WealthVsSurvive

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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
There's a fundamental imbalance in our attempts at using marks, tokens, & bills to simulate resources & desires, and it is thus: the natural world doesn't work this way at all. In the natural world, living things die. Livi
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It's because bitcoin is a bankster coup, the cherry on top of an intentional devaluation of the USD as the world reserve currency since the 70's when modern China was created by normalizing trade relations with NATO-ally nations.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Replacing a currency beholden to people through government, fiat, namely world-reserve USD, with one that is beholden only to who owns it and who owns the most cutting-edge computing power, what could possibly go wrong?
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
And when those countries do the same and desperate people follow them for vengeance the world over, where will they go then?
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Open source is not the antidote to surveillance capitalism. Something like this, however, is: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/e85a54a3-983d-498c-8672-0a...
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe he knew the difference between the success and failures; it was all just piled up and someone had to come along, sort through it, and tell him it was important. He sought patterns.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
What if I told you that other countries help ensure access to good and healthy childcare because they realize that civilizations don't really stand unless you are able to raise children in them?
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
USA workers pretend to be sick in order to: A) Take any time off at all because they do not receive sick or vacation time. B) Take time off because they do not have enough sick or vacation days and require rest from illness or work, but do
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
1) Admit Trump was right about the coastal elites, then expound upon what they are. 2) Run on draining the swamp. 3) Relay the genuine message of Christ as anti-plutocrat, anti-empire. 4) Build bridges instead of identity judgements.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Unless of course state actors are using the game's currency to move money around. Who owns those empires again?
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Trumpers in DC are chanting "I am my brother's keeper" and are upset at the US plutocracy and are taking a stand against it, regardless of how misinformed they actually are. Perhaps the
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It's a plutocrat wealth store during uncertainty, like gold, but it has no intrinsic value. That's it, that's its only purpose.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Radicals are now people that speak truth in plain language.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
There's a causal relationship between the things you're calling "personally-avoidable" and the class wealth gap. People are emotionally predictive; if they don't see an ideal prosperous future outcome, they settle f
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Incorporate every US citizen as an LLC. No one is accountable for anything. Reform becomes mandatory.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Thank you, Hemingway frequently used lengthy compound sentences to suggest rushed or immediate actions; critics compared it to cinematic story-telling techniques that were novel at the time.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
We have too much hubris regarding ancient peoples and their religions. These stories and their kin across the world comprise humanity's first attempts at formalizing ergodic reasoning. They were technically incorrect, but only insomuch
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I'm Building it now. I imagine hundreds of others are as well.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Humans are easy to view in a favorable light. Humanity, less so. Humans take individual actions that help themselves. Humanity forms networks of perverse incentives that harm others. If we build a network of perverse incentives, and catastr
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Yes, hunting and gathering, the obvious result of not privatizing our water.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Depth-first capitalist incentives into new and risky territory are laudable, but create duplications of effort. There comes a time when duplication of effort through competition becomes idiocy, babel-tower building, churn, "developer-f
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I see 100 articles, pre-written, with small changes in tone going up in smoke right now. They had one thing in common: Ed Snowden is doing it for the monies, guys, we swear, look at this court case.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
The short version: state in a react app is all over the place and not as easy to reason about as its advertising claims in addition to buggy libs all over the ecosystem, vue has actually achieved sanity by focusing on developer usefulness a
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
(i3-gaps user) Tiling is basically an extension of this, and it can absolutely make your life easier if your work or play revolves around switching between workspaces that contain ~3+ windows each.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Specifically? The US federal reserve maintains low interest rates, allowing oligarchs to borrow against their pre-existing conditions of prosperity. This in turn allows them to inflate USD and buy an alternate currency with higher interest
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I'm sorry, but the crowd has run out of money. Try the people that print and take it.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Found the person letting good candidates slip through the cracks. I literally just rescinded my application from a place when given a far too-open as far as choose-your-own-stack take-home assignment. I chose one very, very popular library
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It's because you're living in a simulated reality in which problems are created (holes) so that they may be solved (fills). These problems are not real problems. But, someone pays you a lot of money to fill the holes, so you don&#
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I think the physicists are touchy about our layman's thoughts on this, and they are correct in that there is little to no evidence to support claims like this. However, I too, look at incompleteness, entropy, things like prime number d
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
You're going to have to break the $15,500 apart to answer the question: what's wrong with that. How much is "administrative"?

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