WhisperingShiba

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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
It was not my intention to compare the magnitudes, you silly head
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Most people in the world do not actually want war. I'm quite confident that, while we have not evolved past being mean to each other and dumb scarcity mindsets, that the average person knows that any warfare is bad for them.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
The economy is held up by belief, and while I'm sure there are some good intentioned people telling us this, there are certainly some people who are using this as an opportunity to change financial positions.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I think the complicating factor is that the Chinese housing market is where the people of China attempt to have savings. A major housing market panic in China could create a lot of despair and unrest in China.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Technically that's true, but as an economic asset, it would be considered fungible, as it can be exchange for another token (which again, is technologically non-fungible) and it would possess the same 'abilities', so to say.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
>Guess who has the power to control the grid? For now. Top level domain registration has already moved to crypto. Elon is working on Starlink. Wireless data transfer technologies are coming for a peer based internet infrastructure.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I don't think the situation is so different from pre-World War 1 Germany that we shouldn't be vigilant. You have to consider that, in the 1930s, we thought WW1 was so horrific that there would never be war again. There are concen
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Yes, you are missing the part where a small group of person making things illegal based on very limited information instead of relying on the total computational system of the human organism is a bad things. Why are drugs illegal? In a lar
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
If you are interested in how game theory might solve the tragedy of the commons, see Vitalik's article: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html You should keep in mind. Public traceabi
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
It can allow some pretty cool things. For instance, a end-to-end open source VPN. The nodes are hosted on an open source 'decentralized cloud', that is made possible by crypto, which allows users to know exactly what the server
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Remember when I a certain notorious government from the 20th century made being born a Jew illegal? I remember that. Governments do stupid things all the time, and Crypto currencies is a great technology to keep governments honest. Even i
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
This just in, investment firm thinks there should be more investment into the economy. More on this story and other, at 6PM pacific time.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Probably addressing me, because even though he called me out, I'm still gloating on the inside.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Point taken, and I agree... somewhat based on how you framed it. I believe that we have long gone past the point where people are questioning whether their needs are going to get met (in the United States, which is all I know well). I asse
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Ok, so besides my use of data which is very difficult to collect and verify, do you disagree with my statements of money failing to map to love and dignity?
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I'm not ready to pose a solution (to the problem, of 'what metric do we follow?'), but I agree, central planning is gross. Its likely that there is no numerical method that is going to map to human happiness, and perhaps tha
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I think the money number go up thing is not working, and I'm sure study of the physical world is part of the solution, but the biggest gains for our society seem to be in the way we structure our lifes. I think the coming decades, the
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I like the energy of wanting a distributed Maslow's hierarchy of needs tier 1 and 2 to have superior products to the centralized conception, but I think most people just need comfortable clothing to live in, and rugged clothing to work
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Its because of all the goofballs who 'manage property' for a living, and let their surfs produce all of the luxury goods they wish to consume all day for the rest of their lives. Vegetables, clothing, and water and power are CHEAP
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Reality is highly subjective so I hesitate to make arguments about how media failed to report 'the facts' of situations. However, its pretty clear to me that the media's ability to assert certain opinions by asserting with mo
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
GOT 'EM. Real talk, I think there is a certain level of education we should desire for politicians, since generally speaking, it denotes a certain dedication to understanding many facets of society. That said, career politicians are c
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
The struggle is that some of what we think is reality is actually not reality. What I learned is its only a conspiracy theory if you don't believe it /right now/. And what you believe right now is highly influenced by your
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
At first you think it doesn't matter, and then you realize its the only thing that matters. God/Buddha mind/Universe/Dao created the game, but humans created a whole lot too.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Brother, you simply don't understand. A 50% swing in a day is just volatility.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Money is not essential either, mind you. Oxygen, heat, water, food. In that order. At least crypto is 'backed' by math. I expect the currency to dump will be related to who, and not what, is backing each asset class.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
In my mind, that reinforces my point. One ought to try to mitigate risk to yourself by minimizing the amount of human infrastructure ones needs to keep life going.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
The real virus is a total breakdown in our cohesion as a species. I can't be certain that certain drugs don't work, or are safe, but I do know there are many people who have a significant pieces of the national trust with complet
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I believe that people are trying simply trying to meme this into reality, and its not A priori true that Covid has this effect on people. This belief goes as deep as what I believe to be humanities' true existential nature.
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I want to believe that we have the technology available to make subsistence farming, water treatment and power generation available to huge numbers of people. The key factor to this is keeping the benefits of the internet, while moving awa
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by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
I don't think its a Covid after effect. Don't continue memeing that. I suggest this is just what social isolation and economic depression does to memory and cognitive processing.

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