topmonk

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by topmonk 8y ago
Not giving away all your possessions, walking away from your house and living as a homeless person also originates from privilege. Did I win?
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by topmonk 8y ago
I can visualize things, but only for a brief moment. Then, it takes intentional effort to bring up the image again. I can also visualize something rotating or in motion (or my minds eye in motion) for a few seconds. I often feel a little di
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by topmonk 8y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't mention learning about programming. Programming did come out of the field of computer science, after all. Not that I think one should never do any hands on practice, but if you spend a large chunk
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by topmonk 8y ago
This point was really driven home to me when I lived in Las Vegas for a stretch. Watching senior citizens shuffle around the casino spending their wealth they saved over their lifetimes because there was nothing else they could do that coul
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by topmonk 8y ago
Is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
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by topmonk 8y ago
I know this is anecdotal but there are several examples of this on the web: https://imgur.com/gallery/2VRFr
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by topmonk 8y ago
This tax rate is for general work when self employed. It's not specific to gambling.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Why do you say that? They have $630 million in BTC tied up right now.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Yes, but, would all the people who deposited BTC realistically would have not cashed out before now? Most likely a lot would have cashed out after a 2x or 3x return on their investment. They are really lucky as it is.
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by topmonk 8y ago
I said being made whole. Justice takes time.
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by topmonk 8y ago
A happy result for all involved. Karpeles was appropriately punished and all investors are being made whole. Most bankruptcies don't end that way.
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by topmonk 8y ago
A very naive question, but could we rotate an asteroid apart? Suppose we continuously hit it with a laser at an angle, so the resulting heat would cause a bunch of small explosions and impart angular momentum, until it rotated so quickly th
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by topmonk 8y ago
>> I'm on the side of "Question authority" and you seem to be on the side of "Accept authority". That's fine, but I'm not interested in taking conclusions as gospel simply because NASA says so, no ma
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by topmonk 8y ago
> Of course there is, in the very page: Those aren't sources. >“Researchers who study the Earth's climate create models to test their assumptions about the causes and trajectory of global warming. Around the world there are
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by topmonk 8y ago
> But it is, it’s the topic of physics, not history. The historical remains are by nature very incomplete and geology is extremely relevant when you try to interpret the historical proxies, but all that doesn’t matter if you want to unde
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by topmonk 8y ago
Thanks for the info. I'm sorry, you were right, that was a bad source. However, the rebuttal surprisingly leaves out a graph that directly shows temperature against glaciation, solar output and co2, but rather just talks about the comp
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by topmonk 8y ago
> And the CO2, even if it's invisible for us, is actually "black" for something important: it's blocking the part of the spectrum that would allow the Earth surface to cool off. That's how small concentrations of
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by topmonk 8y ago
I agree, but a tiny one. You can't pump half the oil out of the earth's crust that formed there after millions of years, burn it into the atmosphere, and recover the co2 by growing a forest on the surface, no matter how big it is.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Even if you did that, unless you bury the trees after they grow, they'll just rot and release the co2 back in the atmosphere. Trees aren't supposed to be a buffer for increasing co2 levels. They just use co2 as a reusable resource
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by topmonk 8y ago
Small pox! Yeaahhh!!
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by topmonk 8y ago
> You're trying to justify a term made up by a president who in the same speech defended and attempted to justify the murder of a woman by the alt-right. If you just look at the speech by itself, who Trump was referring to was uncle
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When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot for Humans?(nymag.com)
14 points by topmonk 8y ago|1 comments
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by topmonk 8y ago
Here are a couple of other scenarios where having BTC works as an advantage: 1. The government doesn't know you have any money, but you are targeted in a random search. 2. The government does know you have money but doesn't know h
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by topmonk 8y ago
I think it depends in the task, and what the interest of the various groups are. If you have 10 engineers but only 2 of them are really passionate about it, and the other 8 would rather be doing something else, but due to incentives based o
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by topmonk 8y ago
http://iqcomparisonsite.com/SexDifferences.aspx http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students... Richard Feynman is the exception that proves the rule.
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by topmonk 8y ago
IQ tests show there are a greater number of men with very high IQs than women, and scientific ability highly correlates with IQ, so your “basic principle” doesn't hold muster.
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by topmonk 8y ago
In India there is a more equal split between women and men in the STEM fields, yet women are much less liberated then in Western countries. The reason being is that women there are forced to enter whatever career gives them the biggest payc
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by topmonk 8y ago
Tell me how anything you just said shows how it could be easier to smuggle physical currency out of the country than digital currency, which was the point that I was refuting.
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by topmonk 8y ago
> But yes, digital exfiltration may be easier than physical smuggling. That's supposing a lot about what forms of control are implemented in that country at at it's borders. Given that some forms of cryptocurrency can be store
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by topmonk 8y ago
> So the way to go is guilty until proven innocent leonine contracts with /everyone/ and if not undefined penalties whee! From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leonine Definition of leonine: of,

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