terranstyler

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by terranstyler 13y ago
The officials deciding about your status most probably couldn't care less. This is not an opinion but my experience (I tried exactly that line tough in a different country)
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I asked for something like this a few weeks ago in #clojure, nobody had a solution. Thanks!
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Topics 1. Launch of new HN without BTC News 2. Show HN: Efficient filtering of Bitcoin related news. 3. How I avoid thinking about the white elephant. ... ;)
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I agree with your take on the situation ;) Thing is that a lawyer might be throwing good money after bad, it's just ~3k and who knows, maybe the fiat claims (~50% of the 3k) are worth something (though I doubt it).
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by terranstyler 13y ago
OK, I gotta correct myself: Fiat is not valueless (what I wrote) but it has no intrinsic value (what I meant). Just like BTC.
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by terranstyler 13y ago
And then there is fiat money, the elephant in the room of valueless things.
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by terranstyler 13y ago
The lesson is: If you don't understand anything about something but need to opine, put the words "lesson" and "engineer" in the head to fake your understanding.
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by terranstyler 13y ago
You guys have any idea on how to proceed if you (allegedly) have a few BTC and USD there? Yeah yeah I know, I read HN often but obviously I missed the "Stay away from Gox" posts :(
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by terranstyler 13y ago
The kind of people that (unlike mafia or the police) don't need physical proximity to make your life a nightmare...
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I loved the series, I remember in X-Wing there was a complete campaign where you start with hit'n'run tactics against some containers (!) and end in an ambush and the first kill of an ISD. This storyline made you feel hopelessly o
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Doesn't that imply a certain equivalence between the two terms or is this a notation I am not aware of? And if it is the former, am I contributing to your security for not posting the simplified version? :)
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Re the prior comments, I based my view on the instances in Germany. The products are usually good and prices really low. Especially the chocolate clones of some brands are some 30% of the price and 90% of the taste. Then again, I saw just r
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Aldi is by no means low quality! However, I agree it isn't premium either...
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by terranstyler 13y ago
The BS part was meant w.r.t. the theories because, unlike theirs, your opinion is not forced upon the people, so sorry if I left room for the misunderstanding. I disagree in particular to the "to serve debt you have to create more&quot
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by terranstyler 13y ago
> A capitalistic system can not be run without growth I disagree. You are told we need to grow by X% p.a. and we need an inflation of Y% p.a. and we need to weaken our currencies to boost exports bla bla. It is possible to show that this
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Post-scarcity economics sounds to me like post-human anthropology or post-matter physics, i.e. economics is by definition science on "managing" scarcity. No scarcity, no trade, no economics. Honestly, capitalism would be a good sy
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I'd argue that "having a different code" does not at all entail any illegal action. People often have very different opinions (for example tax laws), yet they comply with the given law. But then again, taken out of context (t
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by terranstyler 13y ago
That looks fraudulent, no doubt! I just wanted to criticize that many of the arguments in the original article refer to activities like violating the "state money transmission laws" or "money laundering" and "suspi
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by terranstyler 13y ago
True. The problem for all of us could be that people often forget that "An idea is not responsible for the people that believe in it" (some "Don Marquis" said that)
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Frankly, my moral and ethical code is quite different to what is legal. "State money transmission laws" belong to a set of legal rules that I don't care about as long as nobody gets harmed (physically or w.r.t. his property).
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I think "Programming" is just a word to decribe the representation of the consequence. The real value of a programmer is in understanding things fully (in order to formally articulate them in a program). The suits I work with don&
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by terranstyler 13y ago
This would mean that life is an episode in a Monte-Carlo simulation traversing the state space of all possible human lifes. The story also suggests that the simulation is heavily parallel and complete knowledge of all episodes (rather all p
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by terranstyler 13y ago
Those were times, a gamble every 10 minutes, I didn't shave for weeks. I wonder why today lotteries are held only like once a week or so...
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by terranstyler 13y ago
And don't even get me started on the legal immunity of the (not democratically elected) governors of the ESM that have the power to demand more money (for ESM and themselves) no matter what...
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by terranstyler 13y ago
A good thing by itself but I doubt it will have a real effect other than showing that "Separation of Powers" in theory works much better than in practice... (read "not") Besides, for some reason complaints against the st
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by terranstyler 13y ago
If I understand correctly, you suggest that a parasite would sacrifice "long term survival" or "offspring adulthood probability" to achieve increased reproductive success!? Hmm, the host could for example go on a "r
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I'd say that it is in the host's own interest to maximize sexual activity given all other constraints (long term survival and reproduction). This is why a parasite won't be able to improve (or optimize) it further since it is
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by terranstyler 13y ago
I am "kind of" in the same situation. I also have some savings and I dont want to use them, however, it seems it will be necessary. You should consider it a bet. If you are convinced that your startup will fly, maybe you should be
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by terranstyler 13y ago
The Joy of Clojure It (kind of) enlightened me as to why OO programming is such a mess. I dont know of any similar, language agnostic book though...
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Clojure dropped out of TIOBE
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