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by ric2b 6y ago
Don't they come from Spanish, since most of South America was colonized by Spain and the words also exist and are more commonly used in Spanish? Regardless, point taken, it's not a US-centric problem.
872.
by ric2b 6y ago
That's against the spirit of rickroll, you're supposed to fool the person into clicking it without elaborate tricks, just a link.
873.
by ric2b 6y ago
Elon Musk, the South African that builds a lot of his cars in China? It's hard to assign an achievement to a specific country unless it's a government project.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Or a back garden with a pool, if they were referring to land area.
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by ric2b 6y ago
I'm not sure there's a limit, it's just perpetual shifting of value from people with savings to the government and financial institutions.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> The performance benefits are evident. I mean, this website only loads a very small amount of text and has barely any user state besides a list of comments and posts. I would hope that it loads quickly.
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by ric2b 6y ago
It would be nice if partial application worked with keyword arguments. Actually it would be great if Haskell natively supported keyword arguments.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Maybe the causality goes the other way, people like that might have difficulty finding other jobs. Most low-paying jobs aren't known for having lots of angry/rude people working them. Probably because in most jobs you have to work
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by ric2b 6y ago
They can just drive for another company, they don't suffer any significant loss the same way a McDonald's restaurant would if McD's folded and had to overhaul the entire restaurant. The drivers just install another app on the
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Bitcoins can be stolen by simply hacking (or losing) a device, your money can't, unless it's cash. Hacking/phishing/social engineering into private bank accounts is quite common, probably more than into cryptocurren
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by ric2b 6y ago
AFAIK private blockchains usually don't rely on proof of work so there's no large energy usage. I agree that if they're private they're equivalent to a customized database system, private blockchains aren't interest
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by ric2b 6y ago
Do you have any specific examples that show how insane they are? Because the US also has libel laws.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> They transfer real money, immediately available upon receiving them. Just like a Bitcoin transaction (unless you're excluding it from "real money" because of it's low adoption, but that's not a technical limita
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by ric2b 6y ago
Can you share some examples of large infringements on freedom of speech that happened in well developed European countries? Given the examples of police brutality related to protests that I've seen in the US just this year I doubt you&
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by ric2b 6y ago
Sort of, new gold mines keep showing up and if asteroid mining takes off it's really going to push gold value down by a lot.
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by ric2b 6y ago
I use Lightning with an app on my phone (Eclair) and I don't need an always online node, that's just not how LN is designed. As long as the app can sync once every 2-weeks I'm completely safe.
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by ric2b 6y ago
I get the joke but you don't send Amazon money, you just tell someone else (after multiple third-parties and fees) to let them take some of the money you store with them. It's not at all like handing someone some cash, I never &qu
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by ric2b 6y ago
It's not pointless, it's just yet another way "noSQL" database. It certainly doesn't give you the same benefits of a public blockchain. But if the code is already written, meets the project requirements and is easy
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by ric2b 6y ago
That's true for Bitcoin because it's almost impossible to get most miners and nodes to agree to reversing such a mistake, it's completely against the spirit of the project. But in the example above that could still be easily
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by ric2b 6y ago
Sounds good at first, but now your calls stop working if the regulator's system goes down for maintenance. You can certainly make it work, but I don't see what the major benefit of using a central database is here. > It wouldn&
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by ric2b 6y ago
Your point is that the lack of adoption makes it an incomplete solution, right? It's a valid point, but it's like saying e-mail in the 90's was not a good replacement for mail because if you want to forward it to your aunt yo
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by ric2b 6y ago
I don't think most people buy locks for that reason, they buy them because they think the lock is secure enough so that only serious criminals will do anything, and then they hope those criminals don't show up. Besides, a lot of l
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by ric2b 6y ago
> can use this extra and easily-fakeable "offense" in order to punish individuals that they don't like. So they can fine them? There are already hundreds of offenses that can be used for that purpose and that can actually
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by ric2b 6y ago
Governments spying on their people has been happening for decades and there is little evidence of any significant benefit for society, while the potential for abuse is obviously huge. By comparison wearing masks to slow down infection rates
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by ric2b 6y ago
> What's the difference between your local grocery store clerk, and a Hollywood actor? One has to keep working to live a comfortable life, the other doesn't (and neither will their kids).
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by ric2b 6y ago
That's a separate problem, his kids should be taken away if he's endangering them.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> Nobody’s discussing an amendment here Yes they are, the comment above me has this: > I don't know how more unambiguous the framers could get than "shall not be infringed". That's the second amendment, is it not?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Where can I see the definition?
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by ric2b 6y ago
They could just color it differently or show it in bold text. Hiding the rest is clearly motivated by something else.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> The only appropriate response really is to close markets to Chinese companies until they open up theirs (without unreasonable restrictions on free speech). No, putting up your own barriers doesn't help: https://en.wikip

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