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by lojack 9y ago
The military generally wants soldiers to have families because it gives them more of a will to survive. I imagine NASA wants similar things for their astronauts.
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by lojack 9y ago
Absolutely 100% get the CPAP machine and give it a few months. I didn't immediately feel better after using the machine, but I'm about one year in at this point and it was life changing for me.
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by lojack 9y ago
I used to sleep until noon on the weekends and could easily spend 10+ hours sleeping a night if I let myself. After a year of my wife kicking me out of bed because of snoring too loud, I finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed with a s
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by lojack 9y ago
That’s clearly a straw man argument. A) The federal government doesn’t ban gambling. B) As far as I’m aware there isn’t a single place in this country where gambling is/isn’t allowed for those with specific net worths.
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by lojack 9y ago
Or, worse yet, what it’d turn into.... Apache CRDG
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by lojack 9y ago
Ran into this the other day when trying to replace a bad hard drive. Was planning on starting from scratch, wasn’t able to do network recovery, had to do network recovery of lion to reformat the hard drive and then restart the high Sierra n
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by lojack 9y ago
Another problem with those numbers is that its a two sided transaction, and Visa data centers only account for one side of the transaction. It also doesn't account for any clearing houses external to Visa.
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by lojack 9y ago
> There's no other transaction that happens as part of paying with VISA other than the monthly bill. I respectfully disagree. There are many many transactions that happen behind the scenes when you're paying with a Visa card. A
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by lojack 9y ago
Cash in hand isn’t unhackable at all. Counterfeiting is still a real thing.
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by lojack 9y ago
You can also train them to have a secondary home and fly between their primary and secondary home in order to achieve full duplex messaging.
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by lojack 9y ago
Because bitcoin relies on proof of work in order to determine consensus. Usually vendors require X confirmations, and confirmations happen every 10 minutes of so (every time a block is mined). Ripple doesn't use proof of work, it relie
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by lojack 9y ago
> Doesn't it just require trust of a single party for settlements If you're talking about two banks... There are thousands of banks out there all with varying levels of trust, and those banks all need to transfer funds between
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by lojack 9y ago
> Yes, but is there something that Ripple is doing here that could not be done by any non-blockchain distributed system? Yes... as far as I'm aware, most (all?) other non-blockchain distributed ledgers require complete trust between
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by lojack 9y ago
Have you ever submitted a payment or received a payment and seen it marked as "pending". That's likely the result of a delay due to interbank transfers. Real time settlement is something theoretically possible with central ba
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by lojack 9y ago
More decentralization because you don't essentially need a special purpose FPGA (or whatever is popular these days) specifically meant for mining coins, as these special purpose machines are typically more centralized in larger farms.
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by lojack 9y ago
> You might use USD to store value because you know that it's value isn't going to fluctuate like crazy from month to month or year to year. Noted, and I tend to agree with you on that point. > You'd be stupid to ever
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by lojack 9y ago
I understand your point, but I'm not sure I agree that being deflationary or being primarily used as an investment precludes it from being used as a medium of exchange. I do think there are some aspects of bitcoin that limit its use as
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by lojack 9y ago
its worth noting that the fork wasn't actually because of a bug in Ethereum, but because of a bug in a smart contract (the DAO). Ethereum itself worked perfectly. Bugs do exist in Ethereum and Bitcoin all the time, but they can almost
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by lojack 9y ago
Sure, some people treat it as an investment that can be hoarded, but that doesn't change the fact that it can be exchanged. Your narrow definition of medium of exchange sort of excludes any deflationary currency that someone may hold o
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by lojack 9y ago
Very much agreed.
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by lojack 9y ago
You're cherry picking my argument. My point was that we've seen this happen numerous times in the past to the point where its a trend. Every other time we saw this pattern, the price ended up higher than where it started. So, its
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by lojack 9y ago
Sorry for being less specific, I meant intrinsic value
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by lojack 9y ago
People say this every time the price has a sharp increase, but after seeing this happen repeatedly, I'm convinced its simply a price correction that swings too far into an overcorrection and eventually comes back to the intrinsic value
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by lojack 9y ago
I'm pretty sure stu_k knew exactly what they meant, and was questioning the "vegetarian types" the OP was referring to. Just because one is vegetarian doesn't mean they care about GMO, or being healthy, or any of that st
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by lojack 9y ago
> You can't tax what you can't track. Most cryptocurrencies are actually quite trackable. Significantly more trackable than fiat currencies. There are notable exceptions like Monero and currencies specifically meant to protect
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by lojack 9y ago
> This differs from traditional banks which requires a physical bank robbery. A traditional bank is still susceptible from similar attacks. Difference being, at banks they're just balance sheets in a database, so forensics and backu
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by lojack 9y ago
Facial recognition is something humans are known to be better at than computers, and identical twins throw off humans all the time. Even when computers surpass humans at this task (probably not that far off) they will likely have difficulty
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by lojack 9y ago
What does my twin brother see when I hand him my phone?
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by lojack 9y ago
> Choosing someone that looks like the owner would increase the odds greatly. Yeah, like an identical twin, or family member.
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by lojack 9y ago
Businesses wanting to use it probably care more about stability than anything. If there was a limited supply and it wasn't easily divisible then I'd agree with you.

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