Erlich_Bachman

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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> useless crypto "currency" that literally doesn't do anything You are very disconnected from reality of millions of people. Can you not try to see that? Can you not respect their opinion and their values? Do you just cons
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> use more energy than everything you just described combined globaly Pretty sure you're orders of magnitude wrong about that. Also there are very specific, actionable and already growing things on the roadmap to sustainability: - G
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
I don't know if you have noticed, but people actually make use of Bitcoin as well. Just because there are some speculators doesn't mean that there aren't millions of people using BTC and sending transactions every day. Also t
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
This is a very important question. But shouldn't we be asking this of every company and every consumer of all electricity everywhere? What does it have to do with mining. This has to do with electricity production, its regulation and p
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
How much energy does watching porn consume? Playing video games? Watching a movie? Browsing Facebook? Using a ski chair? Visiting an amusement park? Going in vacation? Cooking your favorite type of food? Making ice cream? Driving to your fr
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
There is a well-thought out and well-designed process for all stages of this. You can read up on that on the https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That's not what they asked.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> a social contract Just like the rest of the cryptos that require all the participants to use specific protocol and software and agree on specific rules.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That's just not an accurate nor truthful account of what happens in practice. The example you gave has nothing to do with changing the PoW function to counteract ASICs. Both Bcash and bitcoin classic were forked because of completely d
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
The freely-printed, non-gold-backed flavor of USD?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Not sure if it is helpful to reduce every issue to a one-dimensional scale of capitalism/socialism. Particularly this specific issue is about privacy culture, corruptability of big tech, government and use of technologies, surveillance
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That's still incredibly sketchy. What any sane engineer would do is to keep testing these cars with a safety driver and gather anough information/miles to claim higher statistical safety than a human driver, while keeping track th
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> There is no freedom of opportunity without societal context. I am, as a man, legally free to wear a skirt in my country, yet I've never done and I've also met almost none who did - because of the socials costs this would incu
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> this by itself is a contradiction. what makes a country egalitarian? No it's not. What makes a country egalitarian is set of laws and practices that give people most possible choice and regulate on a legal level the amount of prej
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> where gender equality was officially mandated and thus stronger than it is even now in Germany How do you build that argument? If it was equality of outcome that was officially mandated, that is exact opposite of true freedom of opport
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> f that’s the case then it’s still a problem we created Why? Why can't there just be innate biological differences in what people are interested in, between the genders, as a lot of data suggests. Also if that is your hypothesis, h
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
I don't understand your criticism, it doesn't seem to make much sense. They have done exactly what you are proposing, in that they don't require users to provide KYC to use the browser. KYC is only required to use an addition
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
You do understand it's based on regulation, right? That there is no way to do what they are doing legally without KYC for withdrawals? What exactly does your implying use of the word "hostage" mean? That you don't like t
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Yes, and the variety that you get will not look like 50%/50% gender spread in every single field and profession, because there are innate differences between genders that come to the surface the more you remove social pressure and tyra
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Did you understand me? I probably understood even more than you were willing to share: your level of knowledge about this topic. > gender role trolling What does gender has to do with anything? You brough it up, not me. Also where d
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
On a somewhat related note, I just wonder for my personal interest, why do you write it that way? "BitCoin". You are just signalling everyone that you haven't done any deep research, you have not read any meaningful amount of
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
But did you really include Lightning Network in your mental calculations? If so, care to elaborate on what exactly would stop it from working? (I mean it already works now, there is nothing technical that is going to stop it from scaling)?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Pretend that someone is really reading and trying to understand for a moment ;). What do you see in Cardano that makes it a poor candidate for a future blockchain? Governance? Functionality? Algorithms? Investment?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Your point could be truth in theory, and/or in the future. However, in practice, it seems that it almost works the other way around. To mine on BTC, you cannot enter the game with 10$ to your name. You can't buy a mining rig, it i
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Maybe try reading the post again? I have no affiliation or even opinion about that coin, but it is painfully clear for that post only that the proposed problem of value is "valid consensus mechanism that scales of PoS and PoW networks&
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
There are millions of people who use it, trade it, store their value in it, program more software for it etc. They see the answer, they get the point. Can you please just answer this - do you suppose they all halt what they are doing and wa
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Not sure where you get your news but LN is implemented and functional. There are wallets, services, software, etc, downloadable, functional, used every day. If what you mean to say "get all the marchants that support BTC to accept LN&q
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That's not the point. The point is, it hypocritical to complain about bitcoin energy consumption without also complaining about the energy, material and human deaths consumption caused by for example US military, which is in essense wh
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> It’s not beyond the reach of governments to ban unwanted trade Yeah, right, it worked so well for alcohol... It DOES (/s) work so well for drugs in the US right now... And hey imagine whether it's easier or harder to ban som
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> That does not make it less true that money does not have magical properties and bitcoin will not create a new world order. Is anyone really claiming that? The OP's post doesn't seem to be in this spirit anyway. It's more

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