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by pennaMan 5y ago
Parent's central argument seems to be that creators of digital content do not deserve ownership of or royalties for their work because bits are infintley-copyable...
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by pennaMan 5y ago
>it laments the death of open-source culture Imagine a world where contributors to an open source project earn royalties from, say, FAANG using the open source project based on ownership of their contribution. Is that the death of open s
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Yes, just like a house ownership contract by itself is just a piece of paper and is independent of the underlying house. And to prove your ownership of your house that contract must be validated by a central authority - a goverment. A house
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by pennaMan 5y ago
NFTs provide proof of ownership of something unique, not enforcment. You are still free to put any jpeg you want on any profile pic you want. Like you can reproduce and hang a multi million dollar painting on your wall without enforcement b
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by pennaMan 5y ago
A future where content creators have alternatives to monopolies like google amazon and facebook and most importantly the advertising cabal for revenue? Yes please, build more of that future.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
The point is that this technology forum is in the sad state of being consistently dismissive of novel technology.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
I would go further and ask for mandatory 24/7 surveillance of elected officials for transparency and to combat corruption every time they bring up this bullshit.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
n=1 but I thought myself computer science while skipping high school and smoking copious amounts of said "awful herb" and I'm convinced I would of never chased that dream sober. I also have fond and clear memories of said per
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by pennaMan 5y ago
> Most people aren't dying from an accidental overdose Yes they are. Before fentanyl contaminated heroin came around most heroin overdoses were because of massive differences in product purity. You know the dosage for your usual 10-
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by pennaMan 5y ago
What are you on about? Rhodium was the name of one of those old school knowledge base websites and I have no idea what hit you got on palladium but it seems to be involved in synthesis.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
I think we are talking about wildly different things here. >centralizing a currently decentralized network onto a blockchain controlled by a few major players No, the basic idea is simply decentralization of trust. I do not know what spe
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by pennaMan 5y ago
In your view, what are the use cases of regular money?
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Someone who is not me regularly buys LSD with monero for what it's worth and the shopping experience is almost Amazon level, next day shipping included.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Every time crypto is mentioned on HN it's like the Dropbox Show HN thread over and over again. Decentralisation, open collaborartion, opportunity for entirely new paradigms of entrepreneurship free from the constraints set by the rulli
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by pennaMan 5y ago
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
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by pennaMan 5y ago
The Scandinavian solution works because of it's highly functional education system. When enough percentage of people have at least a basic comprehension of logic and the scientific method the "surveillance state" as you call
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by pennaMan 5y ago
So if Visa and Mastercard refuse service to your legal business because they don't like you, what options do you have?
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Instead of asking the payment processor monopoly to censor things you don't like you can.... you know.... not indulge in things you don't like instead of ruining it for everyone who does like it? The market speaks out with wallets
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by pennaMan 5y ago
You forgot to add the test cases :)
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Why did he have $1M of crypto on Coinbase? I want to hear how that came to be because from the outside it looks like plain stupidity.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
>I don't think sending them bitcoin is illegal? Well, according to the EU, not yet .
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Criminals by definition do not care how many laws and regulations a honest person has to deal or wrongly go to prison for.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
>Cryptocurrency fees are significantly more expensive That statement makes no sense. Crypto transfer fees are not a percentage of the transferred amount.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
It's where all the infinite feed dopamine fiends hang out, so the huge potential audience beats out any UX issues.
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by pennaMan 5y ago
What's really interesting is the cult following of highly educated women he had!
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by pennaMan 5y ago
so we'll just sweep the CS PhDs sex(?)(sex prose?) cult under the rug because grandparent wanted anonymity and was a bit harsh in expressing reality? What should be brought up is why does GP have such strong feelings towards the guy?
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Strange, on the McAfee thread people where bathing in hate for the guy and I kinda respected his crazy life. This guy, being my conational that I never heard of, I got into a bit of digging and discovered a really creepy couple of blogs of
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by pennaMan 5y ago
Citizenship may take longer but you can for sure buy investor visas
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by pennaMan 5y ago
The suggestion is a philanthropic variation of a tumbler.
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by pennaMan 6y ago
This kind of statement needs some serious citations.

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