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by ravingraven 6y ago
They are electronic surveillance projects which have components that can be used by western governments to conduct blanket surveillance on their own and foreign citizens as illustrated by Wiki Leaks.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
This is a joke. The "western world" created PRISM and Five Eyes and has been meddling in elections in the third world for almost a century. Additionally, what do you define as the "western world", because by some measure
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Very sad to see Greece missing from this. Theo Angelopoulos was a world class director.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
>Police all around the world use non-lethal force when the law is being broken and the perpetrator is not cooperative. This is absolutely not blind or extra-judicial. The whole point of this is to deter this kind of behaviour, and police
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by ravingraven 6y ago
>In my country I would want the police to beat the ever loving expletive out of people who do go out in large crowds during a pandemic. Maybe in your country blind, extrajudicial violence is not a no-no. This is not the case in democrati
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by ravingraven 7y ago
I think it is the other way around, a dynamic system is better at lasting long than a static one. Human bodies are able to regenerate and repair themselves to a certain extend (no single cell in your body will live as long as you). In fact,
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by ravingraven 7y ago
>Thinking you will know the day and hour of your death is extremely bad estate planning. I never claimed the contrary. The prudent thing to do is to use Bitcoin for its intended purpose: electronic cash. Convert from fiat to crypto as ne
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by ravingraven 7y ago
Well, that would be stupid from your part if you kept wealth that should be inherited in Bitcoin-form, not a Bitcoin shortcoming. Just like it is not a shortcoming of cash that you can bury it in a hole in the desert and tell no one about i
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by ravingraven 7y ago
>The majority of markets don't care if it is 100% backed, like they don't care when their bank does fractional reserve. Yes, but doesn't Tether promise that they back each coin with a dollar? I would care very much if I fo
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by ravingraven 7y ago
They are equally as affected. Linux is Linux, it makes no difference in what box it runs. What is usually a mitigating factor is that embedded devices usually have a very different configuration compared to non-embedded devices (built with
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by ravingraven 8y ago
>This is not technically possible with Bitcoin [...] Of course, it is. The government could force everyone to send Bitcoins to a special account which is then distributed to victims (i.e. a tax). That would actually be better than what
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by ravingraven 8y ago
>Your comparing cash to something electronic. No matter how you spin it Bitcoin is not physical. You say that like it's a bad thing. Bitcoin is something that has the advantage of physical cash (trust-less) and the advantage of elec
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by ravingraven 8y ago
Most things in aircraft automation systems depend on sensors that could fail (those sensors could be redundant etc. but the same can be done with the sensors on landing gears). It is sane design. > What if the landing gear don't dro
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by ravingraven 8y ago
No, it would not. If the engine is shut down moments before touching down it would mean that there would be no reverse thrust after touching down since it takes a considerable amount of time to re-start a turbo-fan (not 60 seconds as OP wro
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by ravingraven 8y ago
>There's no world where you can make it the fault of someone else. I never said that. The Greeks voted for such a system, I never said they didn't. But you can't say that this "leftist agenda" as you call it is w
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by ravingraven 8y ago
>The leftist agenda has been to portray Greece as a victim of capitalism and/or neoliberalism. This was mostly dispelled by facts, and I rarely see this kind of propaganda in 2018. It was both capitalist governments that created the
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by ravingraven 8y ago
All those numbers are lower or comparable to other EU countries. The public sector was not much bigger than that of e.g. Germany. The difference was its effectiveness and productivity.
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by ravingraven 8y ago
I currently live in Germany, but I am Greek and have lived in Greece for most of my life.
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by ravingraven 8y ago
>Imagine what even having 10 developers living in the village could do for its economy. I guarantee that this village has no internet (other than 3/4G with a data cap).
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by ravingraven 8y ago
>It's surprising because economic liberalism doesn't have any deep roots in Greece. There is no liberal party. The Greeks traditionally think in terms of left and right. A) There is a liberal party in Greece (just as much as th
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by ravingraven 8y ago
I agree with your sentiment but I think we should cut CNBC some slack here since the demands were only vaguely communicated by the syndicate ("improved wages and fairer working"), most likely because the negotiation is still ongoi
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by ravingraven 9y ago
>The people who pirated it simply were never going to pay for it whether they play it or not. I hear this argument a lot but can't see how it possibly be correct. Sure, not everyone who pirates would buy instead but at least some
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by ravingraven 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that piracy does have a huge impact on sales for niche addons and games like that. The client base is very very small and anything that is not absolutely perfect quality does not get sold these days (seriously, look at
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by ravingraven 9y ago
You can say all those things about currency as well. Someone buys it at a certain price (because it has intrinsic value), which realizes the value of the currency.
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by ravingraven 9y ago
To clarify: Bitcoin is deeply flawed, and I agree with you that Bitcoin is probably worth less than many people speculate it is worth (but not zero). Cryptocurrencies in general have a lot of utility and solve real problems.
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by ravingraven 9y ago
That would mean that the value of the stock would be decoupled from financial success of the company, which is clearly not the case. A company with very few assets and record profits every quarter will have an expensive stock price.
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by ravingraven 9y ago
A) Bitoin is not a stock, it's a currency. It'ss value lies in its utility. B) There are (a lot of) stocks that do not pay dividends and never will. There are a lot of stocks that were issued by companies that never made a profit.
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by ravingraven 9y ago
I agree with you that such a strategy is not optimal but it is not quite how you describe it to be. In the mind of the farmer: * $150,000 tractor: something that has value (not easy to calculate, but a $150k tractor has a value above zero
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by ravingraven 9y ago
>Both mining and transacting are impossible (or at least very difficult) for many people/in many areas. This is just not correct. You can mine with the same equipment you use to transact (something with a CPU and memory and internet
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by ravingraven 9y ago
Because currencies are not stocks. Edit: I understand that FX trade is not tax free. What I am saying is that we should tax crypto like we tax (or don't tax, depending on where you live) other currencies because that is what they are.

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