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by sprafa 7y ago
The transaction rate is deadly in my opinion, not just bad. A year or so ago the rates were running at ridiculous prices. It’s a black eye on the Bitcoin Core that they haven’t fixed this nor do they seem inclined to (the Bitcoin Cash Core
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by sprafa 7y ago
Yes true, this is why I “dropped out of it” then eventually came back to it. The fact that I have Venezuelan friends who started hoarding it to avoid capital controls in their country convinced me of its usefulness and long-term viability.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I would welcome a correction! My impression is if anyone has 51% of all bitcoin they can write whatever they’d like on the blockchain and validate it at will. Is this wrong?
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by sprafa 7y ago
Looks cool, but in Brighton UK it promises me 56km a day in summertime. Seems... not a lot? edit my bad this is how much extra it would charge a day. Seems like it could hold an 800km charge which is incredible. Opinion: Tesla should buy
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by sprafa 7y ago
Governments can easily ban and pursue anti-crypto measures to prevent anything such as money they can't control. Yannis Varoufakis said it best: the idea of apolitical money is a fiction and a dream. Money has always been associated to
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by sprafa 7y ago
This is one of the reasons I dropped out of crypto for years, most of its supporters were completely delusional and tragically uninformed about actual banks. I always considered two datapoints to be fulcral A) ease of use, which Bitcoin has
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by sprafa 7y ago
The adventurer is supposed to be doing something worth accomplishing ie a first or an important feat. Doing it for the 100th time makes you the rich asshole even if the #1 guy was a rich asshole too at least he was proving something.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I agree that forsaken communities is a problem. That’s why I asked OP if he considered a black problem. I was trying to tease out an answer from him. Of course he immediately attacked me and refused to answer it directly and called what I s
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by sprafa 7y ago
Also what I said was not gobbledygook. Perhaps you should take some time to revisit some of your beliefs while looking into actual scientific studies on crime.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think saying something demonstrably absurd about the black community is a form of racist thinking or belief. Do you also think that white people turn to crime because of “lack of expectations”? If you do I’m willing to give this a pass. I
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by sprafa 7y ago
Do you actually think that the “lack of expectations” from the leftwing has meant that the black community in Chicago has gone into crime? That seems... absurdly racist or pseudoracist in nature. Do white people also fall into crime because
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by sprafa 7y ago
I did not use Alipay but the fact that it was available as an option and it was a sponsor heavily featured on materials even inside the stadiums made me think it must be available.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Alipay appears to be available in Europe now, as the UEFA Nations League tickets could be bought using either alipay or card. source: I bought Nations League tickets.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Hip hip. We need a People’s movement against FB, or a people’s movement for data regulation.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think you are being carried away by things I didn’t say. I don’t think communism under the USSR was better than any law abiding capitalist society. In fact it was objectively worst. But what happened in Russia in the 90s was brutal, reduc
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think genocide is a stretch/figure of speech. Still Russia lost populating during the period which was unprecedented outside of famines - https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians&#x2
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by sprafa 7y ago
Thanks, would love to hear more about your experience (if you are willing to talk about it). It’s a dangerously underreported story in the West.
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by sprafa 7y ago
That was decades before the 1990s? Here’s a good article about the 1990s - https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians/
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by sprafa 7y ago
It seems like we are both being downvoted for stating historical facts. Sad state of affairs here at HN and honestly a bit jingoistic to think US intervention in Russia was somehow “enlightened”.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Russian/Soviet economy was definitly not collapsing or at least nowhere near a quickly. Afaik quality of life and income collapsed during the 90s far faster than it ever had during the Soviet Union.
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by sprafa 7y ago
According to research I’ve read revolutions grow more likely only when food prices exceed the average income of the population. That is - populations only revolt when starving. That would explain why we see so little of them - starvation le
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by sprafa 7y ago
I’ve never read anything from Naomi Klein (I think she’s biased and opinionated to the point of being unreliable). I’ve taken this from very slight research and particularly from Russian magazines that were covering the events at the time.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think all you’re saying is true but I wonder whether the West shouldn’t have been more careful when we were called upon to help these countries transition away from planned economies.
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by sprafa 7y ago
It was a stupid thing to do, that’s all I meant, with huge negative unforeseen consequences. Whether or not it should have been done is not my place to judge really.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I really don’t see the connection particularly considering the new oligarchs post-Soviet period appear to be more intimately connected to organised crime than any soviet heritage power structures
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by sprafa 7y ago
I really don’t know enough of the subject just repeated what I can remember from memory. If you’re interested research.
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by sprafa 7y ago
It’s considered among knowledgeable circles that the creation of the Russia we know of today was largely the work of the “Chicago Boys” type group of economists who were sent to liberalize the Russian economy through “shock therapy”. There
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by sprafa 7y ago
Blender’s built in tenderer is known to be quite good, but I’m not sure they used it on the movie.
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by sprafa 7y ago
There’s lots of small shops transitioning to Blender or using Blender. The studio that makes A Man in A high Castle VFX used Blender and there’s some animation studios in Spain using Blender. The reason why it’s not used more: as good as it
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by sprafa 7y ago
It’s absolutely obvious that FB needs to be forced through legislation to allow for interopability of its basic features. This has been obvious since it achieved its hegemony. When this happens FB will be dead.

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