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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Bitcoin is not governed by spending energy and CPU. In fact all miners on earth could disappear except a guy with a Pentium IV on his basement doing all the BTC mining on the world, and it would still work. The difficulty of the hashing wou
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
No. Who holds the real power are nodes. Miners are just workers doing their job and getting paid for it.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here but there could be a good side. It can also help us buy things we didn't know we needed, bringing our unconscious forward and making us realise things about ourselves we didn't know. I wouldn
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Trauma.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Storing nuclear waste for millennia? How long ago was the first nuclear reactor activated? Do you really think in one thousand (!) years we will be using 2020's technology? In a thousand years nothing we see today will be even vaguel
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Edit: Yes, you're also forgetting how cumbersome it is to transport gold, how to verify that it's real, how we live in a digital era and yet we're still being bogged down by a physical artifact to store/transport value a
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I used to think like that. Except most of the value of gold comes exactly from the same mindset it puts value on BTC and not on those properties you describe. While gold does have some interesting properties in no way would that explain a 1
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Our brain was not made for the current world we live in. And companies are ruthless in exploiting it. We were made to feel this dopamine of approval from our few tribe members, who we would spend all our lives with until we would die in bat
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
No, it's not insane. Emotional abuse isn't a one time thing, by several employees. It's a systemic problem because of particular employees with abusive tendencies, and/or toxic company rules. In either case, there is no
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Because each individual has never had less power than now. If we lived in a tribe of 15 people, we hold on average 1/15 of the power. In a medieval village of 200 people, we could easily organize the 150 people who are against that bad
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
No. You're looking at things from superficial perspective. The only single reason we're all in this rate race is gene competition. Remove gene competition, suddenly there is not more need for constant growth, for economic growth,
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Burnout is from people doing tasks that bring little fulfillment for most of their one life on Earth. If you have 1 free minute in 1 year, it's irrelevant what you do on that 1 free minute. This is an exaggeration, but it's to sho
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Humans haven't changed. We just like to pretend we have and are superior now. Pick any random person and put them back in the middle ages, they'd be burning witches and screaming of joy at gladiator matches.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
For the economy to be stimulated through increase of supply, everyone has to lose some purchasing power. Is that a good trade-off? I don't know.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Just wanted to correct that no.2 is irrelevant. Things being much better has only to do with technology and productivity. If you had told me "Houses have gotten much better, but the cost to manufacture the things that make them much be
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature. - How do you keep so big part of the population working all their lives otherwise in jobs they don't like if not by necessity? - How can you earn as much passive income as possible (landlords,
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Let me give you an exercise in thought so you can see that just simplifying it into "dEmAnD vs SupPly pRobLem" is incredibly misleading. Imagine there is one person that owns 99% of the worlds wealth. Now, is there demand for hous
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Yes but there are 2 main types of demand in there. Demand coming from institutional and extremely wealthy investors and demand from regular folks. Who do you think is more likely to be the responsible for such an increase in price? So i dis
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Indeed. One thing I notice is that a requirement for most, if not all, personality disorders is abuse. And when we talk about a disease, we normally know it can manifest itself in different symptoms in different people, but we still say tha
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
It's a typical narcissistic non-apology: "I'm sorry you're feeling that way and that I couldn't hurt you without getting away with it more easily."
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
This is an instance of trying to make the public doubt their own reality. They're saying we are confused, or that there is confusion. They don't admit blame, so it's to assume we, the public, are the confused ones. And even i
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
"You can always fight and become a gladiator champion to win your freedom." If the alternatives suck (being poor or a social outcast) or are hard (entrepreneurship) or not that different (another soulless corporate job), how much
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Agree. People, especially from what I see, less socially savy people who need a fool-proof way of trying to win by force any discussion, nowadays have been using logical fallacies and logical soundness of an argument as the ultimate way to
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Hey guys, love your idea. Just a question about the keyboard. Any particular reason why the keys |\ are making the Enter key smaller and not the left Shift? Personally prefer a big enter than a big shift. I don't have issues finding t
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
You're basically saying that somehow by waking up earlier you create energy out of nothing. Waking up earlier only does 1 thing: shifts everything earlier. I could also advise the exact opposite: wake up later. That way the time when t
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Oh you were seen alright. Just not on a positive way. I have constant noisy motorbikes passing in front of my building and often feel like shooting one of their tires because of the stress of having to deal with this constant noise. If exha
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Also traceable.
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
Why would you trust his opinion on BTC? Does anybody here think he spent hours studying how it works to be able to make an informed comment? Would you ask your grandfather about Netflix or smartphones? This guy didn't invest in neither
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by Valakas_ 5y ago
I'm betting that finally there is an asset that works as store of value that doesn't deflate and which is easy to use. Let's be honest, BTC could be the best one. Owning gold (or other rare metal) is an assle. Need a safe pla
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by Valakas_ 6y ago
First. What do you say about prevention of the formation of unions? Who benefits from that? The owners of the companies certainly do. Are they stealing though? No. Is it still a problem and making inequality bigger? Yes, because then worker

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