DirkScheuring

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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
Well, even that might be a consequence of mothers bonding more strongly with daughters than with sons earlier in life.
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
I don't really know (yet?), but it seems to me that what you need is a network of nodes, such that each node automatically downloads a common amount of money from a pool once a month. That pool would be filled by the system subtracting a pe
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
I can't quite understand this "privacy problem". What's wrong with just accepting Google's TOS, use it for what it's worth (doing "public" stuff), and making room for "private" operations elsewhere? Aren't higher levels of "privacy" just a
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
Are there reasons why the idea of a Guaranteed Minimum Income could not be implemented using a peer-to-peer system? Would middlemen be strictly necessary?
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
AFAIK, she's his wife, Mona. Apart from that, you are right.
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to make the purchase. Either you have an elected government which ma
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
There surely are a lot of people who obtain quality content through TPB without paying for it. However, from what I could observe, attempts at making this group of people pay anyway have been largely fruitless so far, while at the same time
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
Would he not understand it if you just told him the truth? "I'm doing it because, overall, it makes me more productive."
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After 16 years online - Ending a life of digital absence(plus.google.com)
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by DirkScheuring 15y ago
Hunter's rule: Any communication service which publicly displays a metric serving as a proxy for popularity will cause users to take steps to increase that number. I'm sorry, but as a "ground rule", this seems just wrong to me. There are