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by llcoolv 5y ago
Yeah. On top of that the article is a bit misleading as the goal of crypto, gold, etc is not to become rich, but not to become poorer due to inflation.
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by llcoolv 5y ago
There of course is - you don't write a perfectly useless kernel patch - you ain't coolandfun andthatsit.
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by llcoolv 5y ago
I think that those "Let's make our own DE" dumb kids are both a symptom and a cause why Linux never broke on the mainstream workstation market. Truth is that a shite miserable 25 year old xfce could be customised in a way goo
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by llcoolv 5y ago
After a decade and a third of QE, 11 bil is not really serious money. These days the unit of power on the capital markets is a trillion.
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by llcoolv 5y ago
So VSCode, which is basically slomo Sublime Text for retards and Typescript which is usable only for prototyping are a good enough compensation for having most of their income from Linux (on Win and Azure) after all the almost criminal FUD
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by llcoolv 6y ago
It is not an attack since by current market conditions there wouldn't be the need for an attack. The owners of the mining pools are not stupid and BTC is not an anonymous (and FREEEEEE whatever this means) currency these days. I hope w
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by llcoolv 6y ago
I have never in my life been to SV - I live in Prague. $1mil is 25 million Czech Crowns. A nice 7-series (slower than model 3, but much more comfortable - this is what I care about) is ~4 million. You have 21 left. You buy this flat ( https
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by llcoolv 6y ago
A lot of the people I know who were an-cap 10 years ago are millionaires today. At least from my circle. The problem is that the money-printing people are billionaires and it is a game you simply cannot win. And frankly, these days being a
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Sure, here is a great article by Juraj Bednar (close the slushpool people): https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regu... BTW Juraj is a great source on anything crypto-related. An
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Sure, here is a great article by Juraj Bednar (close the slushpool people): https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2020/11/12/how-could-regu... BTW Juraj is a great source on anything crypto-related. An
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by llcoolv 6y ago
This is a quite dubious claim: 1. The currency board countries are very small players, mostly beaten to blue and also not all currency boards are tied to USD. 2. The bulk (I guess 90%+) of global lending is still in USD - a currency which t
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by llcoolv 6y ago
It is not a hypothesis and it is not about the US. It is a fact that the current global currency is USD and it is enforced thanks to the role of the global policeman and unquestionable military might. However over the (many) years it has ca
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Given that the current world exchange currency requires 43 aircraft carriers and 6,185 nuclear warheads (+ all the support they need, thousands of very worhtwhile human lives a year, etc), any electricity consumption seems a small problem.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Silk road days are gone. Ulbrich got disproportionately punished + convicted on very very dubious hired gun charges. Since then a similar approach was applied on almost every darknet marketplace around, resulting in that these days with BTC
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by llcoolv 6y ago
and the hodl-gang's interpretation: "dips exist only so that coins could go from weak hands to strong hands" :D
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by llcoolv 6y ago
another (better) cached version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
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by llcoolv 6y ago
This is a very good point, the question is where to go? I am European, we don't even have Robinhood here, so I had a dead eToro account with 140 EUR on it and Interactive Brokers, which we all thought was synonymous with quality and re
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by llcoolv 6y ago
I don't really believe that such thing as a shortage exists in a free-market economy. Executives who complain of shortages are just way too rigid with their planning and are not willing to pay the increased price. Exactly this goes for
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by llcoolv 6y ago
What does this have to do with hackernews? Why is it on top page?
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by llcoolv 6y ago
The best solution would be for legacy media to opt-out and not have their stories shown. Then nobody is going to "steal" from them. Problem solved.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Well, they should not have given him such a job title then.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
I meant more moderate than burning a Target store or starting a revolution as in the tweet. And if we stick to objectivism, then they definitely are more moderate than even the status quo - semi-obsolete middlemen holding a rent-seeking&#x2
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Even this you can overcome - there is always crypto and while you're ultimately dependent on communication infrastructure, there are ways to make it infeasible to be blocked.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Yes, my interpretation of his actions is also way more moderate.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
And even if we do, we will never know for sure.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
It is worth noting that this is exactly what Aaron Swartz was bullied to his tragic death 8 years and a day ago. May he rest in peace. And kudos to Alexandra. P.S. Corrected the date, seems like I still live in 2020. Thank you, lazyant.
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by llcoolv 6y ago
"he claims he was just there to document what happened." Even though, there is a video he streamed urging people to join? Do you even believe yourself?
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Please, try to provide counter-arguments to the evidence present in the video, not just random links to half-dead legacy media. And yes, antifa are no longer affiliated with DP. If they somehow find common ground with the other extreme, thi
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by llcoolv 6y ago
A very dumb and easy question. NYT and WaPo have hundreds of journalists, so the average would be in the tens of thousands. You cannot compare an individual and a corporation in such a way. And yes, the most popular journalist today is exac
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by llcoolv 6y ago
Well, there were definitely far-right people acting provocateur at BLM/A-fa rallies, so I don't see what is wrong with those statements.

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