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by kneel 10y ago
Seriously annoying whatever they're doing.
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by kneel 10y ago
Theoretical physicists explore lots of crazy ideas and their implications. It's necessary to keep an open mind when you're working on the outer edges of science. Max Tegmark is famous for his occasional crackpot theories. If anyth
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by kneel 10y ago
Somewhat related I can anecdotally confirm that small doses of LSD (20-30ug) puts you in a high state of focus. It's hard to get the measurement right. Halfway through my productive morning (probably at my peak) I had to take a long br
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by kneel 10y ago
>The selling point isn't, and shouldn't be, secrecy. I'm definitely not Swiss nor do I know much about the banking system there. But in the US the secrecy of Swiss bank accounts was widely considered the only reason to hav
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by kneel 10y ago
Berkeley has been having it's coldest/rainiest weather of the year during the last week. Really heavy rain last weekend. Unlike most of the year where everyone can leave their windows open because the weather is almost always sunn
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by kneel 10y ago
Their laser printer was stored/run in their closet. They may have been doing this for a while with no problems because Berkeley is so nice and everyone leaves their windows open. Berkeley has been unusually cold/rainy this last we
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by kneel 10y ago
I'm 100% on board with bitcoin but damn are we annoying with our proselytizing. I think bitcoin will slowly seep in as the solution to many problems as they arise. I don't think cramming down everyone's throat is going to hel
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by kneel 10y ago
A semantic fact checker could work via the snopes model. Not sure that it would really focus on pictures of men/women but here's what I was thinking. You press a button and it analyzes all statements on the page, or maybe highligh
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by kneel 10y ago
I really take issue with these kinds of articles. Misinformation, fake news, propaganda all pretty much the same thing and they've all been around for a long time. Our media is a reflection of who we are. Confused, misled, naive and ea
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by kneel 10y ago
The country went through mass hysteria after the election, first it was fake news, then russian hackers, then the usual blaming of demographs. The news media was completely upended by Trump. He seemingly has a reality distortion field of hi
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by kneel 10y ago
This is going to be a problem. Student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, debtors simply garnish wages. Terrible things will happen with a young overburdened workforce slaving away for their debt. Politicians are already trying to fig
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by kneel 10y ago
"Taking over" is sensationalism. High-speed trader's are taking advantage of arbitrage on zero fee digital currency exchanges.
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by kneel 10y ago
>Decentralization is usually popular because of illegal intents (like bittorrent). I guess we view de/centralization in a different way. All the sites you listed are centralized under a brand/code but decentralized on cloud ser
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by kneel 10y ago
Go buy a couple grams of cocaine from your local friendly neighborhood cartel and let us know how safe you felt throughout the whole process. If not you could always broach the subject with a friend. 'Hey do you know anyone that sells
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by kneel 10y ago
>Identity theft is a nuisance caused by large companies trying to dodge responsibility for negligence onto the public. That's one way of looking at it. >The failure mode is that your credit rating is damaged, not that all of your
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by kneel 10y ago
>How can a person be ultimately responsible for their own security if they aren't aware of even the most basic of security issues in tech? Phone based AES hardware with fingerprint security, coupled with QR code scanning payments. L
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by kneel 10y ago
>If decentralisation were more efficient than centralisation, systems aiming for efficiency would naturally centralise; this is not what we observe. I'm going to assume you mixed up your words there. I'd argue that we see lots
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by kneel 10y ago
Would you prefer teleportation?
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by kneel 10y ago
>That's a partial answer to only one question which, if a quick google search is correct, ignores all but the easiest problem: BIP38 appears to offer a way to backup a primary key using a printout and a memorized passphrase. That do
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by kneel 10y ago
In a trustless decentralized world (ie the web) more speed means less security. There is definitely an equilibrium between centralized and decentralized systems. I realize I'm starting to sound like a crackpot so I'll just recomme
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by kneel 10y ago
It's a tradeoff for security. It'll be interesting to see what happens when(if?) Bitcoin upgrades to SegWit. This infrastructure is designed to support off-chain transactions while settling on the chain.
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>Due to its decentralised nature it will always be more costly than centralised solutions. That's a really sweeping claim and I'd argue that it's too soon to really claim one way or another. The security of bitcoin is inhe
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by kneel 10y ago
Literally the first thing that happens when you create a wallet in breadwallet is you are given a seed phrase with instructions. Many wallets use this technique (BIP38) If you ever lose your phone you can recover your wallet with this phras
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by kneel 10y ago
It can be as simple as scanning qr codes with your phone wallet. Aaron Voisine has done an incredible job with breadwallet, highly recommended.
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Investment banks don't use Visa to transfer money and bitcoin isn't replacing electronic trading platforms.
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Bitcoin allows you to buy all sorts of exotic drugs from strangers, safely and securely from your couch.
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by kneel 10y ago
'relative speed' Much faster than ACH payments, wire tranfers.
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From an investment banks perspective a lot of the intrigue around 'blockchain technology' is due to the relative speed and security it offers. Investment banks have chosen to pursue 'blockchain technologies' rather than
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by kneel 10y ago
This isn't really a protest, you're missing the point. If Instagram actually changed their policy to allow female nipples there would be thousands of novelty pop up accounts that just post women's breasts. Instagram already h
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by kneel 10y ago
This is really funny. However protesting against Instagram's policy is really dumb. This is simply just a 'gotcha' loophole. The struggle for equality is a lot bigger than this.

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