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931.
by maaku 12y ago
I change jobs as frequently as players get traded in NFL. Welcome to the new economy.
932.
by maaku 12y ago
That's not how the system described works. Relations can be instances of schema defined elsewhere in the hypergraph.
933.
by maaku 12y ago
You mean like p2pool?
934.
by maaku 12y ago
It shouldn't be. Mining pools are a solution, not the problem . The problem is centralization transaction selection, which is an entirely orthogonal problem. The OP gets rid of pooling and pushes miners to hosted solutions, which is f
935.
by maaku 12y ago
Puerto Rico is not overseas, it is part of the US...
936.
by maaku 12y ago
> I'd guess that the US citizenship is in fact the most coveted worldwide, all things considered. You're assuming people want to live in the US.
937.
by maaku 12y ago
Two separate issues there :)
938.
by maaku 12y ago
How do you see hell-banned posts?
939.
by maaku 12y ago
Having worked at Lockheed I can say: this is 100% true.
940.
by maaku 12y ago
Not really. That happens regularly just because of luck.
941.
by maaku 12y ago
I don't know about you but I plan on lasting forever.
942.
by maaku 12y ago
what? No. there is absolutely no such thing as an absolute position in the universe.
943.
by maaku 12y ago
I am for gay marriage. But I also understand that not all oppositions to gay marriage are rooted in intolerance, bigotry, or hatred. I respect the right of Eich to express his opinion and donate funds within the confines of the law & hi
944.
by maaku 12y ago
climate change?
945.
by maaku 12y ago
That's not really their utility though. The value of firstbits is that you just type the first few bits of the address you want to look up and hit enter. It's like auto-complete.
946.
by maaku 12y ago
Wow that was so missing the point. I was kinda more hinting towards how the East India Company financed wars of conquest, meddled in local politics, and then neglected their responsibilities to the population and let them starve (e.g. Benga
947.
by maaku 12y ago
This has nothing to do with the man accused of being DPR. This is like the police showing up to a drug deal and both the buyer and supplier scattering and miraculously getting away. The police then take the coccaine and cash onto a giant po
948.
by maaku 12y ago
You're talking about liquidity not fungability. But regardless Bitstamp's 24 hour volume yesterday was 32,799 BTC. Trading that much bitcoin is not really a problem.
949.
by maaku 12y ago
> Maybe companies / corporations with enough power to actually challenge the governments of the world isn't such a bad thing after all. Or, perhaps it would be better to say "maybe corporations with enough power to challen
950.
by maaku 12y ago
> Now, if the good was completely fungible, risk-free and totally liquid (think cash), there would be no expected discount because of risk.. just transaction cost. How is that not the case here?
951.
by maaku 12y ago
I was on a phone and not equipped to research what its name was, but yes it was Paycheck with Ben Affleck I was thinking of.
952.
by maaku 12y ago
I actually didn't know it was a Philip K. Dick story, although that totally makes sense.
953.
by maaku 12y ago
there is a movie about that
954.
by maaku 12y ago
There was the HCL (halt-and-catch-fire) opcode as a submission...
955.
by maaku 12y ago
Vaccinations (medical science ) and disease control / pandemic response are not as divorced from "workings of the universe" as I think you think they are...
956.
by maaku 12y ago
1) yes, you can sue the government or contractors fir patent infringement. 2) the government can issue secret patents IANAL, but I was a government contractor for many years.
957.
by maaku 12y ago
That is one philosophical position -- a classist and strongly capitalist one dividing members of a company into owners and employees. This leads to division of society into workers (who sell their labour) and capitalists (who collect rent).
958.
by maaku 12y ago
Big difference between H2 and He. Leakage is a problem, but not so nasty a problem. (Hydrogen leaks through solid metal. Yes you read that right.)
959.
by maaku 12y ago
> I'm not arguing that employee equity valuation can't be abusive. It often is. And that's all I'm arguing. It often is abusive, and it shouldn't be. Of course one of the problems is that young coders just out of
960.
by maaku 12y ago
I could give cooperatives as a counter-example. However what I'm talking about is something different -- e.g. language in options contracts that cause you lose your shares if you leave the company unless you immediately exercise them,

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