quickben

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   by quickben 9y ago

   Cheques vs the money written on them. The cheque is worthless by itself.
2. 242.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   The mistake in the argument is that BTC isn't everything, but a part of a much much larger financial flow of money. Various QEs around propelled the fiat to the moon . Add to that various other money making legal and semi legal moves
3. 243.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   Unless I'm mistaken, new electric cars in Norway have a subsidy of almost 50%, and are exempt from highway tolls. So your stats have to be viewed through a heavy prism: it's not a customer trend as much as a government push.
4. 244.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   I've been out of reading news about it are they still shuffling cash to Mozilla?
5. 245.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   I think 640 tabs should be enough for everybody ;)
6. 246.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   Ah, thanks for the clarification.
7. 247.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   Thanks for that interesting bit. Any links about what happened after? I guess it's lost in the history now, sadly.
8. 248.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   To add, and maybe the others can correct me if I'm wrong: Intel ME can be controlled remotely if you have an Intel lan card, even if the main cpu is off, but the motherboard is powered on. It goes from there and gets worse is my unders
9. 249.▲
   by quickben 9y ago

   Whatever it ought to be, it should start by supporting more than 25M transactions a day. I hear people preaching wider adoption by all means, but none tackles the limits. I apologize, but it looks like the proponents want money in, and scar
10. 250.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Yeah, but that's corner case. We usually read code on screens, paper, email, git history, etc.
11. 251.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    It may be easy to dislike, but the law updates to make these banks the only game in town.
12. 252.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    If you are looking through the 'change the world' pink glasses, take a look at gridcoin. With Bitcoin you are only burning electricity. Also, no need to talk that much down on the rest of us with your last paragraph. We get what B
13. 253.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Probably wouldn't. You need something that scales if all are to use it. Bitcoin, in the current form doesn't at a level to replace Visa tap pay. For example, for a country of 20 million buying bagels on their way to work.
14. 254.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    There is no shortage of money. Yet.
15. 255.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Or gridcoin. At least Science is advancing with hydro bills there.
16. 256.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    You know, it's not about that. It's family, plural. Synergy, something more than the parts. My grandma and grandpa showered together in their 70s as to not break bones in the bathroom. This is, I imagine, vastly different from wha
17. 257.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    No. That's all you.
18. 258.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    I clarified what I meant.
19. 259.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Family. Not caretakers.
20. 260.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    I never wrote retirement plan.
21. 261.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    It depends. Sometimes people can't, and that's about it. But lately, I have more and more friends that don't want to have children. The girls are in their 35s and guys in 40s, add or take five. They share and attempt to behav
22. 262.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Yeah, lived in a country through an embargo, several wars in the neighborhood, more horrible stuff than that in the economy too. Bottom line: people are creative creatures. Either we have some rules we can all agree on and enforce them, or
23. 263.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    And the stock goes wild in exactly 10m on market opening.
24. 264.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Preventing obliteration in the ultra thin laptop segment.
25. 265.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    I didn't downvote or upvote you. I had no idea what EOS is until I googled it. I have zero bitcoins (and some token gridcoins from the last month, but in donating CPU time since it started as SETI). The above being said, it looks like
26. 266.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    Actually it's the opposite. If you don't control the currency, you end up with a ton of corruption.
27. 267.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    I guess if one approaches this as an employee or entrepreneur. My reply is as an employee. I'd prefer to not chase JavaScript frameworks. I guess on the other side of the coin, one sort of has to these days if the entrepreneurial route
28. 268.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    So the harder, and more long term rewarding option, is to stay away from platforms.
29. 269.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    If "censorship resistant" is the main selling point, it's a lost cause.
30. 270.▲
    by quickben 9y ago

    No. There are tons of coins. Two are being hyped.