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811.
by nybble41 5y ago
> amateur crackers could recover private keys pretty efficiently That's only if the key was derived from a weak password, which allows it to be brute-forced with standard password scanning techniques. If you're even slightly co
812.
by nybble41 5y ago
> If we think that "everyone" will have to "overdeclare" in such fashion, then obviously the government is collecting more revenue than it intended and will lower the tax rates to compensate, … If everyone over-decl
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by nybble41 5y ago
Say the tax is 10%. You already have a mortgage on the property, and not a lot of other assets. "Big Ag" offers 20 times what the property is worth to buy you out and eliminate a competitor. The tax (10% of 20x) would be double th
814.
by nybble41 5y ago
Worse, if you build an improvement which makes the location more valuable (for example, a tech company building their headquarters and creating demand for nearby residential space) then you pay LVT on the value you created. LVT proponents
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by nybble41 5y ago
> in india, when you are holding a share in a company for example, its value goes from $1 to $4 in a year. for that financial year, your accountant says "hey. you earned $3 as capital gains", and its appropriately taxed as shor
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by nybble41 5y ago
The problem with that (and all other forms of eminent domain) is that the value of a piece of property to the owner is often far higher than its value on the open market. Even if this is purely a business decision and not, say, related to
817.
by nybble41 5y ago
The only reasonable way to account for zoning would be to require the zoning board to actually buy the property and pay the associated taxes. Then they can lease out their own property with whatever restrictions they want. Without the ben
818.
by nybble41 5y ago
If you had actually looked back through my comment history you would have seen that I never defended China or claimed that the USA was worse. I am not a fan of governments in general but I will freely acknowledge that the US government is f
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by nybble41 5y ago
The error here is the assumption that only foreign entities are hostile. A "foreign hostile entity" may have lots of information and malicious intent, but they lack legal jurisdiction and the ability to take open, direct action wh
820.
by nybble41 5y ago
> …both parties somehow gained value (that could be equated to money)… Value cannot be equated to money. This is the point you keep missing. Money is a specific good while value is subjective and variable. While you can say that at any g
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by nybble41 5y ago
> maybe the completed hotdogs are worth more than either of the parts individually Yes, this was obviously the entire point. You can assume that this is true in any case where people voluntarily agree to trade anything: For each party to
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by nybble41 5y ago
For the Sieve Email Filtering Language, yes. Which is not actually part of SMTP. And even in RFC 5233 the specific separator sequence is up to the server; the RFC only specifies queries for ":user", ":detail", and "
823.
by nybble41 5y ago
It's not really all that standardized. The use of a '+' character to indicate an alias or label is merely convention—if you run your own server you can set the separator to any character you wish, or disable the feature altog
824.
by nybble41 5y ago
I've run across at least one banking site which accepted a password on the sign-up page which was later rejected by the login page. The validation scripts on the login page used a more limited set of permissible special characters wh
825.
by nybble41 5y ago
I agree that unhosted wallets are how crypto was meant to be used, and the only way it makes sense—you don't need a decentralized BFT protocol with proof-of-work if all transactions involve a limited set of centralized exchanges, and p
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by nybble41 5y ago
> capitalism would say an individual has the right to own an idea "Capitalism" says no such thing. Property under capitalism is a consequence of scarcity; property rights exist specifically because a particular good cannot be e
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by nybble41 5y ago
The water/sewer/gas/electric service you refer to is frequently supplied by a co-op, even in urban areas. I get my own electricity from a co-op. Natural gas is provided by a private company but there are also co-ops offering
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by nybble41 5y ago
It's not a government until you get the guns out and force people to join up and pay dues whether they want to or not. What zbrozek described is just a co-op, or something less formal along the same lines: an organization designed to p
829.
by nybble41 5y ago
By subsidizing home ownership the government is encouraging people to go into debt and funnel whatever savings they manage to scrape together after paying interest into a single depreciating asset rather than a safer, more diversified portf
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by nybble41 5y ago
Bob and Charlie are living rent-free in their parents' basements. Alice could have done the same—and will, if she has to sell the house to avoid bankruptcy—but she wanted to appear more independent. Alternatively, she could sell the ho
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by nybble41 5y ago
The web standards leave quite a bit up to the implementation. Support for scripting is completely optional, for example; a compliant browser is not obligated to load or run your JavaScript. Or to render images, for that matter—the standards
832.
by nybble41 5y ago
The existing limiter doesn't work , though. It was narrowly focused and consequently easy for miners to work around. That's why they're making this new version. There is no precise test for whether a given workload is "
833.
by nybble41 5y ago
Most devices require some sort of out-of-band signal to generate an attestation, but this is fairly trivial to bypass if you wanted to automate the process. They used the example of a mechanical Rube Goldberg contraption to press the button
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by nybble41 5y ago
You post a public notice saying where the deposit boxes are being held at the original physical location, the company's web site, the local papers, and any other likely locations. If anyone shows up claiming to own one of the boxes you
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by nybble41 5y ago
Requiring a description of the contents would be abusing the warrant to gain access to information the warrant didn't cover. All they should need to claim their property is proof of their identity as the owner of the safe deposit box,
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by nybble41 6y ago
Recovery mechanisms can be implemented as smart contracts. For example, you can set up your wallet so that with Key-A can be used to transfer funds/NFTs freely, but Key-B can only transfer to a specific recovery account. Transfers from
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by nybble41 6y ago
There are non-IP full-color LED bulbs like this Zigbee version[1] which have the same flexibility as the WiFi models. Color and brightness can both be configured dynamically through the controller in response to arbitrary user-defined rules
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by nybble41 6y ago
If what you meant is that interest is fully accounted for by the lender taking the risk that the borrower will default on the loan then what you are saying is nonsense. While yields over the past year have been rather low at about 2% due
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by nybble41 6y ago
> HTB is only available on new homes so not removing any stock Okay, increasing the supply of housing will lower prices regardless of whether they are rented out or bought. > Someone is either willing to pay £1k a month for renting a
840.
by nybble41 6y ago
Nothing in life is completely without risk, but you can get arbitrarily close. Treasury bills are commonly used as an example of an approximately "risk-free" loan since the probability of the federal government repudiating its deb

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