Fredkin

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by Fredkin 2y ago
There are definitely factions of both the extreme right and extreme left (outdated terms) that understand privacy and dislike mass surveillance. Authoritarianism is on the rise in the 'Third-Way' corporatist, technocratic 'ce
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by Fredkin 2y ago
Derivatives of Firefox can take or leave features that Mozilla is pushing. For example Pocket isn't in LibreWolf. Google and Mozilla have less influence over what derivatives do - well that's my hope anyway. It's still not id
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by Fredkin 2y ago
Firefox receives funding from google. In 2022, 81% of Mozilla's revenues were derived from Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google Use LibreWolf instead.
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by Fredkin 2y ago
The prices thing doesn't work well here because 1) the government has intervened, and 2) it's based on debt - the price of which is also controlled by the government/central bank. It's a skin-in-the-game problem. If educ
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by Fredkin 2y ago
1) You're assuming the educational institutions themselves are engines of anti-fascism. But plenty of very fascist ideas have come out of universities. 2) You're ignoring communism and the far-left. Plenty of disastrous ideas are
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by Fredkin 2y ago
I think 'Let's stop educating people' might be reasonable in many cases. Not all degrees have the same chance of producing useful results and some non-stem education is just anti-education or worse ideological brainwashing. S
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by Fredkin 3y ago
> Smart people at the top... Who exactly? Where are these people in power defending physical cash or recommending an alternative monetary medium resilient to grid failure?
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by Fredkin 3y ago
Has anyone tried this with non-celebrity faces? I tried faces from thispersondoesnotexist.com onto various face on poses which would be easy to photoshop, and it had terrible results, changing the identity entirely and making the image look
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by Fredkin 3y ago
When connecting to this site I get SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG. Also malwarebytes blocks it. Odd because it seems to be clean here https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/5dc759a5c5f69aec6c7ba1959...
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by Fredkin 3y ago
"i have no right to deny this to others" - But somehow you do have a right to deny other others usage of their money to this end??
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by Fredkin 3y ago
In the context of your comment, where should the base money come from? If money is immediately costless to produce for the entity producing it, there is still a cost and it's born by everyone else. It must be accompanied by an increase
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by Fredkin 3y ago
Vietnam exports/imports a lot of the world's 'Unspecified' services according to this.
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by Fredkin 3y ago
I found the article very unsettling and seems to be advocating bigger government, financial repression, and authoritarian control of what people spend their money on: "This [CBDCs] could enable central banks to encourage or discourage
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by Fredkin 3y ago
To quote Keynes, ironically, "in the long run, we are all dead", and even wealth that gets passed on to children is frequently frittered away. There is no guarantee of unending passive growth if society at large does not make prod
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by Fredkin 3y ago
Right, so his true wealth isn't that liquid ordinarily, and he'd get a lot poorer if people started selling those stocks. His enormous wealth could be just that he's a beneficiary of the 'Stonks go up' stimulus&#x2F
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by Fredkin 3y ago
In a "normal" environment, it doesn't make sense to me that wealth begets more wealth passively without doing anything: A) If your wealth is in cash in the bank, you are providing the bank with deposits. The bank can now make
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by Fredkin 3y ago
He may not be personally running a farm. But if much of his wealth is invested as is usually the case for the richest people (no way it's just sitting around as cash), then he's indirectly supporting many productive endeavors. Eve
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by Fredkin 3y ago
Except, in your simulation you only consider accumulation of dollar amounts. Pure gambling, wealth in a vacuum. Calling these dollar amounts 'wealth' is not helpful because they need to have purchasing power, there need to be good