DickingAround

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by DickingAround 5y ago
Fiat is a currency that's continuously going down in value. There can be no dispute about that; it's the stated goal of nearly every central bank. So, I don't want that. It's that simple. If you could transfer USD anywhe
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by DickingAround 5y ago
Every job in management is managing people, IMHO. That CEO is watching after VPs who are themselves people with typical people issues. It's people all the way up. :)
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by DickingAround 5y ago
Yea, but I don't have a problem with volatility. I have a problem with inflation. So, as a customer of this product, you can tell me I should want a lack of volatility. But what I really want is a lack of inflation. And indeed, your no
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by DickingAround 5y ago
How do you know who to trust under Weak Subjectivity? It amounts to saying "I'm pretty sure we'll be able to google it and figure it out". But that then relies on these 3rd party systems to be able to identify who to tru
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by DickingAround 5y ago
I guess I don't totally know how to respond to that; I have no idea what everyone is using it for. That's rather hard to know just looking at the blockchain, or even reading message boards like this. I have no problem spending it;
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by DickingAround 5y ago
What do you mean? We totally got what we wanted; we have a deflationary currency we trade for goods and services. I'm 100% serious here; it's been working fine for quite a number of years. The fiat conversion is pretty noisy but B
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by DickingAround 5y ago
As a technical person, I think we should be a little more careful than to ban a technology because there's a proposal for a newer tech that could work (knowing if it works is harder than a posting on a website saying it's goin
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by DickingAround 5y ago
This reduces security considerably. Fundamentally, the proof of work system locks in longer chains because of all the work that was done historically . If there is just one honest node out there you will be able to tell the difference betw
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by DickingAround 5y ago
It is interesting that people think proof of stake works. If there is no work, there is not time-lock in. It's just the whimsy of the majority at this time. Today's majority can re-write all of history if they feel like it. With p
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by DickingAround 5y ago
Yea, just people being silly. They can do what they want with their money. And it doesn't look like anyone actually invested $70M worth of human effort there; it's just illusions of the market cap metric.
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by DickingAround 5y ago
The main claim is it's almost as bad a fiat currencies; in which case you're buying stock in a company that produces nothing, has no assets, is being constantly inflated, and has a bunch of rules about who you can give it to and h
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by DickingAround 5y ago
I found this helpful in describing a bit about how to build such a system. As someone that operates solar, it's become quite clear that solar gives very little energy in the winter and water heating is a huge part of winter power use.
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by DickingAround 6y ago
Not that I'm good at this yet, but I've found one solid way to do it: Read a textbook on it cover to cover. Don't do any of the problems, that'll like 10x the time. But the textbook will have an overview of the entire s
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by DickingAround 6y ago
The software engineers have plenty of leverage over every company without unions. A proof of that is high wages across the industry. And for Amazon in particular, where is that extra money coming from? It's not like they have a dividen
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by DickingAround 6y ago
I'm not going to down vote either of these at the moment. But the basic idea is to attack ideas not people. Any statements that name call (e.g. 'bastards') or attack the idea by attacking the author of it (e.g. 'dont rem
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by DickingAround 6y ago
This article seems to intentionally ignore the core reason for cryptocurrencies; escaping inflation and control. The article then proposes to use the law to bring those people back within the control of fiat and government oversight. I no l
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by DickingAround 6y ago
Do trees actually 'sleep'? Like they don't have neural centers that we consider to be brain-like, that I know of. Further, just defining the concept of sleep is a little tricky and I'm not aware of anything like sleep-is
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by DickingAround 6y ago
They are practically aliens to us, having such a very long ago common ancestor. We can learn a lot about ourselves by studying this alien species and that convergent evolution they have with ours (e.g. sleep). A good, deeper book on this is
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by DickingAround 6y ago
I don't think they can afford to see every bird as a threat during a battle. That means they'll also see every piece of shrapnel as a threat. And every piece of outgoing large munitions. I got the impression that speed and directi
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by DickingAround 6y ago
Perhaps a more direct way of saying this is: If individuals are not able to use tools to defend themselves, then the police should take the role of specifically defending all people (like they do with government officials) and be culpable i
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by DickingAround 6y ago
You still need to use oil, but you don't have to use dollars. The support for dollars relies on a lot of things including the government and thus the military, which are big costs and oil consumes. If the dollar didn't rely on the
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by DickingAround 6y ago
I think the problem is that it's not obvious why getting super big is bad. Anti-trust is a law around abuse of customers by cornering a market. But what if they haven't abused customers? What if they treat customers really well an
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by DickingAround 6y ago
Agreed. This kind of situation is perfect for separating the true freedom loving (i.e. "you do what you want with what you own") from the conservatives (i.e. "you do what we want you to do"). Those who like freedom says
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by DickingAround 6y ago
That is a mistake of getting a very ad-hoc contract and then doing something that creates a lot of risk of negative consequences (i.e. supporting the overthrow of a democracy). Honestly, this feels to me like just the best sort of stuff tha
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by DickingAround 6y ago
One of the tenets of this site is that we ask everyone to assume best intentions from everyone else.
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by DickingAround 6y ago
First, it does seem like it's a form of money. You can trade it for all sorts of things. Some of them directly. Some you make a trade. But it's super liquid; accepted more widely than a lot of country-specific currencies (e.g. I c
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by DickingAround 6y ago
I don't think they have the ability to keep a secret like that. A couple reasons: 1. The act of keeping the secret makes the tech useless. If it's not incorporated into equipment that could use it (e.g. a naval vessel, an isolated
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by DickingAround 6y ago
If you don't mind, why exactly? You're worried the care will get screwed up? Or you worry that someone will steal that data and charge more for insurance? I'm just wondering about why exactly the paradigm doesn't totally
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by DickingAround 6y ago
Some people debate the ROI of pandemic controls. Also, not all lockdowns are pandemic lockdowns. There have also been curfews unrelated to the pandemic and in some cases predating it.
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by DickingAround 6y ago
This is a straw man and does not actually argue the point or clarify the topic.

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