uh-quan

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by uh-quan 9mo ago
There is no "good parenting" fix that will keep children from trying to access inappropriate content, forums where unhealthy conversation takes place, pornography, and worse. Being a good parent does not and cannot remove the curi
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by uh-quan 3y ago
Original spelling is intended, a purposeful and humorous misspelling introduced by a meme.
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by uh-quan 4y ago
Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests-frozen-bank...
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by uh-quan 5y ago
And the automation failure that doxxed someone who donated to his campaign and got that person fired from their job.
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by uh-quan 5y ago
I think the thrust of sayings like "the learning curve is a wall" is to indicate that there is little to no slope , which is to say you don't get the benefit of time spent learning easier parts step by step until you know a
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How Bitcoin Could Replace the U.S. Dollar – Interview with Vijay Boyapati(youtube.com)
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by uh-quan 5y ago
This is a nice response. Thank you for sharing.
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by uh-quan 5y ago
This is all well-trodden ground. First, if you are concerned about things like confiscation, then you take the recommended security steps such as running your own node. At that point confiscation is indeed difficult (not impossible) and blo
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by uh-quan 5y ago
Bitcoin produces a money that cannot be debased by inflation on a whim and which is very hard to forcibly confiscate. It can be transferred in minutes to any place on the globe, across any number of borders and past any capital controls, wi
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by uh-quan 5y ago
Animal fats are great. One of the staples of healthy human diets for hundreds of thousands of years.
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by uh-quan 5y ago
Sure: in the United States, social media companies have been diligently removing content critical of government COVID policies and recommendations, even criticism from scientists and doctors who are speaking as professionals. The US governm
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by uh-quan 6y ago
It is silly if by "escape government control" one means avoiding taxes, buying illegal substances, etc. But if by "escape government control" one means a currency that the government cannot interfere with to censor/
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by uh-quan 6y ago
Although it's true you introduce some level of trust in that scenario, it's patently false that you lose all the benefits of bitcoin. A company offering accounts via Lightning would have all of the standard reasons not to cheat cu
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by uh-quan 6y ago
>Yes there is they need a channel, which costs $20 to open and $20 to close. No, they don't need to open a channel via the blockchain. They can have an account with a third party, for example.
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by uh-quan 6y ago
Energy isn't being wasted, that's the point. What proof of work and the blockchain allows is a monetary network that (a) does not rely on trusted third parties for verification, whose (b) unit of currency does not rely on states o
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by uh-quan 6y ago
That's why second-layer technologies like the Lightning Network are being built. Bitcoin doesn't have to function as a currency to be wildly successful (since being a currency isn't the only relevant use case), but with secon
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by uh-quan 6y ago
> Is someone in the third world chomping at the bit to pay $40 to open and close a single LN channel when that’s 10% of the GDP per capita of some of those countries you plan to help? Probably not. In such cases, there is no reason such
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by uh-quan 6y ago
>As far as scaling Bitcoin goes: prove it. It’s been a decade and it still does 4tps. Sure. The Lightning Network already exists, is working and in use, and can in principle do essentially unlimited TPS. Bitcoin doesn't need to scal
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by uh-quan 6y ago
It's far from clear that Aurelius was a bad emperor. Most historians have judged him to be quite a good one, in fact. Rather than a weakness, the teleology inherent in Stoicism is part of what makes it attractive against the ubiquitous
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by uh-quan 6y ago
That isn't quite what Epictetus means by what's under our control. Back then one could generally travel from one end of the Roman Empire to the other (e.g., from England to Persia) safely, on well-built and -guarded roads, needing