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by mrb 6y ago
« replace all other currencies with btc » What's up with this mindset that Bitcoin must REPLACE the existing system? As a Bitcoin user for 10+ years I always envisioned Bitcoin would simply co-exist with the rest. Your mind is too bina
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by mrb 6y ago
« What use case is that? » Sending money to an unbanked person in severe financial hardship, for food & shelter. Nothing else worked. Not WU. Not TW.
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by mrb 6y ago
Recipient didn't have to use Bitcoin. He walked up to an ATM and just read me the instructions (address) to transfer the Bitcoin to the ATM. He didn't even have a Bitcoin wallet or anything.
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by mrb 6y ago
Whoever downvoted me has obviously never tried to use TW.
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by mrb 6y ago
As I said in another comment: It's impossible for 2 new unverified users to sign up to TW and send money instantly within 1 hour, cash in hand. Lengthy verification steps, etc. So TW wouldn't have worked in our urgent situation.
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by mrb 6y ago
Recipient was at the time banned from WU
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by mrb 6y ago
« how a banking system in many countries works » Recipient was unbanked (under severe financial hardship)
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by mrb 6y ago
It's impossible for 2 new unverified users to sign up to your service and send money instantly within 1 hour, cash in hand. Lengthy verification steps, etc. So TW wouldn't have worked in our urgent situation.
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by mrb 6y ago
« send money to your relatives back home » → I suggested to the recipient we use Western Union, but he had been banned from WU. Thus demonstrating the censorship-resistant value of Bitcoin. Other services we briefly considered seemed like I
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by mrb 6y ago
I know. Hence my claim.
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by mrb 6y ago
While away on vacation, I once sent $1000 in cold hard cash, on a Sunday, to an unbanked person in Los Angeles, in less than 1 hour, thanks to bitcoin and the recipient withdrawing it for cash at a Bitcoin ATM. There is not a single alterna
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by mrb 6y ago
« they buy it and what you holding increases in value, then tell them to do the same. » Literally the same happens to any investment: tell people to buy stock X, time share Y, precious metal Z, that it's awesome, so it gains value, etc
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by mrb 6y ago
« as much electricity as Chile » Or about as much as a single large hydroelectric dam. Fun fact: many miners are located in places with cheap hydro/wind electricity like Sichuan & Yunnan provinces in China. These provinces abandon
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by mrb 6y ago
I did check this South African powerball. They have 50 balls. If they are 200 draws per week, the probability is 26% over 10 years.
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by mrb 6y ago
They draw 6 balls out of 50. There are C(50,6) = 15,890,700 possible draws (C(n,k) = binomial coefficient) 45 of the draws are made of 6 consecutive numbers (1-2-3-4-5-6, then 2-3-4-5-6-7, etc, until 45-46-47-48-49-50) A single draw has a 4
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by mrb 6y ago
At about 150 sq.ft per employee ( https://robinpowered.com/blog/new-office-determine-right-off... .) that means 80,000 employees vacated office space.
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by mrb 6y ago
« did not see hospital overload or healthcare rationing at any point. » They did ration healthcare. This was the object of multiple news articles last week: https://time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster/ «
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by mrb 6y ago
I was comparing the reference images with the rendered ones, and this tree is not at the same location: https://imgur.com/a/JIpgAb8 Some low vegetation (grass) under the palm tree on the left is also absent. Is this pa
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by mrb 6y ago
I copy pasted the text. Anyway, suicides are decreasing in Peru. That's the important point.
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by mrb 6y ago
« I personally know someone whose father likely died due to being unable to access health care in a timely fashion, as well as someone else who died of cancer after their chemotherapy was postponed » Without lockdowns these people would pro
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by mrb 6y ago
Indeed. The Economist recently analyzed excess deaths data and concluded the true number of COVID-19 deaths is likely about twice higher as of September, or about 2M: https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesFransham/status&#x2F
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by mrb 6y ago
The only data I've seen (Peru) suggests that lockdowns significantly 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 homicides, suicides, traffic accidents, and other accidental deaths. I wonder if the same effect exists in other countries: https://mobile.twitte
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by mrb 6y ago
Ioannidis has been trying to publish this study for a while. He frequently updates the preprint on medrXiv and others reviewed it and criticized it extensively over the last few months. Here's a review by an actual epidemiologist point
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by mrb 6y ago
Been building DIY NAS servers for 15 years for my personal use. ZFS with initially OpenSolaris, then FreeBSD. Typically 5 to 7 drives in raidz2. I found it very strange the guy is happy with & measured 100 Mbps throughput over the netwo
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by mrb 6y ago
Pretty sure Satoshi knew ASICs would eventually come. We miners were talking about them in 2010 on the forums and IRC when he was still around engaging with the community
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by mrb 6y ago
Here is Hello World in PDF: a single letter page PDF displaying the string "Hello World" at font size 48pt. You should be able to copy/paste that into a text editor, and save it as a .pdf file. Chrome can open it. It is fully
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by mrb 6y ago
I spend $10k/year on Amazon. The only counterfeit product I've gotten? A crêpe spatula that was flimsy and clearly not like the product pictures. Am I lucky or are you guys not able to detect suspicious product listings/selle
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by mrb 6y ago
" in their most recent results Intel revenue/earnings still dwarfs AMD's. " Very simple explanation: stocks reflect future (expected) performance, not present performance. So the stock market is really just telling y
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by mrb 6y ago
« Bitcoin does not » This statement betrays you have not paid attention to the numerous improvements made to the Bitcoin infrastructure over the last 11 years: wallets, nodes, exchanges, payment processors, vaults, blockchain upgrades, basi
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by mrb 6y ago
« No, bitcoin isn't going to become a mainstream kind of money. It's too awkward for most people. » This strikes me as something written by someone who is fundamentally not a problem solver. It's like someone seeing the first

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