smokeyj

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by smokeyj 9y ago
> What is the "other side" to affirming the basic humanity of women or black people? But how much of politics is economic theory? We're split along the dismal science of welfare and taxation. It's unfair to the social
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> It seems as though when the group that holds the most political power (men, white people, Christians) has concerns, it's not viewed as identity politics, whereas for political minorities, it is I have no support for trump, but the
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by smokeyj 9y ago
You can run an emulated iOS device on a Mac if you have one.
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I agree CF wishes to have it both ways. I think they should have never been the content police. Policing should be left to the police. Go after the host server and the criminals who set them up. Countries have IP and extradition agreements
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> The argument that they are 'just a common carrier' and have no influence over the content they serve went out the window that day. I thought you were taking the position that CF should be a common carrier. Which to me seems l
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Didn't you argue that CF should exercise control over content when the Daily Stormer account was terminated? My comment you replied to is still sitting at -4 :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032696
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by smokeyj 9y ago
States have pushed for gay marriage reform, sane drug policy and now this. Can we agree supporting states rights doesn’t make you a racist now?
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Do you starve... or do you get... UBI anyway? And the people who misallocate their UBI and can't afford food? It seems what UBI supporters truly desire is a maternal figure in their lives.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
http://blog.ycombinator.com/building-for-the-blockchain/ The phrase "paradigm shift" seems to be thrown around quite a bit ;)
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> It ignores the reality of how the government really works Have you ever worked or contracted for the government? Are you trying to say they're not incompetent? I'm just wondering which division of NASA you worked for.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
I can pick up the phone and have the police kill you, and you don’t think that’s a problem? Explain that logic.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> If it vanished tomorrow, and was replaced But it won’t vanish. I’m still waiting. If you can make bitcoin vanish I’d give you some credibility. Until then you’re amongst a sea of journalists declaring the death of crypto. I’m waiting f
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by smokeyj 9y ago
We’re going to hold strangers on Xbox live to a higher degree of accountability than highly trained officers. Sadly this makes perfect sense. These officers are the equivalent of trained killer dogs and this is what we should expect.
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I'm speaking broadly to decentralized "blockchains". If any or all were to crash a new one will replace it . In that sense the cat is out of the bag and "the game has changed". It doesn't matter if any website
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> The blockchain is not going to solve the basic issues of human fallibility and gaps in trust Yet here we are. With a globally traded decentralized token. What more evidence do you need that “the game has changed”?
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Multi signature wallets are easy enough to use. You’re going to need a lot more rubber hoses.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
I don’t think you know how HN works. If the word “blockchain” doesn’t make you irrationally angry, this isn’t the forum for you.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> If this happens, transaction fees will go down and opening a channel will not cost $50 Bitcoin can process about ~3.5 tx's a second. The global population is about 7.6B. 1MB blocks are not sufficient.. Edit: For the record I think
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> and decide to implement a rule much of the network opposes And they'll immediately be blacklisted from the network.. Do people realize you can store the entire bitcoin chain for less than the cost of one transaction? The centraliz
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by smokeyj 9y ago
But you can also pay $50 on a $5 transaction. LN existing on testnet has no bearing on the real world. Who wants to tie up $50 to open a channel and $50 to close it? Small blockers are kidding themselves.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Large block supporters tend to think you only need a few full nodes to get immunity from these types of attacks How exactly do you see an attack on full nodes going down? I imagine the attack would occur on the mining side.. Also, if t
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by smokeyj 9y ago
No you can't do this. Disregard the DAO comments. Yes, a hack caused a hard fork - but the fork itself was not a hack . You can't update an account value without issuing a valid transaction (requiring the private key). What y
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> There's an argument that you need math to explain it because it is math Sounds like circular reasoning. There's an argument you need logic, because math is logic.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> The Federal Reserve acts algorithmically .. only discretion involved is the interest rates I built a self driving car. The only human discretion is the steering wheel.
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> It's because there's an established system of trust, liability, responsibility, regulation and oversight in the network You can just admit you don’t know.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Is it a solved issue for equities? How do you know the shares you purchased are valid?
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So the market cap is you. This doesn’t apply to bitcoin.
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Are you Luke JR?
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by smokeyj 9y ago
https://copay.io/ An open source wallet by bitpay with good support for multi-sig transactions.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
The experts typically aren't experts in any sense of the word. Columnists get paid to write articles by the word to sell advertisements and get people riled up. Let's not glorify bloggers.

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