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by nicky0 8y ago
OK so just a tortured way of saying "a twentyfold increase".
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by nicky0 8y ago
Exactly, and my point was that "government", in UK, means the current executive and means something different from "parliament". It seems the facebook seizure was not ordered by Theresa May's government, but inste
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by nicky0 8y ago
Yes fair enough. I was using the term government as it is understood in the UK. I'm not "pettifogging" and your G/g distinction is not accurate. It is common in Britain to use small g. For example this news article which
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I want parliament to do its job we elected them to do. I want it not to use referendums to make major far-reaching decisions on simple majorities. We elect representatives to govern on our behalf not ask us what to do with a referendum at
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by nicky0 8y ago
We can agree that deciding major changes on a simple majority referendum is a foolish endeavour, and a recipe for division and bitterness.
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I'm not suggesting moving the goalposts now. I'm just saying the whole thing was misconceived in the first place. Cameron, when he called the referendum, never beleived it would go Leave. All the polls at that time said Remain wou
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by nicky0 8y ago
No, parliament is not the govenmnent. At least, in the UK when we say Government, we refer to the executive body (prime minister, cabinet etc.). In the US when you say government, you mean the whole thing. So your wanting to correct me stem
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by nicky0 8y ago
No, it's not. I in the UK the terms Parliament and Government are not at all interchangeable. I'll see your link and raise you this one. https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/parliament-governme..
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by nicky0 8y ago
Quite right. And this was an act done by the parliament and not the government, as I said.
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In the UK there definitely is a distinction between the terms parliament and government. Parliament refers to the entire body of the houses of commons and lords. Gorverment refers to the executive (prime minister, cabinet & other minist
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Becauase it would be ridiculous to actually pay for journalism.
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The referendum should have never have been specified with a simple majority rule.
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Apparently, yes.
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It was parliament (or at least a parliamentary committee), not the government, that did this though wasn't it?
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100 percent to 2000 percent of what?
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by nicky0 8y ago
I get what you are saying. Bsaically you are saying that bitcoin is useless because nobody uses bitcoin. Unfortiunately it's true that it is yet to see big adoption outside of techies, and citizens of basket case economies such as vene
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The sender can easily buy bitcoins, the receiver can easily sell them. Neither has to know or care what local currency the other uses. Sending bitcoin is easy in a connected app and requires no permission or blessing from the world's f
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In what way is Facebook essential in this situation?
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It has an actual business model so it's probabliy a small business.
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by nicky0 8y ago
NSInvocation is an example of the Command pattern.
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Things have changed in recent months. Right now the typical BTC fee is single digits or less.
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Miners attemptig to change anything against the broad consensus would find themselves using their expensive mining hardware to mine worthless blocks accepted by no-one.
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Visa's reversibility is a feature, just as Bitcoin's irreversibility is a feature. They are quite different systems with different goals, and so comparing their properties in isolation such as transactions/second is not parti
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Wait.
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I understand, and I don't care.
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Care to enlighten ignorant me why we would want that?
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But if it shifts forward it's be dark in the morning till 9.30am.
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by nicky0 8y ago
Well we could say right now it's 15:72pm on the 47th of Octember, nothing has changed but the assigned labels, right?
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Indeed. Making a good product is a marketing move.
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To restrict access to those trusted to hold a key.

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