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by jstalin 13y ago
Expect lots and lots of arguments against bitcoin because of its deflationary nature. Nearly the entire universe of modern academic economics rests on the Keynesian and/or Monetarist foundation that increasing money supply (thus inflation)
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by jstalin 13y ago
Is it just me, or can you barely hear the guys on the video? They need a microphone.
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by jstalin 13y ago
Anyone fooling themselves and thinking "It'll be different this time," is in for disappointment. Of course Tumblr is the next Geocities. Yahoo is a public company that won't tolerate the freedom that Tumblr offers.
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by jstalin 13y ago
Police can legally do this without a warrant. In Florida v. Riley, from the US Supreme court, it was ruled that police did not need a warrant to hover over someone's house with a helicopter to peer into the roof of a greenhouse to check for
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by jstalin 13y ago
Another reason to buy at https://localbitcoins.com/
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by jstalin 13y ago
What would that even mean? The title is "Guidance for the Minimization of Text Messages over Dual-Function Cellular Telephones." Any idea what minimization it is referring to? EDIT -- Found the answer to my question: http://www.theatlant
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by jstalin 13y ago
I tried pasting War and Peace... it created a 435 page URL but both bitly and goo.gl were unable to shorten it :( I'm able to paste the URL in firefox, but Chrome doesn't allow it.
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by jstalin 13y ago
I would really love to see Shortly plus the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library to be able to create encrypted and password-protected serverless pastebins. http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/
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by jstalin 13y ago
If a potential employer decides not to hire you based on a credit report, they are required to notify you of that fact and the fact that you have a right to get a copy of your credit report. This sounds like a juicy area to start suing empl
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by jstalin 13y ago
My own experience shows this on both sides of the issue. I have been involved in some local government issues and it's easy to get coverage in local media by just sending a press release out to a few dozen contacts. They rarely (if ever) do
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by jstalin 13y ago
It seems that their business model is entirely dependent on government subsidies. So now that wealth is being transferred from general US taxpayers to the shareholders of Tesla.
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by jstalin 13y ago
Which would, of course, lead to a completely calcified health care system with no incentive to improve or innovate. I'm sorry for your $41k bill. I really am. But the problem isn't that we need more control by central authorities. They are
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by jstalin 13y ago
California's money transmission business statute is quite broad: 2030. (a) A person shall not engage in the business of money transmission in this state, or advertise, solicit, or hold itself out as providing money transmission in this sta
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by jstalin 13y ago
It should be no surprise that the more government "regulates" and subsidizes health care, the more expensive it gets. And the answer to high costs is always more regulation! I keep reading more about doctors who are opting out of the medica
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by jstalin 13y ago
^ this. No one I know who is a gun owner would say "yes" if called as part of a survey and asked if they own guns.
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by jstalin 13y ago
CONGRATULATIONS! It would take about 2.956558857989926e+39 years to crack your password. Bueno.
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by jstalin 13y ago
That article seems to touch only on one subgroup of people and not the overall suicide rate.
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by jstalin 13y ago
That's only the suicide rate by those who use a gun. Compare actual overall suicide rates and the US is pretty average and very close to the rate in the UK, Canada, France, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r
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by jstalin 13y ago
Also keep in mind that one background check may represent the sale of several firearms. One additional data point - nearly 9 million guns were manufactured or imported into the US in 2010 alone: http://www.businessinsider.com/more-gun-stor
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by jstalin 13y ago
Here's the FBI source data: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...
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by jstalin 13y ago
While I'm a gun supporter, I think the decline in overall crime has more to do with the reduction in environmental lead: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
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by jstalin 13y ago
Looks like the suicide rate has been on the decline since the 1950s as well: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779940.html
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by jstalin 13y ago
The drop is all the more remarkable considering that there are at least 168,000,000 more guns in circulation in the US now than when gun homicide peaked in 1993.[1] [1]: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/1998_2013_sta...
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by jstalin 13y ago
The original US copyright act protected works for 14 years and was renewable for an additional 14 if the author was alive. I think that's reasonable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
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by jstalin 13y ago
I bet more regulations will fix it.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Expect it to be introduced on a Friday night and quickly, quietly passed with no notice.
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by jstalin 14y ago
If you have a PC with a constant bitcoin address installed on it, yes. But if you're using a brain wallet with a livecd OS, for instance, it seems unlikely that it could be traced.
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by jstalin 14y ago
I didn't make the connection, but I might have subconsciously, since I still do follow Calculated Risk :)
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by jstalin 14y ago
Because seemed to have good insight, initially, into the 2008 crash. Remember, it was a time of panic and official stories. He seemed to understand the underlying issues. He did have some grasp on it, but after I began to understand things
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by jstalin 14y ago
I wouldn't peg Denninger as a libertarian. He supports the federal reserve and is fine with fiat currency. I would consider him more a monetarist than libertarian/Austrian (in fact, he specifically disavows the Austrian view of money). He's

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