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by gomox 9y ago
Well, a congressman is hardly an average citizen. I don't necessarily disagree with your point but that doesn't necessarily mean that spending 15 USD on lunch is a sign of corruption. Brazil is in many ways similar to Argentina (w
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by gomox 9y ago
Where do you live? I live in Buenos Aires and in my experience Sao Paulo is pricier. The amounts dont seem crazy to me. Edit: if they actually did it every day then it wouldn't be a statistical outlier :P
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by gomox 9y ago
I think there are two separate issues. I don't know whether paying for someone else's lunch is OK according to regulations for meal stipends in Brazil. I wouldn't call that corruption off hand, but it might be forbidden. I de
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by gomox 9y ago
I love the idea, but a quick review of tweets shows a bunch of seemingly inconsequential reports for meal refunds where the issue is that the meal price is an outlier, but prices listed are 39 to 75 BRL (12-25 USD). That doesn't strike
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by gomox 9y ago
Awesome! You should do one on the DAO hack!
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by gomox 9y ago
Assuming they're Antminer S9s they consume around 1 kW each, 600 kW is usually a non negligible amount of electricity to have available. But, interestingly, Iceland also has a lot of artificially lit/heated greenhouses that can be
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by gomox 9y ago
Anecdata from my end is that when I last changed cameras, I really wanted an A7 but got an m43 kit instead, because quality lenses for the Sony were extremely limited and expensive compared to the Canon DSLR equivalents I'm used to. Th
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by gomox 9y ago
Of all the things you would want to make a "me too" product out of, the iPhone X sure isn't one I would pick. It's sad that AR emojis and face recognition made the key new features list. Those two sounded like a gimmick
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by gomox 9y ago
At the expense of a moving part, having the option to close down the aperture will probably improve image quality in daylight. With a fixed aperture, increased low light sensitivity usually brings lower resolution (so called "fast&quot
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by gomox 9y ago
"Cuisine" is a feminine noun (e.g. "la belle cuisine").
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by gomox 9y ago
It's permission-less because you participate as a node in the network without anyone granting you permission to do so. You don't have to spend thousands to be a bitcoin miner. You can use any old computer. Making a profit is a dif
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by gomox 9y ago
Why would you pay capital gains tax on a money transfer?
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by gomox 9y ago
Given they later investors most likely have an exit preference I wouldn't say the risks were that big. What are the odds that CoreOS isn't worth $30M?
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by gomox 9y ago
There is 0 luck required to cash out such an insignificant amount.
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by gomox 9y ago
I'm sure poisoning customers is bad for business, but the stakes are as high as it gets (pun intended). Statistically speaking I'm sure a very low percentage of people that do drugs get in trouble with law enforcement as well. Sti
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by gomox 9y ago
Based on some surveys I did within the general US population, a significant number of people (around 30%) haven't even heard of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies and most (60%+) have heard of it but haven't put money in it. Keep in mind
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by gomox 9y ago
Consider this: People order pills online on an anonymous site designed for people to be untrackable, using anonymous methods of payment, and then ingest the aforementioned pills they received in the mail from China without a second thought.
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by gomox 9y ago
If anything the parent comment means that it's more profitable now. And that's without the crazy transaction fees these days.
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by gomox 9y ago
You haven't read enough then. There is, quite literally, an app for that. People are getting real bank transfers of "real" money all the time out of bitcoin & co.
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by gomox 9y ago
That's not true. Network hash rate has increased dramatically too.
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by gomox 9y ago
Blockchains are one thing and Bitcoin is another. I'm not really suggesting you use neither :) Better bank tech exists in many places outside the US (pretty much everywhere, really). Better bank tech does not guarantee my ability to se
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by gomox 9y ago
I agree that blockchains are overhyped. But I don't think the value of P2P uncensorable money can be overstated in this day and age.
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by gomox 9y ago
I'm not sure I follow your point here. Are you adding to what I said or do you disagree in some way?
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by gomox 9y ago
The main difference is that you actually get the choice of doing one or the other, whereas in the conventional banking system, you can't choose to be your own bank. Depending on what you are financing, this might be an essential featur
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by gomox 9y ago
Like wiring money directly, except it works across national borders and transactions are actually settled (and not reversible within 48 hours because the tech was invented ages ago). The general (electrical) inefficiency is a specific chara
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by gomox 9y ago
I don't know of any cryptocurrencies that allow you do to do a chargeback, so in that specific dimension, yes.
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by gomox 9y ago
In practice by using Bitcoin you just send the company the funds, you never give them your credit card number at all.
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by gomox 9y ago
Blockchain based currencies like Bitcoin protect you from your bank freezing or stealing your assets, or suddenly refusing to do business with you. They don't protect you from a third party not shipping your products that you bought on
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by gomox 9y ago
This is the fundamental point of blockchains. Operating without large, trusted (for the time being) third parties. Here's a specific example: Blockchain-powered systems are an alternative to the censor-prone nature of the current netwo
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by gomox 9y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that.

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