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by gnaritas 9y ago
On a bitcoin exchange like Coinbase. Plenty of people have millions of dollars of Bitcoin. 10 million USD is about 2500 bitcoins, that'd barely move the market if purchased all at once, not at all if spread out over a day or two. 24 h
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That's a much easier game, it's a 150 billion dollar market that trades a few billion a day; converting millions is nothing. Nor do you need to liquidate it all at once at your destination, you can take your time.
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> Good luck. It's pretty difficult with the various capital controls in place to get lots of money out of the US without attracting attention. No it isn't, buy Bitcoin, store coin in brain wallet, walk across any border.
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> But the point is rather that the FBI probably doesn't need to respect the rules outside of the US. That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. They don't operate at all outside the US. :)
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Yes, it is.
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> The two big, long-lived families of macroeconomic explanation are from the Keynsian and Austrian/liberal "schools." That's like saying there's two families of space research, Astronomy and Astrology. One of th
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Yes, and thus a perfect example premature optimization; semantics should define default usage, not some possible micro optimization. This is exactly the kind of case Knuth is talking about, going around doing ++x because you think it's
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> but sometimes it's nice to make a habit of doing things the faster way when you have two choices that are otherwise indistinguishable. That is virtually never the case. > For example I try to use ++x instead of x++ Those have w
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> What's the point of correlation? Knowledge. > If I put 2 buys either I will have double profit or double loss. If I put 1 buy 1 sell I get zero. Yea, so it pays to know if something is correlated to avoid this. It also pays to
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Then count yourself lucky but don't presume to know what it is to be actually poor nor pretend it doesn't exist in the west; it does.
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People who reject God are still religious, they still believe; atheists simply don't believe it. They don't "reject" God, they think he's fantasy, nothing to be remotely fearful of.
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They are entitlement programs, because you're entitled to them. The problem isn't the word entitlement, it's that they think it's welfare.
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What was the situation, and the advice, expand please.
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> In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. You've never been poor I see, or really truly known anyone who was. Poverty is a real problem, here, in the good old USA still . Survival is all many people worry about. I'm relayin
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> Because when it gets old and stale and the excitement wears off, you will see things in a more "connected sense." No, reason and logic don't get old or stale, and they prevent me from thinking how I "see things&quot
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> Although if I had a $100 for every time I've had DB corruption in Postgres over the years... You'd be broke. :)
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> I honestly wished you made better backup points to your arguments. I'm left with nothing to go on as it is now. I don't need to, you either understand evolution or you don't; it's not an opinion to be argued, it is
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> There is nothing natural about a dung learning to navigate using the stars. Yes there is, it's perfectly natural as was just explained to you above. No magic required, simple evolution. > An incredibly complex network of struct
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> Are you that afraid of God? People who are talking about science and don't want to bring God in the mix generally don't want to do so because they believe gods are silly superstition; you cant' be afraid of things you do
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Again, all easy things to worry about when you're not trying to just survive as most people are. Most people are worried about far more practical things that being "better people".
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No one said anything about possessions, you're projecting. We're talking about survival here, not consumerism.
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They're not wrong to worry about that, it's a rough world out there and getting a good job is vastly more important to most people than "human development". Parents don't send their kids to college to become better
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No it isn't. Clearly both techniques "can" be used, but that one "allows" shared state trivially and one doesn't matters greatly; it is not orthogonal, you just don't grasp the point being made about the
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No one claimed it did. Threaded code is plagued with bugs, it was not claimed that implies all threaded code uses shared state. Your frustration is unwarranted.
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I know exactly what you said, I "know" multi-threading doesn't require shared mutable state, I never claimed it did. Don't presume to tell me what topic I might want to digress on, if you don't want to reply then
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> So I'm not sure why you think processes are inherently safer than threads. Because they remove the unsafe way of sharing state from the programmer. The issue isn't that state can be shared correct in threads, it's that
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Those reasons aren't what they used to be, resources aren't nearly as limited these days and we now have the hindsight to see that threads lead to very buggy code due to shared state. Processes are better.
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> In languages which don't have a GIL, threads are almost as capable as processes, but lighter weight. But also plagued with shared state concurrency bugs, something multi-processing completely avoids so... > Threads are almost a
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I agree that it's a good thing, but your last statement is simply not in accordance with reality. The median IQ is 100, half the population is of below average intelligence, the problem we face is what to do when labor is no longer va
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> do you know of any mathematician who (publicly) shares your views on mathematical notation? Gerry Sussman from MIT. I've seen him lecture in particular about how math notation relies far too much on implicit assumed knowledge (lik

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