satronaut

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by satronaut 5y ago
https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/01/20/chainalysis-crypto-ill... Here's a source if you're curious
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by satronaut 5y ago
maybe, but can you say the same on blogging or online e-commerce. Or if somebody supplements their income doing uber/lyft or doordash/instacart?
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by satronaut 5y ago
Only .4% of bitcoin transactions are used for illegal activities. It'd be hard because you'd have to find every single node and disconnect it from the internet, and something like 90% of Bitcoin nodes run over TOR
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by satronaut 5y ago
lol, try and ban bitcoin
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by satronaut 5y ago
you either get it or you don't. I don't have time to convince you why it's good.
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by satronaut 5y ago
you can make money if you do your research. You won't make millions over night, but you have to start somewhere. Really though, if people learned how to properly budget their time and money, change their habits, and disassociate from g
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by satronaut 5y ago
but the investments generate tax's. If I invest 1 million dollars to hire 10 people at 100,000 $ each, they all pay income tax's. That income tax wouldn't be collected if it weren't for the investment. * round nubmers **
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by satronaut 5y ago
Everyone gets a free education for 12 years, and access to infinite knowledge (library with books and internet). Qualifying families also have access to dirt cheap internet (at&t offers internet for 10$ a month if you're poor). Mos
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by satronaut 5y ago
burn!
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by satronaut 5y ago
are you in the UK? Craig Wright falsy claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and sued the owner/maintainer of bitcoin.org to remove the white paper, since Craig (faketoshi) said he had a copyright on it. Faketoshi is an awful person and is su
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by satronaut 5y ago
it's good to know that it did; i switched over to general software engineering a few years ago (worked in aerospace before). My college taught matlab as a class, and required you to buy the student version.
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by satronaut 5y ago
i love how fortran and matlab are in their own industrial bubbles
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by satronaut 5y ago
Can you define proof of waste? I haven't heard of that protocol?
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by satronaut 5y ago
I'm all for moving over to electric vehicles; they're cheaper to maintain and electricity CAN (but not always is) be cleaner than gasoline powered vehicles. One thing I didn't see addressed is where the additional electric po
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by satronaut 5y ago
People have been getting sick literally since the dawn of man. I knew many co-workers who'd come in with a cold or a fever and get the rest of the office sick. Now, there's a virus that's so dangerous you need a test to know
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by satronaut 5y ago
a blackout law keeps an enemy bomber from dropping a bomb on my house. IMO, if you say to a rational person "keep your blinds down or else the nazi's will drop a bomb on your house" they'll say "gee that sounds like
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by satronaut 5y ago
you forgot number 4, be treated like an adult and just stay home for 2 weeks and not have the government check to see if you're at home like you're on house arrest while not having committed a crime
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by satronaut 5y ago
what prohibits them from quarantining at home in the first place? Is there a difference between not leaving my room for 2 weeks (except to use the bathroom) and staying in a hotel for 2 weeks?
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by satronaut 5y ago
what's nah? did the democrats vote yes for different reasons than the republicans? What were their reasons then? Otherwise, why the nah?
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by satronaut 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act I can't find hard numbers on how many republicans/dems votes yes or no on it, but it passed 98-1 in the senate, and only 66 no votes in the house. Yes a lot of republ
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by satronaut 5y ago
yeah, it's scary how all of the internet is basically being hosted on amazon and logged on to using google or facebook
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by satronaut 5y ago
get a part time job? take out student loans? study something (stem or law) that will actually enable them to get out of student debt?
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by satronaut 5y ago
we need that web 3.0 now more than ever
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by satronaut 5y ago
Whenever somebody says "I don't care because I have nothing to hide", I ask how they'd feel if I secretly filmed them while they brushed their teeth in the morning. I usually get a long pause after saying that. Snowden i
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by satronaut 5y ago
but they're the first to have autopilot at what it is now. I drive one, it's freaking amazing and does a way better job at driving than a person ever could
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by satronaut 5y ago
Isn't the goal rite now to have fsd work on any road that's in the tesla gps system (probably based off of whatever google maps gets its info from?) why wouldn't they compare themselves against all vehicles on the street? the
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by satronaut 5y ago
woah, downvotes for providing statistics ...
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by satronaut 5y ago
and tesla's on autopilot are ~9x safer than human drivers (humans get into a car crash every 500,000 miles, teslas on autopilot every 4,500,500 miles) source https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/01/tesla-aut
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by satronaut 5y ago
can't reply to the latest message. Rite now it's theft. Tax's aren't used for american society. They're used to steal money from the poorest of our country to give to the richest of others (all the "foreign aid
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by satronaut 5y ago
have a flat income tax where everybody pays like 5% or something non-intrusive into their life. Or go back to excise taxes. Why do we need a government of our current size anyways?

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