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by natrius 13y ago
I think it's a bit far-fetched to claim that MtGox failing is an existential threat to Bitcoin. Once it becomes widespread knowledge that merchants can accept Bitcoin with no fees (up to $1M) and get the exact dollar amounts in their b
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by natrius 13y ago
My understanding is that M-Pesa is used in Kenya and Tanzania, which mathematically can't be the majority of the continent. M-Pesa uses local currencies, which frequently lose their value in non-OECD countries.
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by natrius 13y ago
Can you elaborate on those AT&T plans?
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by natrius 13y ago
Why would you use this instead of a warp wallet? https://keybase.io/warp/
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by natrius 13y ago
Every wallet that receives funds from the flagged wallet is tainted until they send it back to that wallet. All of the funds, not just the tainted amount.
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by natrius 13y ago
I'm not suggesting that it'd be in the protocol. It'd be in wallets. If you send Bitcoin to my wallet from a tainted address, my client would automatically send it back to you.
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by natrius 13y ago
You don't have to seize them. You can just declare that funds will not be accepted from any wallets that receive Bitcoin from the flagged wallet. If an entity with enough market power started flagging wallets, services would quickly bu
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by natrius 13y ago
You're overselling the basic income. Most software developers have grown used to the lifestyle their income affords and would have to uproot their lives to live on a basic income. The average San Francisco rent would probably eat up al
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by natrius 13y ago
The solution you've chosen is probably right for your situation. However, lots of people (including me not too long ago) create static sites in Django because they dream of making it more dynamic that way. That's usually a bad app
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by natrius 13y ago
That point is wrong. Setting up a Django deployment that won't fall over when you get traffic is more work than moving Jekyll templates into a Django install. Plus, if he'd started with Jekyll, he might have chosen to store his we
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by natrius 13y ago
So... you're using a database? Great. Use Django.
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by natrius 13y ago
There are plenty of form services you can drop on a static page. That is what you should do.
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by natrius 13y ago
Don't do this. If you aren't using a database or processing forms, your life will be better if you learn jekyll and use it.
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by natrius 13y ago
This isn't true anymore. http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/charging-customers-a-credit-c...
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by natrius 13y ago
It costs about 1% to acquire Bitcoin using USD. If the merchant wants to receive USD instantly without exchange risk, that's another 1%. Not 3%, which is the typical cost of doing business with credit and debit cards. The last taxi dri
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by natrius 13y ago
No one limits their usage of "racist" to the scenario you described, so that's not what it means. Your situation is racial supremacy, which is a special kind of racist.
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by natrius 13y ago
You're correct. The latter.
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by natrius 13y ago
I think the point is that if your email provider is hacked or malicious, your email password is hacked, but that's really only a problem if you use the same password on multiple sites. Don't do that.
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by natrius 13y ago
A more PR-friendly headline would be, "Use Two-Factor Authentication to Secure High-Value Data." Persona is not the problem.
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by natrius 13y ago
That doesn't make any sense. How do you obtain a new currency without an exchange?
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by natrius 13y ago
The vast majority of the UK's health expenses flow through the NHS. This gives NHS the power to demand prices that are lower than they would be if there were many competing insurers. That is effectively a price control. If you don&#x27
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by natrius 13y ago
I don't fear the rest of the world getting better than us at medicine. Money motivates most people. The best doctors will go where they can get the most money. That is here. If I had to pick between the UK's system, where price co
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by natrius 13y ago
Insurance companies generally have to spend 80% of premiums on medical expenses[1]. The profit and marketing expenses aren't that much of your premiums. What you seem to be asking for is price fixing the way much of the rest of the wor
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by natrius 13y ago
The Affordable Care Act requires routine medical visits to be covered by your insurance provider without a copay. If you aren't seeing a doctor every year, you're throwing away money. http://www.webmd.com/health-in
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The Airdrop(niran.org)
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by natrius 13y ago
Charging lower rent in urban areas wouldn't create more of them to live in. You'd have the exact same number of people living in suburbs.
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by natrius 13y ago
Sure, investing makes tons of sense, but does that mean checking and savings accounts shouldn't exist? Individuals are better off with the bank accounts denominated in a currency with a fixed supply. That's so clearly true to me t
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by natrius 13y ago
Governments choose and maintain currencies with low, stable inflation because it's good for the economy and the people at large. Individuals choose currencies with stable supplies to maintain the value of their wealth. In nations where
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by natrius 13y ago
Bitcoin is unique in that it's a currency bubble. Any currency that isn't imposed by a government will have to have a growth rate that looks like a bubble on its path to becoming widely adopted. The way that currencies collapse
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by natrius 13y ago
Paper is a generic term when it comes to publishing. If you want trademark protection, there are laws for that, and they don't apply to these guys.

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