Jabanga

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by Jabanga 9y ago
You're absolutely right. I should clarify that I mean that the societies in the advanced world have grown more unfair over the last 120 years. >laws against interracial and homosexual marriage until the 1980s and 2014 respectively,
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies, growing pains aside, will arrest the trend toward economic centralization. They are not just more powerful tools. They are tools that shift the control over money from large trusted third parties to individuals. They liter
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by Jabanga 9y ago
There is LLL: https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/wiki/LLL-PoC-6/7a57...
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Your Whig history of an ever progressing political system is not accurate in my opinion. I've written this comment before, and I'll repeat it as it's relevant to your comment: Societies have gradually grown more unfair as the
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by Jabanga 9y ago
That's a different subject. I was only addressing the notion that Ethereum the application is at risk from the code that users run on it. I completely agree that the tools and processes for writing and testing smart contracts need to i
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Users cannot run 'any code'. They can run contract code, which can only interact with the underlying application through a protocol. The multisig hack was not a case of the underlying application being compromised. The contract it
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>Honest question, what would be required in your opinion for before we start considering if the tool is at fault? The programming language being partly at fault is not the same thing as it being "practically impossible" to writ
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The subtext here is that some parts can be automated, and a smart contract lets you automate those parts.
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Indoor farms makes sense to me as a dual-use house plant, i.e. if I'm going to have house plants, they may as well be edible.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Predictable, but not necessarily inexcusable. What is gained and learned in attempting more complex smart contracts sooner rather than later when all the building blocks for absolutely secure smart contracts are built can certainly justify
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>This is really just an example that while safe smart contracts are technically possible using Solidity/EVM, it's practically impossible. I don't see any justification for this statement. The bug could easily have been dis
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>there's a large body on work on the issue, and the most used terms for those two types of freedom are "negative freedom" (for what you call "literal freedom") and "positive freedom" (for what you call
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Why can't it be contractual when death is the alternative? What if I agree to provide X in exchange for someone's kidney? That can't be contractual? Unless there is imminent threat of death, I can see a contract that is ent
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>How do these smart contract deal with the real world? I can see how they can work for things that entirely involve activities that take place on the block chain (e.g., a smart contract that automatically pays a crowd funded project if a
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Of course, but that's not the alternative to what you propose.
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You're confusing freedom in the figurative sense, which denotes empowerment, with freedom in the literal sense, which is a state of living where one is not deprived by anyone else of their right to their person or property through forc
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by Jabanga 9y ago
You want to compel people to be nice, by force of government?
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Being dependent on someone to survive is not antithetical to freedom. What distinguishes a free society from an unfree one is that in the former, no one violates your right to your person or property, through theft, fraud, violence and thre
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Do you mean every company should be a worker owned coop? If that's your suggestion, that's already possible. Why not continue giving people the option of working in a traditional hierarchical enterprise, and working in a coop? Why
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Worker-owned coops exist. No one is stopping people from forming them. By all means, help develop these organisations. But the government shouldn't be stepping in and prohibiting other voluntary organisational structures.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
I hate to get pedantic, but with the misuse of terms for the purpose of demagoguing against those with more capital, I feel compelled to point out that an employment relationship is wholly contractual, and therefore not a "tyranny&quot
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>Yes, and replace the word "human" with horse", and tell me the invention did not have a dramatic impact on the population that was doing the work. Humans are incomparable to horses. Horses cannot buy automobiles. They do
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Basic income is a form of central economic planning. A central authority deems that X% of every individual's income will be forcibly redistributed through a program that disperses it equally amongst the population. Like all central eco
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by Jabanga 9y ago
All social democratic policies are forms of central economic planning. Central economic planning is not limited to full-scale communism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_planning
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>Even Ethereum abandoned the idea of completely switching away from proof-of-work because they realized PoS isn't completely workable No it didn't. I follow Ethereum development closely and I know for a fact that's absolut
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by Jabanga 9y ago
The Guardian is a notorious proponent of central economic planning, which is the most hubristic economic ideology there is. It presumes a small group of economists, using macroeconomic data, can plan the activities of millions of people bet
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I'm providing inflation adjusted statistics.
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Globally, median wages are increasing at their fastest rate in history [1]. Wage growth for the middle class has stagnated in the US, but not nearly as much as some people (myself included, until recently) believe [2]. The primary cause of
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by Jabanga 9y ago
But there is no reduction in the aggregate number of jobs.. Of course jobs are destroyed and created as the economy changes. That's always been the case and always will be. But the net effect of automation is more wealth being generate
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by Jabanga 9y ago
I did not edit my comment to remove "literally no effects".

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