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by hd4 5y ago
Making the government accountable for what they spend money on seems like a good direction to go in. The government programs you mention are only possible because of easy access to the money printer, Bitcoin solves this. As for what's
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by hd4 5y ago
Correct, thanks for pointing that out, I edited the original comment.
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by hd4 5y ago
Remember Bitcoin appeared in the context of the 2008 financial crisis, when the US government effectively authorized the bailout of massively-overleveraged banks and put the burden on the taxpayer in the form of a diluted currency. When you
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by hd4 5y ago
> 37. We have seen that crypto-technology is underpinned by a philosophy to evade Government controls. Cryptocurrencies have specifically been developed to bypass the regulated financial system. These should be reason enough to treat the
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by hd4 5y ago
This is by far the dumbest ever HN post that has made it to #1. Too many fallacies to bother taking apart but the worst one must be "banks are free that means they're preferable".
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by hd4 5y ago
Hold on, this is important. You're claiming gender-based discrimination but you don't actually know for sure if you're being treated differently from the male content creators.
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by hd4 5y ago
Is anyone aware of any studies which looked into the impact/correlation of global poverty as a result of moving to fiat currency away from a gold standard? I know even bringing this up is unpopular but I can't think of a bigger el
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by hd4 5y ago
These are hardly mutually exclusive.
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by hd4 5y ago
They were also talking about ending the TV licence for years. The timing couldn't be more obvious.
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by hd4 5y ago
This is all part of Operation Save Big Dog aka saving Boris Johnson's ass from being forced out as PM. Yesterday it was the TV licence fee ending. Tomorrow it will be some other populist nonsense. https://www.independent.co.
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by hd4 5y ago
The main benefit of IF which isn't mentioned in the article (and hasn't yet been mentioned in the thread) is regaining insulin sensitivity. Losing insulin sensitivity is what leads to a low-functioning liver and causes the body to
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by hd4 5y ago
Similar energy to the Eliza test, if anyone played that game.
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by hd4 5y ago
Not even one mention of climate change in the article. Isn't this exactly what we wanted? This is fantastic news. I thought the whole shift in agenda towards female education and feminism in the developing world was precisely to create
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by hd4 5y ago
Similar outcomes have happened enough times when cybersec people tried to report a security hole that the security community should have noticed the pattern long ago and taken steps which imo would be just to shrug their shoulders in future
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by hd4 5y ago
I had a lot of trouble getting this to work, I eventually found this init.lua from one of the neovim maintainers which gives you a working nvim-cmp setup out of the box, along with a few other useful neovim things: https://github
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by hd4 5y ago
I try and avoid any news about that person so I don't know much about Truth other than it exists, how is it violating any license?
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by hd4 5y ago
It's not that I don't like it, I just don't see the purpose of remaining there once I'm done writing a script or whatever. Your use-case is one of those where it does makes sense to do that.
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by hd4 5y ago
I strive to use bash as minimally as possible anyway, I don't quite see the point of switching to zsh when I want to avoid doing things in the shell (rather than scripting or using cron jobs or similar). Why would people want to use an
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by hd4 5y ago
Detailed changelog here: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2...
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Shadow Empire
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by hd4 5y ago
"ISI-backed" Is there somewhere credible I can learn more about the connection between the taliban and the ISI?
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by hd4 5y ago
The media tends to be extremely trigger-happy to blame a correction or dip in crypto on a single event like Tesla not accepting BTC while it's just as likely that this is an effect of the wider market correction that's taking plac
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by hd4 6y ago
The US, most likely. >although I am not inside IR35 That's what I meant though, this is going to end soon. There will be no "outside IR35". One of the more foolish decisions of the UK state recently (and they're not l
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by hd4 6y ago
UK developer here. Can confirm what the above poster is saying, especially: >The problem is that salaries in the UK are not attractive as you quickly get on the higher tax bracket. This was made worse when changes to IR35 passed and now
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by hd4 6y ago
https://archive.is/ryo6d
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by hd4 6y ago
Can you bring contemporary examples, not things that happened decades before many of the posters here were even alive?
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by hd4 6y ago
in the way that the 1st enlightenment lead to the separation of church and state, crypto is the 2nd enlightenment that will lead to the separation of state and money.
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by hd4 6y ago
>Is x a scam because I don't understand it/I'm priced out? Uh, no. Though fiat currency is definitely a scam.
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by hd4 6y ago
That would have been racist
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by hd4 6y ago
It may help to amend the title to point out that Kraken is essentially a cryptocurrency exchange/trading platform.

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