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by nybble41 5y ago
> … the content is hosted by a third party. The third party can replace the supposedly original content with a non-original copy at any time. Generally the content is hosted in IPFS and identified by a content hash which was recorded as
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Artificial scarcity is, however, a prerequisite for it, at least with that kind of margin. Otherwise you'll get competition bringing the price back down toward production cost + overhead.
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> Apps/programs are a la carte, TV / Music services are not. Google Play Pass[0] is basically the app equivalent of Spotify. One monthly or annual fee for access to a library of "hundreds" of apps. And movies, TV show
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by nybble41 5y ago
> … why can’t the government purchase information on the open market? The most obvious answer would be that they're spending our money in a way which is contrary to our interests. If it were their own funds, and they had no powers b
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It may not be precisely legal , but they're unlikely to suffer any repercussions if they do it anyway. Which amounts to the same thing in the end.
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The Third-Party Doctrine is about the ability to compel third parties to turn over information they hold on others. They don't need to resort to that when they can just buy the data on the open market.
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Slightly less broadly, a monopoly on "legitimate" violence not limited to self-defense or a proportional, reciprocal response to prior violence. If the state actually managed to monopolize all violence that would be much better
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> They are speculating that the value will not decrease, or that rents will increase. Otherwise they’d rent. That assumes you're getting the same product, but when renting you don't necessarily have any guarantee that the lease
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by nybble41 5y ago
I agree with the compile-time error checking part, but it's possible to have groups of key/value pairs (i.e. anonymous records) in a statically typed language where only specific keys are allowed, with specific value types for eac
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by nybble41 5y ago
> What if it's a method of the data object? Then it should either mutate the object in-place without chaining, or return a new data object with the updated value and leave the original unmodified.
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by nybble41 5y ago
> If you can tell the difference between a family scene and a screening of a Hollywood film, … That's a big "if". I wouldn't guarantee to always be able to tell the difference. And there is a lot of non-Hollywood cont
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by nybble41 5y ago
If you post a video publicly on YouTube then you expect that anyone can stream it. One could quibble over whether you intended for anyone to be able to save the video since the site places some minor technical obstacles in the way (plus t
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by nybble41 5y ago
The difference in this case being that the image was uploaded to the public Internet (IPFS), with no access controls, by the original artist (and presumably the copyright holder). Regardless of your stance on copyright, it's hard to
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by nybble41 5y ago
Exactly. There isn't anything "exclusive" about the content referenced in an NFT. The closest analog in physical artwork would be a signed & numbered print from a limited series—there may be many other copies of the same
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by nybble41 5y ago
You probably don't need to believe in astrology to work there. Perhaps she just feels that this is a simple and mostly harmless way to separate some irrational individuals from their money. Which, on the whole, is probably a net benefi
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Don't they only make money off the initial sale? In some cases there may be a royalty to the original artist on resale. But even if there isn't, just as with dividend-free stock offerings, the existence of a resale market mea
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by nybble41 5y ago
> If you encrypt it, you have to, at some point, also send the keys to the user. Not if you're using a public key cryptosystem and the user generates their own private key. Only the public part is communicated (from the user to th
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by nybble41 5y ago
> since the concept of owning means of production is a core part of capitalism and IP is a means of production Means of production are scarce property which is used (and consumed—even if only for a time) in the production of other goods.
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by nybble41 5y ago
> The purpose of the unsafe keyword is to mark code that could cause safety issues (undefined behavior) if its expectations about the surrounding code are not met. That is one use of the `unsafe` keyword. You see this version in the qu
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by nybble41 5y ago
> If you held some assets on a blockchain and the developers decided to block your address after you made fun of them on twitter or something, it certainly seems like you'd have standing to sue. What exactly would you sue them over?
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by nybble41 5y ago
It's not legally property. Legally you don't own it. If the network suddenly changes its rules and says it's not yours then you have no legal recourse against the developers/miners/etc. If you buy, that's a
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Except in cases of near outright catastrophe, the only substantive thing they can pass is the budget reconciliation bill, which only requires a majority instead of a super-majority. The fact that they want to pass bills which only ha
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Is your issue with the existing law or you feel crypto shouldn’t be treated like cash? Both. This law is wrong (even without the crypto / DeFi elements) and crypto shouldn't be treated like cash. It's not property, or
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by nybble41 5y ago
The author/publisher of the smart contract is not the counterparty to the transaction or the source of funds; publishing their information, even assuming it's available, wouldn't satisfy the requirements. 6050l should be repe
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by nybble41 5y ago
> To pay their bills, they have to sell their new bitcoin to people which is effectively like a fee … No, that's nothing like a transaction fee. The person submitting transactions to the network doesn't pay the seigniorage fo
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First, they won't necessarily let you renounce your citizenship, if they decide they don't like your reason for doing it. More importantly, they won't allow it unless you first leave the country where you were born, which i
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by nybble41 5y ago
The coins minted by Liberty Reserve were in fact clearly labeled with their brand and not at all likely to be mistaken for U.S. currency. Their web site, libertydollar.org, was imprinted on the back, and there was no claim of any official e
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by nybble41 5y ago
> If I borrow a Bitcoin what makes you think that I can repay the Bitcoin after it grew 10x in value? That would make Bitcoin a very good store of value. However, to benefit from the "store of value" property you have to, you
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Mining rewards are not fees. They're the initial distribution mechanism (as a fairer alternative to pre-mining). The median transaction fees[0] which users actually pay are much lower: about 65¢ currently. With Lightning transactions t
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by nybble41 5y ago
> I would think that the poor have no cash… that's why they're called "poor" after all. They have contracts denominated in cash—for example, their wages from employment. That's where inflation tends to hurt the m

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