bitstan

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by bitstan 6y ago
Blockchain topics have become a proxy war for Keynes/Hayek poorly framed as a technical discussion. I think most people who are passionately against crypto hold that view for non-technical reasons and more related to monetary policy. W
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by bitstan 6y ago
And then he'll get a job at Deutsche Bank. Point is the 60M could be liquid if needed to be.
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by bitstan 6y ago
"Hey ma, if I'm locked up I need you to give this pass phrase to my lawyer - he'll know what to do". Lots of multi-sig schemes you could invent to make your funds accessible.
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by bitstan 6y ago
> the effect of a disingenuous Wiki article is far higher than your average FB "fake news" Wikipedia doesn't profit by weaponizing misinformation. That's FB's business model. All those people who stormed the capi
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by bitstan 6y ago
It's a great article for HN. All the folks here working on ad-tech to polarize the good people of this country so they can squeeze another penny out of them. Then they have the gals to complain about people becoming radicalized. "
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by bitstan 6y ago
As a bitcoiner none of those things sound too crazy. Community banks, community ISPs, and market-based money? Sweet. Kick Comcast and BoA to the curb.
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by bitstan 6y ago
Would be interesting if WSB was allowed to invest in private startups as easily as they can invest in meme stocks. Robinhood doesn't like us? We'll start out own. Reddit doesn't like us? Let's just kickstart and crowd-so
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by bitstan 6y ago
> You say you want free speech yet people can't even invest in your own hardware. We already have the hardware. A modern phone has as much computing power as an early server. Computing power isn't what's lacking, it's
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by bitstan 6y ago
Your single blade on a rack isn't going to stand up against non-stop ddos attacks. That requires ISP level infrastructure. That's why companies like Cloudflare are publicly listed. From the wiki "Cloudflare was created in 200
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by bitstan 6y ago
> When (enough) people think voting software is broken, they topple governments and start civil wars. But why would they be distrustful unless non-sequitur arguments are presented as the holy grail of truth? "Bro trust me, software
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by bitstan 6y ago
Except software does control airplanes and elevators.. Subscribing to this kind of "digital bad" dogma is lazy because you don't have to think for yourself.
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by bitstan 6y ago
There's so much cargo-cult mentality in react that it's difficult to perform DD and predict the technical landscape years into the future. So perhaps we're in agreement the author should have picked another technology. Pers
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by bitstan 6y ago
Preach. Cancel Paul Graham. Defending Sci-Hub is a dog whistle for people who want to preserve hate-speech! That's literally defending fascism! #cancel_pg
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by bitstan 6y ago
I think when VR technology improves a bit more it'll be the superior learning experience. Imagine learning history interactively. Don't just read about Julius Caesar being stabbed, why not stab him yourself? You could explore phys
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by bitstan 6y ago
You're continuing to demonstrate that if I answer your questions it has no bearing on your ideology. Now you want to know if Twitter has an active account with AWS. I could answer that. But does it matter? Nah. That's what my last
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by bitstan 6y ago
People rioting under the guise of "antifa" killed innocent people in Portland. They even bombed a court house. There's videos of "antifa" who tried to molotov police but accidentally self-immolated instead. It'
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by bitstan 6y ago
Jobs rescued Apple from the brink of bankruptcy.. There would be no Apple to be up 900%.
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by bitstan 6y ago
FWIW I only discovered reddit because I was "deplatformed" from Digg due to sharing the image below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... Can't be the only one. Reddit was a li
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by bitstan 6y ago
As I stated, the horseshoe is going to come full circle. Commence the sequence where burning books is a virtue .
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by bitstan 6y ago
> It has to be stopped somehow, right? We can't have online communities pushing real world violence. Seems like a function of a democratic government, not Jeff Bezos. Because Jeff Bezos isn't the government. Well, maybe, but no
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by bitstan 6y ago
Google also runs an ISP. Do you want them to police which IP addresses "don't promote insurrection"? Seems like something a judge and jury should perform.. Democracy and all that.. Calling it now. The horseshoe theory is abou
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by bitstan 6y ago
Chrome allows access to calls to violence.. Google fiber allows access to calls to violence.. Do you really want Google to be the morality police of devices and services you pay for? Because that's sad. It's sad how people adopt a
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by bitstan 6y ago
The shoeshine boy is HN equating BTC to "tulip mania" for a decade. The day that stop.. SELL