paavokoya

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by paavokoya 10y ago
>In a capitalist utopia, anything with positive ROI would receive investment Yes. Including arbitrary licenses enforced by local governments to raise the barrier to entry and restrict interconnected innovation through forcing all player
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by paavokoya 10y ago
>decentralized ledgers and solutions for financial institutions So is it decentralized or is it centralized to a company? You can't have both. It also isn't decentralized if you can mute/alter transactions. You're
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Fast forward 20 years when the people of those regions are unable to create an open and free internet because Facebook holds the legal monopoly in many of those areas (think Comcast)
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Honest question, what are the purposes of these licenses/fees other than to take money from citizens? If a village in the middle of nowhere builds this infrastructure to serve their own community what could go wrong without licensing?
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by paavokoya 10y ago
There was no "attack" here. I'm speaking for the confused people who are trying to figure out if the feds are watching them or not. This commenters voice could be false for all anyone knows and he could be lying to save th
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by paavokoya 10y ago
>has been almost completely subsumed by marketeers and business hacks Welcome to the least common denominator. These business practices serve the masses and raise shareholder value. If we as a society want to change, we should begin to
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by paavokoya 10y ago
One could consider our Mars rovers as life on other planets.. They don't have "organic" (as in water based) cells but they are self-sustaining and active to this day.. They communicate back to Earth and do what we tell them,
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Well if you scroll down to the comments section you'll see the quality of readership that site draws in.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Check out Processing.org You might be able to sketch something up fairly easily. It's a code-based visualizer/interactivity used mainly for art but I imagine it'd be easy to plug in some algorithms to mimic QM.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Exactly. Flip-flopping is not bad. Having malicious intent is bad regardless of the method or "opinion". Both cases here are bad. Abandoning early backers for profit is malicious. No one forced Hillary to rally against gay-ma
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I see a point on the horizon now, where the legal system starts targeting a minority of honest, privacy-minded citizens in an attempt to diminish holes in their radar.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Does this mean they're abandoning the thunderbolt port all together? As in, will stop making laptops/comps with thunderbolt? Or just that specific display?
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Is there any universe where the future doesn't hold facebook/google/apple etc having a monopoly on information and/or the ability to see complex future-predicting patterns? Will this ability not lead to complete control
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by paavokoya 10y ago
>some sort of ... among too many I don't see him asserting that millions of people are that way.. Simply that he witnessed several instances of this or that it may have been common for him to see this.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Having flashbacks of 2001: Space Odyssey.. At first the apes postured with intimidation tactics, then one finally took the leap and started using the weapon. It's quite terrifying to consider just how natural and statistically probabl
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Trees evolving the ability to grow taller left large forests of dead lignin (tree trunks) lying around with no natural bacteria to decompose it. It's similar to our modern landfills and plastic patches in the ocean. Eventually life f
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by paavokoya 10y ago
> Apple co-founder Woz says Ireland could be next Silicon Valley Seems they're fluffing the Irish government so they keep their hands off Apple's cash..
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by paavokoya 10y ago
"imagine" .. governments (and corporations) around the world do this on a consistent basis
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by paavokoya 10y ago
One of a thousand articles rewarding fraudsters with attention in order to discredit bitcoin.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Hacker News is becoming r/ethereum as of late. Getting really tired of everyone trying to rationalize with themselves as to why they bought into an altcoin. Watching the front page throughout the week is like the "5 stages of gr
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Exactly my thoughts
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Just like newspapers "allowed" blogs and news websites to challenge their dominion. History is a long list of things changing and nations falling.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
No. Bitcoin IS different. Its network is vastly larger. Newspapers became obsolete when the internet came to fruition. Bitcoin is doing the same to fiat currency. There are many intranets but we all know which one we are talking about w
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by paavokoya 10y ago
It's incredibly satisfying to watch this unfold after getting downvoted to death and told "bitcoin is inherently flawed, BlockChain Technology is muh future" in other threads. After spending 4 years in bitcoin and having watc
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by paavokoya 10y ago
>In fact, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that livestock production is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases. It seems like fixing 82% of the problem is more important and likely than eliminatin
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by paavokoya 10y ago
>It's very easy to forget how free we are by comparison to those persecuted in occupied territories. Pretty insulated thinking there.. Try traveling to Indian reservations or gentrified urban areas.. Or perhaps research Japanese i
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by paavokoya 10y ago
Regardless of whatever semantic "morality" you're going on about, this guy is an example of a lost customer. His money won't be going to your "favor" and it does no one a service if no one is buying it.
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by paavokoya 10y ago
I'd rather do that than risk my identity being compromised in a place like Iran where my life is at stake if I speak out against the government..
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by paavokoya 10y ago
> by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage This is what every blockchain does.. (lottery mining) >But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly Reading the IPFS website, I was under the im
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by paavokoya 10y ago
So it's on "IPFS" so I'd need to buy into the "filecoin" scam which is going on? Why not just use bitcoin?

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