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fosap commented on Jair Bolsonaro: Organized Crime and Corruption 2020 Person of the Year occrp.org/en/poy/2020/... · Posted by u/wcerfgba

jmnicolas · 5 years ago

I'm implying that they don't care about his corruption, since they tolerate it in the leaders that align with their views.

The NED and Open Society are well known tools of regime change.

fosap · 5 years ago

>since they tolerate it in the leaders that align with their views.

Which one?

fosap commented on Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/lxm

svachalek · 5 years ago

This reads like a textbook example of "correlation is not causation". You think there'd be ...some? people talking about how they decided not to have a child because she/he wouldn't fit in the car if it's going to have a measurable effect on birth rates but at least personally I have never, ever heard this one.

fosap · 5 years ago

Please RFA.

"The reduction they saw was confined to households that did actually have access to a car"

"They discovered that tightening these laws had no detectable effects on the rate of first and second children".

Also, if i understand it correctly, you have about 50 quasi experiments, one for each state.

fosap commented on I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet threadreaderapp.com/threa... · Posted by u/shawndumas

fwdpropaganda · 7 years ago

Jesus Christ, so they don't pay him enough and he's fixing toilets on the side?

fosap · 7 years ago

Not being depended on craftsman for small things like fixing your toilet safes you a lot of stress in my experience. Not problems with appointments, no waiting, no arguing in case if improper work, no other people in your home.

fosap commented on Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues forbes.com/sites/laurashi... · Posted by u/Cwwm

ryanlol · 8 years ago

>I don't believe a majority of the holders or users want transactions costing $5

You might be right, but keep in mind that there's also a significant chunk of people mostly sending amounts in the tens of thousands. $5 doesn't feel like very much then.

fosap · 8 years ago

But you can't order Pizza (or drugs) with Bitcoin anymore. And I don't see much of use case of a currency that can't do that. Without adoption a fiat currency like bitcoin is not worth anything.

Even gold can do that better.

fosap commented on Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues forbes.com/sites/laurashi... · Posted by u/Cwwm

jstanley · 8 years ago

Long-term, whichever is the winner will gain the most price and therefore the most hashpower.

Neither hashpower nor price make it the winner. In the long term, actual people wanting to hold & use it makes a winner. Price and hashpower follow that.

fosap · 8 years ago

Inside of one coin hashpower makes the winner, because the chain with the most accumulated difficulty wins. It makes sense to transfer this to the relation of different coins. currently BTC wins, but if miners would stick to bch this might change.

fosap commented on Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues forbes.com/sites/laurashi... · Posted by u/Cwwm

fosap · 8 years ago

It seems there is currently more hashpower behind BCH than BTC. [1] Because of the current price surge mining bch became way more profitable, but this will change with the next adjustment.

If more hashpower sticks with BCH, I would consider it to be the winner.

[1] https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate

fosap commented on Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub... · Posted by u/gfredtech

baybal2 · 8 years ago

Yet another ActiveX-like tech re-spin, we are going back to the dark age.

Having usable and capable _SCRIPTING_ language for web was the biggest achievement of the whole Web 2.0 push, now the browsermaker is about to reverse that

fosap · 8 years ago

It does not change anything substantial about the web today. It will just be a saner output format for compilers than javascript. Unless you write compilers, nothing changes.

It does not matter weather your language compiles to JS or WASM, and it does not matter what the browser executes.

fosap commented on Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue fortune.com/2017/08/02/bi... · Posted by u/abhi3

jmilloy · 8 years ago

It's more like, while transporting the pregnant cows, one bird jumped on each cow in the trailer along the way, and now you're demanding X gives you not just the cows, but the birds, too, even though they're hard to catch.

fosap · 8 years ago

No, is not like that. Both the calf to the cow and bch (bcc ?) to btc are "intrinsic". They are the result of the nature of these things. Not gifts, not accidents, not abritrary.

And coinbase keeps the bch (as they announced), so the bird analogy does not fit at all.

fosap commented on Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue fortune.com/2017/08/02/bi... · Posted by u/abhi3

barkingcat · 8 years ago

Haha why is there "fiduciary" duty when Coinbase is not a bank, not a security agency, and not any type of share that people bought into (ie customers are not shareholder).

Coinbase can do anything they want!

Also, I suggest it's people's own fault for storing their bitcoins at a place that does not give access to their own private keys. This fork has been a long time coming. Everyone and their mother was warned to keep your own bitcoins in your own privately controlled wallet (entirely offline if possible) to weather this fork.

Anyone who cries that Coinbase didn't do whatever is being childish and deserves it.

fosap · 8 years ago

>Coinbase can do anything they want!

That's no how laws work. Not even remotely. Thankfully.

Consider you order somebody (X) to transport your pregnant cow. At the destination the cow arrives. It's not pregnant anymore and X refuses to give you the calf because... well, because he can do anything he wants.

That's theft.

fosap commented on 200 terabyte proof demonstrates the potential of brute force math motherboard.vice.com/en_u... · Posted by u/sharemywin

nbates80 · 8 years ago

I don't know why people keep thinking there's something special about the way we humans do calculations vs what could be achieved with a complex enough computer

fosap · 8 years ago

Math is not about proofing something, or creating a as big as possible collection of lemmas. Math is about creating structures that can use as tools to solve problems. And problem solving is a task done by humans, so math is only useful if humans understand it and have a intuition.

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