weddpros

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by weddpros 9y ago
"social security contributions.... tax the employer has to pay": that's a great lie, that employers pay those, not employees. For employers, it's one amount of money paid for hiring an employee: employers don't real
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by weddpros 9y ago
Let's talk about Total (french oil company) which didn't pay ANY taxes in France until recently. BTW, it was the most prosperous company in France at that time. Only when the media investigated did they start to pay some corporate
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by weddpros 9y ago
"Really? In the wake of the GFC, which bills would _you_ have voted for and why?": I'd have chosen a plan, maybe not "save the banks who caused all of this", but that's only me. In democracy, you learn to accep
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by weddpros 9y ago
according to the depth chart on GDAX, you could sell 10M$ in BTC and the price would dip by.... les than 300$ to 10850$. 100M$ in BTC would send the price in the 7000s
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by weddpros 9y ago
"the average voter doesn't have the time or knowledge to make decisions" That's condescendent, and openly anti-democratic. The time argument is the worse of the two: "people don't bother with making decisions,
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by weddpros 9y ago
When I see a story where representative democracy is failing to serve the people, I can't help but remember that this form of democracy was invented before we had the Internet. The Internet should be used to fix its deficiencies. Chang
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by weddpros 9y ago
Except if they can be found guilty because of suppositions. I guess it's just a case where the law makes no sense: you can't prove you've innocently suggested to use a secure communication tool for the right reasons, so there
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by weddpros 9y ago
Governments are supposed to be in service of the people. People's security should be their goal, not a hindrance. They shouldn't abuse the power we gave them to enslave us. The more the world is upside down, the harder it is to re
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by weddpros 9y ago
So... if you're doing something illegal, and you know your phone is tapped by the police, it is MANDATORY to use this phone to discuss your illegal activities. Otherwise you'll be prosecuted for it. I hate how stupid laws can get.
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Maybe he provided proof of that... maybe it was just his understanding? Legal departments know it's impossible to be 100.00% legal (who has never trespassed a single law?), and they're tasked with avoiding any legal risk. To them,
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by weddpros 9y ago
Agree... Why not insinuate that people who use phone calls instead of emails are simply covering their tracks? And the worst, those who prefer face-to-face communication? Even simple logic fails so often with law/justice/governmen
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by weddpros 9y ago
"Who on earth would actually sell any Bitcoins right now" (spend and sell have the same effect)... yet in the market, there's a seller in front of every buyer. Regarding stuff being priced in BTC, prices are falling when BTC
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by weddpros 9y ago
the same applies to the dollar, which is useful, only not the cheapest, fastest or most anonymous...
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by weddpros 9y ago
I've wondered if a keto diet could help, but if there's a chance antibiotics could fix the problem, I'll take that instead. My gluten intolerance appeared 1 week after a serious food poisoning, which could logically point to
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by weddpros 9y ago
Science is science, not politics, and it must stay that way. A french wheat producers syndicate has published web pages to say even coeliacs should eat gluten, just less of it... That's even the first article my mom found about gluten
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by weddpros 9y ago
miek, I'd really appreciate if you could contact me with more precise information (analysis you did, etc...). I've been struggling with gluten sensitivity for 1.5yrs (been through the gastroenterologist circuit already, with 0 res
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by weddpros 9y ago
I wouldn't trust anything closed source to forget that private key. I can't see how buying an actual cert could be more risky than installing a new root CA. The goal of signing is to ensure origin and anti-tampering: two fails in
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by weddpros 9y ago
Just imagine what the developer thought when his boss said "we don't want to buy an actual certificate, find something that works". And now this developer is learning on HN he should remove that line in his resumé. Or maybe h
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by weddpros 9y ago
Skype-like conversation in front of my passport + a european postal address... Their customer service has been very good.
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by weddpros 9y ago
Forks are a corner case. As long as someone is willing to pay for the minority coin, why not sell it: the fact that someone is willing to pay for it makes it valuable. "The peons in Theranos didn't commit fraud, they didn't r
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by weddpros 9y ago
you could always use bitwage (never tried)
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by weddpros 9y ago
Yes, I think KYC is a problem with digital nomadism. All things administrative become a huge burden when you're travelling full-time, rent a furnished house in a tourist location without utility bills, etc. Some banks are already tryin
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by weddpros 9y ago
I should have added "I agree" ;-)
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by weddpros 9y ago
The same can be said of any startup/company. Founders throw 1k$ in the pot, investors 100M$, the public 1B$, yet the founder has benefited a lot, by being there first. If people start thinking "he's a con", the company&#
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by weddpros 9y ago
The following is just my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong: People don't connect directly to miners. They connect to nodes (8000+) which forward to miners. Nodes can declare an order is valid or invalid and they can blacklist
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by weddpros 9y ago
You know what I mean... For a startup or for Bitcoin, people wonder "will it fly?". I do think BTC is flying, but some are still sceptical, despite a 100B market cap...
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by weddpros 9y ago
Most currencies suffer from inflation: it's more interesting to buy now than later because your wealth will go down with time. BTC with its fixed supply works the opposite direction, devoid of inflation: you'd rather keep your BTC
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by weddpros 9y ago
You're always betting when you're investing. At least the odds are better than in a casino.
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by weddpros 9y ago
Majority of participants in the network. I run a full node, I don't mine, but my voice counts. Of course I don't like the weight of huge mining farms, and I hope there will be viable alternatives to proof of work, to make BTC more
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by weddpros 9y ago
I do understand... maybe I wasn't clear enough: it will do more in the future! but it's not Facebook scale yet. Coinbase has 10M users, not 100M, not 1B. I do bet on BTC to change the world... so I pay in BTC when I can too!

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