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by shawnz 6y ago
Hopefully. I think proof-of-stake is a promising technology but I'm not certain yet whether it can fully replace the security guarantees provided by proof-of-work. But if it can, then of course that would be excellent. Not only would i
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by shawnz 6y ago
Thank you for highlighting this issue, I certainly think it is something which users should at least be aware of and they don't really do a good job in explaining the distinction.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Bitcoin certainly has a use case, just observe how it is being used today, every day. Not just to buy drugs online, but also for example to escape oppressive currency controls, defend against questionably ethical practices like civil forfei
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by shawnz 6y ago
What if your server is also running an ARM CPU though? For example with AWS Graviton
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by shawnz 6y ago
So, are you saying that new technologies must be considered wasteful if they don't wholly replace existing technologies and instead create new usages of their own? For example would you say that smartphones are wasteful because they al
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by shawnz 6y ago
> I'm not fighting here. I think their point was that militaries are doing the fighting as of right now, but nobody is talking about how that's a useless waste of energy and we could "just agree" to do things more eff
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by shawnz 6y ago
Interestingly, the release version of Parallels for M1 Macs also dropped yesterday.
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by shawnz 6y ago
I don't mean to say that it's OK for Amazon or anyone else to use forced labour just because it's hard to avoid. I am only saying that it doesn't invalidate the good which they have done either. Just like how perhaps you
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by shawnz 6y ago
If benefiting from forced labour makes something uninspiring to you, then how is it possible to find anything created in the western world inspiring? Are you sure the clothes you are wearing now, which you are certainly benefiting from, wer
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by shawnz 6y ago
It's also helpful for those with limited mobility even when there's no pandemic.
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by shawnz 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. It's more like saying that not every single thing Henry Ford ever said actually describes the best possible way of making cars. Henry Ford was capable of getting things wrong. I don't think anyone is
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by shawnz 6y ago
> the wise guidance of Satoshi is regularly ignored. They are basically producing a competing product. Why should they ought to copy the exact formula of their competitors? How can they hope to be better than Bitcoin by doing everything
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by shawnz 6y ago
That isn't a lie, I think you are just misunderstanding what you are looking at. When Coinbase (or whoever) shows a bitcoin price of 62000, what they are saying is that in their order book they have customers waiting to buy and sell b
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by shawnz 6y ago
I believe there are several consumer laptops such as MacBooks and Chromebooks now using supercapacitors instead of CMOS batteries
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by shawnz 6y ago
> Can you give an example of non crypto speculative investments which are not expected to produce revenues? How about any commodity or foreign currency? Gold, oil, etc. > That’s how 100% of business promise to eventually provide retur
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by shawnz 6y ago
> That’s not true. Most speculative investment promise revenues if they succeed. That wouldn't be speculative then (at least not completely) > For your last sentence, why would that be true? Because it's not a Ponzi scheme u
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by shawnz 6y ago
The distinction is that any investor can form their own opinion about the technology equally well. We don't, and can't dictate to investors what technologies they ought to consider worth investing in. The mechanism you are describ
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by shawnz 6y ago
That's not a Ponzi scheme. Misleading investors about the potential of a technology isn't a Ponzi scheme. You have to mislead them about the origin of the returns they are getting.
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by shawnz 6y ago
That's not the only condition though. It is not enough for some crackpot evangelists to believe that. It must be a purposeful deception in order to get the investor to give you money for something different than what you claimed.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Misleading people about the power of a technology doesn't make something a Ponzi scheme. You need to mislead investors about the origin of their returns. Purposeful speculation isn't a Ponzi scheme even if the speculators were mis
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by shawnz 6y ago
It doesn't matter if all the activity is 100% speculative, that is still not a Ponzi scheme. Maybe you might call it a bubble, but it isn't a Ponzi scheme. In order for it to be a Ponzi scheme, speculators would have to believe th
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by shawnz 6y ago
Bitcoin actually functions as a medium of exchange and that's not an enterprise anyway. Is there an expectation that by buying Bitcoins, you are funding the growth of a business which creates profits by using your investment, and those
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by shawnz 6y ago
There is no nonexistent enterprise in this case. Nobody is claiming that the returns of cryptocurrency speculators are coming from a business venture.
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by shawnz 6y ago
That's still not a Ponzi scheme unless you are also lying to investors by telling them that the returns are coming from some kind of business venture or something. Investors willingly speculating on commodities because they think they
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by shawnz 6y ago
Methamphetamine is an effective ADHD medication (brand name Desoxyn). Adderall contains amphetamine (not methamphetamine). Although as far as how it compares to amphetamine, I would say they are nearly identical on a dose equivalent basis.
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by shawnz 6y ago
I've taken both and I think they are basically indistinguishable (besides strength per dose and maybe duration). So there is a counterpoint for you.
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by shawnz 6y ago
It's likely the abuse potential of methampetamine is similar to amphetamine (see e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475187/ ) So, the chemical is probably not the problem. It's also l
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by shawnz 6y ago
GIMP has also defaulted to single window mode for many years now (and it's a much different kind of editor from Krita, which is also a great product, but oriented toward digital painting/sketching)
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by shawnz 6y ago
If four words alone can change the entire meaning then I would say that is likely to mislead people. I am sure you can agree they didn't do their best in making the nature of the contract as clear as possible here.
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by shawnz 6y ago
The features I described are not free

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