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You're talking to someone whose political ideals already get me called "racist" and "slave driver". Oddly enough, I do not support racism nor slavery (quite the opposite). And I know the history — why do you think I brought the point up? (Come on, now.)

But the point we're trying to make here is philosophical, not practical: If people are too uneducated to participate in a free market economy, why do we allow them to vote?

It just seems that the people that are rational are marginalized in any other system. One might go as far to say that's just as unfair.

Can we not think of a way to refine the system of "idiots voting" without being accused of the false dichotomy of wanting to go back to a monarchy?

It's a good thing we're really good at electing people that do a good job of watching out for our well-being!

Do you think we'll always have an "imperfectly educated" populace? Do you consider yourself part of that sector of society?

That only works so long. Eventually the actors in the economy figure out how to route around the damage being done.

Recalculate that in Satoshis :)

Deregulation didn't cause the false ratings.

"I don't know if this is an American thing or not, but to a Dutch person this remark is rather revolting. In The Netherlands, if you pay for your home it is your right to live there, regardless of how you finance it. Home owners are not somehow more privileged than renters are."

Can you elaborate on this more? Does a tenant have the right to force an owner to extend a lease, perhaps? From my experience, an owner does have more rights to the property and its use, purely because they are the owner. If a lease ends, they can increase the lease payment[1], and if the current tenant cannot afford it, they have to move. Is this not how it works in your country?

[1] Many (most?) places here do have a limit on how fast you can increase rent prices to help alleviate the problem of kicking someone out by pricing the unit out of their reach all of the sudden.

Most of the owners of rental property I know are usually very happy with, and encouraging of, the renters of their units.

One of the issues with renting is that you DO end up paying for the owners property taxes, not directly, but it is factored into the cost of running the rental. If the local government decides to increase property taxes, or housing appraisals increase in the area, then rent may increase. This is often seen as "bad" by the renters, but really there is nothing an owner can do about it.

Here's how she responded to that,

"I try giving him the benefit of the doubt and make some quip about his being a friendly sort"

To be fair, we don't know exactly what she said, but I can imagine a few ways that she could have said this that would have come across as playful, not corrective. I'm not accusing her of anything of course, but combined with the fact that you pointed out that this guy might not have the social intelligence to pick up on the hints, anything that could be construed as playful would have been.

It's still his fault for missing the hints, but it definitely turns him into socially inept, not sexually assaulting.

Bingo, bingo, bingo.

Not that I have a problem with your premise, I'm just curious what criteria you used to determine a)?

Please explain what the "right thing" here is.

This is because I don't know anything about reading the tea leaves in a market graph like this... but does the (somewhat) significant dip near the top (where it bounced twice to $1200+) make this different from what the author is trying to fit?

I think what bothered me most about Stross' rant was his general thought of, "this crypto libertarian currency is purely politically motivated — we shouldn't use it because it's evil!"

As if our current monetary system isn't politically motivated. And arguably evil in many ways.

So over time people figure out how to verify these things. Coinbase was easy: they are backed by Union Square Ventures. I generally trust anything that is funded by them.

Don't act like the only way this can be "fixed" is by inserting government control over the situation.

Does anyone know of how to secure against this type of thing (other than tape)?

"inequality" == envy

Yes.

There are also algorithms that convert the raw data from the sensor into a compressed stream. That would downgrade the quality of the camera.

Though, that does make me wonder if our meat software does something similar.

This piece was clearly not written out fear from misunderstanding the technicals of Bitcoin, which is forgivable to some degree. It was written out of fear of something uncontrollable and different.

Does anyone know if 23andMe would be restricted from disclosing your info under HIPAA?

I don't understand this. "1" BTC is an arbitrary amount as well. Perhaps in the long run, mBTC or uBTC will be the perspective we hold of Bitcoin. From some of what I've read, that was sort of the point of the high divisibility.

Just curious why you "hoped" it was real?

"drastically" — ugh.

Gotta jump in here and agree with the other sub-commenters — it's generally very responsive. I mean, it has its once-in-a-while hiccups just like every other service out there, but overall, very very happy with it.

If Peter Thiel calls you, it might make sense to at least hear him out. Slamming doors is rarely a good approach to life.

And school will always be there to go back to.

My interpretation of the article was that they identify prior to attacking.

I suppose they could use a "spray and pray" attack on anyone using Tor, but that would be easily detected.

link: https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html

A terrific fork of oh-my-zsh is Prezto.

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto