Jabanga

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by Jabanga 9y ago
>There is a pretty big subset of the community that believe Bitcoin is a panacea that will replace currencies, payment networks and so on, regardless of how technically inferior the blockchain is to other more mature distributed database
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Automation at fulfilment centres will drive down prices, which will increase the volume of goods ordered online. Given labour is the only major scarce input to production for most categories of goods, the decrease in prices (and by extensio
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Theoretically yes. Practically, no. Homelessness in rich countries is largely a result of substance abuse and underlying personality disorders (which are often the reason the substance abuse starts). Modern governments don't have the p
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Statements like this, that allege some group is being victimized, makes scapegoats out of those with more resources. Yes we're all "economically coerced", by the need to produce economic resources in order to consume economic
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No, I'm cynical about all developed countries. Almost none of them have shit together. The cost disease affects the entire developed world, and I suggest it's due to the government playing an increasingly dysfunctional role in soc
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Unless AI and robots become effectively humans, they will not be able to do our jobs better than we can. And they do become effectively humans, we will have much bigger things to worry about than unemployment.
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http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddite...
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>In block chain, 51% of the network can decide to modify the ledger to do things that aren't true. 51% is not enough to modify the ledger. A hard fork requires an overwhelming majority to support it. Otherwise, the cost of fragmenta
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>Some, but not all anti-miscegenation laws banned interracial cohabitation and sex. In some states only attempting to get married was punishable. The same was true for same-sex marriage, which would've required lying on a form and t
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I don't believe such hard forks will be practical when the ecosystem is larger and more diverse. The DAO happened in a unique point in Ethereum's history, when the community was very small (and thus cohesive) and activity on the n
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>Seriously? You realize that's delusional, right? Comments of this nature aren't constructive. It's better to restrain the urge to tell your correspondent that their belief is delusional, and simply explain why you disagre
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>But the problem is, if you accept THE SPECTRE OF UTTER POVERTY into your incentive package, then you also incent INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY, where children are born into homes of people who, despite all those helpful incentives, just suc
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Individuals have private knowledge about their local environment that can inform purchases of these micro shares. Combined with automated analysis tools, it can allow quick effective decision-making on small purchases to build one's p
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People don't need to be motivated by high-minded ideals to make useful contributions.
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You're right. You can live in Cuba, and yet virtually live in a cyber nation using nothing other than an internet connection.
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Progress as defined by gains in per capita GDP, median wages, and life expectancy. And the public sector growth that I view as harmful is growth in social welfare programs and regulations restricting business activity. >Especially as alm
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Correlation can be an indication of a causative association. I believe in that case of the growth in the public sector and the slowdown in GDP growth, it is.
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I've seen no evidence of that. Pretty much the entire advanced world has seen its rate of progress slow since the late 1960s, in concurrence with growing public sectors.
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We will not benefit from fewer people working..
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>Because -- believe it or not -- some people actually approve of some or all of those mandates and regulations. How does people approving of these mandates/regulations (which I dispute, but let's go with it) invalidate my claim
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The bans in question are on the state itself, recognizing such marriages. Unlike anti-miscegenation laws, there is no criminal sanction for those who enter a relationship that they consider marriage. >No, they were struck down by the Sup
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By design, they enshrine the rights of the individual participant to freely interact in a free market, by preventing the majority from creating any rules to limit access to the platform. So they don't have the same need to adapt as an
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>If you cannot implement people's political preferences in your contract language, then your contract language will not be used for anything of substantive governmental or political importance unless you have the guns needed to impo
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>While this is true, outside of some specialized historical critique fields the most common usages of this term are in forums/literature of the libertarian and free market anarchist bent. I didn't know that. I haven't seen
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>If we create a UBI then people will have the time to be better educated, to be healthier, to raise healthier, happier, and more productive families. We're almost there, automation will strongly facilitate this. Compulsory redistrib
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>Back in the day for a conservative to say that we should shut down the Dept of Education, would have met by resistance by most people around them and this opinion would be shut down. But now, you can just find people who believe exactly
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I am referring to the state-backed political process, not the general variety of politics one sees in private institutions. The former is qualitatively different from other institutions in our society.
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Nothing in the Adam Smith quote suggests compulsion. There is a very real difference between compelling someone to do something by threatening to throw them in prison, and leaving someone alone, and they deciding to do something out of self
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>As this point you've already lost everyone who doesn't already ready the same pamphlets you read and agree. Usage of the term "Whig history" is not confined adherents of a particular ideology, and does not require on
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No problem! It looks like there is some activity in its github repository: https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/tree/develop/liblll https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/issues?u

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