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by sparkie 8y ago
Legislation is going to do absolutely nothing except maybe kick the can down the road a little further. (And at the cost of causing economic stagnation in developing nations). What we really need is investment into clean energy solution
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by sparkie 8y ago
Most of these are all true for F# too. On 2, most of the syntax is indentation sensitive, but for types you can optionally annotate them with `class`/`struct`/`interface` and the keyword `end` to finalize them. Pattern matching in
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by sparkie 8y ago
Can you cite somewhere where somebody has said that thousands of men, women and children are terrorists? I've heard claims that there are terrorists among the thousands of men, women and children seeking asylum (or work). Fake news is
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by sparkie 8y ago
Is it moral for content producers to sell users web browsing habits to advertisers without their explicit consent?
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's a tried and tested strategy that works for any kind of protest anywhere. People are angry and in large groups. It only takes a gentle push to create riots. The people in charge want the riots to happen so they can label their oppo
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by sparkie 8y ago
The protests are real. The violence is the false flag. Saboteurs planted into the crowds to try and discredit the movement.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Also the location often means that you need to travel (an hour or more each way) for basic amenities and fuel, in some locations you might get snowed in at winter.
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by sparkie 8y ago
The reports that Ghaddafi was massacring people were rumors and were widely publicised when Genevieve Garrigos (Head of Amnesty International) appeared on French TV to report it. 6 months later, the same head of Amnesty International claime
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by sparkie 8y ago
If you are productive you will have enemies. Perhaps even, the more productive you are, the more enemies you will make. People who are particularly unproductive tend to think that the world owes them something.
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Not dying yet (I wonder whether it will ever die), but "fading away". Which seems obvious, but hey, let's hope for another bubble! If you're convinced it is fading, be my guest. As far as I can tell adoption is cont
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Dollars have one major advantages over bitcoins (in the US): They are legal tender for paying all debts, private and public. This is true, but the practice is such because the government has previously granted a monopoly on the issuanc
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by sparkie 8y ago
I would modify (3) to say: It is better to encourage saving than to encourage spending on useless shit that won't last. The problem with today's "investment" is that it is almost entirely on shit that won't last, an
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by sparkie 8y ago
> That only pins the value of a bitcoin in relation to other bitcoins - it does nothing to pin the value of a bitcoin to real-world goods. This is true, but it's also true for dollars. No goods are inherently pinned to a dollar valu
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by sparkie 8y ago
Good luck sending gold through copper wires. Good luck transporting it without getting mugged. Good luck hiding it when the socialist state comes knocking for it.
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by sparkie 8y ago
The inflationary money is bad in comparison to the non-inflationary money, because the inflationary money sees people's purchasing power lose value from the labour they underwent to acquire the currency, over short terms (a few years
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by sparkie 8y ago
Well, if you only look at a 12 month period, then it might look like "bitcoin is dying", but when you look at the overall picture of bitcoin over the past 10 years, it tells the complete opposite story. Bitcoin is only trending in
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by sparkie 8y ago
The great thing about Bitcoin is that people with "shitty economic theories" are not able to influence the money printers. Hating on it is wasting your time, because you can't change the fact. No matter how much you dislike i
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by sparkie 8y ago
The bitcoin supply is increasing, at high, but shrinking rates, however its purchasing power is still increasing despite that inflation. This suggests that demand for bitcoin is exceeding the supply rate. If the demand continues, and the
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by sparkie 8y ago
Because a dollar is not always worth a dollar. A bitcoin is always worth a bitcoin. The dollar doesn't have a "reference rate," as it is subject to arbitrary inflation. The dollar has had several reference rates in the past
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by sparkie 8y ago
My understanding of the Model-View-Adapter pattern is that the adapter is the dependant of both the view and the model, which are disjoint objects. The diagram shown here has the arrow inverted between the adapter and the view, and the auth
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by sparkie 8y ago
Private transactions are not the default behavior, which makes transaction analysis more feasible than with private-by-default currencies like Monero. Also, zcash has the trusted setup issue, which requires that you trust the developers wer
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by sparkie 8y ago
You can receive incoming blocks on the Bitcoin network via satellite, radio etc. I doubt a government would be able to keep up the whack-a-mole game against many activists who can set up mobile block relays. You can also send transactions o
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by sparkie 8y ago
Bitcoin is borderless. Lets say for example, a government decides to ban all bitcoin/fiat exchanges in their jurisdiction, what will people who want to obtain Bitcoin do? Answer: They will obtain Bitcoin either directly (on the black m
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by sparkie 8y ago
You can ask the questions about whether it should or should not enable crime, but the question is useless, because it doesn't address whether it can or cannot enable crime. When you ask this question, you come to the conclusion tha
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's not there yet, but eventually Bitcoin will be near enough anonymous and untraceable via the use of the Lightning Network, sidechains, CT and mixing services. There's usually a cost/privacy tradeoff, and people will be ab
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by sparkie 8y ago
Another false comparison. There's a big difference between implementing society-wide regulations and unpersoning individuals.
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by sparkie 8y ago
It has already been implemented (Bitcoin, Monero etc), and is improving gradually. The control freaks who would not like to tolerate it think they'll be able to tame it, but Bitcoin is like the Hydra - it gets stronger with every unsuc
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by sparkie 8y ago
The key isn't planning, the key is population. A city without people is a ghost city. The city is as much the people as it is the infrastructure. Cities are alive. It's like arguing that you can build a person by assembling organs
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by sparkie 8y ago
The reason you can "download a package and its dependencies" with other package management systems, is not because they are technically superior, but because they've had countless man-hours of contributors making sure that th
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by sparkie 8y ago
A better term is "fiatcoin". There is no such thing as a "stablecoin". What mechanisms exist to ensure that the "stablecoin" maintains its peg?

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