kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
If I kept my retirement funds in $100 bills, I would be just as paranoid about them too.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It isn't. So what? Things will get better. And even if it doesn't, those who really need bitcoin will be able to use it.
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by kobeya 9y ago
“friends”
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by kobeya 9y ago
It existing and being available for those who truly need decentralized money. It's a bit like saying the success of Tor is when X% of the internet's traffic is over Tor. No, the value of Tor comes from just existing and working wh
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by kobeya 9y ago
The price doesn’t define the success of bitcoin.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Drug use is decriminalized. Drug distribution is not.
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is mostly correct, although it is a matter of dosage. People can exhibit symptoms that to the average person seem the same either because of a deficiency or an excess of the pathways amphetamine (the active ingredient of Adderral) con
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by kobeya 9y ago
FMRI Brain scans tell a different story. If Dr. Eisenberg really believed that in the end, he was wrong.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That’s great! Glad you’re making progress.
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by kobeya 9y ago
If you have ADHD it’s not so simple. When I’m off my pills — which is to say every day of my life before I was diagnosed — I don’t really make conscious decisions about such things. I open my computer to work and find myself on Twitter or F
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Two years ago I could spend a week not working because I was avoiding some task. This is a great article and there’s plenty to talk about in organizational systems, even if this seems to be subtly pitching his own products in places. B
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by kobeya 9y ago
Comfort+ (W+ fare) gives a MQM boost.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You can get 80% of the way to Diamond status from AMEX bonuses alone. That’s a bit more than a token gesture. In my own case I’m approaching Platinum status but wouldn’t have even qualified for Silver if not for the bonus.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Nitpick, but those are the result of fission not fusion.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Volcanic eruptions have caused global mini-ice ages, widespread famine, and revolutions before.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think one of the main reasons they do this is not just the plane out, but the plane in. It’s typically loaded with relief supplies and first responders.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Language stability may not be a goal.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It went as low as $3.3k. That’s a bit lower than we’re at now.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The first was a last ditch effort by the Qing dynasty to retain power with the election of powerless feel-good provincial assemblies. Even if they had real authority, which they did not, only half a percent of the populace had franchise. No
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by kobeya 9y ago
We don’t know what happened to Tank Man, FYI.
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is incorrect. There was no period of Chinese democracy during that time.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Libertarianism depends on the rule of law. A central party system where the government always has total authority and is exempt from even the rules it sets is kinda the opposite of libertarian.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That gives them the right to do crazy things. That doesn’t stop it from being crazy.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It crashed from $5k.
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by kobeya 9y ago
NASA doesn’t build rockets. You mean Lockheed/Boeing/ATK.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Case in point, SpaceX has demonstrated that applying standard business optimization tactics to space hardware manufacturing works.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Thanks!
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by kobeya 9y ago
Just irony it seems.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I'm more concerned with violence than overdosing. And that definitely goes down with decriminalization.
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by kobeya 9y ago
So have prescriptions and pharmacies. That's a separate argument from decriminalizion.

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