DickingAround

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by DickingAround 6y ago
I do not agree with the idea that individualism is overall more of a negative for the American people than a positive. There is a long history of American's doing things differently or ignoring their detractors to go on to invent and b
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by DickingAround 6y ago
Been thinking about that phrase "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" is perhaps better as "power corrupts, absolute power writes the history books".
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Agreed. I think we overlook what really happens when power gets concentrated in a place where it's easy to seize. You make the state own everything? Well, who owns the state? All the people can't do that collectively, so you get s
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by DickingAround 7y ago
This is a lot worse than a job asking for overtime. I say 'asking' because you can leave that job. If the soviet state demanded it; it's not optional, there is no leaving, there are no other jobs. I actually think the America
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by DickingAround 7y ago
UBI as payment for automation seems like a dream when you imagine getting free money/stuff. If you're the one that creates life-changing automation and now you have to pay more because you invented, it's a nightmare. A nightm
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by DickingAround 7y ago
People work their whole lives to make the value we measure in dollars. We humans have been dying for millenia for lack of the material wealth we have now. Having materials/dollars/whatever you want to call it is clearly worth live
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by DickingAround 7y ago
One option: Take any job in any industry from well functioning (i.e. large) company. They'll have to offer it as a real, paying job and not some half-formed idea. Doesn't have to be software (though it sounds like that's the
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by DickingAround 7y ago
The power to walk away and not buy is an almost ultimate power; and companies/everyone does respond aggressively to it. It is extreme hubris to think you can use some other power to get consumers a product that they magically want more
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by DickingAround 7y ago
What are you looking for in a security system? We run both system-in-a-box sets of closed circuit cameras as well as fully controlled webcams. Are you looking for some UI or auto-alarming aspect? (e.g. face detection? threat detection?)
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Agreed with you, but also worth noting the US gov would likely take over the fed in a time of crisis. If interest rates hit 10%, the fed was refusing to buy bonds because of inflation risk, and the US gov's choices were between 'd
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by DickingAround 7y ago
This is kind of silly. It's nice to imagine a world where people don't need cars. But most/all european cities, many of which we laid out before cars, still have cars. We all have cars because cars are incredibly useful; Got
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Governments have a long history of doing bad things (e.g. hundreds of millions killed in the last 100 years by USSR/China/Germany but many lesser offenses such as the war on drugs in the US). You often don't get to roll back
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by DickingAround 7y ago
First, I get there's a lot of people supposedly looking for work but I've spent a solid 20 years now in a "we are constrained on labor" environment across a few industries. I think this is a problem more of what work peo
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Yea, I loved by TI91 (I think that was it's designation); very durable, long battery life, a real work horse. I still have it. Don't remember how to to anything on it. The thing is, a full computer, python notebook, and keyboard a
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by DickingAround 7y ago
I have a high level question; a lot of want to legalize drugs. Ending the war on drugs and all that. This is a drug that was legal and a lot of people got on it and now we're angry. Why? I don't like that people got hurt. I also r
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by DickingAround 7y ago
How do you figure? Amazon makes less than half the revenue of Walmart. Personally it seems kind of silly to talk about any of them as a 'monopoly' when I literally use a competitor to each of the biggies (Amazon, Apple, Google, et
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by DickingAround 7y ago
As a libertarian looking foreward to a moon base... Im totally good w cameras in the hands of civilians. I use my closed loop, not online connected, home serveilance system every month: saw at least 4 crimes and even caght a home invader. P
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Checking in! Yes, security is hard. But seriously just about everyone is doing generally fine with this. It's especially hard to run an exchange. But bitcoin isn't an exchange. Lots of people own their own security and run their b
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Not nearly enough power or impact for that. The masses of miners who could roll back will not care for their plight and even billions stolen is worth less to the community and miners than making sure all transactions go through. For example
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by DickingAround 7y ago
Did basic ethics just get lost along the way somewhere? Income is an interaction between me and another person. I'd bad enough the government wants a share. They do not have a right to publicize the details of every interaction/co
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by DickingAround 7y ago
I think the concern is that the reason it is so different is disturbing to taxpayers: If it is filled with more bureaucracy than a similar commercial deal, then they're wasting taxpayer money. If that bureaucracy is the only way to pre
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by DickingAround 8y ago
The mainstream driver is going to be some form of 'disaster'. it can be as mild as 1970s style inflation or a 2008 style crash. It can be as severe as a long-ailing Brazilian Cruzeiro or 1998 Russian debt crisis. (People will brin
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by DickingAround 8y ago
It depends on what you consider "side-step the law". If you encrypt your communication so no one can't read it, but the government didn't demand you not encrypt it.. are you side stepping the law? That's kind of wha
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by DickingAround 8y ago
Yes. I'd be quite happy with that. I can generate value; the hard part is keeping that value safe. That is what crypto offers.
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by DickingAround 8y ago
That is a real shame. If the police are not going to mediate property disputes between people, they take a lot of risk those disputes will escalate into violence. Perhaps really-good passive defense is enough (e.g. package lock boxes) but I
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by DickingAround 8y ago
Let's try not to over-generalize a group of people. Crypto might be a fad, but that doesn't mean there are no intelligent, knowledgeable people in it.
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by DickingAround 8y ago
Not all crypto attacks the same problem; they should not be all lumped together. Bitcoin's transation rate and energy use are a big deal. But Bitcoin does solve the problem of the central bank itself creating too much money, which has
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by DickingAround 9y ago
What a strange claim about 'capitalism'. This is the opposite of regular or even anarcho capitalism; this is a capitalism where you select out for anyone able to do other trades or generally comply with social norms. Cartels and t
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by DickingAround 9y ago
Why exactly did Ripple start going up in the first place?
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by DickingAround 9y ago
BTW, I love this article because it brings data to show this actually exists. This question of 'why' seems particularly difficult. We speculate it might be because of some material/socio-economic deficit this never generation

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