rockyleal

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by rockyleal 7y ago
Intel NUCs are pretty neat
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by rockyleal 9y ago
The first 2 lines of the article are these: "The fundamental theories on which the modern science of political economy is based are these: That under primitive conditions men lived and live by barter" The basic premise, t
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by rockyleal 11y ago
I share your contempt towards Jobs and everything his work and Apple represent, but man your arguments are weird lol.
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by rockyleal 11y ago
This is the typical comment where preconceptions are so strong that they ignore, and even go literally against, the evidence at hand. In this case, the news is precisely about the Indian regulator standing against the wealthy lobbyist (who
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Bitcoin miner's dilemma: Should I mine where it's hot for the free solar energy or should I mine where it's cold for the extra refrigeration?
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Who said I am American?
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Legally? Going by whose laws? The legitimate owners of all that wealth are the indigenous inhabitants of the territory it was extracted from by invaders. According to indigenous law, it is definitively NOT legally owned by Spain.
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Me too. It would be cleaner, unpolluted, less bloody, and the native cultures would probably be blossoming and making interesting stuff by combining their knowledge with outside influences. Too bad most of them were exterminated and disposs
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Empire which was revoked due to being an illegitimate and genocidal regime. Your argument suggests they should be allowed to re-steal now what they would have stolen back then.
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by rockyleal 11y ago
There's tons of better sources, but this can give you an idea: "NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' - Snowden" http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Looking forward to see who sanctions who.
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by rockyleal 11y ago
Everyone should remember that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos while reading this article. Even the title is propagandistic in style "...can fly safely over U.S. skies"
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by rockyleal 11y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
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by rockyleal 11y ago
The tone is admittedly aggressive, but his feet are way more in the ground than those of the authors of the article. What those guys are doing is essentially illegal.
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by rockyleal 12y ago
The righteous West is -has always been- corrupt and unworthy of trust.
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by rockyleal 12y ago
Indonesia
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by rockyleal 12y ago
How is that distinction relevant? I want my data not to be with NSA as much as I want it not to be with hackers or marketers. In some ways, even moreso.
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by rockyleal 12y ago
That's just being consistent with the reality of the Bitcoin market. BTC-e, whatever its structure, is one of the main Bitcoin exchanges, and as such it is necessary that it is represented in the index, else the index would present a d
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by rockyleal 12y ago
This is clearly not the place to ask this question about mining. This is a thread about a software development on a whole different side of Bitcoin. If you are genuinely curious about the theme of your question, and not just interested in d
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by rockyleal 12y ago
Every single Bitcoin news thread here at Hacker News is hijacked by some for of another of negativity. Every single one, top comment is always negative. The day Paypal announced its first approaches to Bitcoin, the top comment was about how
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by rockyleal 12y ago
What really blows my mind is that Australia is still highly regarded as a low-corruption country. Same goes for the UK, after they were caught fixing the Libor rates, essentially fucking over the whole planet.
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by rockyleal 12y ago
They are more familiar with the current system, but after you have done it for the first time, you realise that electrum is actually way easier than banks. People just think its harder, but it is not really.
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by rockyleal 12y ago
I have owned for a long time. This is not a good time to spend, that is all. The price seems to be artificially depressed right now, especially considering all the big companies starting to accept it. In a few months I will use them way mor
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by rockyleal 12y ago
So, you start by assuming the answer to your own question: "This means either merchants aren't seeing too many bitcoin sales OR a lot of these sales are happening offchain through coinbase/bitpay." (...) "in the l
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by rockyleal 12y ago
It is way easier to "be your own bank", using free software like electrum or the reference Bitcoin client, than trying to "be you own email" by setting up your own email service and whatnot. Coinbase or Bitpay are option
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by rockyleal 12y ago
The design of Bitcoin is such that no one, not even the "average consumer" is ever unable to operate directly in the decentralised backend. All that is required is some open source free-free software, of which there are already se
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by rockyleal 12y ago
These companies offer a service that facilitates adoption, but Bitcoin itself does not require the use of any of them. Dell is free to implement their own solution and GUI for their customers, and maybe eventually they will. As for KYC proc
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by rockyleal 12y ago
Because it smells like a manipulative post. The goal (it seems) is not to discuss the topic, but to deformm the opinion of the readers and the general mood of the thread. If you want an answer, it is easy: companies like coinbase or bitpay
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by rockyleal 12y ago
Have patiencce. Bitcoin is a very new technology and mass adoption will definitively take time, but precisely because of that you will see significant rewards by being an early adopter.
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by rockyleal 12y ago
[citation required]

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