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Comment Re:Slow learners (Score 1) 107

these types of people always believe they are smarter than everyone else and can't possibly be caught, it is usually that same attitude that gets them caught as the belief makes them make moronic mistakes (like boasting about being untouchable). They will keep believing that right up until people with badges and guns kick down their doors and then scream how they have been unjustly framed.

Comment Re:Unpossible (Score 1) 107

no it won't, at some stage the money gets spent, whether it is on a packet of chips or a book. Unless you only hoard the money and never spend it then eventually it is traceable. The simple fact is people have real physical presences and require real physical items to live, those interactions are tracable, amusingly crypto currencies actually make those interactions far far easier to trace than cash.

Comment Re:Hiding behind anonymity (Score 1) 183

Then you're not fit to sit on a jury. Nullification is the entire reason we have juries. It's the last defense against a government run amok.

-jcr

bullshit. Jury nullification is a breach of your responsibility as a juror and a complete cop out. A jury is there to render a non biased verdict as to whether someone broke the law they were charged with, nullification is dangerous (though sometimes I agree with it too, but should be a very very rare occurance). A Jury is often working on incomplete information, this is done to attempt to keep bias out. As an example I was a juror on a murder trial, we had one member of the Jury that even though she thought the woman was obviously guilty she had believed the sob story told and wanted to basically give a not guilty verdict as she thought the punishment was too harsh. We spent more time in the Jury room than in the court room as we were excluded from a lot of evidence and discussion. It wasn't until after the trial we found out what a scumbag the woman on trial really was, but that would have potentially biased our verdict to assume she was guilty (e.g. wasn't till afterwards we found it was the 3rd person she had stabbed, or that she was a druggie with a long history of violent attacks).

Comment Re:Don't buy a router unless it suports openwrt. (Score 1) 31

Has openwrt become more usable? I was using it up until about 12-18months ago. The constant stability issues combined with arcane/not working configuration items and finding myself constantly downloading and testing various mods to get around problems just got to frustrating and time consuming to be worth it for me.

Comment Re:Yes to Brexit (Score 2) 396

The trouble with that argument is that it relies on the stronger members having enough economic power to actually do that. It is far from clear that this is currently the case, with the expansion of the EU in recent years to include many far less economically advanced member states

The problem with that argument is that the economic condition enjoyed by the stronger nations is built upon the exploitation of the poorer ones. You don't get to complain about how poorly someone is doing at treading water while you step on their head.

That may be the case with the world in general, but for this case (ie. the EU) it is not the case. Most of the poor economic situations are self inflicted from corruption, poor taxation system or just plain bad government. No one forced Greece to be a corrupt tax avoiding nation and certainly no one was benefiting from what they were doing.

Comment Re:$1 a month (Score 3, Insightful) 167

Recurring expenses don't bother me. Trusting a company like Spotify to handle them securely and professionally however does. To many of these companies consider secure handling of your details as something that is distant second in importance to actually getting your money. Recurring payments mean long term trust, I simply don't have that in such a company.

Comment Re: 20,000 hands against each player? (Score 1) 65

in online poker that isn't hard. There are a heap of programs that track the betting behaviours and stats of your opponents so you can know as much as possible without having to monitor the table constantly. online poker by its very nature is far more limited in the information you have and as such is not to difficult to track.

Comment Re: 20,000 hands against each player? (Score 2) 65

the reason people can multi-table so much is because you rarely have to do anything. mostly you are just folding until you find hands or positions you want to play from, multi tabling reduces the boredom and stops you from playing in hands you shouldn't. It is not uncommon to go 10-20 hands in a row on a table where all you are doing is folding. multi tabling is not hard.

Comment Re:Optimal outcome (Score 1) 65

reading the details this looks more like a complete route and they are just trying to put a nice face on things. A person that relies heavily on maths and is a tight player would have similar results, these are the type of players that professionals make their living off, players that slowly lose money too you, not fast enough to scare them away and make them realize they suck though.

Comment Re:/.er bitcoin comments are the best! (Score 1) 253

25% per year? so far less than what bitcoin lost in the last year? seems to me the story is shit and it certainly isn't any sort of disruptive influence on the economy as it is too small to be noticed. What I find amusing though is people claiming it is more stable, botcoin has collapsed far worse than pesos in last 12 months.

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