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You don't, but if you're the best bid for storing one copy your the best bid for storing all n copies!

> Trivially disproven by UK's health care system Not trivially? [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/18/uk-cancer-su...

If the CEO wants to buy a new Ferrari, they need to take money out of the company - either as income or dividends (both of which are taxed). If the company buys him his car then it…

If Amazon pays its employees income, and those employees pay income tax, how is that different to Amazon paying tax? The government gets its money from Amazon either way.

More importantly, did the people running analysis on this dataset get explicit permission from the European post authors as required by the GDPR?

> deficit reduction programme Your link just explains that they’re trying to reduce the gap between tax income and expenditure, but the absolute level of expenditure (my link) has …

> The UK has until recently been trying to follow a policy of reduced public spending Um, what? [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_United_Kingdom

> Banks get to create the principal that they loan out of thin air[1] I’m not sure how you get this from your reference - people deposit money at a bank, and the bank lends (gives!…

What would be a GDPR-compliant yet useful access_log setting?

The transition period will probably end in December 2020 - that's a long time to wait and see!

The EU's standards often just transcribe the standards agreed at a global level, though [1] [1] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/legislation/u...

Why do you lose a say over global standards? Surely you now represent yourselves directly on global standards bodies, instead of indirectly via the EU's common position?

Yes they have! [1] Dual- class listing now miss out in huge daily price-insensitive purchases from ETFs driving their stock up. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/993e4c11-8729-3168-a2…

Doesn't Puppet(.com) do something like this?

The money that’s backing the Tethers. As an example - you deposit 1mm USD with Bitfinex, and they give you 1mm Tethers. Bitfinex invests your 1mm USD every night at overnight Libor…

Invest their stash of USD in treasury bills / overnight libor and keep the interest?

Borrowing against collateral means the lender has something to seize if you fail to pay them back. The more valuable the collateral, the more money the lender will recover when the…

I'm not sure why you say it's a strawman? The whitepaper[1] says that an ask order on the storage market is just (space, price) -- no mention of the cost to retrieve the data. Simi…

They seem to have solved proof-of-storage, but the network can’t guarantee the available of the files you pay to store! A profitable strategy: 1. Set up a miner on AWS. You’ll only…

Not even central banks can provide the guarantee you’re looking for - they can only print money to devalue their currency, but they can’t make it appreciate [1]! [1] https://en.m.w…

Austerity? The government’s spending more this year than it has ever done in the whole of British history![1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_United_Kingdom