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by sparkie 8y ago
This seems counter to Patreon's claims that Mastercard has forced them to make decisions. If there were complainants on Patreon, would they not just complain to Patreon first?
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by sparkie 8y ago
Also DNSSEC requires a trusted root signature, I'd hardly consider that decentralized. (But they have a key signing ceremony, so we can trust that it is secure.)
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by sparkie 8y ago
If, instead of identifying services by some human readable name, they are identified by their public keys, then we don't need certificates - there are several encrypted and authenticated transport protocols which only require knowledge
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by sparkie 8y ago
The majority of applicants for tech roles are white men, period! It's no accident that if you have 80% white people apply for jobs, then 80% of your company is going to be white. This is, assuming you do not discriminate based on skin
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by sparkie 8y ago
What do you define as "enabling"? As far as I'm concerned, they have been enabled for years, through legislature which prevents discrimination in hiring. I'm in favor of due process, and if somebody had a real grievance
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by sparkie 8y ago
"Positive discrimination" is racism. Or sexism. Or whatever group-ism it is being used to disadvantage at the favour of some other group. The idea that whites are privileged is the opposite of reality in many cases now. Non-whit
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by sparkie 8y ago
Who draws the line of what these categories are? Let's say for example, you are not racist, nor sexist, but you also do not subscribe to the "positive discrimination" (oxymoron) bullshit, and instead of hiring people to meet
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by sparkie 8y ago
The social justice religion is not "being nice" or "not being racist." Most of humanity fits into those categories. (Obviously there are some exceptions). Social justice is about action to force your version of moralit
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by sparkie 8y ago
Head of politics at Cambridge suggests 6 year olds should be given the right: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/06/give-six-ye... "Hey, why is it that socialist ideas are so unpopular wi
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by sparkie 8y ago
I've not tried MobileOrg yet, but will give it a try. I currently use Orgzly, which is available through F-droid. It works quite well and has some intuitive swipe gestures for navigation and creating outlines, given limited keyboard fu
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by sparkie 8y ago
I would also highly recommend Freemind, and in particular, learning to use keyboard shortcuts for creating new siblings, parents, navigating and deleting etc. You should not need to use your mouse for anything.
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by sparkie 8y ago
You can add a few lines to userchrome.css to hide the horizontal tab bar for now.
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by sparkie 8y ago
People have different needs for privacy. For example, you don't want your colleagues learning how much you earn, nor does your employer. In a centralized banking system there is a level of privacy because the employer trusts the bank w
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by sparkie 8y ago
Have you looked at some of the existing projects in this space? Your goals seem admirable, but they also appear to be reinventing much of what is already being tried in various projects. Perhaps a run down of existing projects with your opi
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by sparkie 8y ago
The UK has more consumer protection laws in general, so the need for the card issuer to provide protection is not as necessary. Credit cards have some perks, but they also have interest rates which debit cards do not. Many people would rath
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by sparkie 8y ago
Had bitcoin not been sold as a way to get rich, it's likely that most people would have still never heard of it. It's unfortunate that most people misunderstand what Bitcoin is because they can only think of it in terms of legacy
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by sparkie 8y ago
You seem to think that utilities are monopolies (which is partly true in some cases, where they are granted such monopoly entitlements by a government), and they they don't have expenses. They're not at the bottom of the economy.
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Only in the presence of a Reserve Bank, which Bitcoin doesn't have. There's no ability for any authority to increase the number of Bitcoins possible, which means it's permanently deflationary. Thank god there is no reser
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by sparkie 8y ago
The electricity company has bills to pay. If some company can find a way to make unlimited energy without expending resources, then yes, they will become the richest entity in the world, regardless of the presence of Bitcoin or not. Your as
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by sparkie 8y ago
> If Bitcoin is not backed by government force, then why is it worth anything? > Because no one can be compelled to accept Bitcoin to extinguish my debts to them (i.e. by the courts) and I can't pay my taxes in Bitcoin to my loca
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Cars and computers are not investments. They have direct utility. Money does not (unless you burn it for heat). Right. The deflationary argument is that people won't spend money because the money appreciates in value over time ver
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Try and be less literal - spending is suppressed. At every point there's an incentive to avoid spending as much as possible, and it's exponentially regressive - with enough wealth, and no investment - your wealth continues to
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by sparkie 8y ago
Spending does not stop. It may slow. Most arguments against deflation are largely strawmen, and the historical examples of it are usually a result of too much government intervention, or it following a period of high inflation. Here's
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by sparkie 8y ago
You're missing the "extra dollars" that the central bank prints to fund the government's overspending. They call it "inflation" and tell you it is necessary and good for the economy. Before your government can
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by sparkie 8y ago
People with more skill and proficiency don't need to sacrifice as much of their time to provide the basic sustenance they need to live. They can sacrifice a bit more of their time to earn a bit more and improve their standard of living
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by sparkie 8y ago
The key distinction between a burned match and a some bitcoin is that you can't forge the latter. Anyone can forge a match, and it would be extremely difficult to create an "authentic" match, which the receiver of in a transa
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by sparkie 8y ago
Labor is a sacrifice of ones time, and one expects to receive compensation for that sacrifice. The medium of compensation could be anything, and is certainly not limited to regional monopoly currencies. The key distinction between the curre
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by sparkie 8y ago
tl;dr: "They built a bunch of shitcoins and custody service piggybacking on the Bitcoin brand and were surprised that there was no market for them."
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by sparkie 8y ago
Sounds like the police in Oregon have too much time on their hands.
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by sparkie 8y ago
What people should care about is the integrity and consistency of the data they're storing. RDBMS do an extremely good job of generalising this problem with reasonable performance, which suits the majority of real world problems. The i

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