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by lagadu 9y ago
Strongly agree. Humans tend to respond negatively to what they perceive as an intrusion. That said, what surprised me the most about the whole article was learning that sometimes there are in fact real people behind those random annoying ch
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by lagadu 9y ago
Woah there granddad, how did you get on the computer ;) I imagine he meant in the normal distribution sense, where 25-40 comprises ~70% of the userbase; entirely anecdotal but I get the feeling that's a reasonable assessment.
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by lagadu 9y ago
I don't think he did. It doesn't matter whether you believe Hitler was right or that Dipsy is the best teletubby, I believe everyone is entitled to their behaviour and beliefs during their time off work without any professional co
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by lagadu 9y ago
Absolutely. It seems they only blocked a few specific large providers and service types. I often route my netflix traffic through a smaller provider and I never got any service interruption.
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by lagadu 9y ago
Negative on that: all a VPN provider knows about me à priori is my IP (and all that comes with that, like ISP and rough location) and which monero payment ID I used to pay it with (which is entirely useless). In contrast an ISP knows everyt
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by lagadu 9y ago
It doesn't on our side of the pond.
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by lagadu 9y ago
There is: in significant chunks of the world we call that "social security".
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by lagadu 9y ago
Infrastructure. You can reach a lot further using roads than you can using tracks. A system that would replace roads with tracks would be completely impractical and we'd end up with the same as the road system with all its problems.
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by lagadu 9y ago
> Of course, in neither data format do you have any way of actually authenticating the other votes, by design. Maybe the vote in the block before yours was a dead person, or never existed at all, how would you know? In many European coun
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by lagadu 9y ago
The "average person" doesn't have access to a computer or stable internet connectivity, if we're arguing for what the average person should be able to do/access we have a lot more basic problems to discuss before we
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by lagadu 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies don't necessarily have to be mined. Some newer ones have systems that aren't computationally intensive; they do that by effectively inverting the system of responsibility: they work by saying "if you hold our
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by lagadu 9y ago
You're thinking of the oldest of the old: bitcoin. Modern (sometimes called 3rd gen) cryptos are able to do instant, secure transactions with no fees. A project I'm particularly fond of, having tried it out, is called nano[0]. The
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by lagadu 9y ago
It's pure speculation. "Bubble" means "something that is overvalued according to fundamental analysis"; once the market or asset stabilises one can argue that the bubble burst and it hit its natural valuation. The p
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by lagadu 9y ago
I believe he means all the outgoing currency getting destroyed.
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by lagadu 9y ago
A 1070 for example will mine marginally more eth than a 580 but will consume less power. The case you mentioned, mining Monero is an outlier at best, as cryptonote is used by no other major crypto and vegas are pretty good at it, despite be
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by lagadu 9y ago
It's my understanding that having a car in the US is effectively mandatory for the overwhelming majority of the working population, doesn't that effectively make it the same?
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by lagadu 9y ago
Anecdotal of course but here goes: I'm one of those people angry at the mandatory pocket integration: I don't really have a problem with how they described they're integrating this into the recommendations while keeping user
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by lagadu 9y ago
Plenty of us do, particularly here among the HN crowd it's fairly common (myself included and I work for a salary).
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by lagadu 9y ago
This is pathetic. It's not even a "doomsday" clock, it's a "a couple of random countries go to nuclear war with each other while the rest of civilisation watches and cleans up after they're done" clock. Su
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by lagadu 9y ago
The justice system is meant to treat every person using the exact same criteria, as long as it's statistically relevant. That people are born in places where crime is higher isn't a problem the justice can or should handle; it&#x2
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by lagadu 9y ago
But they are, according to virtually all the data that we have. However there's no indication at all that the cause is genetic but rather cultural in the US.
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by lagadu 9y ago
Qualcomm has had a massive monopoly on high-end LTE modems, which Apple has been forced to use and license at however much Qualcomm demands.
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by lagadu 9y ago
I'm interested in investing in this golden bitcoin phography business. Will there be an ICO?
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by lagadu 9y ago
> 100% proven to combat all symptoms caused by government released chemtrails Can't argue with their claims either, the mints really do combat all the symptoms caused by government released chemtrails.
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by lagadu 9y ago
A robot doesn't have to do something better than a human to succeed; it just has to do it well enough for us to accept the trade-off. A good example is robot vacuum cleaners: I have had one for a few years now and it's easily the
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by lagadu 9y ago
plus.codes seems like an interesting idea, as far as I can tell it's only encoding gps coordinates in a more human-readable format (does your gps use degrees, minutes and seconds; degrees and decimal minutes; decimal degrees or somethi
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by lagadu 9y ago
Same for Denmark, technically we do have regions but they're not even worth writing on any address. Same goes for Portugal, where I've lived: no state/province/region exists; on forms stupid enough to require that you ju
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by lagadu 9y ago
We live in an age of outrage culture, what does anyone expect? The cultural norm nowadays is to get vocally outraged whenever anyone does anything that you even slightly dislike, of course this kind of abuse is the result, it doesn't h
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by lagadu 9y ago
In your uncle's defense, buying bitcoin at $1000 turned out to be a huge bargain.
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by lagadu 9y ago
There are a few websites that accept other tokens but they're few and far between, nothing like bitcoin.

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