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by ric2b 6y ago
Nothing, just a polite way of responding "nobody cares" to "thanks I'll pass."
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by ric2b 6y ago
Because lots of businesses don't care that much when they're moving much higher amounts, so they use really basic/dumb algorithms to choose their fees.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Today you can buy a device a million times faster than 20 years ago for the same price. And as you can see that massive deflation completely destroyed the computing industry, as everyone sat around waiting for next year's device t
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by ric2b 6y ago
How much has the velocity of Venezuelan Bolivares increased in the last few years?
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by ric2b 6y ago
If some people like to leave their house unlocked because it's convenient it's not my duty to make them a more convenient door lock, it's quite enough to warn them about the dangers and let them make their own decisions. It&#
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by ric2b 6y ago
> The government can print money and distribute it uniformly, such as with this year's CARES act (which is about as uniform as one can ask for in this political climate). It can, but it almost never does. Usually it just subsidizes
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by ric2b 6y ago
I can make my whole life in some other currency and then purchase some national currency just for the purpose of paying taxes once a year.
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by ric2b 6y ago
How do I pay 0.005 USD to my friend?
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Bitcoiners' usual objection at this point is to claim that transactions per second is a bad measure, for some reason You've probably been told before but I'll tell you the why again. Bitcoin's energy consumption is
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Think about what other technology is 12 years old you’d call “nascent” Cars, Steam engines, Airplanes, Trains, the Internet, Radio, Phones, Mobile phones, Smart phones, Cinema, TV's, basically anything that is actually new technol
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by ric2b 6y ago
That's alright, there is no coercion to use BTC.
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by ric2b 6y ago
How is the USD helping the North Koreans? No one claimed that Bitcoin is useful in NK so I don't get the point of the question.
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by ric2b 6y ago
What is "the arrow" in this context?
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by ric2b 6y ago
The courts have looked at these allegations and the actual evidence is slim to none, and far from being about a big enough number of votes to change the result of the election, it's not even enough to change the result in one state.
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by ric2b 6y ago
I don't see how your argument fits the situation, the government is clearly not focusing on costs if it's wasting millions of dollars on obviously not viable projects and paying consultants $200/h to sit around for months wai
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Automation offers more of this, and it’s essentially going to go feed the owners of that automation. An economist visits Communist China and they proudly show him a railway being built. He notices the workers are using shovels to dig t
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by ric2b 6y ago
It does take quite a while to load though, is there a way to improve it, maybe with some caching on the server since the query is static?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Got any links to those tweets?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Most "bad guys" that are arrested are non-violent drug users. If those are "real bad guys" is up to your personal morals.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Yeah, usually they "think they smelled Marijuana" or something.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Except they're already snooping around, but apparently for other reasons than to actually stop terrorist attacks.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Because that second list would be empty. They would be shouting it from the rooftops if they were actually stopping attacks.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Is it? Which law is being broken?
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by ric2b 6y ago
> The supply and demand based solution to price gouging is to make the government guarantee access to the good at the desired price. In a disaster situation that's not so easy to do.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Costs? Data security cannot be subject to tradeoffs. That's obviously ridiculous. Should I hire an army to protect my server room? Should I hire the entire NSA to do a 2 decade long audit on my code, hardware, employees, etc, befo
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by ric2b 6y ago
Clearly not, since the AV can take too much CPU time and prevent other tasks from running.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Would you say the same thing about debt? Just leave it out of the books, because the repayments haven't happened yet?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Although it would be great if HN notified you of replies and had a dedicated place to see them besides "threads", which also show comments no one replied to.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> they have a job that they would die than quit. It's that important to them. Or maybe simply quitting would be even worse than taking their own lives, somehow. And Foxconn might be part of making that situation a reality.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Meh, as someone with quite a bit of experience with both of them they are very similar, you don't learn much from switching from one to the other, compared to switching to something like C/Haskell/Kotlin.

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