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by oleganza 13y ago
First, laws, guns and police are much more excellent opportunities to abuse power and already attract all sorts of sadists and psychopaths. Second, there is no "giving power" anywhere in the voluntary agreements. Your water will b
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by oleganza 13y ago
Insurance. If you buy a house in a district, you may or may not buy an insurance against neighbour's misbehaviour. But the first condition of the insurance is that you respect your neighbours yourself according some existing arrangemen
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by oleganza 13y ago
Everyone defines for himself what's the point of Bitcoin is. For some it's anonymity. For others it's cheap way to pay for stuff. Or only possible way (if CC are not working in your country). Or an wealth storage vehicle and
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by oleganza 13y ago
"America" doesn't not hold anything. There are actual individuals out there. Some of them believe they live in a magical part of the globe with some values within its geography. Others use abstractions like "liberty&quot
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by oleganza 13y ago
There is one argument only: violence is being hidden under lies that supposedly justify it without any proof. Therefore it's evil. The ideas of government, democracy, monarchy and obedience to the pope are all evil for one simple reaso
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by oleganza 13y ago
Downvoters didn't notice sarcasm.
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by oleganza 13y ago
"excessive jail-time" Excuse me, which amount of mental and physical torture is "not excessive"? I may understand keeping beasts in the cages (crazy murderers and the like), but 99% of the laws are not about beasts, it&#
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by oleganza 13y ago
It's pure evil, not "unreasonable". Not only you have to suffer from a person holding a gun, you also should not even try to ask for help. You are a hostage in the hands of an armed sadistic monster. That's what it is.
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by oleganza 13y ago
If I understand correctly, when I make a nice app for a friend and you find out how much did he pay me, you will take out your gun, point at me and force me to give you money to sponsor some people who you believe earn less than you think t
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by oleganza 13y ago
Here are ways people are made less poor with Bitcoin: 1. Sending money over the border to relatives for 0 fee. There are a lot of stories on how people risk their wealth transferring big amounts of hard earned capital across the border. 2.
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by oleganza 13y ago
The problem now is to find actual utility for these prime chains.
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by oleganza 13y ago
"If only you were doing X instead of Y with your money and time." E.g. helping african children instead of reading HN. No one yet figured out which "useful" computation has configurable difficulty, uniform success probab
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CoreBitcoin - Bitcoin library for Objective-C(github.com)
18 points by oleganza 13y ago|2 comments
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by oleganza 13y ago
The only real "weakness" is theft/loss of your wallet and keys. Bitcoin is like cash in that respect, but with unique new properties. It's easier to hide and move, but it can be stolen remotely (unlike paper bills). This
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by oleganza 13y ago
Who would risk their own life to do that for "the good of many"? People like Snowden are exceptions, not a rule, because the guns are out there pointed to everyone. Why don't we instead of asking individual heroes to fight a
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by oleganza 13y ago
I have to agree. Fortunately, in my experience, we had only fixable bugs with iOS7, nothing blocking.
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by oleganza 13y ago
Variant: only show reviews for the same platform, the user wrote review from. E.g. iOS7 users will see their reviews, but iOS6 users will see theirs. And developers will still be penalized if they don't fix problems by the time of iOS7
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by oleganza 13y ago
I guess people fighting for money were enjoying that too. Why don't you call them assholes? Were they from a different moral category? In fact, Durov wasn't hurting anyone, others did. And he stopped immediately when people got vi
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by oleganza 13y ago
Mesh would be much more stable and efficient when it's based not on voluntary free-of-charge participation (like bittorrent, which does not work well for not-very-popular items), but on economics. If everyone pays everyone in Bitcoin f
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by oleganza 13y ago
> There's a reason why we have three arms of government. That's a reason why people are made to believe there are three arms of government. In reality, government is just a bunch of people with a lot of self-interest fighting
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by oleganza 13y ago
Excuse me for anarchistic correction here. None of them is a man in charge. Both of them think of themselves as being "in charge". And maybe some "voters" even support that idea. But that does not change matters for th
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by oleganza 13y ago
Opinion about someone throwing money out of the window works both ways: the more you dislike how one guy caused others to fight over paper, the more you should dislike fighters for what they do. Unlike ancient times when a king throwing mon
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by oleganza 13y ago
I worked with Durov in 2007 and 2008 (making everything for the VK video service; I moved to Paris after getting bored managing 200+ servers in 3 datacenters). He is a brilliant guy, however he's also eccentric. And his brother's
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by oleganza 13y ago
There is also Jon Matonis at Forbes who is now president of Bitcoin Foundation, who writes tons of positive articles about Bitcoin every month.
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by oleganza 13y ago
Bitcoin allows wonderful tax-complience. Imagine if government requires merchants to register their addresses with IRS. Now all the amounts can be traced and taxes calculated perfectly. Employers will also have to register addresses of the
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by oleganza 13y ago
Neither Apple, nor Samsung or Google invented patents. It's a government's creation made before they came to the scene. Once you build a company in a framework of patents and police enforcing them (by threatening to take your prop
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by oleganza 13y ago
The idea here is to flip a coin based on how unpredictably interrupts happen. This is slow, but allows good distribution of bits (if launched on a real multitasking machine, not an accurate emulator). And for many bits it's going to be
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4-line random number generator in JS by Dan Kaminsky(pastebin.com)
2 points by oleganza 13y ago|1 comments
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by oleganza 13y ago
Am I defending Russian government anywhere? Government is not controlled by people. This is easy to prove by trying to peacefully disagree with government's procedures. E.g. not paying taxes or not following regulations when establishi
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by oleganza 13y ago
So you would be satisfied if police finds about unpaid taxes, but would not help them find out? Is that right? What would "maximize your pleasure"? Not telling police and they don't extract taxes, or telling police and they d

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