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by gnerd 13y ago
This sounds like a great approach to the problem but how would one go about finding those people? Were you thinking SME level or street vendor level?
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by gnerd 13y ago
China is the second largest single country economy on earth and growing. They will be completely covered with healthcare in the next 10 years. They are the largest holders of gold on earth, hold the largest amount of debt from the US. They
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by gnerd 13y ago
> But drop me in India and I'm suddenly a crazy feminist ranting against rape culture (FYI India has one, the US doesn't). So none of those men in US jails and prisons are being raped? You should enjoy another country without i
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by gnerd 13y ago
Not mathematically impossible just computationally infeasible, that is assuming a good implementation.
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by gnerd 13y ago
At the state actor level do you really think you will be able to distinguish a stupid bug and an intentional flaw? Its not like they will make it call home with a bunch of code, they would just use a class of attack not well known and you w
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by gnerd 13y ago
Thanks very much but I was asking about how any systems we have prevent these things from happening, they don't seems to be your answer. No preventions, just consequences... sometimes, assuming the parties aren't too big for conse
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by gnerd 13y ago
Explain to me, a European citizen, sitting in Europe how I am protected against any of the same measures in the US? Forget GCHQ for a second, lets pick say... the Swedish FRA law, the Swedish Titan Traffic Database, the Denmark/Sweden
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by gnerd 13y ago
> What would the U.S. do if it was found that Obama's lines were being listened to? Use that knowledge to peddle bad information to diametrically opposed nation states to further their own interest? Use that information to further
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by gnerd 13y ago
George Orwell wrote my favourite piece on this issue in his essay, Notes on Nationalism[1]. [1] http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat
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by gnerd 13y ago
So then show us so we can take your conclusions seriously.
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by gnerd 13y ago
> because education in some Nigerian cities is far superior to most U.S. high schools. Do you know that for sure though? Isn't it possible that you are drawing a conclusion on a far away place based on some events/cultural idea
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by gnerd 13y ago
Are people still trying to push the phrase "Silicon Roundabout" for Old Street roundabout and the Shoreditch triangle? It is probably just me, but nothing makes me cringe harder.
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by gnerd 13y ago
This is the way I use the word too.
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by gnerd 13y ago
Out of interest, could you enlighten me as to why the word "retard" is a slur but "dumb" isn't? Putting colloquial use aside, both are valid words that describe conditions, so if one is a slur, isn't the other?
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by gnerd 13y ago
Well that's just not cricket.
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by gnerd 13y ago
So then isn't this (or satoshi dice) the sort of thing the limit is trying to create a disincentive for?
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by gnerd 13y ago
1) AFAIK BitCoin doesn't have comments[1]. When people have stored data in the blockchain in the past, it was by making a series of transactions in order so later those markers could be decoded to represent something else. Some service
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by gnerd 13y ago
> The limit is there to create a market with transaction fees, so it's not just going to be "removed" any time soon. The limit is actually there to limit the size of a block. It has nothing to do with transaction fees. Cli
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by gnerd 13y ago
Well I was expecting there would be a significant jump in transaction volume as news spreads, prices rise, more services were offered in BTC and more countries get local exchanges. You also seem to miss that its not the total number of tran
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by gnerd 13y ago
Why did the author of that article have a different title when the same article was posted on the Reuters blog? [1] Over there the article headline is: "Bitcoin is a step back not forward" Is that his choice or the editors? [1] h
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by gnerd 13y ago
The idea is cool but it might be too early for people to use the blockchain like this as right now BitCoin can support 7 transactions per second. Once that hard limit is lifted, and things like this can scale and support demand, application
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by gnerd 13y ago
It's like taking a fingerprint of a file and then storing it in a public and distributed database (so it is out of any single parties control). Basically you can prove something existed at a certain time (since if I take a fingerprint
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by gnerd 13y ago
> Until then, understand one thing. People want STABILITY in their currencies, at least if they are going to spend it. Agreed. People are less likely to spend as the price climbs quickly. This can be mitigated with a viable options marke
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by gnerd 13y ago
It does seem unfair but that's just how it goes. For instance consider that a third of the worlds gold ever mined comes from one country, South Africa. That's a bit geographically unfair. Since South Africa was in the empire (and
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by gnerd 13y ago
> People want BTC to be a currency. It is a currency. It satisfies the Coincidence of Wants, it is used as a means of exchange, that makes it a currency. Cigarettes have been used as a currency (in WW2 concentration camps, prison, times
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by gnerd 13y ago
> Bitcoin is a great electronic currency, and a real challenge to money transmitters like Western Union, but it is not a store of wealth (in my opinion). You can store your wealth in any commodity. I can store my value in stocks, gold or
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by gnerd 13y ago
Did someone propose that BitCoin serve as the peg for a national currency? I must have missed that part. Deflation is bad, we know its bad and when its bad. So should you peg a national currency to a deflationary commodity like BitCoin or g
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by gnerd 13y ago
> The same problems it has had for the last 10000 years. You can't seriously expect these "realizations" to have an effect on Gold prices. Supply and demand have an effect on the gold price. Markets go up, markets go down.
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by gnerd 13y ago
The price going up or down is not success or failure of gold, it's the nature of supply and demand. Gold is used to store value as a hedge against inflation, so people investing in lots of gold would probably expect gold goes up when t
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by gnerd 13y ago
It is bad for a national currency, but that is not what I was talking about. I was talking about a reserve currency, like gold represents in our world economy (which is also deflationary). When a country wants to buy oil for its economy, th

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