yownie

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1. 301.▲
   by yownie 5y ago

   maybe you should be talking to people in Nigeria, India and Venezuela then?
2. 302.▲
   by yownie 5y ago

   thanks for the explanation
3. 303.▲
   by yownie 5y ago

   Seem's like a pretty obvious use of Parallel constructions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction ) going on here for the BBC -> FBI tipoff
4. 304.▲
   by yownie 6y ago

   Him along with Aaron Schwartz, two great hackers cut down too early.
5. 305.▲
   by yownie 6y ago

   All governments (potentially) being (the deadliest) enemies of the general public used to be generally understood in all democratic circles. Most people seem to have forgotten, and/or don't read their histories.
6. 306.▲
   by yownie 6y ago

   I'm pretty certain IMF drawing rights were designed and created intentionally and work.
7. 307.▲
   by yownie 6y ago

   take all my upvotes.
8. 308.▲
   by yownie 6y ago

   >What are some those that you know about that are being used and can be considered a mature and proven decentralized system? bittorrent
9. 309.▲
   by yownie 6y ago

   >Maybe even some interesting comments on Taler? gotta be interesting to begin with the have interesting commentary
10. 310.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >laboritory okay buddy,
11. 311.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >3) We should immediately discount stories about cryptoassets from any site that can't manage to set up a TLS cert. 100% this
12. 312.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >His own cite of his comment about how there's a thin line between feminism and literally Voldemort is another good example. Yeah he's edited it and seems to be going for "it's just a joke bro", but if you live i
13. 313.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who thought so too, even though it was meant to be a bunch of joke alt-coin ideas. I guess the only criticism could be, won't you end up with a bunch of half-built bridges eventually? *oops
14. 314.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >Oh, and accusing me of spewing inane generalities when the real value of art and entertainment has been called into question and vindicated throughout all of economic theory is quite rich. This is completely circular login, if you'
15. 315.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    > it seems that environmental groups in Iceland are fighting the expansion of bitcoin because it is directly driving extra demand for electricity, not simply using the existing production As someone who lives and works here I can assure
16. 316.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    https://imgur.com/YWGgpWW
17. 317.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    please provide a better worded response to such an inane generality then. > Because they bring enjoyment to people, and all that truly matters is the happiness of people. my response was actually the politest way I knew how to respond to
18. 318.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    We are located too far from major client population centers for any Data hosting to make sense, you'd always deal with higher latency to either the US or European users vs hosting in those places. Few submarine cable connections (which
19. 319.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >Also, using it locally has a delay of several days for being "up to date". what even?
20. 320.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >Art and entertainment are useful work, yes, obviously. why?
21. 321.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >doing useful work with the energy yea is video games useful work? youtube videos perhaps? twitter? It's nice that you have a sliding scale of what utility is that only you can define, you seem completely trustworthy.
22. 322.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    >The problem is the huge amount of greenhouse gases getting Really, you mean the huge amount of greenhouse gases we release here in Iceland where our energy is entirely from renewable sources and we mine 11% of the bitcoin network?
23. 323.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    oh look. he didn't actually.
24. 324.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    a look a woke person.
25. 325.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    All addresses are derived from public/private keypairs
26. 326.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    yes but that tranfer fee is the same for 100 or 1 billion in value, and lightning correctly implemented pushing that fee down to the subcent number. One of the biggest misconceptions around Bitcoin is somehow that it was supposed to sort al
27. 327.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    8 years vs 150 years of technology though
28. 328.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    He's just an idiot as far as I'm concerned.
29. 329.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    Its been 23 years I think the embargo on spoilers is up.
30. 330.▲
    by yownie 6y ago

    What did it say that was inflammatory?