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by themusicgod1 9y ago
You're presupposing here that "hate speech" is what needs remedying. You already have a conclusion you want the rest of us to reach about what we should be saying. More speech is not a remedy to 'hate speech', but
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by themusicgod1 9y ago
> For example, why does C++ still support EBCDIC? You might imagine EBCDIC was a thing of the distant past, and you'd be wrong. As of at least 2013 there was still production systems using EBCDIC being actively developed. In COBOL
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by themusicgod1 9y ago
I bought reddit gold for ~10 years. And how was I repaid? I was shadowbanned, and when I went to check my old comments that I contributed over the 8+ years I was on reddit most of them were gone. You coopted the world's conversation
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
This is untrue. It encodes the US's broken anti-circumvention law on the global stage, which restricts our ability to freely trade with eachother. There are gains from trade and the TPP should not be used to stop them.
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
The TPP was far greater than a class issue. It was part of the War on General Purpose Computation ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg ). It cut through class lines, into our ability to control the technology in our
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
"Were countries not ruled by kings we'd be arguing back and forth on the triviality of legislation. We need to make sure that there's one strong voice that is capable of deciding everything"
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
> I find it endlessly amusing that people are willing to bet their cold hard cash on "this code has no bugs". It's not "this code has no bugs" it's "this code has less visible bugs than the lower hangin
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
A better analogy is probably Thaksin Shinawatra, where the rules are very much still up in the air, and where depending who has sway in Thailand, he can expect vastly different treatment.
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
To be fair, people poured millions of dollars into a drunken pirate investment company (pirateat40). "I'm going to take your money and drink it away, har har" was somehow better than the alternatives, which often involve bas
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
When you pay rent with virtual money suddenly it starts getting more serious.
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
Ethereum is a general purpose system: it has sharp edges. We can use the same reasoning to condemn C/++'s pointers (people trip over themselves all the time, even serious audits occasionally miss big bugs), but we still survive w
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
If the DAO is not ready for survival now, then no amount of protecting it will make it ready for survival. What will make the DAO survive is code that only contains bugs that are too difficult to find relative to the value of finding them.
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by themusicgod1 10y ago
What do you make of Ian Grigg claiming to confirm Wright, having known him as part of the Satoshi team? http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001593.html
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by themusicgod1 11y ago
On the evolutionary timescale that modern sleep became available, I don't think we're talking weapons.
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by themusicgod1 11y ago
> Ultimately taxes need to be paid in fiat, and large organisations will eventually get stomped on for accepting crypto if it subverts government control. Ultimately global trade will have to occur in the global currency, and governments
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
> How do I get my money from my bank account into the Stellar network? In addition to using gateways, as diyang suggests, there is another way, but you first need two things 1) Someone on the network who you trust. This may be your bank
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
> Making languages is a very hard thing. If you don't understand why this is true, you are probably one of these people that should not make a language. It is a very hard thing, which is precisely why we should be doing it. We do n
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
> 15 years ago we wouldn't have had the tech There was a whole community of dare I say hackers who were ready to innovate around spectrum crowding at the dawn of the 20th century. They were systematically removed from participating
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
> While this does display narcissism, I think you're misinterpreting "we are not criminals". I think in context this person is saying that "hacking" in the context of hackathons is not what movie hackers do, brea
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
> Don't make a programming language. You probably aren't the guy to do it. There is most likely exactly two people in this world in every generation qualified to do this well and you probably are not one of them. Know how they
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
This allows those communities to dedicate resources that would have gone towards shirt manufacturing into something more valueable. Textile economies are a mostly waste of human ingenuity and time, and have been since the Jacquard Loom at
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
That's fantastic, but please don't ban tor users!
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
This is written in 2003: I do not think it is a coincidence that Kent Beck is credited ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development ) with re/discovering Test Driven Development in that year. TDD can go
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
Why wasn't anyone else running a validating node? Where is the code for the validating node?
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
What happened in mid 2011 in Russia?
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
Credit reports are scams. The entire premise that you have to pay a company to come up with a metric of how trustable you are in and of itself is a scam.
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
It's probably going to take some time for knowledge of this kind of seep into our day to day lives, but for a lark: It's confirming evidence of the Standard Model. It's kind of like checking for your chair for a thumb tack,
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by themusicgod1 12y ago
> That's assuming your gateway has stellar on hand to provide as conversion. That's not the only way that gateways can talk to eachother. Given this is ripple we're talking about, anyone who has a mutual trust connectio
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by themusicgod1 13y ago
I'm getting reports from multiple contacts that Facebook is putting autoplaying music videos in strategic places. Very myspace-ish.
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by themusicgod1 13y ago
I do not think that you'll find geeks who do without gaping holes in their knowledge.

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