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by _urzu 9mo ago
I always cringe when I hear the word "Nazism." Because the first time I heard it, it was when Putin said it in a speech after invading Ukraine. And indeed, if you check Google Trends, you'll see that the term had its peak aro
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by _urzu 4y ago
If you'd understand anything about publishing texts on the internet, you would not make this argument. A text is worth nothing without an optimized CTR preview. You can spend an entire year writing a text and making it beautiful to all
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by _urzu 4y ago
Then I would have appreciated if the mods would have given me a choice to edit my title. But they didn't. They made it feeble and ruined my 15 minutes of fame.
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by _urzu 4y ago
In the current discourse there is a debate whether the crowd is mad or wise/smart. E.g., you can see Thiel make the argument that crowds are mad, so I borrowed it from him as it is already an idea in people's heads. "Mad&quot
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Tell HN: Sadly, my blog post's title was moderated
16 points by _urzu 4y ago|29 comments
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by _urzu 5y ago
yeah but re-generating a private key as a secondary owner isn't akin to any ownership concept in the real world and so I doubt that the law already has a playbook on how to handle such a situation. Re-generating a private key for outpu
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by _urzu 5y ago
Does a court even have a mandate over something that it cannot enforce anyways? What's the point of a court deciding something about Bitcoin ownership? I'd just embarass itself, wouldn't it?
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by _urzu 5y ago
I don't know if "code is law" has to be invoked here. Isn't that a HN-specific strawman argument? Anyways, of course you can take those coins as when you're running Bitcoin you're strictly speaking not signing
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by _urzu 5y ago
I completely agree with this post and I also feel burned out by ~~assholes~~ making economical decisions to build software. I've decided to fight it by writing. My motivation was: Can I flip the engineering mind towards understanding t