dallashoxton

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by dallashoxton 4y ago
Wow, that's crazy, none of what you said came true Almost as if assuming you know more about someone's identity than they do doesn't make you some critical-thinking free speech martyr, just a presumptuous preacher telling oth
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by dallashoxton 4y ago
Nobody has any reason to believe anything Kavanaugh says, the man has a known history of lying.
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by dallashoxton 5y ago
But you just outlined use cases for crypto (illicit activity, etc) in your grandparent post while simultaneously claiming crypto can't be used as a currency. Which is it?
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by dallashoxton 5y ago
This seems like whataboutism to me. It's possible to enforce the law against more than one type of crime, actually.
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by dallashoxton 5y ago
>Shoplifting is the act of stealing from a retailer, not an individual No. You can shoplift from a small business or a family owned convenience store, which is essentially stealing from an individual. Those packages on the trains belonge
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by dallashoxton 5y ago
>but some people shoplift and society is falling apart? So you are okay with people stealing from you, as long as they're poor? >Let the market fix their broken supply chains There is resistance in this thread to instating armed
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by dallashoxton 5y ago
Because the idea that property laws shouldn't be enforced and that the response to property crime is to give the thieves more stuff (housing and UBI) is a perverse incentive and a recipe for a lawless society where criminality is rewar
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by dallashoxton 5y ago
Violence indeed would solve the problem of rail theft though. Don't want to get shot? Don't try to steal from a train.
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by dallashoxton 7y ago
Many people are taking issue with him quote-unquote "stealing" other people's content when he's ostensibly just resharing single images that fit in a broader theme of being vaguely NYC-related. This seems much more defen
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by dallashoxton 7y ago
Really have to love how the HN hivemind can simultaneously defend wholesale intellectual property theft (genlib, piratebay, et al) and claim that copyright law is too strict while getting morally bent out of shape over someone aggregating a
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
>Individual filings won't be on sec.gov For an application to a court seeking that someone be held in contempt of court? Yes, this absolutely would be on sec.gov as a 'litigation release' and there are 2500 such examples l
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
Elon Musk knows as much about it as we do. It's not like he can call up the SEC and ask them to confirm/deny if they're taking action on him. Sorry, but this story originally came from Bloomberg and I lost all faith in Bloomb
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
You're acting as if market manipulation is some far-out conspiracy theory rather than something relatively common. I don't think it takes a "kabal of evil geniuses" to dupe a few credulous journalists who are incentivize
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
>Short sellers can't make Musk bash the SEC or call people pedos; that's on him. But they certainly can engineer a fake rumor of an SEC requesting contempt of court by manipulating journalists and forging documents, if sufficie
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
>Why do you think some folk are drawn to habitually view such content? Curiosity, memento mori maybe.
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
What about people who work in slaughterhouses? Or a coroner or a mortician? Are they inherently "unhealthy" people because they have the personal temperament to handle a job that involves a lot of close contact with death? All nas
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
which might be a good argument for gigification of these types of content moderation positions since the machine learning tech simply isn't there yet and might never be in some cases. Someone with a strong constitution/stomach (i.
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
100% agreed. >(If it decreases between 1B and 10B views on such content, and if we assume one person falling for it each 100,000 views, it will prevent 10,000 to 100,000 "falls") 14/ What does this sentence even mean? It&#
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
If markets were efficient we wouldn't see such enormous and consistent outsized returns from value investors of the Graham-Buffett school, as mentioned in another HN thread today: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles&
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
"A random walk down Wall Street" is quite the contradiction of a book, though. It simultaneously claims that markets are so efficient that a lay-person cannot profit from them while acknowledging the existence of asset bubbles. Th
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by dallashoxton 8y ago
Thing is that any society that hesitates on adopting genetic engineering out of some fear of exacerbating income inequality or whatever is going to lose out in the long run to any civilization that has no such ethical hangups about genetic
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by dallashoxton 9y ago
To me, he's suggesting that the prevalence of general anti-men sentiment within the culture at large is partly responsible for men dropping out of society. College campuses declaring that all men are rapists until proven otherwise is s
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by dallashoxton 9y ago
And the entire concept of 'gas' to me seems to be a hacky work-around in order to implement a Turing-Complete language on the blockchain. I'm not even sure it is needed -- the whole 'Turing-Complete' aspect of the E
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by dallashoxton 9y ago
Can't remember where I read it, but someone put it best during the DAO fiasco last year when they wrote "Imagine Javascript but your bank account accessible through the Document Object Model."
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by dallashoxton 9y ago
Yes, but what defines a pyramid scheme is its unsustainability from a mathematical standpoint, not necessarily the fact that original owners and early adopters make money off of new investors. I think the latter property is present in almos
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by dallashoxton 9y ago
>Given that the original owners make the money from new entrants - that is the definition of a pyramid scheme. By that criteria, any company that undergoes an IPO is also a pyramid scheme.
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by dallashoxton 10y ago
If there is nothing more suspicious than a cleared device, the next step in the privacy arms race is to automate the generation of an innocuous but prolific history for cleared devices and find a way to link that history with decoy accounts