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jafaku
13y ago
Actually the US buyers are the risk, since in US and Australia anyone can issue a chargeback. In most countries you can't unless you have a premium card I think. I read in in Wikipedia some time ago.
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jafaku
13y ago
Don't dare compare him with Wall Street, he wasn't cheating on anyone. He was just making the Bitcoins flow more freely, and reach places they couldn't have reached otherwise. He was the free market at work.
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jafaku
13y ago
Nice black screen.
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jafaku
13y ago
Seems legit, I'll invest some upvotes in your comment.
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jafaku
13y ago
If they are going to torture you just in case there is a hidden volume, they might as well torture you just for fun.
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jafaku
13y ago
> for developers to build their designs Don't you see a problem right there? In my opinion, it should at least come bundled with an optional style (the old Bootstrap2 style would be fine), so that we could at least use it for fast p
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jafaku
13y ago
What's worse, it's not really RC. More like Beta. They keep adding/removing features, and even changing fundamentals like the grid system. I'm glad I didn't start using RC1, I imagined something like this could happ
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jafaku
13y ago
Addresses are not added to the block chain unless they receive Bitcoin. There are no checks in place to ensure the uniqueness of the address, since it's virtually impossible to generate the same address twice, let alone an address with
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jafaku
13y ago
So that they take their money somewhere else?
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jafaku
13y ago
How come it's not available for Linux? Oh well, back to chess.
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jafaku
13y ago
Can someone paste the code somewhere else please? The linked website is broken. And yes, I have Javascript enabled. But it's probably using localStorage (with no graceful degradation), which I won't allow. Is this becoming a thing
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jafaku
13y ago
That's not what I meant. Besides does the morgue even keep bodies forever? I don't think so. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268011/Kim-Suozzi-2...
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jafaku
13y ago
You can always freeze your head and wait until they can give you a new body.
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jafaku
13y ago
> I can't imagine all of it would be subject to a lawsuit. Where have you been all this time? Have you not read the news recently? Basically every US IT company is being NDA'd and backdoored/taped. Lavabit is the first one
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jafaku
13y ago
Having laws is the least of the issues.
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jafaku
13y ago
> credit card transactions are in fact far more energy-efficient than bitcoin transactions Huh? You seriously think Visa/Mastercard are using less energy than Bitcoin? > Furthermore, there will be an energy cost to transactions e
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jafaku
13y ago
Inflation is good for the rich's income. Deflation is good for the rich's savings. Seems like they win in both cases? Though I would argue they win more in the first case, since inflation don't necessarily force them to do so
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jafaku
13y ago
You are confusing the short lived deflation that could be caused by a deflationary currency, with the deflation caused by all the other problems mentioned in the wikipedia article, like "technological progress that created significant
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jafaku
13y ago
I guess the Yen and the Pound Sterling are not currencies either then, since my local restaurant doesn't accept them.
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jafaku
13y ago
> There are a lot of organizations with the resources needed to perform the "51% attack" on Bitcoin and no compelling reason to think that a faster attack is not possible. I'm aware of that. There are also lots of organiza
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13y ago
4. Last time I checked, gold was still very valuable. And it has been used for what... Thousands of years? The economies of the world did just fine without forced inflation and consumerism. 5. Printing paper money wastes way more resources.
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jafaku
13y ago
1. What do you mean? 2. Countries can be attacked too. I don't know what your point is here. If bitcoin survives its infancy, it could become more resilient than any other currency. 3. Could you explain it in practical terms? Because a
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jafaku
13y ago
How is Bitcoin a bad idea, and how do we not know what we are doing?
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jafaku
13y ago
Git is a source version control system. Why does everybody keep trying to use it as a deployment tool?
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jafaku
13y ago
Isn't that a sociopath? I think I read that psychopaths can't really live in society and go undetected, they can't control themselves.
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jafaku
13y ago
Why did they do that?
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jafaku
13y ago
Nice try, NSA. This won't protect us at all.
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jafaku
13y ago
Not sure if serious or trolling the OP, who I'm not sure if is serious or trolling either.
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jafaku
13y ago
True tinfoils don't use propietary software.
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jafaku
13y ago
Credit card companies and Paypal will shut you down for being "high risk" or whatever. I wouldn't bother trying.
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