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by jki275 6y ago
They possibly can. Nearly all of them are in China, and nearly all of them are owned by a single company that manufactures the ASIC processors that do the mining. This is why I'm not a bitcoin maximalist and I'm not a huge fan of
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by jki275 6y ago
The fed certainly generates new dollars.
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by jki275 6y ago
Tezos and Cardano are the top two cryptocurrencies that don't use this model at all. They use proof of stake, which doesn't consume any significant amount of electricity. Also, the vast majority of the electricity being consumed
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by jki275 6y ago
Bitcoin isn't anonymous at all. It's at best pseudonymous, but even that is pretty easy to break. There are companies who do nothing but provide analysis services that link real people to bitcoin addresses.
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by jki275 6y ago
Bloomberg doubling down on their bullshit story.
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by jki275 6y ago
It was a bitcoin copy that changed a few numbers in the code and added some words (much wow!) and some pictures of Shibas. Literally. It's never going to a dollar. There are 14 million new ones made every day. Btc has a hard cap and
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by jki275 6y ago
I don't know about college, but I do know for a fact (being the father of a high school junior) that high school math is now the equivalent of what grade school math was when I was growing up. So kids going into college are far less pr
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by jki275 6y ago
You need to know more than high school math to write software in an engineering firm though. It's not about the mechanical act of making a computer do something, it's about knowing what to make the computer do and how to do it mo
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by jki275 6y ago
Yep. Works(ed?) for Mass Mutual.
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by jki275 6y ago
Especially when you look at who that dude actually is...
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by jki275 6y ago
Photo dragging from Photos to a browser window? Sure you can. I do it all the time.
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BTW, here's the current proposal. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/127/... It's pretty much banning firearms unless you're rich. The training requirement alone woul
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by jki275 6y ago
that search comes back with nothing. Anyway, if the desire is to ban semiautomatic detachable magazine rifles, that's what is being banned. And most people don't even understand that, the proponents of the last AWB didn't.
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by jki275 6y ago
The point is that you can ban things all day long, and it doesn't actually have any effect on the people who are going to break the law. It affects me, because I strictly follow the laws even though I believe they both violate the Con
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by jki275 6y ago
Which timeline? 1994-2004? They banned a bunch of scary looking guns to save the children for ten years. It wasn't successful. That was my entire point with that -- if I got a detail wrong I'm happy to be corrected. The mass c
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by jki275 6y ago
No, it's exactly what you said. I didn't make up any straw man, you believe that Soldiers on the battlefield run around randomly shooting wherever and whatever they want. It simply isn't true. As a Soldier, you are responsi
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by jki275 6y ago
All small arms are "weapons of war". Clubs and sticks are "weapons of war" in certain societies, and people kill other people with them all over the world. In some places they do so quite effectively. That's reall
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by jki275 6y ago
Ironic coming from someone who has never carried a weapon. A Soldier is responsible for every round they fire. Yes, suppressive fire is a thing, and it has nothing to do with what you're talking about. You don't randomly "su
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by jki275 6y ago
Well, I suppose there really aren't any technicalities that designate a weapon as "military style" -- it's really a point that doesn't mean anything. The military has used pump action shotguns similar to what you&#x
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by jki275 6y ago
You simply don't know what you're talking about. Let it go.
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by jki275 6y ago
As I addressed in my comment above. 17 year olds are allowed to sign up with their parent's consent, but are not allowed to deploy outside the US or take part in any hostilities.
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by jki275 6y ago
I'm guessing you have no military experience carrying a weapon. I do. It is absolutely the duty of everyone carrying a weapon to employ that weapon in accordance with the rules of engagement and the law of war.
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by jki275 6y ago
It sounds like you said what I said... Except that the discussion was specifically about federal law, there are various states that have additional laws.
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by jki275 6y ago
And yet they get to vote.
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by jki275 6y ago
The last part isn't accurate. There is no law that requires this from non-licensees. As a practical matter, I won't sell to someone I can't verify is a legal resident of my state and has a CCW permit, that way I know they&#x
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by jki275 6y ago
Oh hell no. In the military you are accountable for every round you fire, and you better not shoot something you don't see.
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by jki275 6y ago
Scalia wrote certain things in dicta in Heller in order to get Justice Kennedy's vote, in a very narrow ruling in a case specifically about handguns. I wouldn't read much into that on the constitutionality of "military weapon
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by jki275 6y ago
Yeah, I know what it does -- it's had many different missions grafted onto it. It's a cool plane. But I mean it's obsolete for its original mission. It can't fly higher than Soviet SAMs anymore. It hasn't been ab
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Certainly not in this case.
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by jki275 6y ago
Oh stop the hand wringing. The US doesn't recruit child soldiers. The very few who actually sign up when they are 17 are almost all 18 before they go to bootcamp, and of the extremely rare ones who aren't they are 18 before they g

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