Chris Larsen Quotes
Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
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Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
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History is merely gossip.
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Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.
