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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
I agree, however this story is about options, which are realized gains or losses. Real actual losses on other gains, in which you may not have put aside for tax. This can be a real problem. The fluctuations on a 401K really are only signifi
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
It was so creepy. Creepy Diamond Flower Motherboard. I thought it was a virus. Luckily hearing it play in the bios after reboot meant that it couldn't have been infection in the OS. New CPU cooler required!
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
While it could be seen as a conflation in theory, in practice it almost certainly is. The purpose of a CBDC is complete government control over the monetary system, cash cannot remain in existence if this goal is achieved. Many advanced eco
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Sounds like breaking and entering to me, but I am not a lawyer. Not legal advice.
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
There is only one digital property rights regime I can get behind -- Bitcoin. It is opt in, and based on a software enforced consensus independent of States and Governments. Everything else is coercion. I do not subscribe to your flavor of
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
And while this is a nice analogy, it doesn't quite work out in the real world. What is important is liquidity of the assets. And things like capital gains taxes if one was to liquidate. Having most of your wealth in your companies stoc
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
"You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again!"
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Yup!
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
If a webserver sent me an exact copy of your car but encased in ice, and I used an ice pick to carve it out, you would still have your car, and i would have a copy of your car. That the web server wants to me buy a flame thrower to melt the
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
No? Who told you that?
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
This. They convinced the kids that piracy is bad and evil, and the Big IP lobby is laughing all the way to bank. Ensuring that you own nothing, and will rent your life from them in perpetuity.
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
You have been awarded 8 good boy points by the Ministry of Intellectual Property. Please collect your prize at the Ministry of Love. Bypassing a HTML element is not 'stealing', its reformatting remote data. They are sending the ar
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
CAcert.org tried years ago. LetsEncrypt has replaced the need for this service. There was a proposed Kazakhstan root cert for nationwide MiTM, so you could argue that was its purpose of their CA. Darkmatter (which had somewhat of a legit cl
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
The bootlicking side. There is only two options: a) encrypted communication that cannot be read by anyone except the software client and the peers communicating enforced by cryptography, and b) cleartext, cops and death squads. Stop making
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Meanwhile, Brave does have their BAT (Basic Attention Token). Was this a cash grab? Or an attempt to develop new economic models for the web? One can make a good argument for Brave being able to bootstrap and fund a new browser with this. T
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
They cant help themselves. Many countries have abused their tracing app for general telemetry and law enforcement. They always start by saying "We wont abuse your location data for non health related inquiries! Trust us!", and fol
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Ok, yeah I did think it was part of the joke. Still tho, what is the point of this page? Is it trying to say 'you dont need a blockchain?' or 'this is a deliberately bad solution that is solved by a blockchain'?
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
I like where the developer leaked the private key of the signing authority: https://github.com/william-fields/witless/commit/dc4a429b721... The problems with this 'witless' proposal is that we have
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
There is one political problem that is solved by Bitcoin, in fact it is why it was created. That is the problem of Central Banks debasing the monetary supply. They knew that when it was created that States would crush it like they had crush
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
You don't even need a cryptographic signature if it goes to court. It helps, but not specifically required. Also, a court has no power to overturn a blockchain transaction - unless they have a bunch of miners and energy to rewrite the
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Uhhh.. obligations to sex? That is exactly what this analogy is saying. Its gross to assume that anyone owes you sex.
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
No, this is gross. It implies that marriage certificates grants you the exclusive rights to have sex with another party.
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
The point of this joke site is to say "look NFTs are just a set of records", while missing the whole point of trustless, censorship resistant, append only, peer to peer ledgers The thing is, we saw these jokes about Bitcoin 10+ ye
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Most NFTs are pretty much a scam, but: This is the kind of joke for people that think they are clever but don't really understand the situation. Its kind an ignorant position, reminds me of a 'brb downloading RAM' joke. Or se
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Not understanding Bitcoin is backward thinking. Bitcoin is an incentive to move to clean power. You can't stop it, you can't stop people mining it, you can't stop people using it. Complaining about the energy is like complain
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Its not too late to sell your shitcoins and buy Bitcoin. Everything else is going to zero!
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Bitcoiners don't believe that anything other than PoW provides the security model appropriate for global decentralized money. Try to understand why energy is being spent -- the naive interpretation is that this is waste, and there are
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
> That's all the security Bitcoin needs, more security than that is waste with no benefit. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of security spend. You just don't know how much is enough. If you could provide a trustless (or.
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
You can think that, but you are looking at the wrong side of the equation. The path down this thought process is being a bully -- "I don't want you to use electricity in that way". That is just your preference. Let the miners
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by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Problem because... you don't have them? I want to buy a new video card too, but if the market is paying more than they are retailing for, but what can I do? I must compete with the miners. If 150 cards are used to play fortnite, or 150

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