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by headsoup 7y ago
If I am to be surveilled anyway, perhaps they can ensure my protection from threats to my privacy? After all I assume they're doing all this for our protection, not to generate crimes?
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by headsoup 7y ago
Perhaps 'nobody owns it, everybody can change (fix) it'
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by headsoup 7y ago
So what value should Bitcoin have then?
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by headsoup 7y ago
I don't understand why Chinese historians don't seem to have been engaged here? I get finding the American reference source, but then the research just seems to leave it at that. Is this the scope of the site - just investigating
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by headsoup 7y ago
So my summary from the comments here is that almost all scientific study is junk, except when one is certain themselves it isn't.
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by headsoup 7y ago
While I support this move, it would be great to see the media also try harder to expose the increasing moves to prevent FOI requests and redact far beyond the 'national security' justifications.
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by headsoup 7y ago
I thought that too, but going by the comments here it appears business signage is fine within the rules set
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by headsoup 7y ago
Look at the business signage, rather than dig for it through all the advertising plastered around? Or use maps...
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by headsoup 7y ago
I think in a way, it's a little sad that over-zealous advertising is seen as a cultural 'feature' to be cherished.
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by headsoup 7y ago
Depends on what products you want doesn't it? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I've noticed an increasing tendency to not be able to find some products online outside of Amazon, or there is a significant price difference.
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by headsoup 7y ago
And what if, more and more, the products you want are only on Amazon, because of the deals made or conditions set by them?
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by headsoup 7y ago
You appear to be only referring to the retail side of Amazon, not the platform side where the article mentions Amazon has numerous restrictive practices in place and set the price through these by excluding competition and competing through
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by headsoup 7y ago
I only assume the poster above is really referring to corruption, where companies with vested interests are not just 'lobbying' for their outcome, but buying them outright... Otherwise there is (or at least should be) no differenc
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by headsoup 7y ago
I'm probably missing something, but other than retrospectively observing that people are paying a price, how does market theory comes up with the price without the 'how?'
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by headsoup 7y ago
If only consumers wore a badge stating "what they are willing to pay" then it would be so much simpler! It is not a magic number, it is all the work of the company creating the desire, brand and product to create demand for the pr
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by headsoup 7y ago
Except in this case there is no first E for Embrace, so that doesn't work...
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by headsoup 7y ago
I think the key words there were 'too big,' not 'growing.'
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by headsoup 7y ago
Yeah but they also like democracy and I don't think that's in the current US administration's interests...
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by headsoup 7y ago
How confident are you in that statement, given the vested interests involved and their track record for greed and dishonesty?
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by headsoup 7y ago
The saving grace for these online services seems to basically just be that the potential customer base is so ridiculously huge that it still pays vs effort required. Same for the big social giants etc. No matter how many people know better
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by headsoup 7y ago
Why didn't industry switch away from CFC's until a cheaper option became available?... 'Corporate ethics.'
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by headsoup 7y ago
I the position that massive (and apparently unlimited) population is necessary and a foregone conclusion wasn't the default, perhaps things would be approached a bit better than 'what's the cheapest bulk solution' to pro
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by headsoup 7y ago
This is fine, so long as the $3M funded research is still open and available to anyone to productionise. Is that how it works or are private companies funding some of the 'open' research phase to then privatise (i.e. make secret)
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by headsoup 7y ago
Except the circular argument that their ticket is bought because of optimism, that is created by them buying the ticket... hence the chicken-egg statement in the article.
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by headsoup 7y ago
I'm not familiar with the history, but is Venezuela's currency constantly volatile or are recent events an anomaly? How do you define Bitcoin's fluctuations as 'mild' - i.e what are you comparing it to other than t
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by headsoup 7y ago
What is the competition for? What outcome is Libra competing for?
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by headsoup 7y ago
How does that help reduce fees? Excuse my naivety, but can you share a bit more about cross-chain atomic swaps, what does that mean?
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by headsoup 7y ago
So long as someone is there willing to pay the same price for those coins. Do the grocery stores, butchers and other providers accept Bitcoin there? How do they value their goods against a 'currency' that is growing X00% weekly?
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by headsoup 7y ago
The judges aren't forced to make every case public. There are clear guidelines for when not to, where otherwise there are requirements to clarify the reasons. The judges aren't following the guidelines, because there's no r
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by headsoup 7y ago
Congratulations?

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