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by vbuterin 13y ago
Assuming no new disruptions, then yes, economic conditions in the two countries would eventually equalize and prices would differ by at most the shipping cost if one of the two countries happens to have much better natural conditions for pr
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by vbuterin 13y ago
I personally found it highly surprising (in a disconcerting way) that so few people answered "don't know" for the question "is individual success under your control". Am I really the only person who is squarely in t
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by vbuterin 13y ago
> send them cash Or Bitcoin, for that matter.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
This is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Just zoom out to the ten-year chart: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Most merchants in practice accept transactions immediately as soon as they receive the unconfirmed notification. The security is not 100% perfect that way, but it's still way better than the risk of getting a chargeback with a more tra
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Okay, I normally view arguments that regulation is hurting the middle class very favorably, but these arguments are very sketchy for a number of reasons: 1. Decimalization. The argument that the author is making is essentially that "ma
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by vbuterin 13y ago
It's important to note that the "diagonal argument" used to show countability of rationals or describable numbers is completely different from the one used to show the uncountability of the reals. In fact, the two counting ar
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Indeed. Feudal society would have been very different if any eighteen year old whiz kid could start up his own manor and attract five million peasants over the course of two years and three venture capital cycles.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
I find his philosophical views fairly reactionary. What does he want? For society to go back to a pyramid structure where people are bound to a particular village and have freedom to construct their own lives? We watch movies about people l
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by vbuterin 13y ago
And from a legal standpoint just because there's a law that happens to force you to break a contract does not usually absolve you from liability for doing so. Of course, many of these contracts may contain some kind of "you have n
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Not really; strict constitutionalists can still say that the government should never infringe on amendments 1...8,10, and if it can intrude even less (ie. add more rights) then that's great. In fact, I think that was the whole point of
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by vbuterin 13y ago
It's actually really easy.... ( http://bitpay.com )
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by vbuterin 13y ago
I would say very many businesses these days use Google Docs, which is compatible with every OS. That's the way we are actually progressing here; everything is multiplatform.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
You assume it is true, and write a program that relies on it.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Taking the Cramer model, the probability that a number N is not expressible as the sum of two primes is product(x=1...N-1) (1 - 1/log(x)log(N-x)) < product(x=1...N-1) (1 - 1/log(N)) = (1 - 1/log(N)) ^ (N-1) Which is eventually below (1
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Hmm, I remember seeing BitPay merchants take zero-conf just fine.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Namecheap does NOT need to be waiting for even a single confirmation to accept deposits. The kinds of services that they offer are all easily reversible within the kinds of timescales where double spend attacks are feasible (domain registra
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Instant transactions are actually safe for nearly all applications. Try buying something for BTC at some point; the confirmation will happen in 5-10 seconds.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Problem is, 100% inflation per 2 years is a bit much.
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Hi there, original author of the article here. Many Bitcoin developers are actually quite positive to the idea of alternative implementations; all they're saying is "be careful". > Gavin wrote to me only days after the BitCoinJ release
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Leaving this here: http://reddit.com/r/bitcointip
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by vbuterin 13y ago
Bitcointip already solved this problem, but it only works on Reddit unfortunately. Unfortunately I don't really see a way to implement an analog for Facebook or Google+ without official support since they're not public forums in the same wa
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by vbuterin 13y ago
The problem with property-rights based systems (namely "standard" anarchocapitalism) is that their economic model falls apart on externalities - both positive externalities (ie. public goods) which get underproduced and "steal half a cent f
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by vbuterin 14y ago
Not really. If a maximizing murder has a choice between a quiet but effective means of killing people and a loud but ineffective one, they will go for the former. A terrorist will go for the latter. Guess which category bombs fall into.
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by vbuterin 14y ago
In the case of {(0,0),(0,2)}, (0,1) counts as "1 more integer point" - the point has to be not one of the two points generating the line, not a point outside the set of 5 points on the plane.
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by vbuterin 14y ago
Well, using Bitcoin as a means of transferring USD is a perfectly legitimate use. It even has lower fees than credit cards and Paypal these days, exchange fees included.
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by vbuterin 14y ago
You'll be surprised: http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm
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by vbuterin 14y ago
> everything but intangibles So, everything but 90% of the economy in forty years' time?
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by vbuterin 14y ago
Why can't they just use email password recovery like everyone else?...
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by vbuterin 14y ago
> even though the USD is not experiencing hyperinflation and never has since the introduction of the Federal Reserve system. The USD stayed long-term stable before 1913. It lost 98% of its value since then. Say what you want about short

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