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by atweiden 6y ago
It’s an untenable situation to have tens of thousands of people shooting up heroin, defecating openly on city streets and accosting the public — sometimes violently — while local residents foot the bill. This is a federal issue. West coaste
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> Your definition of "useless" is different from mine. > What's more useless: > a) $2.5m sitting in a bank account, vulnerable to taxation, confiscation, legal judgment, gradual inflation, rapid devaluation and bank
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Kind of off-topic, but there's an excellent documentary called The Spider’s Web [1] that explores how society reached this point of valuing increasingly ridiculous displays of paper wealth and the financialization of everything through
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Much of cryptocurrency is better understood as nouveau billionaire “artwork” than meaningful technology.
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I left the US pre-pandemic for a country that eradicated Covid, and couldn't agree more with the author's decision to leave. Particularly if you're in your 20s and fully remote, I'd highly encourage you to look into Aust
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Do you remember the pictures from the early Covid lockdowns — of the Himalayas becoming visible in parts of India for the first time in decades? City streets deathly quiet everywhere. This is what actually saves the environment: less huma
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> There are plenty of other stores of trust. You could buy index funds or government bonds or any number of other things, and the price will be less volatile than Bitcoin to boot The point is Bitcoin created a store of trust sans institu
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> And what is there to show for all this waste? The safest safe haven asset: a global currency of fixed supply controlled by computer algorithms. Essentially the author posits Earth’s ecosystems don't have room for another Argentina
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> my answer to the animal cruelty argument is just to buy the top-shelf, pasture-raised meats. It's better for my health and much better for the animals. No it isn't. [1] It really isn't. [2] [1]: https://www.yo
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> But ONLY if externalities are also fully priced & included for all other products - cars, plastic crap shipped from China, aircon, ... otherwise that kind of legislation is simply discrimination against meat-lovers. Meat has a vict
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> I can buy organic, grass-fed, no-GMO, sustainably pasture-raised beef. No, actually you probably can't [1]: > Is there such a thing as a climatically-guilt-free steak? Are grazing livestock climate villains or climate saviours?
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> From an athletic or 'health' perspective, these plant-based meat substitutes have way too high fat content. You can get 93+% lean beef with 3-4 grams of fat per 20~ grams of protein, or even higher with game meat. None of the
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> Research has said eggs are good for the last 20 years. McGill published a study in 2012 [1] which shows egg yolk consumption is connected in an exponential relationship with carotid plaque area (see: pg 3): > ... both tobacco smokin
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> Huge energy consumption would be much less of an issue if it wasn’t also causing huge long term problems. Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels and animal products are two far larger, far more pressing issues than Bitcoin's car
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> And that would put you under the SP500 and the NASDAQ. Bitcoin in the same span did +286%. My point was that government-issued currency fluctuates in value, sometimes quite significantly. This underscores the fact currency is a specula
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Hydroelectric power destroys aquatic ecosystems [1]. Many technologists are prone to resorting to “clean hydro” power as their way of dismissing concerns about carbon footprint. I'd much prefer the story around Bitcoin's carbon fo
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> the ultimate in speculative assets You could've earned +10% ROI in 2020 by holding AUD instead of USD. Every currency is backed by thin air, including Bitcoin. The average lifespan of govt-issued currency is ~100 years. > a mon
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If Bitcoin becomes global reserve currency, governments won't be able to conjure money out of thin air to finance wars of aggression. And — sans inflation — prices of all things will decrease over time in absolute (BTC) terms. This cou
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I'm more excited about Onivim [1] than I am about Neovim making Lua a first-class language for writing plugins. [1]: Onivim is a VSCode/Vim hybrid in the works ( https://onivim.io/ )
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As someone who wrote a limited amount of Perl 5 before writing a not insignificant amount of Perl 6 (now Raku), I find Raku syntax to be deeply Perlish while also being more modern and internally consistent than Perl 5. IMO Raku has three s
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> If I'm understanding what he writes correctly, it's somewhat similar to a "1 OR 4-of-7" multisig concept. I can’t see any difference between the 4 of 7 countersigners under “social sharing” and the 4 of 7 countersig
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Member.cash’s blockchain architecture completely eliminates the need for centralized hosting providers — at least for pure text short message data. It’s as impervious to censorship as the blockchain being used to directly store the short me
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In his article, Vitalik claims Electrum’s cosigner model isn’t good enough, without mentioning it by name. Cosigner already provides configurable N of M multisig the countersigners of which are user selectable. These are likely to be major
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I think it's fair to say the Covid-free world of 2019 is preferable to the Covid-endemic world of 2020. Melbourne AU — which is comparable to many European and American cities — eradicated Covid after 4 months of hard lockdown [1] comb
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As a frequent traveler between AU/NZ/US/CA, I find the residents of Commonwealth countries tend to be compliant with the law in ways Americans simply aren't. I can't speak for Canada on this, but at least for AU&#x2
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This is simply illustrative of the fact people are driven by self-interest, and virtually never take group outcomes into consideration when making choices unless forced to under the threat of violence.
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> Australia and New Zealand are islands where the borders can be closed much more tightly than elsewhere and imported goods arrive mainly through container shipping. In the EU, the need to ensure regular freight truck traffic and move hu
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> Europe had hard lockdowns. Not China-hard, but pretty hard. Cases surged again. In Australia, hard lockdown looks like the following: 1. International borders closed to all non-citizens, permanent residents or essential travelers 2. St
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I'm not here to be your enemy, so please don't make me out to be one. I wasn't raised vegetarian by any means, and I know fully well meat tastes amazingly good, and that having a varied diet is important. But heart disease, d
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> I think these figures are pretty misleading. First of all, they only look at calories, not protein. If you wanted to replace all the meat and dairy with equivalent protein substitutes you’d be looking at huge amounts of land for growin

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