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harwoodleon

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    Comment #32876976

    well, markets with broken incentives can be dangerous for humans, especially when the product is your life, which is literally priceless.

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    Comment #32875673

    This is the actual result of a broken political system, riddled with misinformation and special interests. Profit over people. This mortality figure is a disgrace, especially with …

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    Comment #32847870

    I really like “the great extinction” More punchy. More descriptive of actual events. “Climate drift” sounds like the name of an AI bot, made specifically to create a narrative that…

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    Comment #32014515

    Totally agree. I am considering this exact point in a business decision. It comes down to the use of the token. If the token is being used to capitalise the business activity then …

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    Comment #29944532

    Platforms develop quickly. Protocols develop slowly.

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    Comment #29046528

    Here’s a thought: maybe corporates will change and may even become obsolete.

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    Comment #29046507

    Yes, the ideas are not new. but they are not bullshit. as someone who also has kids that spend money on virtual goods like it’s going out of fashion, i can attest that the impact o…

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    Comment #28876471

    Physics is a rule set that never changes, hence engineering standards can be built around it. Qualitative systems like programming languages have an immeasurable amount of variatio…

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    Comment #28820519

    I was watching the ISS live feed going over North West Africa and up to Italy. The landscape was red and arid and it struck me just how ‘Mars like’ it looked. It got me thinking th…

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    Comment #28310350

    A true and fair democracy would ensure that all candidates had the same economic means to broadcast their policies. Yes, that means giving unsavoury parties a platform. Yes, that m…

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    Comment #27490511

    What if the cure was to not stare at a screen all the time? Pretty obvious, despite the gains in other areas, technology is having a significant and largely detrimental effect to t…

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    Comment #27348152

    Bitcoin is not digital gold. Bitcoin is an extremely expensive and uncensorable method of value transfer. Nano is more like digital gold as it can be passed from hand to hand with …

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    Comment #27336996

    Absolutely. And of course new sectors that are not established can seem like snake oil, simply because they are new industries. The internet has steamrollered many industries and f…

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    Comment #27139880

    Https://Nano.org

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    Comment #27139842

    And they would eventually find https://Nano.org , a totally green, fast and fee-less alternative to Bitcoin. (Which has seen a price jump of 60% since the announcement).

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    Comment #27138673

    This paper is very considered. But it does not consider that these questions have all been addressed in other cryptocurrencies like Nano (nano.org), which is a far more usable syst…

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    Comment #26842120

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fyncom.rob... Nano currency (nano.org) makes this possible and has some working implementations.

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    Comment #26788633

    I think it could be a fairer way of including experts. Text has a way of levelling trolls and experts.

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    Comment #26788627

    With the consistency of edit history and stacked time card, I would guess that Mr. Cross is perhaps a few people or maybe an agency of some kind.

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    Comment #26565067

    Simple way to fix: [x] Allow persisted TCP connections to websites Make that an option in the settings.

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    Comment #26557751

    Well there’s https://gitcoin.co/ Not royalties, but dues at least. A DAO structure would work well, but not many people seem to see it as viable.

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    Comment #26207013

    How much were you being paid 15-20 years ago and what could that buy you? It’s not just the third world that suffer from currency debasement, it’s all of us.

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    Comment #26206957

    Bitcoin is one of a number of ways.

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    Comment #26206843

    PoS doesn’t work for money. It works as system of value transfer for the wealthy at best. Ask the millions of stranded wallets that can’t move funds because of fees. The other argu…