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by namelost 9y ago
What happened to the people who were behind cover?
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by namelost 9y ago
Say your bank lends you $1000, into your bank account. The bank's assets and liabilities balance out. The new deposit is a liability and the loan is an asset. The bank's total deposits rise by $1000. Because normal deposits coun
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by namelost 9y ago
Anybody can create dollars. If you take a loan out from a bank you are creating a dollar. If you make a payment on your loan you are destroying a dollar.
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by namelost 9y ago
For Assange this is a life and death situation. Sure the US will have to promise not to execute him, but nobody can stop them keeping him in conditions where he wishes he was dead. Just ask Manning. So I maintain that Assange is acting rati
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by namelost 9y ago
The context is whether Assange's behaviour is rational. If it is impossible to determine whether an extradition request has been filed, then he has to assume that one has been filed. So in fact the burden of proof is the other way ar
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by namelost 9y ago
Who knows. It is obvious why the US initially did not want to extradite Assange from the UK, because such an extradition would seem to have a low chance of success and even if it did work it would take a very long time. The UK may be a fi
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by namelost 9y ago
While I think Assange has a good case against an extradition to the US, the chances of him successfully fighting it are not 100% and if I were in his shoes I would not risk it.
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by namelost 9y ago
That is a very strange notion of freedom (albeit pervasive). Everybody has the freedom to shoplift but no one has freedom from the consequences of shoplifting.
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by namelost 9y ago
In essence the iPad is made for people who never learned how to use normal computers. If you are a person who would mash the delete key once per character to delete a line of text (e.g. my parents) then perhaps the excruciating text selecti
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by namelost 9y ago
That is different, such laws are unenforce able because they have been ruled to be so by a court. The problem is with laws that are unenforc ed , but are still enforcable. If the situation of having unenforced laws becomes normalized, then
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by namelost 9y ago
You don't know how good you have it. Try using Inkscape on a Mac. Before Electron, the quality of the average cross-platform app was generally atrocious. e.g. lack of support for retina displays, menu bars attached to the window, syste
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by namelost 9y ago
No matter how benign an ad looks , it is probably still loading a ton of javascript from dubious places. Ads are a perfect distribution system for malware, and the best strategy is to just disable the whole thing as comprehensively as poss
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by namelost 9y ago
I agree. The problem with the X is that every new feature comes with a downside. It has a edge-to-edge screen but the notch is really ugly in landscape mode. It has Face ID but no Touch ID. It has wireless charging at the cost of a fragile
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by namelost 9y ago
British English has at least two pronunciations of money that I know of, /mʌni/ and /mʊni/
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by namelost 9y ago
It is very problematic, e.g. how would you develop such a system? No city is going to allow you to break traffic laws to train an autonomous ambulance. At best you could make one for rural areas. I think the problem is probably AI-complete
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by namelost 9y ago
Over-obsession with carbohydrates/sugar intake is a health fad. One simply can't expect health fads to be uniformly distributed across the planet. People like to eat white rice, because they've been doing so for thousands of
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by namelost 9y ago
Stripe maintains a big list of prohibited businesses. Some of these are honest consumer protection. Others are there to try to instil Christian values into our money, for instance you may not use Stripe to sell sex toys. If you ask Stripe,
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by namelost 9y ago
The thesis of the article is that if bandwidth requirements are too high, then people will stop running full node wallets on their laptops, thus reducing the number of full nodes in the network. In reality, you would have to be insane to st
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by namelost 9y ago
It doesn't matter. Once you have made a commitment to pay a share of something, you pay it. What would you price the reputation of the UK at? I hope more than £39bn. All the other countries of the world are watching the UK's actio
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by namelost 9y ago
You say to your friends, "Let's share the cost of dinner". Then when you decide you don't like the dinner, walk out halfway through, leaving your friends to pick up the bill for what you ordered. Once word gets round, no
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Math behind rotation in MS Paint (2011)(math.stackexchange.com)
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by namelost 9y ago
Tunnels are dangerous. Elon is proposing to build really narrow tunnels that are hard to evacuate and then allow every random vehicle inside it. Yes it's on a sled but who is certifying that my fellow tunnelgoers' vehicles won&#x2
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by namelost 9y ago
They are suggesting going digital-out (on the source) to digital-in. No analog. But as pointed out Audio Hijack does the same thing virtually with a kernel extension.
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by namelost 9y ago
That doesn't mean you should short it. Bitcoin is casually up 6% today, in recent history it has had daily gains in excess of 20%. It can rise by multiple percent in a few minutes. You would have to be completely nuts to short it, rega
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by namelost 9y ago
Then employ someone to do it for you?
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by namelost 9y ago
What if we got rid of them all? It turns out that when you remove demarcations between pedestrians and vehicles, people end up in hospital: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/10/09/exhibition-road-accident-r... Who
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by namelost 9y ago
Would you prefer only the Russian government had access to this technology? By making the technology publicly available we can all fully understand its power. It's mathematics, and mathematics cannot be suppressed no matter how much yo
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by namelost 9y ago
The opening book was removed from Stockfish ages ago. Do you mean tablebases?
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by namelost 9y ago
The Bitcoin community I once knew is truly dead, if making purchases is an "unproven use-case" and the desire to do so on other chains is met with such hostility. Fortunately among the other cryptocurrencies are communities that h
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by namelost 9y ago
> Increasing block size results in longer validation times as well as slower block propagation Processing more transactions requires more resources. That's not a bad thing. One might note that currently Bitcoin Cash is usable as a m

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