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You'll note that I praised SpaceX. My denigration was reserved for Musk in particular.

That you've received so many downvotes is indicative of HN's perpetual Musk boner. Musk is a state-sponsored winner, a Jack Ma, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or Bill Gates. He is an undese…

Your class warfare demagoguery is entertaining. The entirety of notable human civilization is defined by exploitation, and nobody who matters will ever care. Except politicians who…

Precisely. Why does Apple run an operation in Ireland instead of Illinois or California? It isn't the result of some sense of corporate generosity. It is pure fantasy to imagine ca…

The parent is attempting to 'teach the controversy', by trying to convince others that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people on this subject (that government poli…

You must have the funds to borrow. Shorting is risky, even more so going naked. Which is why its been illegal since 2008. In practice, professionals use covered call options to man…

You do not have much life experience outside of the west, or professional experience in China, but you feel some kind of cultural superiority that roused you to suggest that democr…

"Short selling" is the process of selling something you don't have, promising to deliver later, on the basis that you expect the price to go down. Finance 101: You've just describe…

Conflating culture with race was, incidentally, a classic rhetorical device used by American South proponents of slavery. There are certainly elements of jingoism at work here, too…

The natural order of human civilization derides IP. In the absence of a supremely powerful, globe-spanning government, enforcement is impossible. In the presence of honest intellec…

When you remove accountability, incentives to keep the system performing as intended become distorted. This is basic game theory. It is dangerous to imagine a human engineered item…

Let's dissect this misplaced moral superiority by comparison. Trump's USA imprisons more people per capita than any other nation. And a disproportionately large number of those peo…

Outside of the west, democracy is generally held in contempt. This can be dated at least as far back as Plato. Trump isn't misinformed, he believes that democracy is contemptible. …

Why do you have to physically meet to exchange cash? Parties that trust each other can trade BTC for SWIFT or SEPA payment.

This describes methods to de-anonymize transactions passed through fiat interfaces that comply with AML/KYC. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

All of this holds up until you remember that Bitcoin is fungible and take these items into consideration: 1. There is no logical relationship between address A that spends to addre…

Guy's got an ax to grind, and is happy to make up nonsense regarding systems he doesn't understand. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16262640

You are talking about behavior- and inference-based traffic analysis. What you're talking about is definitionally not inspection. It is trivial for a defender to 1) enforce whiteli…

I'll take RSA for $500, Alex.