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by alexmat 6y ago
That's misleading. If you factor in mining rewards, Bitcoin has much higher fees per transaction. A total of $18,000,000 more per day spent on validating Bitcoin transactions than what that website claims.
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by alexmat 6y ago
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints: "We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because yo
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by alexmat 6y ago
"Aug. 30, 2015 8:54 am ET - The recent market rout caught some star Wall Street traders by surprise. But not a hedge-fund firm affiliated with “The Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which gained more than $1 billion on a strate
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Aerc 0.2 released with maildir/sendmail support(git.sr.ht)
2 points by alexmat 7y ago|0 comments
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by alexmat 7y ago
Since the dawn of time.
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by alexmat 7y ago
Social class divisions. Vaping is seen as lower class. Coffee has always been a white collar stimulant. Weed is becoming more upscale and thus more accepted. Meth and crack are for poor white and black people. Cocaine is for bankers and tre
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by alexmat 7y ago
Recent interviews with Japanese activists on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrDAXjcUXY
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Messaging Apps: Have you considered the alternative?(homebrewserver.club)
3 points by alexmat 8y ago|0 comments
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by alexmat 8y ago
I love peanut butter.
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Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole(quillette.com)
510 points by alexmat 8y ago|222 comments
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by alexmat 8y ago
Best part of dropping Gmail is how snappy roundcube feels. I'm way more productive. The only thing I miss is being able to snooze emails.
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by alexmat 8y ago
Example: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/
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by alexmat 8y ago
One is unavoidable if you want to fly, the other is security theatre. It's reasonable to complain about policies which are ineffective even if the harm is small relative to other sources of radiation.
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by alexmat 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming
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by alexmat 8y ago
It may not be obvious from the context and the limited excerpt, but in the book Sapiens, the author is careful to make the point that this is not an invitation to revert to the hunter/gatherer lifestyle, in fact, we're past the po
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by alexmat 8y ago
Hear hear, the agricultural revolution has trapped us in a Faustian bargain! "The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the num
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by alexmat 8y ago
As a spammer, wouldn't it be trivial to just run a regex on email lists looking for that pattern and then harvesting the results? Or is this like the old joke where you don't have to outrun the bear, just your friend?
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by alexmat 8y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I find joy in living vicariously through others who don't contemplate existential issues. Sometimes I can spend a day just hanging out with my cat watching him do random things with sincerity. Sometimes
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by alexmat 8y ago
Post-solopsism? Fck me dude, I mean say want you will about nihilism, at least it doesn't attempt to invalidate the experience of qualia.
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BobWallet: Trustless Bitcoin Privacy Wallet(github.com)
2 points by alexmat 8y ago|0 comments
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by alexmat 9y ago
I think that's a fair point. I usually phrase it that way to avoid coming off too strong to people whose beliefs are unknown to me. So to sum up, we agree that the concept of free will exists and is experienced, but it is just a mechan
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by alexmat 9y ago
The quotes are there to indicate that the free will is there but only as a convenient abstraction. "The idea of the self over time [...] is the property of phenomenal selfhood that plays the most important role in creating the fictiona
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by alexmat 9y ago
You can still experience "free will" without invalidating the materialist point of view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_model
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by alexmat 9y ago
Maybe they have a speech impediment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziH9St7ajuw
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by alexmat 9y ago
Transferring large amounts of money overseas for large purchases is cheaper, faster and safer than using the current banking system. So that's at least one legal use case Bitcoin has improved for me. Even after exchange fees and miners
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How to build a low power Bitcoin node(nosteponnode.com)
3 points by alexmat 9y ago|0 comments
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by alexmat 9y ago
How many slices can you get from one pie?
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by alexmat 9y ago
What about future generations, how much should be allocated to them?
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by alexmat 9y ago
This reminds me of that famous Ford quote: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me a faster horse.”
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by alexmat 9y ago
You're correct, Austrian school is based on subjective value theory, this is gwern's phrasing not mine. I was in a rush and didn't cite properly, here is the link: http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin-is-Worse-is-Bett

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