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> You can't simply front-run someone else by having deep pockets. Well you can, as was discovered in the Haim Bodek HFT shit storm.

IMO it's not the 8 hours that's required, it's deep sleep, that's what really rests you. I got 7.5hrs the other night, with 1hr of Deep Sleep and I actually felt like I was on the …

> Because we do not want the union "benefits" that aren't really benefits. "The union protects and improves Members' wages and conditions. Our successful bargaining campaigns conti…

And in response to his fallacious proclamations that Blockstream controls core. git shortlog -sn 4982 Wladimir J. van der Laan = Non-Blockstream 1446 Pieter Wuille = Blockstream 11…

Whilst I would usually agree with you, your comments about being a conspiracy theorist are IMO entirely wrong, look at the history of the account, the lifespan of it, and the threa…

Mate, please, stop with the Blockstream FUD. Blockstream make up only 20% of commits on Bitcoin. Find another strawman. There is not a 1MB limit, the limit was lifted with the impl…

And what incentive do collective groups have to do that? I struggle to understand why people would act against their own self-interests to undermine their own rights and pay. Did y…

""[..] I personally have zero desire to work in a union or be forced to be in one." I'm going to speculate that's only because you have good working conditions." I have noticed (pe…

CFMEU (Aus) used to hand out bumper stickers that said: "Is that the truth or did you read it in the Herald Sun?"

Because it doesn't work like that, you can't deny the benefits, the way they work (in Aus, it will be similar elsewhere) is with EBA (Enterprise Bargaining Agreements). Basically, …

However this hardly makes it ok to continue this sort of behaviour, the top boys manage to wrangle huge bonuses, yet when a group of workers asks for 5% per year, they're a bunch o…

The majority of countries are already enacting laws/frameworks/technology that would help eventually outlaw this sort of behaviour, perhaps not explicitly, but many times implicitl…

This. I have been staunch anti-social media for a while now, but not long ago I heard someone from a community I'm involved in say that the conversation on twitter was actually pre…

Yeah after re-reading this thread I think I've properly gone off the deep end with this one, I've probably misread your initial comment, I think, sorry if I did.

I'm asking him to back his opinion up because his question was a loaded question: Question: "Why not just use another crypto-currency?" Load Question: "Why not just use a crypto-cu…

How is it right that I get downvoted for asking for someone to back their bullshit opinions up with facts? Enjoy your hyperbole.

Please explain your statement in detail with sources and facts please, I'm sure I know what you're trying to insinuate so I'm going to ask you to back your claims up with some trut…

Please don't start on the "Vision" rhetoric, look at the pipeline of core, there is a clear path to VISA scale tx but it is an engineering challenge, unfortunately the majority of …

Shoutout to all my Melbourne people who experience Metro trains on a regular basis.

Average transaction cost has been shown to be a bad metric, context: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7b7jj1/john_newber...

You would hope that in 140~ years we have the power problem sorted out, if not, Bitcoin mining is probably the least of our worries.

It will be forked because they have history of forking when people "lose" funds.

So he is falling for a myth, yet what you're referring to is the Efficient Market Hypothesis, does the word "hypothesis" ring any bells for you? Even more so, does the fact that a …

My team is considering running this in Production. Do you offer support contracts?

Limiting those who stand a chance of pulling off the type of big wins they advertise heavily on television is rigging the market. It's manipulation, pure and simple. What they're s…