they have dirty drinking water that's largely because they don't have a minimum wage. In computer terms this is called bootstrapping. You convert from a backwards country to
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by genwin 13y ago
That's murky relevancy since there was a self-defense angle to it.
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by genwin 13y ago
Getting a fraction of the wage the law requires => treated well Demanding the wage the law requires => extortion
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by genwin 13y ago
> If the laws pass that require servants to be paid more, some servants will be lucky enough to make more money as a result, others will starve to death because they will go from making $64/month to nothing at all. Replace "ser
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by genwin 13y ago
Wikipedia is updated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(security_firm)
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by genwin 13y ago
Perhaps the market cap is based on one purchase of 1000 DogeCoin for $1.50.
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by genwin 13y ago
The BBB has been shown to be a pay-for-grade scam. See http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-m...
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by genwin 13y ago
The charges should be dropped instead.
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by genwin 13y ago
What extra percentage of taxes are you willing to pay? Assume that the everyone gets the tax hike and the money is well spent solely on this issue.
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by genwin 13y ago
> humanity as a whole needs to get off this rock to have any hope of long term survival Or, people could have <= 2 kids on average. Seems more achievable to me than terraforming another planet.
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by genwin 13y ago
The indirect auto costs are paid by everyone (and pollution is attributable to the bus riders as well), so it gives an incentive to own a cheap reliable car that isn't depreciating much. If I take my kid to someplace 1 mile away it&#x2
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by genwin 13y ago
> Rail transit is always betting on the future rather than today. Agree! But it's too late for Bellevue. Its low-end houses are already $500K. It'll take $billions (including plenty for lawsuits) and decades to get stations wit
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by genwin 13y ago
If it's too expensive or inner-city or a money pit or ugly or cheaply-built it's off my radar. That includes Capitol Hill and Queen Anne-type areas, or anything built prior to 1950 and most stuff built after 1990. Given my criteri
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by genwin 13y ago
The problem I have with light rail in Bellevue is that it isn't very useful unless you live within walking distance of a station. I consider it to be mostly a boondoggle.
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by genwin 13y ago
My more ideal city would have higher density housing but with small private yards, if only decks that seem like yards, something like this: http://www.dwell.com/house-tours/article/mountain-dwellings-... In the US
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by genwin 13y ago
Maybe that explains why Mint 15 Cinnamon is so slow for me. 13 works fine.
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by genwin 13y ago
Fighters of injustice needn't submit to jail in my book. No drop in hero status for Snowden.

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