anonporridge

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by anonporridge 6y ago
This only gives more credence to the fact that Republicans are actually not fiscally responsible at all. Only after Reagan did the era of responsibility end, https://zfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/
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by anonporridge 6y ago
So why did Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump all fail to keep themselves in check as leaders of the party that claims to value fiscal responsibility?
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by anonporridge 6y ago
I feel like people are slowly waking up to how insane our collective addiction to (and glorification of) caffeine actually is.
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by anonporridge 6y ago
GOP presidents have exclusively been deficit spenders starting with Reagan, who reversed the decades long trend of paying off WWII debt and handed off a massive expansion of the national debt to GDP ratio after his terms. I believe Clinton
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by anonporridge 6y ago
I'm sure it's easier to judge training methods for competition or legit working dogs where there are objective outcomes to measure. It's less obvious for the average person who just wants a well behaved pet.
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Judge a tree by its fruit I guess. I wonder if someone has tried to try to do a research study to compare the dogs that are outcomes of different schools of training. I imagine it would be hard to define and measure 'desirable' ou
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by anonporridge 6y ago
> AI might be an interesting tool for wargaming, but it’s never going to be a complete strategy guide. Never is a strong word.
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Just like a lot of things where the best thing to do for the individual only works out if only a tiny minority of parasites do it. e.g. getting a vaccine. You're arguably best off if you're part of the 1% of the population who cho
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by anonporridge 6y ago
And this is the problem. You shouldn't buy in if you don't understand why you would want to hold it for years and decades. If you're just looking to scalp some gains off the mania, then you're very likely to exit at a
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Critics are getting caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, the evidence is mounting that bitcoin is here to stay and will become an increasingly important part of civilization. This means they severely missed out on the in
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by anonporridge 6y ago
It's definitely fantastic for anyone with employees. If the currency was deflating, you better believe your boss would be doing a downward cost of living adjustment ever single paycheck. As it stands, they can just keep your pay fixed
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Inflation of the dollar, which is used as the global reserve currency, is how the US extracts tribute from it's global empire.
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by anonporridge 6y ago
The alternative is trusting someone (or something) else, who's values, motives, and incentives are rarely obvious, to curate your news for you. Even if you could find a curator that you have significant faith in, eventually, they will
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by anonporridge 6y ago
I'm dubious that Starlink will really be all that great once it really scales up to tons of users. It's not surprising that it's great for a limited beta run. Driving on a highway is an amazing experience when it's mostl
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by anonporridge 6y ago
I'd say it's extremely important as a foundation to understand and better influence all kinds of politics, whether it's governmental, workplace, family, or any other relationships. Most people have a very simple view of the n
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Because the entire ethos of the cryptocurrency space is about dematerializing trust from large, complex networks of humans with various carrot/stick incentives keeping them honest to trust based on cryptography and game theory dynamics
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Because if I'm a rich person wanting to spend stupid amounts of money on some 'original' work of digital art, I don't want to trust a third party store the ownership records that could easily be corrupted. The ownership
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by anonporridge 6y ago
They could mint or 'sign' as many as they want. But like a painting that can be copied, people decide to disproportionately value the first one...just because.
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Uh...no? These can trivially be copied (double spent), which means they're just as scarce as any digital data. Valueless without some significant proof of violence and hyper censorship ability enforcing copyright protection. The primar
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by anonporridge 6y ago
Here I'm talking more about pseudonymous virtual identities that aren't necessarily publicly tied to meat world people. Digital passport for verification of physical world identity probably will be some government agency. Boy woul
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by anonporridge 6y ago
This is exactly why I would be wary of committing to the current stuff. Without integration into large networks, NFTs are worthless.
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by anonporridge 6y ago
This thread touches on it, https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/1366248629661552642 A very simple example is that it could partially solve the problem of verifying digital identities. If I follow/friend your NF
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by anonporridge 6y ago
The possibilities of NFTs fascinate me, especially for portable, digital identities and assets that transcend any specific virtual realm and can't be arbitrarily erased by any central authority. But I also won't put a single sat i