ThomPete

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by ThomPete 5y ago
Any PhD worth their salt would know that a much more likely reason why their hard skills were valuable had nothing to do with PhDs and everything to do with them as a person being able to complete a PhD. This is no different than anyone who
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The same book i read last year. “The Beginning of Infinity” By David Deutsch, changed everything.
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everything have external cost just like it has external benefits. The question is whether they ad up or whether its outsized in one direction.
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by ThomPete 5y ago
hospitals werent overwhelmed in New York, we didnt even use the hospital ship. Also the primary reason our numbers were high was because of the errors of putting sick people in senior homes. It wasn't a cakewalk but it was nowhere the
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by ThomPete 5y ago
So ad hominem is your argument? Got it.
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Changes to some rules, not the fundamentals like the 21M though which is what is important.
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No it's not. You are assuming that the entry on the ledger is a person it's not. It's a thing. I can steal all sorts of things from you in real life and if you don't know I stole them, then they will be gone forever. You
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by ThomPete 5y ago
I am not talking about property rights and I am not sure where you are getting that from. So maybe you were thinking of someone else.
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I have answered it and again you are answering it ex. here: "A CC payment can look good, but it can be reversed because there other other channels, outside of the CC circuit, to prove those transactions are to be considered fraudulent.
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by ThomPete 5y ago
Why don't you tell me first what would make it possible since you seem to be privy to information no one else is. How are you going to change that?
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by ThomPete 5y ago
1) The rules about the 21Million which is the only thing that matters here can't be changed. 2) Again there is a reason why Bitcoin Cash is a fraction of BTCs value it's not the same. 3) Everything can be manipulated. You go and s
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by ThomPete 5y ago
You are answering your own question by asking the wrong one. This is only a problem if it's in fact enforcable. There are many ways to solve the stealing among others multisig.
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I already explained what enforcement means in this context giving you a very concrete example. Why don't you show how that example is not what I claim it is. Instead of just repeating what you already said. I can't help you see so
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by ThomPete 5y ago
Thats not what is meant by it being enforcable. You are confusing things here. With enforcable, what is meant is anything that can be programmed into a contract and be executed will be executed (enforced). That can as an example be someone
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by ThomPete 5y ago
Blockchain governs the DIGITAL sphere and in there can actually enforce. People who are trying to combine crypto with physical assets are a shrinking number. Focus on digital and its absolutely enforcable, to an extent not even governments
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by ThomPete 5y ago
This essay sets up puritan standards that nothing in this world can live up to. The only relevant question to ask yourself is whether this solves something and whether that something is worth solving. So if you think thats skins bought in g
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by ThomPete 5y ago
You can say the same about FIAT currencies too, but compared to Crypto i am forced to use them and they can be changed from within, Bitcoin cant. I find the hesitance towards bitcoin and crypto extremely puritan in ways that nothing else ca
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by ThomPete 5y ago
Everything can be manipulated, but bitcoin compared to any other asset we know, is the only thing that cant be changed. You can create a new bitcoin but you cant create the same bitcoin and thats makes all the difference in the world.
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yes really, and “could work” is meaningless. Speculation is not reality.
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set really low speed limit and you are reducing the deaths, thats the point. We don't have a perfect vaccine for flu either. You are creating inhumane standards that will lead to more suffering and you are ironically removing personal
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by ThomPete 5y ago
Living is dangerous, you can die from it. 80% of the workforce cant work from home to make a living. We live with dangers all the time, beginning to call people irresponsible and immoral for not micromanaging all potential risks they could
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Tensegrity(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ransomware is going to be much more expensive to do. Right now there is little cost to doing bad things on the internet. But the point is a little different. Crypto solves among others the problem of technology moving faster than legislatio
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by ThomPete 5y ago
While always interesting to hear peoples thoughts on Web3, it doesn't really matter. It's here to stay, NFT opened the floodgates and in 10 after the usual crashes and bull market runs, everyone will be integrated onto the blockch
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by ThomPete 5y ago
you’d think that but you would be wrong. Kids today happily buy skins and items from games and are quite proud of them.
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by ThomPete 5y ago
Flat design was never about flat design but about layers and animation. The idea was to get rid of the fake 3d and instead use layered animation to create the depth.
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by ThomPete 5y ago
The white savior tropes are mostly from activists. The actual book is a critique of the very idea of saviors in general.
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The movie sets up a direct commentary on our middle east adventures.
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No thats confusing one possible technical implementation with the concept, there are other ways to solve that. Thats like saying a Picasso painting is just a specific canvas with som paint on.
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by ThomPete 5y ago
thats too simple, its more than that given some people attach varying value to it.

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