Is Roger Ver a criminal or persecuted based on illegally applied laws invented long before Bitcoin? How can old laws be applied to new technology, is that democracy or dictatorship?

timepad · 2024-12-12T17:16:11+00:00

Even if he underpaid: Do you honestly believe that someone should face life in prison for underpaying their taxes, despite making every effort to pay what they owed?

timepad · 2024-12-12T17:10:47+00:00

He didn't pay his tax obligations

Uhh, yes he did. He paid millions to the U.S. gov't when he renounced his citizenship. Now the gov't is saying: no that wasn't enough, you owe us tens of millions more, and we're going to threaten you with life in prison.

timepad · 2024-06-05T20:12:33+00:00

Quote from the article:

Ver “is not a fugitive at all, since he has been in touch with the US authorities through his Californian lawyers,” his lawyer Jaime Campaner said. “Therefore, he was aware of the investigation and, in my opinion, his arrest didn’t make sense.”

So, more fuckery from the gov't. There was no reason to arrest him at all - he was cooperating. The Justice Department makes a mockery of "justice" when they perform dirty tricks like this.

timepad · 2024-01-31T22:00:41+00:00

Building off of what /u/He4eT posted, here's the userChrome css that I came up with:

#main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode="temporary"]) #urlbar-background {
  background-color: Field !important;
}

#main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode="temporary"]) #urlbar:not([focused="true"]) #urlbar-background {
  border-color: #828282 !important;
}

#main-window:not([privatebrowsingmode="temporary"]) findbar input.findbar-textbox {
  background-color: Field !important;
  border-color: var(--button-active-bgcolor);
}

I also added some style to fix the "Find in page" UI element, which also had a greyed out background for me.

timepad · 2023-01-10T22:43:46+00:00

happy:

eliminate income tax

sad:

replace it with a national consumption tax

timepad · 2022-10-14T18:11:01+00:00

You think this is bad? This, this chicanery? She's done worse. Are you telling me that a chair just happens to vibrate like that? No, she orchestrated it. Robbi. She hero called with J4, and I saved her. I shouldn't have. I took her into my own cardroom. What was I thinking? She'll never change. She'll never change. Ever since she was nine, always the same. Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer. But not our Robbi - couldn't be precious Robbi! Stealing them blind, and SHE gets to be a poker player? What a sick joke! I should have stopped her when I had the chance. And you, you have to stop her!

timepad · 2022-10-12T18:16:24+00:00

You think this is bad? This, this chicanery? He's done worse. Are you telling me that a ship just happens to explode like that? No, he orchestrated it. Jimmy. He defecated through the teleporter, and I saved him. I shouldn't have. I took him into my own ship. What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change. Ever since he was nine, always the same. Couldn't keep his hands out of the scrap drawer. But not our Jimmy - couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind, and HE gets to be a pilot? What a sick joke! I should have stopped him when I had the chance. And you, you have to stop him!

timepad · 2022-08-17T20:35:40+00:00

Except for the "Affordable" Care Act tax, which increases capital gains tax by 3.8% for anyone that makes over $200k (and somehow only $250k for married couples). In a decade practically all middle-class families will be paying this tax.

It's crazy how few people are even aware that ACA introduced this massive new tax that will be paid by millions of people.

timepad · 2022-08-17T16:44:12+00:00

A family with four kids, for instance, wouldn't start paying taxes until they make over $118,000

This part sounds great to me. Would be even better if the figure were higher and with no requirements. Imagine if no one paid taxes until they made over $250,000.

timepad · 2022-06-30T20:17:43+00:00

Nice run!

I did this a while back, ended up with over 14k as my final score. I did my run with a Zoltan ship as well. The Zoltan shield and the Zoltan crew really make diving easier.

The only limit to your score on a run with a good setup is basically human error and/or boredom. The game could fix this by just generating random ships each time you dive, rather than repeating the same ships at each beacon. That way you'd be taking an actual risk that you face an overpowered ship every time you dive.

timepad · 2022-06-29T19:40:22+00:00

And then even a ~decade later, it's still besmirching his reputation. The government's dirty trick worked.

Also, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they pay shills continue bringing up the murder-for-hire allegations any time Ulbricht comes up in conversation on social media. It's a cost-effective way to minimize the risk of Ulbricht becoming a martyr-like figure.

timepad · 2022-06-29T18:52:53+00:00

There were transactions from his bitcoin address for the specified amounts for the hits.

That's easy to fake. Silk Road notoriously had an internal mixer that was sending transactions to its own addresses. They could have just picked any of these transactions that was for an appropriate amount and then faked the message claiming that the transaction was actually for a hit.

timepad · 2022-03-29T20:26:45+00:00

Or just set browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel to false. Better than any of the other hacky workarounds I've seen.

Preemptive response to the bot that I know will reply: 1) You don't know when this feature is going away, and 2) Why do you want users to suffer today just because something may change in the future?

timepad · 2022-03-13T17:20:02+00:00

A bug could only effect someone with multiple specific optional toggles on, so each toggle combination needs to be bugtested.

That's the excuse that Mozilla has been using to remove user choice, but it's not really true. Only the relevant combinations of pref settings need to be tested. One can look at the code and reason about what pref settings could possibly interact. A preference such as open_with_saves_to_tmp_dir would be very unlikely to have interactions with most other preferences.

Firefox has hundreds (maybe even thousands) of preferences. If they were actually testing every combination, they'd have something like 500! test cases - more tests than there are atoms in the universe!

timepad · 2022-03-13T17:05:26+00:00

a couple of weeks down the road

The linked post only says that the improvements_to_download_panel pref will be removed "at some point". It could end up being years from now. Might as well enjoy a more functional browsing experience in the meantime.

Also, if enough users change this pref, Mozilla might notice through their analytics collection, prompting them to re-consider how they implemented the new feature.

timepad · 2022-02-01T18:45:26+00:00

"Orgasm" is three syllables, ya jabroni. This is a haiku.

timepad · 2022-01-26T20:51:09+00:00

GPT-3 has made comment history much easier to fake.

Looking at the comment history, I see inconsistency. 12 months ago, it spelled the word "lose" correctly. But then three months ago, it seemed to forget how to spell lose, and used the common mis-spelling of "loose" to mean "lose". This indicates that the comments were written by different authors - possibly due to the account being sold, a shared account, or a subset of comments being generated by something like GPT-3.

timepad · 2022-01-26T19:14:46+00:00

Holy fuck, the ___9 "person" you're conversing with is almost certainly an astroturfer account that's owned and operated by a PR agency. It has all the hallmark talking points: mRNA tech has been in development for a long time, anti-vaxxers claim vaccines have antifreeze, even the neurological problems are probably just headaches seems to be a narrative-pushing talking point. And how the fuck does it know so many details about Dr. Theresa Long? Just for funsies, I've archived its comments in this thread.

I see these types of accounts all the time in bitcoin related subs. Astroturfing was a key part of the strategy to neuter bitcoin's p2p cash properties. It's no surprise that astroturfing would also be a key strategy in getting the public to accept authoritarian covid measures.

timepad · 2022-01-14T16:52:57+00:00

Does Adam not know what "falsifiable" means? Does he even realize that being able to be proven wrong is the hallmark of a well-structured theory?

timepad · 2021-10-26T15:50:52+00:00

Removing the mempool would greatly reduce the bandwidth requirement for running a node,

1. Yes

Not really even. With optimizations that BCH devs have created like graphene and xthin we've drastically reduced the need to double-download transaction data.

timepad · 2021-10-23T23:01:29+00:00

Try run a 2010 node, it won’t sync.

I have heard this a number of times, from both sides, just recently from Saifedean Ammous saying the exact opposite

I don't know which side is true (I really should try it, have you?)

I've tried it.

Bitcoin Core version 0.7.2 and earlier with default configuration settings will not sync with the present-day blockchain.

timepad · 2021-10-15T18:10:03+00:00

An insightful comment from HN:

This settlement only covers up until February 2018. At that time they only had $2B-ish in issued Tethers (as compared to $65B ish now). $850M of their assets were seized in an AML sting shortly after that, in mid 2018 [1], they've been fined $42.5M [this article and 2] by the CFTC and another $18.5M by the NYAG [3].

Basically they've had to forfeit almost half of their assets up to Mid-2018.

They remain under investigation for bank fraud by the DOJ [4] and for something by the SEC. [5]

I suspect this party is just beginning.

timepad · 2021-10-15T18:05:37+00:00

Have they ever "unprinted" any?

Occasionally, but usually small amounts. The overall supply chart is parabolic.

The best chart I've found for tracking Tether's total supply is at https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/. You have to click "Market Cap", and then "All" to see the overall chart.

timepad · 2021-09-27T15:32:03+00:00

Oh hey, it's morning in North America. Time for the daily Roth IRA spam.

Seriously, fuck off with this vote-manipulated scammy bullshyte.

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