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by atweiden 5y ago
> I feel you. I stopped eating meat for 40 years for the same reason. But... they are on the same food chain we are, and they’d eat us in a heartbeat, right? Herbivorous ruminants like cows would never eat you, and would generally never
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There’s a difference between the cryptocurrency world’s definition of “innovation”, and solving longstanding problems for humanity. How does Bitcoin solve inequality? How does Bitcoin solve world hunger? How does Bitcoin solve disease? Bitc
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“Bitcoin maximalist” is a pejorative invented by Vitalik Buterin circa the Ethereum ICO. It’s best understood as a laxative for one’s disposable income, prescribed by the Ethereum doctors to be imbibed by would-be altcoin investors. Altcoin
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> This assumes resource competition, which isn't a guarantee. Colonialism was driven by the need for open markets, resources, and vanity satisfaction from a declining class of European elites. What about enslavement? Here Hawkings &
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As Stephen Hawkings and Neil deGrasse Tyson have quipped, in Earth’s history, any time a more technologically advanced civilization has come across a less technologically advanced civilization, it has never ended well for the less technolog
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GP asked how a company like Apple would be made more efficient by becoming a “DAO”. A DAO acolyte — miketery is assuredly invested in a closely linked cryptocurrency — then opined Apple would save money on dividend distributions by becoming
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> Taproot will enable better privacy on bitcoin and more efficient transactions. It will not enable an EVM-like smart contract system. You can already price EVM transactions in Bcash: https://smartbch.org/ (Notably Bcash
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> It's not exactly the same, but this rings at least somewhat similar to what Ethereum is going through - the demand is pretty clearly there (people are willing to pay very hefty transaction fees to use it), and scaling solutions ar
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A fairer comparison would be to that of MtGox, three years earlier, in which approximately 10X as much money was stolen from early Bitcoiners, but which did not result in any clawback of funds. Conversely, in the “billion bitcoin bug” situa
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> Voting, and dividend distribution today requires intermediaries (e.g. broker). Those can be direct. Issuing dividends in a cryptocurrency would disintermediate brokers and doesn’t require a DAO. Nor does “let’s upgrade our voting syste
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The worst part about reading these articles is how you can immediately tell they’re an advertorial for Ethereum. You’re one sentence into it, and you can already tell the target market is your disposable income. It makes you feel hustled. L
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If the blockchain manipulates balances according to the whims of a court, then manipulating the court becomes a potential source of revenue for anyone able to game the system. But if the blockchain doesn’t manipulate balances according to t
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> Given these, it seems worthwhile to re-evaluate the tradeoffs that come with dynamic linking Perhaps this is just a Linux distro thing, but as someone who closely monitors the Void packages repo, dynamic linking burdens distro maintain
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It’s notable how prevalent AGPLv3 licensing is all throughout the Fediverse. This, and the fact user accounts are decoupled from the federated frontends present a radically different incentive structure for providers compared to the traditi
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Every aspect of cryptocurrency save for one either fails to solve any societal issue, exascerbates existing ones, or is otherwise hype entrepreneurship. But the deflationary global economic system Bitcoin facilitates disincentivizes mass co
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> The interesting thing about cryptocurrency is not that it facilitates illegal activities, but that it does very little else - and that is in fact quite different from the rest of your list. How can the same people who make this argumen
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Bitcoin is the #1 SoV because: 1) it was launched fairly by a person who uniquely had no reasonable expectation of profit when doing so, 2) it was launched first, giving it first-mover advantage, and 3) its proprietors made the very wise ch
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> It has so far produced nothing except higher values measured in fiat. And the higher the values go the more resources needed for the computer networks. That isn’t strictly true. Before the advent of Bitcoin, there was no global currenc
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What Neanderthals did to Homo Erectus, and what early indigenous Homo Sapien tribes did to Neanderthals; later indigenous tribes did to earlier indigenous tribes; and so on and so forth. At no point was the land homesteaded — by indigenous
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What about people being sued for damages, or creditors laying claim to the assets? There are endless cases where a court can unilaterally decide your assets are not your assets any longer. Also, your hypothetical solution to the blockchain
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In the US, decent health insurance plans are all corporate. Particularly if you want something non-HMO with reasonable out-of-state coverage. A few states have laws on the books which compel health insurance companies there to sell corporat
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I just got done cowboy coding 2500 lines of unchecked input validation code in Rust. While I didn’t particularly enjoy writing Rust — the syntax has taken some getting used to — I also don’t expect to enjoy writing anything in the domain of
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by atweiden 5y ago
> You could hold a non-complying party in jail/contempt of court for one, this happens with real world assets that do not get turned over now. This doesn’t appear to resolve the issue of the blockchain reflecting a different reality
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> Usually the "Dole" case is the most famous example, where you have a publicly traded company with all the benefits of corporate record keeping, stock trusts and banks, and centralized stock exchanges, but when the buyer went
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We’ve never homesteaded truly unoccupied land by some definitions of “unoccupied”. Depending on how far back we want to take the social justice, even Neanderthals drove out earlier pre-humans from their rightful homes, however sporadicall
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At some point in antiquity, it was feasible for human adults to settle “unsettled” land. It is a boring and simple fact that this is no longer possible. TFA used an example from the 1800s, so I stuck with that era. This is getting off topic
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These days anywhere desireable to live, and likely all known available farm land, is already owned by someone or some company. Vagabonding isn’t what it used to be, insofar as there is seemingly not even the remotest chance in modernity of
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> After some months spent living in a shack in town, the Ingalls family claimed a plot of land through the Homestead Act, one of the country’s earliest large-scale social welfare programs, which promised free land to white settlers willi
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The 500 mile figure is roughly the range of a modern Toyota Camry. It’s just a useful baseline. But as it happens, we’d drive 500 miles from Atlanta to St Louis every winter to visit our grandparents when we were growing up. I’m sure lots o
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I’m personally a lot happier not living in HCOL, noisy, polluted and just downright unsafe major metropolitan areas these days. The tradeoff is this precludes practicable EV ownership IME, at least at the current time. Even still, I’ve love

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