scottiebarnes

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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
The law punishes overt instances of discrimination. I can hire all of x gender, x race, x religion, etc. for my 1000 employee work force. You won't legally be able to nail any kind of discrimination on me so long as I take care as to n
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
The idea of activists/politicians having any say in who companies hire disgusts me But does it disgust you when companies discriminate based on age/gender/sexual orientation/race/disability/religion/etc?
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Any camera or photo only gives you a version of reality. Exposure, white balance, 35mm vs 50mm vs 120mm, etc., can all affect the image subtly. So even with "pro tools", your RAW images are getting doctored by photographer choices
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Get traffic, sell subscriptions / products
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Trademark isn't being used; you'll notice the ads don't contain any reference to Kdenlive.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Strange, a month ago he tweets about his server being compromised: https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1593227756841578496 Go figure
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> Never take notes when planning crimes... Relevant 'The Wire' clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=can+elect...
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Well in this case, you're labeling "gambling and losing money that's not yours" as "unintended consequences". I mean, I guess you're right in that nobody gambles with the intention of losing.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Meh, blaming Elon sounds like click bait narrative. Tech valuations and headcount grew ridiculously in the last few years. Ex: FB head count: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo... If peop
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Good money is hard money, and hard money stores value well because it is difficult to rapidly debase. That's the purpose of money; to store value so that we can transmit that value in the future. What holds up gold or bitcoin is firstl
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Trade starts with bartering commodities and collectables. Metals start being used in trade. Gold, having superior stock to flow ratio, becomes the premier store of value. People hoard gold when they can, and get rid of the coins of lesser v
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> you don’t have to race to find a sucker to liquidate your position Whose the sucker when they tell you that limitless, growing, roll-over debt is a actually a feature of the system? Who pays the price when a government hands over billi
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Gold was currency for thousands of years, and its value was not assigned by any state.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> Surely you are not trying to claim that anything which has any value is a viable currency? Obviously you're not going around trading ramen and cigarettes, but if you live in a some closed system like a prison, then yes, anything
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> Many people have tried to explain to me why cryptocurrencies aren't a Ponzi scheme. Any currency or "thing", be it fiat, crypto, or commodity, is given value by people who trust and believe in it. If you get more people
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Confused, do you think you'll be forced to participate in this crypto recovery fund or something?
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Use an exchange that publishes proof of reserves, and take custody of your crypto immediately.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Tell me more about the rock solidness of the housing market, or government bonds.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
The Bitcoin protocol and network continues to operate exactly as expected. Here, people trusted a "bank" (an exchange acting like a bank), and got burned when the bank gambled and lost.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
I suppose sales or mergers/acquisitions can be like that; a lot of planning, strategizing, ultimately resulting in a deal or not.
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
There's quite a few studies showing the association between social media and depression in youth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392374/
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
The military has the power to stop hyperinflation?
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Sure, it will be regulated, but regulation will always be limited to the access points that any single government can touch. Go too far and capital flees to another jurisdiction. The value of open source networks is adoption, and people wil
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
This is going to require some education about the history of money of which I'm not an expert, but here goes. The process of any "thing" organically becoming money looks like the following: 1) Collectable 2) Store of value 3)
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
> the builders in the web3 community seem to have stagnated on this From my perspective, there is no "web3" community. The consequence of easy money is you get a lot of bad products that inevitably fail. This is not limited to
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
Your mistake is thinking blockchains are a service. They aren't, they're protocols for building things on, like tcp/ip. It happens to be that a decentralized public ledger is the highest value use for it at the moment. What y
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
And if you move closer to your work, do you have to give up part of your compensation?
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
http://teamblind.com ^ Correct url
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by scottiebarnes 4y ago
I'll try and watch it but it seems geo locked. > And your statistics is not saying much. Relevant is real life. The statistics are real life: they represent people committing time and resources by hosting nodes and risking their btc

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