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by smokeyj 10y ago
> but they aren't fighting a moral cause What exactly do you think I want from a car ride? I encourage everyone to break stupid rules. Let's leave the moralizing to religion.
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> Who or what backs up the arbitrator? Ethereum contracts are turing complete. The payout function can be contingent on either the buyer or arbitrators releasing the funds. The arbitrators can be determined before hand or rely on an exte
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> there's no underlying system that can tell me to fuck off and that I'm not getting paid No reason an arbitration clause couldn't be included in the contract.
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> Yes, lots of them did. I'm not disputing that, but my point is there wasn't the current sense of urgency to reign in the executive branch. HN didn't partner with the ACLU and unicorns didn't use the situation as a P
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The timing for this is peculiar. I'll give my hypothesis. Liberals didn't care about the Snowden leaks because it was "their guy" in office. This huge revelation that our constitutional rights were being systematically v
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> Fine, don't call it a social contract. Are you saying that because you agree? Because that was the only point I was making.. We can all agree that gangs, mafias and cartels have collective power and use the threat of force to gove
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What about for iOS? Sure there's more pervasive methods, but I doubt any are as ubiquitous as GA. My ghostery plugin shows GA for nearly every website I visit.
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But you can't avoid google analytics..
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> The whole concept of ownership is based on social contract Except a social contract is not a contract at all. There's no offer, no acceptance, no consideration, no capacity to contract, etc. > Theft, because it is rooted in own
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> whether this reflects a "manufactured narrative", I cannot say Based on what you know about the human primate, what do you think the truth is? Too harsh or not harsh enough, who knows. All I know is "fake news" wi
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But those are obviously non-literal uses of the word. Growth hacking would never be used to describe someone's legs getting chopped off. OP used the word "fake news" and got downvoted to oblivion, but it's truly a wonder
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Oh come on. "Election hacking" is not a general term. Unless "general term" is a general term you're redefining - which I wouldn't rule out at this point. If such general term exists, it would be more appropria
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> Yes, you chopped off the important half of the sentence It doesn't matter if CRUD apps are easy to write, the point is there's market demand . And for some reason you write them off as trivial, but I've seen some busine
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> I'm also really not interested in how things work for "typical CRUD apps" You mean you're not interested in what a huge part of the industry is doing? Well then that explains why you don't see the benefit. Ther
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> As node.js is not multi-threaded, we spin up 4 instances of node.js per server, 1 instance per CPU core. Thus, we cache in-memory 4 times per server. And why not use a shared memory server? > Operations started adding rules with 100
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There is no guarantee either way . The safest guarantee are the resources under your control - given the government doesn't confiscate your savings account, which I wouldn't rule out. People wonder why bitcoin is rising. It'
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> they're active and loud. So now our livelihood has resorted to a shouting match? Thanks but no thanks. Voting is like praying, where if you pray with all your passion then god might listen. But there's also the saying pray fo
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That means they're preserving it and reinvesting it so more wealth can be created. This is a good thing.
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They worked there voluntarily in every practical sense of the word. There was no threat of violence on behalf of any of the parties entering into contract. Which part of this equation do you feel entitled to intervene in? If these miners ch
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> Cryptocurrencies log all transactions in a world-readable log. True for now but there's some interesting experiments in this space, such as zero knowledge proofs, currently in dash and porting to ethereum ( https://en.wi
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A denial of service is the opposit of providing a service. You really can't tell the difference? Thats probably why you're moralizing legal code and forgetting that people voluntarily make uber successful.
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Makes me wonder what other essential functions of society can be digitized, decentralized, and put out of reach of irresponsible government entities.
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News companies profiteer on polarizing the population by inciting hate and fear. It's advertisement based entertainment like Jerry Springer. As long as you realize that's what "news" is for 90% of the population then ind
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> I need to keep an eye out so if nothing else, I know when I need to leave the country Perhaps, but I'm sure there's a better way than sifting through piles of BS that is news. (If you can't tell, I hate the "news&qu
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My point is that watching the news does nothing to limit the governments encroachment on your civil liberties. If you've been a cognizant adult since the "post 9/11" era you'd realize the government set on eroding a
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What's the point of being informed if you don't have influence? It's like watching a train wreck while you're tied to the tracks. Knowing the play by play really doesn't matter. It's so progressive to want the
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Why not? Seems like a subpoenad record would serve as an effective canary for determining what end user data is actually stored. Taken to the next step, LEA should be able to ask google alone for your browsing history for the last 10 years
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And they don't even bribe our politicians? Outrageous.
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Where I live many people commute at least an hour each way. For a 40 hour week, 10 hours of driving is normal. 40 hours in a month. Of prime daylight hours.. Spent in a car that requires upkeep. Which can only be causing harm to your spine.
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Remote work allows me to rotate through several coffee shops and keep my environment fresh. I get to take a nice walk there and back, and pop into my favorite pastry shop on the way. Sometimes I workout during my lunch break. Or even take a

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