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by topmonk 9y ago
I don't think I understand what scenario you're talking about. If you're talking about the scenario I posted a video of, I think you are completely off base. If you're talking a cop straight-up murdering someone, and it
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by topmonk 9y ago
And it may have unforeseen consequences or it may take away funds for something else equally or more important, etc., etc.
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by topmonk 9y ago
> Innocent until proven guilty is a time-honored maxim of the U.S. justice system, and a cop deciding to kill you completely invalidates that. Consider two civilians. If A shoots at B, and B shot back and killed A, should B go to jail fo
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by topmonk 9y ago
Yet it seems to work in other western countries. In 2015: Killings by officers in US: 1140 Killings by officers in England: 3 Deaths of police by shootings in US: 41 Deaths of police by shootings in England: 0 (about 1 every other year) Pop
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by topmonk 9y ago
Here is a video of a cop getting shot while trying to apprehend a man on a motorcycle (maybe NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqoYMOkuYc The motorcyclist has a gun in his pocket, and shoots the cop without warning. H
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by topmonk 9y ago
Yea, that's what I mean by "remove guns from the equation", ie. repeal the second amendment.
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by topmonk 9y ago
> really, in almost all cases in the US, "assault officers", and we should separate the two concepts, stop hiring new assault officers, and start hiring a new class of less-armed police officers The reason that cops are so nast
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by topmonk 9y ago
I think you can take that with a grain of salt considering how much of it is probably unclaimed at the moment.
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by topmonk 9y ago
Google is working on a headset with 10x the number of pixels of today's: https://www.roadtovr.com/google-developing-vr-display-10x-pi...
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by topmonk 9y ago
The problem is that measurable success is going to change the experiment. If you consider that there is no constant landscape, it's always changing and always an unknown, the best option is to try a plethora of different ideas, hoping
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by topmonk 9y ago
It isn't. It's much more graduated than that. If we don't vary the amount of support people get, then we won't be able to take advantage of situations where more support (or less) would result in greater success. And giv
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by topmonk 9y ago
Again with the insults. Then what is your damn argument? I've stated mine, several times. Please, state yours. All I can do is guess that you are talking about users not only being inundated with forks, but not even being able to tell
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by topmonk 9y ago
I looked up this term in wikipedia, and I don't know what you are trying to label me as. It seems to be just a buzz word. As quoted from "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics": Part of the difficulty in establishing sen
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by topmonk 9y ago
That would be true if we were trying to find the exact reasons for success. If you are just trying to promote success, then it stands to reason to reward success of the parents, incase some of those confounding factors are hiding actual fit
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by topmonk 9y ago
Why shouldn't we concentrate most of our effort on those whos' parents succeeded? If the parents had the right mindset and the right genes to succeed, they would in all likelihood pass those onto their children. This mirrors the n
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by topmonk 9y ago
Either you don't want to see my point, or you can't see it, because you haven't said anything to address it. If you have an argument, why don't you say it? This juvenile name calling makes me feel sad for you.
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by topmonk 9y ago
They carried on after Satoshi left. That's a lot different from an outside group trying to do a hostile takeover and steal the bitcoin brand name.
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by topmonk 9y ago
What? Satoshi disappeared! The rest of the developers continued on. How is that comparable to bitcoin cash trying to do a hostile take over of bitcoin, simply because they want to take the brand name for themselves?
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by topmonk 9y ago
No, because those same developers worked on the earlier versions as well. They didn't just come in, take someone else's code, change it, and say, "Look guys, here is the next version of their software! Enjoy ;)"
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by topmonk 9y ago
> The idea of authorisation or ownership of the one true core is hilarious. That's great, but it's not what I wrote. What "one true core"? Taking someone's software, modifying it, and touting your change as the n
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by topmonk 9y ago
If you take someone else's work, modify it, and then claim you are them, that's not "open to interpretation". It's just wrong.
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by topmonk 9y ago
Oh, it's "just sad", for sure... There has to be some acknowledgement that if you take someone else's work and modify it, you shouldn't then be allowed to claim you are them.
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by topmonk 9y ago
> the phrase "Bcash" used to imply it's no longer "Bitcoin" Which is true, so what's the problem?
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by topmonk 9y ago
The name "Bitcoin Cash" is confusing, and the authors meant it that way, so they can piggyback on the branding. There is no reason that the name of an unauthorized fork of a cryptocurrency should use the name of the original wit
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by topmonk 9y ago
You have to trust the banks not to freeze the funds.
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by topmonk 9y ago
Why don't they just make their ISP's filter access to US sites or anyone else that doesn't support Net Neutrality? Oh, wait..
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by topmonk 9y ago
Actually, even less than that. To get an avg sized txn sent within the next 14 hours it would cost: 226 * 100 * 0.0000001 * $17761 = $4.01 https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
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by topmonk 9y ago
I closed the account, so I don't think I have to be paranoid about it. The bank was ally.com . My lawyer recommended it to me as hassle free.
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by topmonk 9y ago
I've sold and transferred more than $800K over the course of 3 days. I had no problem. This was from Gemini to a US Bank
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by topmonk 9y ago
Alright, maybe you're right about that. But, what about the rest of it? Do you agree that people breed themselves to the natural edge of starvation? Would it be better to give them the means to have even more kids, perpetuating the cyc

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