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by aminok 10y ago
Here's my amateur scientific paper on the proximal cause of the dinosaur extinction, and why birds and mammals survived: http://amincd.tumblr.com/post/5690584281/oxygen-deprivation-...
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by aminok 10y ago
You're neglecting the fact that the complexity of an economy scales with computational power and algorithmic efficiency, meaning the simulations of the economy can never catch up to the economy in fineness of detail. Economic activity
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by aminok 10y ago
>Welfare states don't require states anymore. Tell that to the Varoufakises and their multitudes of supporters who want state-backed coercive programs like compulsory Basic Income.
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by aminok 10y ago
>Government is all about restricting what you can do (don't steal, don't kill, etc) under the banner of providing for other members of society (provision of safety, protection under the law, etc). No that is not what government
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by aminok 10y ago
>will dictate that poor people will forever be poor. I really don't understand what the basis of this claim of yours is. I also don't understand how this can possibly justify authoritarian income redistribution where people are
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by aminok 10y ago
>If redistribution is reckless interference, you're about to find yourself awfully lonely in your politics. Compulsory redistribution IS reckless, and yes I'm awfully lonely in my politics. Compulsory redistributive programs
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by aminok 10y ago
It might come across as callous, but I'm only being realistic about whose responsibility it is to take care of an individual. The compulsion of government should not be used to make one individual responsible for providing for another.
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by aminok 10y ago
> And I'm not sure - we should come up with some way to return those profits from lower savings to the people. Having an occupation does not give you some eternal right to income. You need to be responsible for your own future and a
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by aminok 10y ago
Bitcoin was originally described as a "peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server"[1] so this is an ideal use case. 1. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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by aminok 10y ago
Yes. Specifically, I'm referring to taxes on income and sales. A basic income would most likely require taxes to increase and at the very least will make us more dependent on these taxes.
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by aminok 10y ago
It's disastrous due to game theory dynamics that apply to all large societies. It will always be disastrous. The spontaneous order of an unregulated, freely configured economy, is the only way to utilize the vast volume of knowledge th
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by aminok 10y ago
It would reduce the supply of highly skill labour, which would reduce the amount of goods/services produced, and as a consequence, the amount of wealth the world gets to consume. You're making the 'lump of labour fallacy&#x27
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by aminok 10y ago
Living on money taken by force from others is an easy solution, but it is not an ethical one. If you feel like you have a reason to kill yourself, you need to find someone to talk to about this, not look to the government, and the fruits of
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by aminok 10y ago
Entrenching authoritarianism should NOT be the next big thing. Compulsory basic income requires throwing people who refuse to hand over currency they receive in private trade in prison, where they are kept in small enclosures, and often dev
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by aminok 10y ago
Yes (though unlike traditional third party intermediaries, there is no third party custodian for money you receive, meaning you don't have to trust 21 to not steal/freeze funds you've received). The innovative component of th
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by aminok 10y ago
Central economic planning is disastrous.
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by aminok 11y ago
That's how perceive things. It's judged by us as the best way to secure our own interests. It can be seen as a pact between intelligent creatures to shown each other mutual respect.
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by aminok 11y ago
You sound like a drug abuse apologist.
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by aminok 11y ago
We care if an animal is intelligent, because then it is sentient like us, and has rights.
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by aminok 11y ago
This main byproduct of PoW generation is heat. PoW ASIC can be used as heating elements, which would result in extreme decentralization.
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by aminok 11y ago
>This is also the reason too low inflation in the eurozone for example, is so destructive. There is no evidence whatsoever that "too low inflation in the eurozone is so destructive". You're mistaking dogma with fact.
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by aminok 11y ago
>then renting will indeed contribute to sustaining a bubble more relative to getting out of exercising demand on the market completely True. In relative terms, and in this context, you could say it 'contributes' to the bubble.
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by aminok 11y ago
To the extent that the valuation is inaccurate, it's not based on the housing income created and sustained by demand. It's a based on a projection of the growth in that housing income. I believe you're mis-blaming real demand
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by aminok 11y ago
"That's not shorting, in fact by renting you're financing the bubble." You're not financing the bubble.. The bubble is based on valuations that assume much higher income than what you provide by renting at going mar
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by aminok 11y ago
Bitcoin staging: migrating to a new blockchain, without a fork that duplicates the money supply and creates double spend risk: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2013...
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by aminok 11y ago
>The only rule on the /r/bitcoin Reddit is not to promote these network fork attempts. This is not just alternative software, it is software that follows DIFFERENT rules from the main bitcoin software and would follow a differe
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by aminok 11y ago
An article about postcapitalism that doesn't promote violence-backed top-down compulsory programs like tax-funded basic income? What a breath of fresh air.
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by aminok 11y ago
English, the PHP of natural languages.
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by aminok 11y ago
With it use BTC or have a new money supply, or both? Will it be launched as a Bitcoin sidechain, or are there any plans to make it one after launch?
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by aminok 11y ago
>I'm suggesting that everyone stop accepting anonymous money, then stop accepting money that funded murders because doing so would empower the murderers. Not gonna happen and should not happen. >The killers are paid to do the kil

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