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by yanmaani 5y ago
Sure, but it seems good enough for practical purposes. I mean, in her case it would even have been enough to just mail them a $40 Android phone with location services turned on.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I don't think it's possible to draw any conclusions about what would happen to Bitcoin, you're running into the fundamental limits of the problem of induction here. In particular, Bitcoin mining is concentrated into a small n
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> There is nothing fundamentally different between say ... bitcoin ... and ... cash ... Agreed. > That's a trade off of convenience vs. risk, but doesn't change the fundamentals. There is. The ones that rely on court mechani
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I don't understand - how is the custody even part of the payment system, though? For example, if I keep all my money in the bank, then cash is only as reversible as my bank account is solid. But "cash as a payment method is reve
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Couldn't the same result be accomplished with commodity GPS trackers, which don't require any iPhones?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
It's true for cash, but not for cards. If a merchant incorrectly gets my $1000, and I charge him back, I will get my money, even if he spent $1000 on coke and hookers.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I think I want to disagree with the central point of the article here: As a payment mechanism , Bitcoin is final. As a store of value, it isn't unseizable. But from a technical PoV, they still had to make a new transaction in order to
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Yes, and the point the parent is making is that it isn't a very good one.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Now actually, I think the Vietnamese know a thing or two about alternatives to the free market.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Great contemporary poems, perhaps, but not contemporary great poems. If we look at the current issue[0] of The Threepenny Review, the pathology is quite obvious. The three "poems" in the list all share certain features: - A variab
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by yanmaani 5y ago
This is an intriguing proposition, but for the architecture we can trivially prove it false. Just go outside and look at the new developments going up, then go to the library and look at pictures of literal tenements from a hundred years ag
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Not a whole lot going on. Back in the day, you always would have some kind of good war going on, for one. And then you had all of those other big cultural issues, you could always pump out a book about communism or three. Today, all we can
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by yanmaani 5y ago
What's wrong with brush/pen technique?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Counterpoint: People write worse poetry than they used to, the books are worse now, and all the architecture is terrible. Grant that they don't have anything interesting to write about and it's too expensive to build decent buildi
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Because 'shady' traffic does you more or less no harm, unless your web application executes arbitrary untrusted input? For a serious site, the cost of allowing passive reading is going to be ~0.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
There are public dumps of all the questions and answers; you'd imagine that anyone paranoid enough simply runs a local mirror.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
In my experience, when it comes to big players, responses are either bimodal - either they respond within a few hours, or not at all. That said, if they respond, I'll edit the post.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
In my experience, this has gotten better. That was CloudFlare, and they've stopped now. I can't think of a single site that requires CAPTCHAs for Tor users other than archive.is, actually.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
I can use more or less all other websites with Tor fine, though. It's only Stack Overflow that insists on this nonsense. On most other sites, including this one, I can even make an account and post. Is their site really so sensitive
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Grant that some of them are more expensive. But why can't I visit any page?
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by yanmaani 5y ago
OK, that's true, they're not static, but we're still talking about a few database queries which quickly hit indexed columns. If you're running a public website like this, it's not like each page takes several second
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The Anglish Times(theanglishtimes.com)
2 points by yanmaani 5y ago|2 comments
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by yanmaani 5y ago
News in English, but without any foreign loanwords.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
A middle-ground might be just putting some kind of CAPTCHA or similar on them, if they're causing actual trouble.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
You're looking at simple, static pages. Unless something is horribly wrong with their infrastructure, these should take milliseconds to generate, if even that.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
C.S. Lewis: > The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as a
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by yanmaani 5y ago
Title is misleading; should be "Meta says Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU"
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> worth There's other things in the world than money. Even if that is your philosophy, consider that learning obscure functional languages might make you a better programmer across the board.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
That makes sense for posting, where Tor users often get a CAPTCHA etc, but I can't even read it. If I go to any site on SE, I'm hard blocked, I can't even fill in a captcha to bypass it.
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by yanmaani 5y ago
> xx network does not distribute, offer, solicit sales of, or sell any xx coins in any state or jurisdiction So it's a cryptocurrency scheme?

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