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Or is it just mine?

Or is it just mine?

I'm in Taiwan and for various reasons don't want to move, so somewhat concerned. I don't think I'll be able to avoid it, so I'm exercising more so my body is in better condition to…

Given the number of cases in Singapore, this may not be the case for this virus.

The Fed has been buying treasuries and doing repo market purchases recently, expanding their balance sheet and dumping billions into the financial economy. Those funds have to move…

> This would seem to imply that if the government has ample evidence that you murdered someone, they can require you to admit to it in court. They can require you to tell them wher…

A transparent and verifiable governance model. Much better than what we have today.

When did I say it isn't? The idea is that some blocks can be accepted in lieu of the original if signed by certain entities that have been voted in by the community. In this way yo…

> Providing a way to instantaneously edit past transactions in a blockchain with the proper credentials sacrifices the only useful property that distinguishes blockchains from trad…

Jesus Christ, I'm not the poster child for this, ok? Just because you can find something you think is a problem with an implementation I came up with on the fly, doesn't mean the w…

I can give you one implementation off the top of my head. You could, in the blockchain, elect some editors that could remove things, but the effect would be subject to a time delay…

> then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain It's software . A blockchain can be programmed to acc…

How many coronavirus articles are you going to post this to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294779

Read the first couple of chapters. Not bad, flows well. Maybe being a little more descriptive wouldn't hurt. Thanks.

I always found a shot of straight whisky was good for a cold.

Huh? They started quarantining patients on January 1st, and fully quarantined Wuhan on January 22. And that says nothing for why the data matches up exactly to an ideal model and f…

The numbers are ridiculous. What gives it away, is that if you plot them onto a graph, they almost exactly match what an algorithm would predict, unchanging regardless of quarantin…

And the Fed...

Don't rest your argument on official data coming out of China. There is evidence they are even burning bodies now (SO2 levels) to get rid of the evidence.

He raised awareness, though. That's better than all the governments and news media organizations of the world ignoring it. If he should comp people for his actions, what about them…

It's not the reporters, but management that is corrupt. They dictate what can and cannot be printed. On the other side of the coin, independent reporters don't get much traction / …

Because with enough honking, they can get the crowd to ignore the traffic light and start to inch forward anyway.