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by zdkl 9y ago
Your argument makes sense and I'm not advocating for people to replicate the experience, especially not with the current prices. My argument merely goes: if you threw away some marginal amount of initial (real) cash at something, and f
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by zdkl 9y ago
And after some time it'll become apparent it was a CIA front, and ultimately only achieved to fund the latest insurgency in $PLACE
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by zdkl 9y ago
For which priviledge Chase charges you something obscene. The process post-theft on a debit card is not as scary as you seem to think it is, but that may be a EU vs US rather than credit vs debit thing.
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by zdkl 9y ago
If you've cashed out your initial investment plus a healthy return, anything left in that portfolio is gravy though, right?
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by zdkl 9y ago
> So basically your multiplier might go away at any point. Hedging, hedging, hedging. There are enough derivatives in the coin world to have a pretty decent portfolio growth, if you're willing to manage it and deal with the tx/
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by zdkl 9y ago
You're focusing on the wrong thing so let me explain again as well... It's not about the beancounters realising the option is way bad for the issuer, it's management getting cold feet about signing off on 5% and mispricing fu
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by zdkl 9y ago
I'm amazed these events don't seem to shake the american love for credit cards. Like now you've seen what happens in the extra layers between you and the money, I wish people would go back on the poison pill and maybe switc
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by zdkl 9y ago
EU privacy and right-to-access laws aren't looking so bad now are they
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by zdkl 9y ago
I've had systems where those would not respond, but ssh did. I still don't understand why and it bothers me.
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by zdkl 9y ago
As a counterpoint, one could argue that the normal price we'd expect doesn't factor in externalities like infrastructure and maintenance. So the inflated price could, from an exterior observation, be in fact better aligned with tr
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by zdkl 9y ago
I take it you don't work in high assurance security. You should be more paranoid!
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by zdkl 9y ago
The other side of this debate is that as a small business, if you find a municipality willing to deal with you in terms favourable to your business, you'd be a fool not to work with them.
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by zdkl 9y ago
I recognise the truth in what you say. We both apparently live in areas where we can afford to ring up the repair guy for fixing or replacemement. Why you assume that is universally true is beyond me though. How do you expect societies that
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by zdkl 9y ago
An interesting thought is that there might be an exodus of workers from areas that favour capital/competition to areas that support more socialist views of the labour market. Return your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
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by zdkl 9y ago
Marx would like a word about means of production and the ultimate destination of the value they add.
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by zdkl 9y ago
> [...] semi-disposable consumer goods. Because technology got better. In my humble opinion this is the flawed assumption in the line of thought you advance. Technology isn't universally disposable, that depends on the replacability
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by zdkl 9y ago
I'm all for rhetorical points, but surely you realise the magnitude of difference in complexity of operation-maintenance between 19th century looms and motors versus non-analog assets. Not only there's a major difference in degree
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by zdkl 9y ago
> So why is the automation of this final step going to be the thing that prevents countries from climbing the "development ladder"? I believe you're misharacterising the issue. The trouble with technology is that well, you
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by zdkl 9y ago
Peak? We haven't seen anything yet. Wait till the big financial group behind ethereum figure out how to legally interface their security/options/bond pools to a coin token for sale to the general public.
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by zdkl 9y ago
Or you know, we like to read sentences without getting cerebral SEGFAULTs
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by zdkl 9y ago
I'm not familiar with embassies specifically, but it stands to reason that some hold military grade communication hardware. Where that is the case, you can be pretty sure there's a squad of specialists nearby with all the antennas
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by zdkl 9y ago
Don't underestimate the emotional response from the people who've done this their entire life with the cumulated savoir-faire and effort of several generations. The grape is a huge cultural thing here. (Disclaimer: I'm french
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by zdkl 9y ago
Well so far I've lived fairly well, being "involuntarily invaded" by art for instance, so I'm not sure I see merit in the invasion argument. On the the other hand if you're complaining about the shady manipulations
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by zdkl 9y ago
I dislike advertising too and would gladly see it and the related industry burn in a fire but it's neither immoral or a terrible business model. Many business benefit greatly from some amount of advertisement and it's a practical
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by zdkl 9y ago
Frankly, no. I don't want to hear anything about mr Butlerin until (a) Ethereum is a widely used & useful product and (b) the security agencies of the world declassify their involvement. Until/Unless I can acquire and manage p
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by zdkl 9y ago
> ...Buterin has earned the right... Care to explain why?
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by zdkl 9y ago
But then you're missing out on a whole class of hardware related problems that you may need to learn.
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by zdkl 9y ago
Everything you listed bar the connection to asian countries you can find in latin america
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by zdkl 9y ago
Set up a RPi to flash disk images via a USB SDcard hub! I got tired of keeping track of the cards so I threw a small pile of them in the drawer and a script to pick from the handful of images I use & flash them.
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by zdkl 9y ago
>If you're so sure why not short Bitcoin? I dare you. >I believe in Crypto, I believe it has a future and its need in this world. What do you make of people who fall into both categories? I use bitcoin as part of my payment proce

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