BLanen

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by BLanen 5y ago
> Reviewed by a human Can just mean some low-paid Amazon Mechanical Turk worker clicked on "Yes".
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by BLanen 5y ago
Your comment is literally the ideological problem.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Illegal stuff happens. Shocking, I know.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Jack Dorsey is a cypherpunk libertarian, of course Twitter doesn't care.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Just because a system(tor) exists doesn't means its existence has any real effect. The existence of Tor in the state of Russia and Russia being the Authoritarian state that it is supports the case.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Thank you for your comment. This is much needed on this website of cypherpunk idealism.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Pure ideology. Can't even think of actions outside of individual consumerism.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Libertarian heaven
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by BLanen 5y ago
They seem to keep giving more and more confidence in their language semantic ai. Quoted words in the search should return only pages with that actually on the page. That used to work. Now it often shows pages that don't contain it all,
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by BLanen 5y ago
Using organic fuels as a battery(which this essentially proposes) with internal combustion engines is extremely inefficient. This seems more like a device to capture subsidies.
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by BLanen 5y ago
> The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum was this hot, or even hotter, and life was thriving. Yes, but it didn't become that this fast. > Could humans survive this? Probably yes - we are resourceful and adaptable. No, and we'r
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by BLanen 5y ago
5 to 8 degrees is probably the death of the biosphere with only extremophiles left.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Yes, clearly this is all rational individual choice and society doesn't exist. Get over yourself.
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by BLanen 5y ago
I don't care that they exist in many places. Corona is in 200+ different ethical and regulatory environments/societies, I think that that is likewise bad for society and hope we get rid of it. There's enough other comments wi
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by BLanen 5y ago
Good. Uber is a unsustainable business built employee exploitation to effectively pay them less than minimum wage while flouting "freedom" to bait the people in the worst situations. This was known from the start. Meanwhile subsid
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by BLanen 5y ago
All these stablecoins just magically acquire a bunch of commercial paper. Won't tell anyone what the paper is and seem to never had the dollars to actually "buy" the paper. It seems like they're receiving commercial pape
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by BLanen 5y ago
First, it is wrong for you to assume "the technology" actually brings any systemic efficiency gains.
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by BLanen 5y ago
The diagrams in this article are a value destroying mistake
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by BLanen 5y ago
I know a guy who's Manager/CEO went to prison for fraud during his internship.
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by BLanen 5y ago
> An Asian logging company offered to harvest the island’s timber in exchange for enough funds to build a new school. What a strange sentence. Reverse the two clauses and it reads much more naturally. "funds for the school in exchan
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by BLanen 5y ago
> The whales can redeem Show me the burns.
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by BLanen 5y ago
1. You don't know what the government is. 2. You don't know what capitalism is.
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by BLanen 5y ago
I like how it references the Gulag Archipelago which two links to buy it, a pseudo-historical book. For no reason. Except for that a certain controversial person likes to talk about it a lot. Of course 3 articles back they reference Jordan
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by BLanen 5y ago
Hackernews, so of course China has to be brought up.
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by BLanen 5y ago
I actually saw a crow on what I think was an ant-spot today. Just sitting there when I was walking by fairly close, unphased.
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by BLanen 5y ago
No, people like you are what prevents correct action. And the guy you're citing is still correct. We didn't reverse it before 2000. Nations will dissapear under water and general turmoil. He never said it would happen in 2000. Onl
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by BLanen 5y ago
> spending with cryptocurrency It hasn't been about actually using it for years now.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Because there are no fundamentals.
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by BLanen 5y ago
Algea is only a co2 battery unless you can capture it and store the algea without it fermenting. If you just grow it in the Ocean, you need to increase the Ocean's algea carrying capacity and form it thus into a battery because dead al
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by BLanen 5y ago
Lose your key? Lose your domain, forever, for everyone, irreversible by any legal intervention. Yea, fuck that. Also, as with 99% of "smart contracts". The main contract which allows for updating the smart contract, and thus is ul

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