explodicle

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[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago

I can't speak for the other guy, but these high interest investments were available when I took out my car loan too. That's why I opted for the longer term loan.

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm doing the same thing, but I still don't understand it. Why are creditors offering 3.54% car loans instead of just getting 8% themselves?

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago

Well the second half is true.

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago

The validation is cheap, every node does that constantly. Do you mean proof-of-work mining?

[–] explodicle 2 points 2 months ago

If it's p2p, then there are no insiders.

[–] explodicle 3 points 2 months ago

Protected‽ Then their exes can get it for child support!

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, but encryption doesn't necessarily eliminate metadata. And since so little traffic gets onion routed, even that is a signal.

Cold war espionage is a different situation because Soviet/Western hierarchy eliminated coordination problems.

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Even then, how can trust scale up? Who makes the call "today is the day" for a huge group without that person getting a knock on their door?

I forget where I read this, but if the British had just all the metadata we have today, then they could have stopped Paul Revere.

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Can we avoid becoming like the Area 51 raid where only one guy does it and all the chickens say they were just joking?

For everyone saying eat the rich, launch them into space, guillotine them... How do we figure out when to do that, on which billionaires first? How do we prevent the billionaires from buying the website (or whatever) where it's planned?

[–] explodicle 15 points 2 months ago

Padme: "So they are leaving the group?"

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago

Oh in that case they're just paying the "working a job" fee. Next we should have a "using land" fee, problem solved!

[–] explodicle 2 points 2 months ago
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