nunyabuizness

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by nunyabuizness 11y ago
This is almost a non-sensical statement as the state injects itself into every market and is by definition unavoidable. You could argue that the state subsidized Uber by handing a monopoly to the taxi industry, who's complacency create
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
> Why do people keep trying to argue that dogecoin/litecoin/etc/etc don't have value, when people trade them for other currencies every day on open markets? B/c the majority of them care more about their investme
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
Ahh gotcha. Thanks.
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
I don't understand, doesn't this only apply to DRM content? How does this enable remote control of your browser?
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
Thanks for the link. Do you know what he means when he says the "World Wide Web Consortium continues to infect the core standards of the web itself to allow remote control over your computer against your wishes?"
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
>If "we've never had it so good" then why did my parents and grandparents generations never have to attend a food bank? Probably because they lived in a bubble of wealth and privilege. Now that the labor market includes 2.
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
> To solve this, they have made the system entirely centralized True for Stellar, untrue for Ripple. It's a stopgap while they work things out and reimplement the consensus algorithm; as the article said, distributed systems are har
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
The customer of privatized police forces is you, the end user, which is why there is healthy competition and relatively few "incidents." The customer of the privatized prison is not you but the state. As a result, they compete wit
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
>Ripple/Stellar requires explicit trust - money gets created through obligations. Trust is the original currency and was the basis for the very first monies ever invented; monies based on trust are much more empowering than "ha
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
You can sign it, but then your clients would have to install an extension to verify it.
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by nunyabuizness 12y ago
ISPs act the way they do because they've bought the right from the "publicly accountable" people we're expecting "bow to public pressure." I personally trust GoDaddy to bow to public pressure way before the FCC
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by nunyabuizness 14y ago
But the point is that if they (XRP) come to have any monetary value at all, the whole thing reduces to a ponzi scheme with benefits.
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by nunyabuizness 14y ago
About the "ponzi scheme" similarities; I said the same thing in more words on the subreddit, though it probably fell on a few deaf ears: http://www.reddit.com/r/ripplers/comments/18h9ir/the_one_thi...