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by moe 12y ago
Every single terror victim is a tragedy and one too many. However, when you follow the news media and the politician speeches you are led to believe that we're all going to die from a terrorist attack any minute now. In my opinion, the
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by moe 12y ago
There was a google spreadsheet that had summed it up, embedded into (iirc) a Washington Post article. The article was quite convoluted though, that's why I linked to the data source instead. I can't find that spreadsheet back righ
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by moe 12y ago
Also for perspective: 3467 people in the USA have been killed by terror attacks[1] since 1970. In the same timeframe 2091 americans were killed by lightning strike[2] and roughly 102.000.000 died of old age. [1] http://www.start.
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by moe 12y ago
It's important to have a finely-tuned sense of ethics So when totalitarian regimes apply denial of education, mass surveillance, indefinite detention without trial, then that is evil. But when the USA does it then it is due to a &quo
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by moe 12y ago
who and how actively they are doing it should be the main issue here Yes, it absolutely is. Yet for some reason you keep trying to defend their Orwellian ambitions with some handwavy "they have always been spying, it's their job
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by moe 12y ago
And since when mass surveillance is a new thing? [...] Countries were conducting mass surveillance since pretty much WW2 Since when are nukes a new thing? Countries have been going to war for centuries! Can you see how absurd a notion tha
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by moe 12y ago
not 1000's of documents [...] of which many probably contain actionable information which i would dare to say puts the EU as a organisation, and you as an individual at more risk than anything the NSA will ever did or do. Fearmonger
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by moe 12y ago
The obvious answer is that it becomes much harder for the NSA (and related entities) to do their job when their tactics and capabilities are known to the world. Harder as in how? That handwavy excuse gets thrown around a lot, I have yet t
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by moe 12y ago
I would ask the other way round. Why should this knowledge be hidden from the public?
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by moe 12y ago
Apologies, you are of course correct. Round here it is referred to as "EUR drop" (relative to CHF) and I mixed that up. (I fixed this in the original comment)
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by moe 12y ago
Shouldn't systemd embed a BitTorrent client before it starts downloading things?
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by moe 12y ago
but in highly leveraged FX markets even 1% can wipe people out The CHF spike did wipe people out. For example the world's largest currency broker FXCM; http://uk.businessinsider.com/fxcm-currency-broker-news-2015...
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by moe 12y ago
Congrats to Adam Kessler for discovering that Bitcoin is volatile. But how could this sharp minded journalist miss the real silicon valley scandal that nobody writes about? Coffee is hot, millions of investors get burned every day !
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by moe 12y ago
Read the link in my comment, it goes into great detail about what FISA leaves to be desired. An NSA analyst sums it up as: "Kangaroo court[1] with a rubber stamp". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_cou
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by moe 12y ago
So all the defense the government used with the NSA database being overseen by the FISA court doesn't apply, there was no court oversight of this program. To be fair, calling FISA a "court" is a bit of an overstatement[1].
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by moe 12y ago
Python without C extension compatibility would be Python without Numpy, Scipy, scikit-learn, PIL/Pillow, JSON, StringIO Would we really miss them if Python was then fast enough to do these things natively?
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by moe 12y ago
not everyone considers that [buying drugs] to be a positive or even entirely neutral act Most european governments do. Germany, UK, Spain, Italy etc. include revenue from drug trade (and prostitution) in their GDP. Most people consider a
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by moe 12y ago
Does the bitcoin protocol foresee in a situation where the hashing capacity is drastically reduced? Yes, the network difficulty adapts, which actually happens all the time. See the red line: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitco
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by moe 12y ago
The idea is that with mining you can generate BTC for less than it would cost to buy them.
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by moe 12y ago
So the USD is also wrong, because most drugs are being paid for with USD?
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by moe 12y ago
doesn't have a strong use aside from buying drugs And? Even if that was true, I don't see the point. A large portion of internet traffic, quite likely the majority, is transporting porn or "stolen" movies. Should we
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by moe 12y ago
They keep bringing that up as if it was a flaw. What's wrong with people using BTC to buy drugs? How is it better or worse than people buying drugs with any other currency? Why is it "bad" for Bitcoin to be useful and first a
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by moe 12y ago
one day battery life [...] would (IMO) be preferable over a 2 or 3 day battery life That makes absolutely no sense. Nobody forces you to use the "extra" battery time. Nothing stops you from pretending it doesn't exist and c
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by moe 12y ago
Why don't you just put both on the charger every night then?
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by moe 12y ago
Or if you're on a Mac you don't even need any extra hardware. Just ARQ and an AWS Account [or google drive, or dreamobjects, or SFTP, or...]. Your backup is client side encrypted and completely painless. Take half an hour to set i
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by moe 12y ago
I'm frankly tired of this now and will just leave this comic here: http://www.icanbarelydraw.com/comic/comics/2014-01-27-40-mil...
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by moe 12y ago
Bitcoin mining will always be a race on who can spend the most energy. No. It is a race on who can spend their energy the most efficiently . (in terms of hashes per kWh). That's why old mining methods (CPU miner, GPU miner...) are o
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by moe 12y ago
Personal attacks all the way because your pet golden hammer was attacked Neither is Bitcoin my pet golden hammer (I don't even know that metaphor), nor is my statement a personal attack. It's merely pointing out that your claim
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by moe 12y ago
So, favorite strawman it is. Have a nice day! :-)
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by moe 12y ago
Or I could just keep using my credit card and not have to worry. It's starting to get hilarious... Yes. If you want to use a credit card then please, by all means, use a credit card. And in addition you may use Bitcoin in scenarios w

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