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by sparkie 6y ago
In Japan, you commonly find un-armored vending machines on the street corner, or next to the bus stop on a rural street. In hotels, the vending machines dispense beer. Yet they are seldom robbed.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Japan is probably the only country in the world where this kind of vending machine could survive, for a while at least. Anywhere else it would be torn apart for the 'bounty' inside. Wouldn't last as long as it took to build.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Singapore and Hong Kong are two examples where they have few natural resources, but have developed massive economies, mostly by just allowing trade to happen without much red tape. Their location as ports plays a major role in this, but it&
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by sparkie 6y ago
Nobody is praying for an apocalypse. On the contrary, there have been people sounding the alarm on the reckless policy of the Fed for decades, but since it falls on deaf ears and any reformation of the Fed seems increasingly unlikely, anybo
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by sparkie 6y ago
Banking isn't as pervasive as you think. There are millions unbanked in the USA. Globally, billions. The level of OpSec suggested is a necessary minimum against an equivalent of EO6102 whereby the government would attempt to seize your
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by sparkie 6y ago
> No, I want the world's energy and carbon footprint to reduce I take it you're OK with nuclear energy then? If Bitcoin were fully powered by nuclear or other clean or renewable energy, I'm sure you'd find something e
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by sparkie 6y ago
> They can't seize fiat if they don't know where I buried it either. Bitcoin is no more secure than that. They don't need to seize fiat because they can just print it. They can't print Bitcoin. And you are right in re
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by sparkie 6y ago
There is nothing illegal about keeping your own money private, and requiring that a lawful warrant be issued for you to reveal your full financial activity. The warrant must also be issued with probable cause. It's questionable whether
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Chinese society likely could censor, given the prevalence of mining in that country and their government's love of interference. What are they censoring? All transactions? They can only do self-harm in this manner because they mus
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by sparkie 6y ago
> All that stuff about clean coins, joins and mixers. Money laundering. The use of a CoinJoin does not imply money laundering. Launderers can and do use these tools. Merely using the tool does not make you a launderer. If you are suspect
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Ah yes, the tired old free-marketeer. You're the reason we need regulations over self-destructive things. Society gets to make that call sometimes. Fortunately, Bitcoin fixes this. "Society" has no ability to seize bitco
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Very few people want bitcoin for itself, most are in it purely to get rich through speculation, and even those who use it to transact will find it less attractive if it can't easily be converted. From an outside perspective, it mi
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by sparkie 6y ago
How does regulation work for illegal drugs, prostitution, or other black markets, which can overall amount to double-digit percentages of economies? Bitcoin only needs the black market to be a huge success. If it can avoid any surveillance
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by sparkie 6y ago
> The work is useful only in the context of it being useful to preserve and propagate the distributed, trustless consensus. If you don't give a crap about distributed consensus, it's not useful. So you don't care about Bi
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Us, those not yet in your choir, I presume. Glad you purport to speak on everyone's behalf. The misuse of the pronoun "we" is so prevalent that it affects the way people understand the world. "We" is a collecti
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Presumably society. Which society? > We have set aside CFCs even though they were accepted by the free market. They were harmful to the environment, creating the ozone hole. Some regulations can be enforced. It's going to be a
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by sparkie 6y ago
PoW doesn't run on "power" in general, but on electricity. It can be trivial to convert some forms of power into electricity, but not all. One particular form of power which could seen as "wasteful" is that of burni
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by sparkie 6y ago
> We should reject Who is "we"? You can't "set aside" something which a free market has chosen to accept. If you're upset about PoW, invent a superior replacement which the market would prefer over PoW. Howe
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by sparkie 6y ago
The work is useful. It randomly selects a participant out of potentially billions or more to commit the next block, but only the next block, and no others to the blockchain. This ensures the chain remains fair because any potentially mali
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by sparkie 6y ago
Install GoodTime on your phone and have your work open on your computer. The computer should be free of social media and news feeds. Clear them from your browser history. GoodTime uses the Pomodoro technique to have you concentrate on a tas
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by sparkie 6y ago
In my case it is 5 posts per 3 hours.
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Bitcoin Core
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by sparkie 6y ago
> English is not my first language, honestly I am trying to understand here. You're doing better than many English natives, who can't use their own language correctly. Some of the key misuses in this event are referring to &quo
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by sparkie 6y ago
Has nothing to do with mono. Mono effectively died when Xamarin got acquihired by Microsoft. They shifted focus to providing OSX and Windows only tools for developing mobile apps with .NET, and mono development stalled, but parts got incorp
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by sparkie 6y ago
Avalonia is showing promise as a cross plattform UI kit and has an active and friendly community. The caveat is that it's based on dotnet core, which is a put off for some Linux users. Linux support is a priority in Avalonia and is not
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by sparkie 6y ago
If I label myself "Anti-fascist" then behave like a fascist, what am I? For some, words are more important than action.
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See also: https://github.com/jbush001/NyuziProcessor
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The revenue is mostly from selling in-game money and rare items which are farmed by bots. There are many trading websites you can use, just search "buy WoW gold" for instance. (I just looked and this market looks incredibly satura
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by sparkie 6y ago
I used to be on the side of cheaters, but mostly for fun. Was never funded but could have made profit from it. I know several people who went in that direction and made good money. As teenagers with no qualifications, getting a blue collar
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by sparkie 6y ago
I'm not suggesting silencing the poor. I'm suggesting that people should pay (very small amounts) for the information they want to read, and that publishers will need to maintain good reputations in order to have a continued reven

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