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by giaour 4y ago
I guess, but there's no proof the sender has deleted their copies of the keys. You would need to immediately transfer the assets to another wallet, and until you did, the sender could rescind the transfer by moving the coins themselves
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by giaour 4y ago
Your original comment was just an assertion without analysis or argument. Was this exchange meant to be performance art?
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by giaour 4y ago
I just did, and the first result was https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economist-bitcoin-is-a-pyrami...
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by giaour 4y ago
Gold can be transferred between parties without leaving a public audit trail. Bitcoin cannot.
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by giaour 4y ago
People have absolutely been using gold investments to run scams on the financially unsophisticated, just like they have been with crypto: https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/goldline-execs-charged-fraud/...
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by giaour 4y ago
Please don't put your retirement savings in fine art or antiques unless you have spare funds that you can stand to lose. Collectibles consume wealth (maintenance costs) and do not produce it, so the only way you can make money is by ac
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by giaour 4y ago
In the humanities (at least ~10 years ago), it was unheard of both to pay for your own PhD and for a terminal masters to be funded. MA students paid full tuition, which provided a lot of the funding for PhD students.
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by giaour 4y ago
It depends on your jurisdiction, of course, but I (as an American) wouldn't feel confident in the legality of buying Venezuelan government securities given https://www.state.gov/venezuela-related-sanctions/ Even i
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by giaour 4y ago
Could you elaborate? I'd love to read some analysis on this, but just claiming the whole shortage was fake has some real "no trees on flat earth" energy.
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by giaour 4y ago
> when I convert BTC to DOGE (or whatever), there is no income That conversion is the sale of property. The IRS doesn't care whether you receive payment for your BTC in DOGE, USD, or corn futures; you divested funds from BTC, and th
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by giaour 4y ago
This is also what happens when you buy and sell stocks or bonds, FWIW. Each sale is a taxable event, even if you receive payment in the form of a different stock or bond.
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by giaour 4y ago
You could save some time and keystrokes by just typing out "too big to fail."
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by giaour 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the man will stick it back to you if you follow this advice.
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by giaour 4y ago
> As long as there are well-capitalized parties (Bitfinex, other exchanges) that want to prop up Tether, it will be fine. Doesn't that make Tether a fiat currency?
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by giaour 4y ago
How long does the battery last? Does the phone feel thick in your pocket? (From the photos, it looks like the device is about the same width and height as a 2020 iPhone SE but significantly thicker.)
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by giaour 4y ago
This would probably be a dealbreaker for a lot of people. Unihertz makes small android phones that are on the thicker side, and I've been hesitant to buy one because of their girth (despite there not being any alternative small android
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by giaour 4y ago
I think it may be one of those quotes that always has an earlier usage to find. According to https://thecritic.co.uk/this-too-shall-pass/ , Lincoln was quoting Rumi, who was (probably apocryphally) quoting Solomon.
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by giaour 4y ago
Isn't this quote from Rumi?
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by giaour 4y ago
ASP.NET Core is very straightforward and easy to work in. It's typically more performant than interpreted language frameworks, but it can be more verbose.
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by giaour 4y ago
> why can't you just claim that this is just funny money with no real world value, and it has no more seriousness than an in game gold/xp? That might work in a jurisdiction where the trade in cryptocurrency is illegal but its p
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by giaour 4y ago
Wouldn't that incentivize people to create crimes that they could then stop to collect their PoliceCoin? Or to stoke short-lived interstate conflict to mine some more WarCoin? But that'll just mean more and more opportunity for Po
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by giaour 4y ago
"There's a 50/50 chance of <some outlandish or unlikely thing>; either it'll happen or it won't." is an old Friar's Club joke.
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by giaour 4y ago
> the vast security forces and militaries there to secure it (military being the largest polluter) I've seen several comments in this thread comparing BTC's energy consumption to that of the world's militaries; is this a n
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by giaour 4y ago
If the Taliban trades on a public blockchain, aren't their ledgers being kept and their payments being processed by every miner? I don't see how that sidesteps liability at all; it just externalizes it.
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by giaour 4y ago
"Betting 10K on black" was meant to be a metaphor for buying 10K of cryptocurrency. Just like there are professional cryptocurrency traders, there are professional gamblers, but everyone else playing the game is expected to lose m
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by giaour 4y ago
> many people make several million dollars over their life time but see it as to high of a risk to put 10k into something that could go to zero but it also could go to 100k or even more. That does not make much sense. The question should
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by giaour 4y ago
There are some unions that allow supervisory employees to join, like AFSMCE (the largest public sector union in the US).
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by giaour 4y ago
It was understood by ancient commentators (i.e., in the Talmud) to refer to miscarriage. This would mirror other laws in the ancient near east that imposed a fine for inducing miscarriages and death for murdering an adult, like the Code of
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by giaour 4y ago
As with any ancient text, translations will vary. The one you've quoted seems to play up the ambiguity, which is non-standard for English renditions. The Common English Bible renders this passage as, "When people who are fighting
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by giaour 4y ago
> I think it suggests that life-at-conception was so obvious to the authors that they didn't feel the need to distinguish between abortion and murder Mosaic law does distinguish between violently inducing a miscarriage (punishable

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