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by gph 13y ago
That's how I felt. I wonder how much it costs to produce per "meal" for them. Because they are charging ~3.10 per "meal" at the weekly rate. Maybe there will be a better price after they officially launch. But it kind of feels like they are
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by gph 13y ago
I doubt a proxy will get you in on this. Google isn't that stupid. Financial transactions are seriously monitored by almost every government. You'll probably have to link to a U.S. bank acct or something.
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by gph 13y ago
I'm not really familiar with Mt. gox, but I'd assume you can send in a money order or perhaps even cash. I don't know anything about Dwolla either, maybe they have a method of bypassing banks? I might be wrong so if someone knows better ple
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by gph 13y ago
Because that first step of USD(cash) -> Swiss Franc has to go through a bank and/or Forex exchange which has to follow U.S. anti-money laundering regulations. If you attempt to place a large amount of cash into a bank or forex account y
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by gph 13y ago
I feel so out of the loop, I didn't even know there was a cupcake fad going on. Either it never hit Baltimore or I just don't go to the trendy parts of town.
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by gph 13y ago
True, but adding cute cats to the mix isn't going to fix that either. I wasn't trying to argue that it was technically infeasible for an Orwellian government to stop it, just that it would be near impossible to stop where this type of traff
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by gph 14y ago
Why? How is the government going to shut down what is basically a private decentralized p2p network? There isn't any central server they can take out and the traffic over the network would look like any other encrypted traffic. If they gain
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by gph 14y ago
Yea, but that wasn't just expressing an opinion, that was harassing someone. It's not like he just posted his opinion about Chick-fil-a on his facebook or twitter.
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by gph 14y ago
>If bitcoins were overproduced, say during a bubble, they could well remain low long-term - there is no particular pressure driving them up. Well if the cost to produce them was higher than the price, people would simply stop mining. Pe
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by gph 14y ago
>And regardless, there's absolutely no conceptual reason cost of production would represent any kind of floor. Well no sane/rational entity would want to sell for less than cost of production because that would entail a loss (let's keep
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by gph 14y ago
Because not everyone is able to hit the same Cost of Production, or wants to put down the upfront investment in equipment, or has the technical know how, etc. If the cost of production was the price ceiling why would anyone start producing?
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by gph 14y ago
You explained exactly what the intrinsic value of the currency is: the usefulness of the currency itself. BTCs have value over turds for use as a currency for many obvious reasons. The amount of electricity it takes to create that currency
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by gph 14y ago
That's pretty cool, as a toy. Too bad he doesn't seem to have any use for it in that capacity. Don't know if I can agree with him driving it on routine trips around town. Not only because of the extra gas consumption and CO2, but it also ta
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by gph 14y ago
Pretty much any solid can shatter if enough force is applied. Case in point: Take a frisbee, lay it on the ground, and smash it with a sledgehammer. It will break or burst suddenly into pieces, i.e. shatter[1] [1] http://www.wordnik.com/wor
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by gph 14y ago
Yea, it's nice to see. Though the cynical side of my brain is thinking that Veber backed down because they knew their customer base is basically all techies and they might not want to piss them off. If Veber was in a different business line
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by gph 14y ago
While it's not illegal, it's hard to argue that this move is just or moral. Yes a country can levy taxes however they like, but a surprise 10% wealth tax is unprecedented. The analogy with VAT/income/property is a bit difficult because in a
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by gph 14y ago
You'll probably be disappointed. Ignoring the fuss of DRM/offline-play the game just wasn't very good IMO. Perhaps if you like watching little Sims and feeling connected on the micro-scale to a city it's interesting. If you're into Macro ci
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by gph 14y ago
>Also, if you look at the rise of processed foods along with obesity, diabetes, and other health problems that have increased over the past century it's clear that there are some serious problems, and they haven't been explained conclus
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by gph 14y ago
> My own suspicion is that it's probably more a matter of simply close 'proximity' combined with the natural difficulty of starting those relationships in the first place. I see what you're saying, and I think you'd likely be correct. W
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by gph 14y ago
Or more likely, white people don't have to specify "white" in their searches because most mainstream porn is already "white". If that wasn't the case, I'd bet "white" or "caucasian" would be the top search in every single state. Sure there
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by gph 14y ago
That's also where the majority of the black population lives[1], so it's not much different than asians being high in California. I don't think your correlation to racism has much to do with it, at least not in the way it seems you are impl
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by gph 14y ago
>Has the counter ever reached ten days yet? Should remove either the "ever" or "yet" from that sentence. Unless it's a redundancy feature :D
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by gph 14y ago
Perhaps. It's still idiotic to take unknown suitcases with you through an airport. There are things other than drugs that are illegal or have restrictions on transporting across borders.
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by gph 14y ago
Heh, I fall somewhere into that group in that I think Unity is terrible. That said, I do basically agree with most everything that he says in the article. No one is ever going to get exactly what they want in a project as large as Ubuntu. T
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by gph 14y ago
>Clearly people talking to their devices is cool, but annoying to others on the train and potentially embarrassing Hopefully Subvocal Recognition[1] can improve enough that it will solve this particular problem. They've already created
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by gph 14y ago
You get what you pay for. I don't see why everyone feels the need to constantly throw their own opinions and use cases in for why one OS is better than another. If Ubuntu doesn't fit your needs and Mac does... good. Don't see why stuff like
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by gph 14y ago
Well in America the word Reservation was used for land set aside for Native tribes long before the idea of a "nature' reserve ever sprang up. That's why we typically use refuge for what you would call a reservation. The only reason the word
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by gph 14y ago
The authors of this piece try to make it out like it's Apple that's now become a security risk, when this hack is really Java's fault. It makes you wonder if Oracle is entirely up to the responsibility that comes along with inheriting the e
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by gph 14y ago
I'm fairly certain it's because the Surface has the keyboard-kickstand thing. Ipad doesn't. A few Asus models do, and perhaps some others I'm not aware of, but given all the advertising of it the Surface is the most notable.

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