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by sammax 6y ago
Not really. You could interpret it as older transactions are massively more expensive than newer ones and every transaction we make will have perpetual upkeep costs for as long as we keep running Bitcoin, but the overall result isn't c
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by sammax 6y ago
> And I think that's the root of it. "Nuke from orbit" against something that had the capacity to be saved through measures dramatically less drastic than that. But Parler _didn't even try_ any of these less drastic m
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by sammax 6y ago
Don't you need permission to advertise your product with Coca Cola™? Or in this case, would Amazon not need Elastic's permission to say "we use Elastic" to advertise AWS?
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by sammax 6y ago
I wouldn't exactly call that "competition" though.
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by sammax 6y ago
Since it's 0% interest you could probably make enough profit by investing it in the stock market instead that you could pay inheritance tax and still get more than the initial amount out of it after 50 years. So I would not call this a
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by sammax 6y ago
What stops them from arresting you when they just saw you breaking into the Capitol?
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by sammax 6y ago
> 2020 is different and new: it's the first Puerto Rico referendum I have seen where there was a sanely worded "state: yes or no?" question As I understand it in this referendum "yes" referred to "become a s
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by sammax 6y ago
Sure but those things are not the norm. Or rather, motorized standing desks with microcontrollers are the norm for motorized standing desks, but not for desks. Same for dentist chairs, they are not the norm for chairs. Do they actually put
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by sammax 6y ago
That's such a dumb non-statement. The question is not "should we treat them differently" but "should they have rights at all".
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by sammax 6y ago
I would take "significant involvement and consultation" to mean a lot more than "I googled for an article about it and followed its advice" or similar things.
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by sammax 6y ago
> walls, tables, chairs, desks, clothing, jewelry, and bodies None of those routinely have microcontrollers in them. The closest are probably bodies (e.g. pacemakers) and maybe walls (e.g. smart light switches or power outlets with USB s
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by sammax 6y ago
So if humans became immortal* and couldn't feel pain anymore then they should not have rights anymore? * I assume that with "alive" you mean "can die", because I see no other reason why "being alive" could
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by sammax 6y ago
It would be the same thing if the delivery company was operating as a resale marketplace for used food ;)
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by sammax 6y ago
how do they do that?
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by sammax 6y ago
It should be noted that in Germany if you are employed, half of those 14% is paid for by your employer, so you only pay 7% of your gross salary yourself. And there are no deductibles. I think the closest thing to a deductible is having to p