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by jbooth 13y ago
Do you have any citations at all or is this just a theory of yours? (not being hostile, would love to see a citation as this is a new theory to me)
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by jbooth 13y ago
I bet if you polled the US national population, you'd find the opposite and by a strong margin.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's not bullshit, you just misunderstood the line of reasoning. It goes like: Assumption: There is a population of women out there who would be really capable of running a successful technology startup Fact: Not many women do, wheth
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by jbooth 13y ago
By replicating the biological structure, they might shed some light on the logic. Right now we're making almost zero traction, a serious effort to copy it might at least make it clear what we're trying to understand. At the very
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, people with a lot less money than Google have railroaded things through the zoning board before. I suspect Google just didn't care that much, it's not like Larry Page was personally making this happen. Money buys power over
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by jbooth 13y ago
If you're doing static linking, it seems extremely trivial to get from "have a package manager" to "have a compiled binary that stands alone". Pull the source down, compile/link it and you're good. App A
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by jbooth 13y ago
It has a lot of strategic significance to the Russian Navy, significantly less to anyone else.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, on public diplospeak, people don't want to tie their hands in the future with clear public statements, so they're going to deliberately say nothing while the real action happens in private. On preparation.. well, my opinion
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're still hung up on messaging. As far as preparation.. I'm sure, if necessary, we have an extensively prepared joint military plan with our allies to fight over the Black Sea. I'm also sure we're not going to do
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by jbooth 13y ago
I was actually debating whether to mention Belarus, and edited it out to preserve space and get my point about dumb US political writing across. Thanks for chipping that in :) As far as joining the EU.. I think political concerns will ru
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by jbooth 13y ago
"look feckless".. so you agree with the idiot columnists? If we were Russia, we would absolutely see it as a good idea to make sure we controlled Crimea. It's like 70% Russian-speaking, was part of the Russian empire until
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by jbooth 13y ago
If you think Crimea lacks strategic importance, I'd suggest you read up on Russia's actions regarding the black sea for the last.. 200 years or so.
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by jbooth 13y ago
This whole situation has really highlighted what gossip rags our media are. 90% of the news articles on the subject are just using it as a proxy for the same-old domestic political narratives. I read a George Will column this morning that
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by jbooth 13y ago
A penny per ad would be a $10 CPM, much higher than average.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I didn't bring it up initially, but there IS a huge cultural divide between 'real americans' and multiculturalism/cultural-liberalism, with security services mostly coming from the 'real americans' camp. That&
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, let's distinguish between degrees here. Both Occupy and the Tea Party have silly, simplistic solutions to real problems, and aren't violent. The cops really have no business hassling either group, let alone infiltrating th
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by jbooth 13y ago
When short-haired, god-fearing and country-loving patriots are the good guys (no cops bust up a tea party rally), while the long-haired hippies are the bad guys (see COINTELPRO, police treatment of occupy or the WTO protests), what else you
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by jbooth 13y ago
Shutting down the government because you don't get your way isn't hardball? I suspect if we flipped some D and R labels around, like say this was President Romney's healthcare plan, you'd have a completely different opi
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by jbooth 13y ago
Shutting down the government for a few weeks probably complicated some things. Can always call non-stop hearings and bring people in to talk instead of work, as well. What, you think nobody plays hardball in DC?
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by jbooth 13y ago
All true. That being said, they got destroyed in the media anyways.
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're not wrong, but anyone who actually has an office in the physical whitehouse, or anyone within, say, 5 layers of the President, actually shouldn't be concerned with the implementation of the technology. They should be focus
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by jbooth 13y ago
Hospitals don't turn away uninsured at the ER. However, due to lack of regular care, by the time you show up at the ER it might be too late.
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's the ideological thing I'm talking about. "Pro-regulation" is literally 100% of people on some level, aside from anarchists. It's a meaningless statement. EDIT: But yeah, a 'proxy to hate on libertaria
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by jbooth 13y ago
Personally, I just get annoyed at the libertarian dreamers. It's not that I hate bitcoin or even that I want it to fail. On balance, I'm probably in favor of it succeeding. But it's really hard to keep wanting that after he
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by jbooth 13y ago
An additional note, trademark lawyers are often obligated to try and sue people over trademarks, even if they'd rather not, because if they don't zealously defend their trademark, it's considered 'weakened' and th
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're being really uncharitable towards yummyfajitas here. I think if you were to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than trying to take the worst possible interpretation of his words at every turn, you could have a more produc
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by jbooth 13y ago
That's a really neat post, thanks for sharing. I'd agree that this doesn't change the fundamentals of BTC, actually. If enough speculators didn't know that this could happen, maybe this changes perception enough to doom
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by jbooth 13y ago
A bit of a mixed metaphor given that we're talking about an exchange collapse, here. You don't deposit your paycheck in cash with a dude in a streetcart. Anyways, the thing with transformative new products is you have to be notab
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by jbooth 13y ago
The wild-west factor has everything to do with its viability. If bitcoin is ever going to outgrow its dutch tulip mania phase and actually be a medium of exchange for legal goods, people need to feel (and be!) at least as secure as with US
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by jbooth 13y ago
Ok, so we had one small email leak, and 2 gung-ho morons trying to do this really bad idea in order to make a name for themselves. If we leaked more emails from inside the NSA, how many more gung-ho morons would there be pushing the envelop

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