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by nextstep 9y ago
A few years ago, it was easy to say "well, all the issues are at the BTC <-> USD (or other fiat currency) boundaries". But today's bitcoin is nearly unusable even just within the confines of the bitcoin network. For s
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by nextstep 9y ago
You recommended “Debt” on here a while back and so I read it and just finished it this week. Amazing read! So interesting how the language of debt is tied up in our conceptualization of morality. I see this everywhere now, mostly recentl
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by nextstep 9y ago
What’s the difference? (honest question)
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by nextstep 9y ago
I’m not sure if you’re willfully misinterpreting what happened or just unware, but the debate over how to scale bitcoin (basically, on-chain vs off-chain) is know being played out with Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash. And it’s looking like big blo
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by nextstep 9y ago
I think maybe this author is overly defining nuclear family in such a way that the issues are all really problems with living in the suburbs. A family living together in a city could have a much stronger community and social outlets for al
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by nextstep 9y ago
Thought this would be about Viuly ( https://viuly.com ) but I guess there’s a few cryptotokens trying to compete in this space.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Bitcoin Cash is usable, at least so much as Bitcoin circa 2012 was "usable".
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by nextstep 9y ago
No, it’s not. You can just print a paper wallet (or even just write your private key on a piece of paper) and stick that in a vault. The author is conflating mining and transmission with storage.
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Uber fined $8.9M for allowing drivers with felony convictions(denverpost.com)
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by nextstep 9y ago
The media (and the author of this book) love to portray America as "stumbling" into yet another conflict. Here's a great thread with numerous examples of this: https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status&#
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by nextstep 9y ago
Israel is much more closely tied to the US tech industry and is also a flagrant abuser of human rights yet this article ignores this obvious comparison?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Hey I just wanted to point out that this really cool site you built doesn’t have some of the features of a full terminal on Linux.
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by nextstep 9y ago
There are tons of fake accounts on Twitter. It doesn't take much to get hundreds or even thousands to engage with you (follow you, reply to your tweets with a common hashtag, etc.). I thought a year or two ago that Twitter was avoidin
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by nextstep 9y ago
Why was the title changed?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Is this hypothetical or do you think it’s unsafe for some reason?
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by nextstep 9y ago
What? How could any protocol requiring a trusted setup be considered close to Satoshi's vision?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Here's a great counterpoint to corporate consolidation in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00wQYmvfhn4
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by nextstep 9y ago
Wish it were Netflix or HBO or even Showtime. Amazon has a history of giving showrunners much less creative freedom and I have less faith this will be a satisfying adaptation. :/
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by nextstep 9y ago
All of this adds up to something less secure and less practical than just using Monero
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by nextstep 9y ago
Ah sorry, misunderstood.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Wow, is surrendering all privacy in public a fair price to pay for the inconvenience of carrying a wallet?
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by nextstep 9y ago
Change the title to reflect the focus on fast food (use The NY Times headline).
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by nextstep 9y ago
I'm a millennial. I don't want any kind of suburb. I refuse to live anywhere that isn't well-connected/dense enough to provide a good lifestyle completely car-free (i.e. all travel is quick, ubiquitous and convenient on
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by nextstep 9y ago
Can you trade GOOG -> AAPL without first converting to USD (i.e. selling the GOOG stock and then buying AAPL stock)?
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by nextstep 9y ago
If I buy BTC with USD, then later convert those BTC to ETH, how do I calculate my profit? Is it based on the difference between my initial purchase of USD and the USD-equivalent value of those ETH? That doesn’t seem to make sense.
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by nextstep 9y ago
You only have to pay capital gains tax when you sell, so if everyone else is “hodling”... (unlikely).
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by nextstep 9y ago
I wish the table included a “cause of death” explaining how these cryptocurrencies failed.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Mostly virtue signaling. The piece finally address labor at the very last graphic: most entrepreneurs think labor unions should have less influence. The NYT painting this as “far-left” is a sign of how far to the right the US has come.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Yeah. Monero would solve this problem.
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by nextstep 9y ago
Yeah I saw that too... I don’t understand. Is Western a political definition?

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