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Comment #11926915
No, printing money (QE, inflation, what have you) is absolutely NOT a capitalist tenet. Quite the opposite. We do not live in a true capitalist society anymore, although we still u…
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Comment #11664381
These ideas are more than just clever, they are exactly what is happening due to money printing and zero to near-zero interest rates. You restated the facts well. As to those who c…
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Comment #10874912
This is simply not an accurate response, and you are comparing apples to napalm. Apple/FB/etc do in fact make it difficult to switch - by adding value to their offerings. Users bec…
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Comment #10592305
I'm curious, did you move for Act 20/22? Based on your model, I assume so. I'll be making the move in December.
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Comment #10332912
I've been with them for two years or so and in the beginning I had a streak of problems but actually the last year has been rock solid. Today's problem did take two of our large si…
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Comment #9361718
Everyone has different opinions, such as Rand Paul's view on family/abortion/etc. Some people agree with his views, others don't. However beyond that, you should be more educated b…
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Comment #9301394
I'm sure glad you haven't earned that downvote button. But after reading this comment, I sure wish I had one.
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Comment #9185404
I use a secret scheme that only I know. It works like this - I have one single long complex "base" password, which is no problem for me to remember, which has letters, numbers, cap…
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Comment #9137186
I want to back this up. Just shut it down, and move on. You learned a lot, and maybe next time you will make something that can actually make money and work full time on. Probably …
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Comment #8667701
You are 100% correct, and I've thought so since the day it was announced. I believe this extends to all wearables, such as watches. Apple intelligently chose to leave the camera of…
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Comment #7694569
Thank you! This is the one point I very much disagreed with from this talk. His argument is that our logical brain, which is new, is first to interpret our environment but am prett…
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Comment #7577083
36-24-36? Ha ha, only if she's 5 3. -Sir Mix-a-Lot
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Comment #7544025
Creepy... That is the exact progression I had... Well, if you throw perl in there around the C/PHP part. What projects did you do with z80? I created the Usgard OS/shell with some …
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Comment #7446907
It sounds like you are referring to password hashing. Neither BLAKE nor MD5 should be used for password hashing. At the bottom of the article make sure to read his section "P.S. th…
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Comment #7296278
It's really more like a bank shut down, or maybe the bank owner stealing everyone's money. If you had a dollar in your pocket it would be fine, but here it was deposited into a ban…
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Comment #7152809
As an avid weight lifter out on a two month backpacking trip, this is just what the doctor ordered. Ya I could always just do the moves on my own but I am not as comfortable with b…
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Comment #7100823
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olsen, 1977 I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can a…
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Comment #7045327
Ah yes, agreed. I meant purely related to the previous comment implying that keyboard literate users are the only audience for bitcoins. And so I meant that my uses are not knowled…
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Comment #7035322
Well no, basically our audience is mostly made up of kids in school. That's the main problem.
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Comment #7033406
We recently began accepting it on our typing education websites http://www.Typing.com and http://www.NitroType.com , though to an unfortunately meager response. Hopefully between Z…
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Comment #6993661
And you are 100% correct that you can speculate in the forex style, however that misses the point if what bitcoin really is. It's like someone in the past saying "I don't view cars…
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Comment #6993591
Only if that foreign currency is absolutely never inflated by that government, and allowed to thus increase in relative value to all the other fiat currencies. And also that bank a…
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Comment #6941764
The scary part is that they were storing the cvv code at all, which is a glaring violation of PCI compliance. https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_fs_data_storag...
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Comment #6904977
“At the end of the day, I think people want something backing a currency.” And what, pray tell, backs all the world's fiat currencies? Absolutely nothing.