agorabinary

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by agorabinary 3y ago
Medical intervention. You cannot expect the severely mentally ill to "voluntarily" seek medical help - this is the current prerequisite for medical intervention in SF. If a child runs into the street, you don't ask for consen
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by agorabinary 4y ago
Sure, if heroin required a doctor's note then addicts would hit the streets once they've exceeded their allotment. But I don't need a doctor's note to get weed from a dispensary. The author is attacking a misrepresentati
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by agorabinary 5y ago
How many of the decisions that determined whether Amazon would become worth >$1T or yet another mediocre web store were made by warehouse workers? Jeff is primarily responsible for Amazon's success. For making Amazon what it is, him
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by agorabinary 5y ago
Good for him.
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by agorabinary 5y ago
Chill your hyperbolic outrage. We should be able to talk about sensitive topics like job loss intelligently and in context to the realities of building a startup. Working at a startup is inherently risky and the people who take on the risk
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by agorabinary 6y ago
That has nothing to do with the dollar. If bitcoin were to match the market cap of gold irrespective of any money printing, it would be $500k a coin. Which is to say that people consider Bitcoin to have properties similar but superior to th
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by agorabinary 7y ago
The Federal reserve injected banks with money, not the economy. One would naturally think that these banks would then lend money to the broader economy (because that's how banks make money), but a law passed around that time allowe
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by agorabinary 7y ago
ZH is unmitigated garbage. It began by pushing the standard tropes of goldbug interpretations of the economy with the banker bad, armchair (amateur) realist good and an unrealized schadenfreude of global economic pandemic. Now it's rea
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by agorabinary 7y ago
Signal lags pretty hard on ubuntu 16.04, reason why I switched to Telegram despite the latter's inferior privacy
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by agorabinary 8y ago
"In fact, Severo said that no-one could recall the last time a non-Polynesian had come to Tepoto – certainly not in their lifetimes." I have a feeling this island is about to get quite a few visits from readers of the BBC...
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by agorabinary 8y ago
I've always felt that Elon talks like his tongue is numb
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Who cares? The vast majority of Stellar's currency XLM is owned by the founders just like Ripple, and their efforts to distribute this currency to the public are entirely disingenuous. For example, their 2017 airdrop purported to distr
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by agorabinary 8y ago
I'm quickly running out of excuses for still using Chrome...
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by agorabinary 8y ago
"Absolutely functional" is when a user can send+receive a payment as effortlessly as Venmo. You cannot do this with LN at any time in the near future - routing payments, automatic channel management, sending a push payment, etc. I
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by agorabinary 8y ago
The goal of BTCPay server is to use the Lightning Network for Bitcoin payments, which only generates single-use payment requests. Also important to point out that LN will not be functional for years, so...
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Can you withdraw your USD to a flash drive?
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by agorabinary 8y ago
None have materialized except.. for biometrics on all passengers.. the very subject of this article.. ? Downvoted.
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Did they ever reverse the product redesign back to the original design? Haven't really used Snapchat at all but curious to know, thanks
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by agorabinary 8y ago
I suspect GMU/Mercatus has a few early crypto adopters given the symmetry of their ideas with crypto political ideals. What does a GMU academic economist do with hodl money? Form a grant program with a heavily libertarian bent.
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Any other reliable sources on this beyond GQ?
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Lisk is a sidechain and EOS is centralized.
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Proof of stake has never been shown to work and the largest projects attempting to move towards it, ie. Ethereum, are finding PoS's issues insurmountable. There is still no proof of concept for PoS (Casper), something that is becoming
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by agorabinary 8y ago
tl;dr "You don't have to take my word for it: No less an authority than JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has identified crypto as a bubble just waiting to bust." Is this satire?
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Ever since LN was first proposed, skeptics have asserted problem after problem as an insurmountable obstacle. And time after time they have been proven wrong. If you really think that big blocks solve anything, then by all means just use Bc
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by agorabinary 8y ago
I can send less than a satoshi to someone across the globe for virtually zero fees, anonymously and without any need to wait for block confirmations? And all of this works right now on mainnet? Bitcoin progress has always consisted of overc
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by agorabinary 8y ago
It's pretty remarkable that the transaction layer (Lightning network) on top of Bitcoin hasn't garnered any discussion in this comment section - I would expect this to be the primary topic when talking Bitcoin commerce! It's
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Elon nearly brought the newly merged X and Confinity to its knees during a critical period in its development by 1) insisting on the "X" brand when Paypal was more popular with users, and 2) insisting on Windows over Linux despite
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by agorabinary 8y ago
> prevention of theft Taxation is theft.
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by agorabinary 8y ago
Yes, as a Westerner I hadn't even heard of this massive invalidation of 86% of India's cash currency. Pretty dramatic, certainly could have helped the massive crypto price run-up in late 2017. Also helps to demonstrate the value o
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by agorabinary 8y ago
You can't regulate corruption, by definition

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