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by nextstep 8y ago
>>>In both cases, this hack presents a strong argument for tending towards sticking to things proven to work and to be wary of overcomplicating things and thereby introducing unnecessary risks when people’s financial assets are inv
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by nextstep 8y ago
I’m with Hunter S. Thompson on Wolfe: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/you_thieving_pile_of_alb... “thieving pile or albino warts”
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by nextstep 8y ago
I love comments like this. Probably not intended as a critique of capitalism but this guy is clearly very close to seeing how exploitation is at the very heart of our system.
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by nextstep 8y ago
Reason no. 42614 not to live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Where can I donate to his legal fund?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Boycotts are one of the most effective methods consumers have to enact change.
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by nextstep 9y ago
I think it’s implied that base-10 is lowest complexity (this page is for English speakers) and I think that is why base-15 is more “complex” than the weird French system which is mostly addition of base-10 primitives.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Promise will be paid per former inmate that enters into this program I presume? As long as there is a profit incentive for people to be in the criminal justice system, there will be market forces pushing to increase the prison population.
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by nextstep 9y ago
America is a third world country
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by nextstep 9y ago
There’s a third, valid reason you should use a VPN: accessing geo-restricted content. This use case doesn’t require any privacy guarantees above a normal user-ISP relationship.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Economic situation is not great for black Americans on average: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-weal...
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The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour Theory of Value(blog.p2pfoundation.net)
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by nextstep 9y ago
But iOS won’t reveal the plaintext password from the keychain to the user (it will only autocomplete forms).
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by nextstep 9y ago
The title of this is wrong, they raised $11 (yes, eleven dollars) and not "millions". https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw5ygw/ethereum-s...
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by nextstep 9y ago
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw5ygw/ethereum-s...
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by nextstep 9y ago
Harder and harder to do as these social networks require a phone number to create an account.
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by nextstep 9y ago
How much stock were they offering? That can often be a big portion of compensation at a publicly-traded tech company.
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by nextstep 9y ago
This is fantastic! One feature request would be to reduce the size of the "You are here" circle; it's covering many blocks surrounding my place and I'd love to make it smaller, more of a pin so it's clear what bloc
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by nextstep 9y ago
Oh HN, how is this the top comment on this fantastic blog post about the huge lifestyle drawbacks from living in SV? >> 2. Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years. This was clearly w
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by nextstep 9y ago
I can work in SV and use great, reliable public transportation to get everywhere I want in my life, often in under an hour? And I can have 5 weeks paid vacation per year? I wasn't able to find these things when I lived there...
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by nextstep 9y ago
Car-based transportation sucks at all ages, we just seem to rationalize how shitty it is for the young and able-bodied. The US is insanely car oriented and it is a huge step back in quality of life from most of the developed world.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Those people didn't invent those definitions...
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by nextstep 9y ago
Because to both customers and employees of grocery stores, this doesn’t seem like “technological progress”; I think it’s unclear if this experience is better. But it’s certainly being viewed as a costsaving measure by Amazon.
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by nextstep 9y ago
No, Ripple’s market cap is completely fictitious. The circulating supply is tiny and if this “billionaire” tried to liquidate a significant portion of these ripple tokens, it would crash the market. Look at the 24h trading volumes for xrp
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by nextstep 9y ago
Why is it rated “age 17+”?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Surprised they don’t switch to monero if they’re switching cryptocurrency. Fast and cheap (like litecoin) but also many added privacy benefits.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Some of the negativity about Bitcoin in particular is around the relative lack of utility of the actual network, and how this usefulness hasn’t grown with the price. Currently, Bitcoin Core (the dominant fork still) has ridiculously large
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by nextstep 9y ago
City of New York and the neighboring state being New Jersey?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Every time there is something mentioning Bitcoin Cash or the scaling issues with Bitcoin Core, the same people show up in these threads attacking everyone and spamming the comments with the same arguments over and over. (I’m not going to n
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by nextstep 9y ago
If John wants to pay Sally, but the cheap/practical way is to use the existing path of channels through Bob and Carol and whatever, then it’s not peer-to-peer anymore! I don’t get why this fundamental architecture change is so appeali

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