aminorex

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by aminorex 9y ago
Non-native speaker I think. It was unambiguously supportive of the unarmed party in the conflict.
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by aminorex 9y ago
The state always and invariably brings violence with it.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Time for our sites to switch to keycdn or cachefly. I am not going to support cloudflare with my business any more.
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by aminorex 9y ago
That being the case, then the present value of Bitcoin is much higher than it would be with no expectation of future forks. It is like holding shares in a company which spins-off a division to increase shareholder value.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Despots rarely give up without a fight. I question whether Catalans are willing to pay with their blood to gain their freedom. Clearly Rajoy is happy to shed their blood in order to keep them in thralldom.
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by aminorex 9y ago
And: Is the question empirical or analytic? It is hard to discuss such matters without an agreed framework, definitions. The definitions for these terms are a long-standing analytic conundrum. Abstractly, it is hard to understand how any
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by aminorex 9y ago
For me, a marginal pay increase is only a differentiator when comparing two otherwise equally ranked opportunities. I once left a 300k job to take a 180k job on the basis of work content, cultural fit, and optionality. But, I make most of
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by aminorex 9y ago
If all you've got is a foot-gun, everything looks like a foot.
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by aminorex 9y ago
I agree that it is a bad analogy, but I think it goes far beyond supply and demand differences: Music is performed mostly by muscle memory, "system 1", while code is developed mostly by ratiocination, "system 2".
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by aminorex 9y ago
Fine artists usually produce works on speculation. Craft persons usually produce on a cottage-industrial basis, essentially commodity piecework. There are a lot of ways to get paid, beyond the two you highlight, so the parallels are not as
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by aminorex 9y ago
You have a rather rosy view of medicine and gardening. Your view of plumbing and dentistry aligns with my own, however.
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by aminorex 9y ago
People who pay taxes in USD tend to use USD as a numeraire. IIRC in New Hampshire you can pay taxes in BTC.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Indeed, and the privacy implications of centralized mixers are doubleplus ungood.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Given that alphabay was busted within 96 hours of accepting zcash, and that both Greene and Zooko have said they could backdoor it for a subpeona, i find it hard to take zcash seriously. TLA coin.
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by aminorex 9y ago
I think what you mean is that Apple platforms will change and break applications in unpredictable ways.
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by aminorex 9y ago
We need to pump this. Anonymity only protects the vulnerable in inverse proportion to it's ubiquity.
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by aminorex 9y ago
My first guess is inflammation of the microglia. Try a combination of galantamine and ibudilast twice daily, and avoid all gluten. If the brain fog doesn't lift, my diagnosis was wrong and you are no worse for it. If my diagnosis
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by aminorex 9y ago
The open source world has created an alternative system which works extremely well, lacking mostly in usability factors, which could be resolved pretty quickly...but proprietary networks are entrenched quite deeply, so it will be a while be
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by aminorex 9y ago
All of my debit card POS uses in NYC have been chip+pin for several months.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Thank you for correcting my error.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Confirmations are optional.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Simple facts. Look at the numbers.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Or ask for a Bitcoin transfer and have it in seconds.
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by aminorex 9y ago
The last point is not true. Bitfinex withdrawals in btc, xmr, eur, hkd all work just fine. USD is the only unusable currency.
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by aminorex 9y ago
You can cash out using btc, xmr, eur,hkd, no problem. USD is the only unusable currency.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Stepping into Windows (aka defenestration?) has prospects like unto those found upon a New York City sidewalk.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Because our society is stuck on a finite planet, using a debt-based monetary system in which counter-party obligations expand exponentially. Without an alternative monetary system, the disruptions which occur when the exponential growth st
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by aminorex 9y ago
"Taking the piss of" is not comprehensible in my (middle american) dialect. Please elaborate.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Because I want my grandchildren to be free humans, to live out their lives in productive, peaceful harmony (and yours). Debt-based currency and monitored, controlled transaction systems are fundamentally incompatible with this goal.
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by aminorex 9y ago
Facts and logic, please.

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