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by newnamenewface 6y ago
No, a swarm of autonomous actors in a decentralized system will continue to support it so long as it's profitable and legal (or at the very least, easy enough to get away with). Those are two huge assumptions for e.g. Bitcoin which has
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Make sure it's someone you trust! Lol, I usually go to the back alley doctor-bankers for my routine payment-procedures.
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Well, there's one very real way that complex financial instruments disappear in a huff. Bitcoin has only existed for less than 15 years. There's no indication that it's invincible to, say, a bubble burst and rapid permanent d
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Ethereum still does not use PoS and relies on PoW just like Bitcoin.
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
This title should be amended to eliminate the (imo) implication that he did so as a result of the firings. "He did not mention their firings in his farewell note."
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Glenn Greenwald is right leaning? I disagree with your appraisal that most would consider him that. He's highly critical of mainstream liberal media which creates the sense he must be 'on the other side,' but he's defini
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
I appreciate your wariness of headlines. Device is used in this way often though.
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
I blame reddit for this one. :^) needs to be escaped for else the mouth floats away.
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
People got mad at Notch for internet-age old reasons: expecting someone with high technical skills in one domain to have the right takes on social and political issues because they're now a internet social presence in addition to whate
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Mortars or fireworks? That said, I agree that there were certainly protests that consistently became violent at night time for the span of at least weeks, maybe months.
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Which connection? So far as I understand it there was no definitional collusion between Trump and Russia specifically but I don't know about Assange.
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
"Yet the Chicago Strangler [1], who is still active, still operating to this day, 50+ victims, few have heard of....because he attacks marginalized groups like black runaways rather than white people." Your implication is that whi
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
Two were middle class and attended RISD and the third came from wealth and attended Harvard. I'm sure they all could've fallen back on parents to some extent (the wealthy one especially) but it's not like that's a atypic
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
I would challenge the conceit that 'they do good by making their investors money.' They make their investors money, full-stop. Perhaps their investors choose to do good with that money, more likely, they choose to do business with
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by newnamenewface 6y ago
This is a very common way to take coffee in New Orleans. If you're considering this method, Cool Brew sells containers that are perfect to store the concentrated coffee. This is how my family has stored their cold brew since I was a ki