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by topmonk 8y ago
Then the thief could hide in the back, and rob you while you were driving down the interstate (ie. he could hold a knife to your throat and force you to drive to location that was hidden from public view). I don't know how realistic th
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by topmonk 8y ago
I came into a windfall about a year ago. I found that it's easy to fall in a rut. Having so much money made me feel like that what what other people perceive as the biggest thing about me. I miss the praise and respect that a job well
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by topmonk 8y ago
I just got the book and have read through part 1 already. Thanks, it's a great book, so far.
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by topmonk 8y ago
When I was in Indonesia, about 8 years ago, Lion Air had the ominous badly translated slogan “We make people fly”. They had a bad track record at that time, too. Edit: Apparently they still do, https://mobile.lionair.co.id/
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by topmonk 8y ago
Making fast cars, downhill racing bikes and hang gliders all hurt the elderly, disabled, and poor, too, by that logic.
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by topmonk 8y ago
My questions were rhetorical. I was trying to explain why I believe clothes are expensive in wealthy areas, not asking about you personally.
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by topmonk 8y ago
Why don't you buy clothes from a thrift store? Maybe you (or maybe not...) don't want to look like a hobo. Why does wearing clothes from a thrift store make you look like a hobo? Because they are so cheap, people with very little
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by topmonk 8y ago
I use an external keyboard with a laptop, which I place on my lap. First, it's much more ergonomic to work this way. Second, the laptop has a lot less wear and tear on it since I'm not typing on it. Not only does it help keep the
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by topmonk 8y ago
RTFA. The nerves eventually recover. They've tried it with dogs with joint problems and after about 5 months they need to be re-injected.
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Also, being a "Russian asset", whatever that means, doesn't affect anything. If he refuses to release dirt against Russia, the would be leaker can go to someone else or just release it themselves. He isn't the gatekeeper
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> Every spy agency on earth does this and has done this since their inception. They don't expose the information. They keep it and use it for themselves. Even if Assange is a Russian agent, I'd rather have him exposing things
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by topmonk 8y ago
One of the things I've noticed about Japan (and Taiwan also) is the seemingly lack of the feeling of cringiness. These same photos taken of Americans would be nearly universally laughed at, and I have a suspicion that the feeling of cr
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by topmonk 8y ago
>> No, it's the chemical reaction that the oil plants use, not the owners of the said plants > poor attempt, try again. I like how you deleted the "See how silly that sounds?" part, which is what I'm getting at.
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by topmonk 8y ago
No, it's the chemical reaction that the oil plants use, not the owners of the said plants. See how silly that sounds? You can't assert that every PoS system is vulnerable to a grinding attack without specifying what the attack is.
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I think PoS is much more environmentally friendly than PoW. That's not the same as whether I think either will increase or decline in the short term, which is a different question entirely. Anyway, you have yet to prove the core of you
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by topmonk 8y ago
You made a pretty bold statement saying that no Proof of Stake systems are not immune to grinding, although they're are some currently major ones in existence, EOS, Carsano, etc. If you can grind away at these systems, why don't
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by topmonk 8y ago
I haven't looked at ripple in awhile, but I thought the idea was that if Alice agrees that she can float Bob $5 and Bob agrees that he can float Charles $5 then as long as you trust Alice with a $5 debt, you can trust Charles with a $5
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by topmonk 8y ago
Ripple and Stellar are completely centralized. It's simply a web of trust. If one of your peers that have given you “trust”, such as a bank in which you have an account, decides they want to freeze your funds and prevent you from spend
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by topmonk 8y ago
I can see your argument up to this point: > If there is a worldwide effort to shut down PoW cryptocurrencies, they will become useless and the deep state won't be able to achieve anything with them that it couldn't do more easi
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by topmonk 8y ago
The realization of that sort of idealism is so far fetched it doesn't change the argument. Sure, you could possibly get the USA to create laws to stop externalizing the costs of co2 production, but everyone, everywhere? Including the m
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by topmonk 8y ago
A guy working for McDonalds and living in a small run down apartment in a bad neighborhood definitely has less to lose by going to prison then a billionaire.
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by topmonk 8y ago
What is being proposed isn't open borders, because only one side (the U.S.A.) would be allowing people in. Effectively it instead becomes a sieve. If the other country has people it doesn't want to deal with, such as homeless or c
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by topmonk 8y ago
How about a government enforced mandate that everyone gets a secure computer embedded into their skull in a way that removal will kill them, with a camera that continuously records video, sound and GPS positioning? This could then digitally
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by topmonk 8y ago
> You can’t really though, because traditional banks are regulated, and if anyone tried to do that Theyd be investigated by the FBI and the Secret Service then any fraudulently created currency would be destroyed. Further it’s not a core
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It's not about a moral compass, it's about attracting top talent. The universities push this ideology, so if you want to get the alumni from the universities to work for you, you have to abide by the tenets.
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You also don't know if your brick and mortar bank has been hacked. It's a silly argument.
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Yes, I know about that. But that is quite a straw man. You could say the same thing about the implementation of the protocols that the banks use, who also store your money as an imaginary balance in their computer systems.
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> If the core team wants to create more bitcoin they can. If you believe this, you lack a fundamental understanding of btc.
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by topmonk 8y ago
As a thought experiment, we release 40 billion tons of co2 per year. An average skyscraper weights around 250,000 tons. So that would be the equivalent of 160,000 skyscrapers worth of this stuff. Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers current a
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by topmonk 8y ago
I didn't agree with you at first, but after seeing the painting out of its frame, I think you are right: https://1fuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/art-owner-shred...

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