jstalin

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by jstalin 14y ago
Sounds like much ado about nothing...
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by jstalin 14y ago
Nice to look at, for some people. Many couldn't care less. Of course, it's subjective. Bitcoins have value for some because those people value bitcoins over other things, like US dollars. It's a subjective value judgment why anyone trades o
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by jstalin 14y ago
I want to like coinbase, but 100% of the time that I try to buy bitcoins it says that it has run through its daily allotment and to try again in 24 hours.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Value is subjective. Water is very valuable in the desert, but not so valuable in the middle of the Pacific. Diamonds are valuable in downtown Chicago, not so much to someone surviving in a lifeboat. During the hyperinflation of Germany in
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by jstalin 14y ago
True, but in normal economic times, one can usually earn interest that outpaces inflation. Right now we have the federal reserve purposely punishing savers, just as freicoin would do. I think the issue with bitcoin is that it's very very ne
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by jstalin 14y ago
In other words, saving money is completely disincentivized in favor of constant spending? Why would anyone adopt this?
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by jstalin 14y ago
Not exactly sure what you're going for, but you sue based on facts as they were at a particular point in time. Transferring a patent or doing a hide the ball move doesn't work so well in court, particularly federal court. Res judicata is th
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by jstalin 14y ago
Ebert and Siskel did a show on gay cinema back in the early 80's that treated the issue seriously, without snark or contempt. I saw a video of that episode a few years ago and my respect for both men increased dramatically. http://www.eber
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by jstalin 14y ago
I expect to see more and more attacks on the concept of bitcoin because it exposes the flaws in modern fractional reserve banking and fiat currency issued by central banks.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Another reason to use an SSH tunnel or VPN for all traffic, combined with HTTPS Everywhere.
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by jstalin 14y ago
And I, who can't afford one even with the super awesome creative financing, get to subsidize those who can afford it with my taxes. Awesome.
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by jstalin 14y ago
It gets hairy if the person they're being asked to testify about is a client because that implicates the attorney/client privilege, which the article mentions.
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Prenda Law's Attorneys Take The Fifth(popehat.com)
105 points by jstalin 14y ago|38 comments
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by jstalin 14y ago
That article is incorrect, it says there are 109,000 BTC in circulation. It's more like 11 million. http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/
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by jstalin 14y ago
To demonstrate how obsessively out of whack the conservapedia folks are, note that "Homosexual Agenda" is the top article, after the home page. I remember a few years ago that all of the top 10 were related to homosexuality. They must have
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by jstalin 14y ago
This was my first thought as well when they announced the death of Reader. I don't see why they'd keep feedburner running. If they're going to kill it, they should just announce it now, rather than prolonging the pain.
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by jstalin 14y ago
That report is pretty damning.
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by jstalin 14y ago
And there's no mention of the cost of the trash cans themselves. I've found that governments are fond of flouting operating cost savings while incurring massive capital costs. For instance, my local transit agency purchased several hybrid-e
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by jstalin 14y ago
I dropped Apache in favor of Nginx about two years ago. Haven't looked back since then. It's so much easier to configure and it uses far less memory.
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by jstalin 14y ago
I have, but it doesn't seem to discuss how mining works, for instance.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Thanks. I'm not a legal student, I'm an attorney doing some research on the issue. I was just looking for some help understanding the more difficult math concepts. Sorry that I don't live up to your standards.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Does anyone know of an explanation of the bitcoin protocol in plain English? I'm a non-math guy who's trying to write a legal treatise on the use of bitcoin, and I'd like to give some background on how it works to my readers. Can anyone hel
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by jstalin 14y ago
It's bald-faced confiscation of individuals' savings in order to bail out mismanaged banks.
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by jstalin 14y ago
This site completely borked by firefox. Had to close and restart my browser to get out of it.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Wow, just reading through how the European Council, European Commission, and European Parliament work, I'm struck by the near total lack of direct accountability to voters there is.
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by jstalin 14y ago
So they want to prevent advertisements for pornographic products? That's "nothing"? How is this well meaning?
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by jstalin 14y ago
Generally, an attorney can issue a subpoena without a judge's approval. It's when you ignore it or challenge it that a court gets involved.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Here's the actual subpoena: https://dietrolldie.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/automatticwo... It looks like they domesticated it to California, so they (wordpress) would need to file a motion to quash.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Really? apt-get install nginx php5 php5-fpm php-pear php5-common php5-mcrypt php5-cli php5-gd Takes about 2 minutes.
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by jstalin 14y ago
That's my point. Obviously, increasing the minimum wage to $1000 is ridiculous. But so is the idea that raising the minimum wage by $1 has no consequence, as some claim. The higher cost you impose on employers for low skill jobs, the more l

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