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I recognize that the role of head maintainer is in part a political one, but yow.

This doesn't strike me as the best of ideas, but I do love the thought of a future wherein the news reports that everyone's savings accounts devalued a certain amount against the dollar because Walmart didn't meet their quarterly earnings or whatever.

That all said, I suppose this could exist today, if there was a payment processor who could transact vanguard shares.

I was laid off by IBM in 2013, I can confirm that they handed out exactly such a thing.

This is a common misconception. The injunction is only against unlawful (or more broadly, non socially sanctioned) killings. Killing while engaged in warfare is acceptable by this code.

If you're counting the slave holding United States as a 'libertarian' society you're rather stretching the term. Beyond that, there are countless ways in which even white protestant Americans were subject to the state in the US, both locally and federally. I don't think it should count.

Or, more primaly, you appeal the decisions by forming your own, larger, like minded group.

It is very interesting to observe the natural tension between the strongly individualistic ethos and the fact that it's essentially impossible to accomplish anything socially without collective action.

It's quite unclear to me - how much does it cost to store this data in the blockchain? I'm imagining the quantity must not be nil as otherwise it'd be possible to DOS the blockchain by supplying a large quantity of useless data.

Seemed awesome until I saw the $40 cutoff, though I can certainly understand why they'd want to avoid having a host of people sell their junk drawers.

Alternatively, a fractional reserve institution can offer interest on accounts which might entice some people to accept the risk of a bank run. Given the popularity of some explicit ponzi schemes in the past month, It seems fairly clear there are plenty of folks who would accept those terms.

They recommend that people who domain squat be... shunned? That seems unlikely to work.

I've also been quite curious - is it even possible to make modifications the protocol with so much of the current hashing power implemented in application specific hardware?

Because you don't need to understand the mechanism of a drug to have a strong understanding of the effects of a drug. Numerous widely proscribed psychiatric drugs have at best conjectured mechanisms of action.

Pick up the famous Moscow-Washington hotline and simply tell them.

They're not taking this far enough, imposing a blanket 25% discount nothing but autocratic perversion of what could be a functioning lunch time credit market. They could maximize revenues and employee throughput in real time! Sure, there'd be some overhead, but financialization axiomatically improves efficiency. Perhaps there could even be a lunch time credit futures market for people who occasionally work from home or on business trips?

How can you be trusted to manage bond traders if you can't even properly manage a cafeteria?

That applies much less to non-US entities communicating to other non-US entities who happen to have significant bandwidth between them running through the United States.

But there is a logical reason to beat you for the password you can't divulge, namely to serve as an example and deterrent to any future persons who might attempt to restrict access via the same mechanism.

Seizing the assets of alleged criminals is something for which there is broad bipartisan support and consensus.

I do however agree that an actual amendment is unlikely.