squeegee5

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by squeegee5 8y ago
You'll note that I praised SpaceX. My denigration was reserved for Musk in particular.
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by squeegee5 8y ago
Your class warfare demagoguery is entertaining. The entirety of notable human civilization is defined by exploitation, and nobody who matters will ever care. Except politicians who will use your whining and vote to do whatever they were pla
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by squeegee5 8y ago
Precisely. Why does Apple run an operation in Ireland instead of Illinois or California? It isn't the result of some sense of corporate generosity. It is pure fantasy to imagine capital will not flee the state when burdened with antico
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by squeegee5 9y ago
The parent is attempting to 'teach the controversy', by trying to convince others that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people on this subject (that government policy creates cultural norms, and these norms are sup
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by squeegee5 9y ago
You must have the funds to borrow. Shorting is risky, even more so going naked. Which is why its been illegal since 2008. In practice, professionals use covered call options to manage their risk.
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by squeegee5 9y ago
You do not have much life experience outside of the west, or professional experience in China, but you feel some kind of cultural superiority that roused you to suggest that democratic traditions encourage creativity and authoritarian gover
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by squeegee5 9y ago
"Short selling" is the process of selling something you don't have, promising to deliver later, on the basis that you expect the price to go down. Finance 101: You've just described a naked short, which is illegal in t
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by squeegee5 9y ago
Conflating culture with race was, incidentally, a classic rhetorical device used by American South proponents of slavery. There are certainly elements of jingoism at work here, too.
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by squeegee5 9y ago
The natural order of human civilization derides IP. In the absence of a supremely powerful, globe-spanning government, enforcement is impossible. In the presence of honest intellectuals, it is impossible to deny that all progress is gained
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by squeegee5 9y ago
When you remove accountability, incentives to keep the system performing as intended become distorted. This is basic game theory. It is dangerous to imagine a human engineered item can be infallible.
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by squeegee5 9y ago
Let's dissect this misplaced moral superiority by comparison. Trump's USA imprisons more people per capita than any other nation. And a disproportionately large number of those people are black men. For five decades, it has increa
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by squeegee5 9y ago
Outside of the west, democracy is generally held in contempt. This can be dated at least as far back as Plato. Trump isn't misinformed, he believes that democracy is contemptible. And whether he is wrong is arguable.
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by squeegee5 9y ago
Why do you have to physically meet to exchange cash? Parties that trust each other can trade BTC for SWIFT or SEPA payment.
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by squeegee5 9y ago
This describes methods to de-anonymize transactions passed through fiat interfaces that comply with AML/KYC. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by squeegee5 9y ago
All of this holds up until you remember that Bitcoin is fungible and take these items into consideration: 1. There is no logical relationship between address A that spends to address B. 2. A could be part of the same wallet as B, or not. 3
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by squeegee5 9y ago
Guy's got an ax to grind, and is happy to make up nonsense regarding systems he doesn't understand. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16262640
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by squeegee5 9y ago
You are talking about behavior- and inference-based traffic analysis. What you're talking about is definitionally not inspection. It is trivial for a defender to 1) enforce whitelists, 2) defeat analysis with arbitrary use of Nagle&#x2
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by squeegee5 9y ago
I'll take RSA for $500, Alex.