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by awt 11y ago
interesting that you bring in human suffering. Have you thought about all the lives saved and brought into existence due to the burning of fossil fuels? I'm not much of a utilitarian, but gradual sea rise is nothing compared to the
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by awt 11y ago
OMG co2 is not harmful it is plant food. If there is more of it more plants grow. The earth has had insanely higher amounts of co2 in the atmosphere than are present today in which periods life thrived even more so than today.
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by awt 11y ago
Did you ever notice the conflict of interest in which government funded scientists predict disaster, requiring more research to be funded? Oh and did you ever notice how all of the solutions proposed give the government more control over t
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by awt 11y ago
CO2 is not a pollutant. Without it, plants, and thus animal life will die . In fact plant death nearly occurred recently on a geological timescale. More co2 = more life. There is no such thing as stasis wrt global climate, and I'm
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by awt 11y ago
Perhaps they think they've successfully moved the Overton Window.
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by awt 11y ago
Anything that is not a war on a state or group of people reduces to a war on physics and/or math.
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by awt 12y ago
If what voters thinks matters, why is so much money spent on campaigns? Answering my own question, I would say that it is because votes can be bought. Who is more powerful? Someone with $10M to spend on a campaign, or someone with the bes
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by awt 12y ago
They are voting the way they are meant to vote. PACs exist for a reason. Also, why vote? When democracy emerged in the U.S., the voting population was about 800,000. The current voting population is 206,000,000. The power of an individu
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by awt 12y ago
> Because the truth is that people generally don't care enough to do anything worth while ("signing" a petition is pretty minimal in terms of effort). Isn't the truth not that people don't care, but actually don&
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by awt 12y ago
Isn't the root issue that the main value a degree from a selective school provides is valuable social connections and social proof rather than the transmission of a valuable body of knowledge? And perhaps beyond that that the economy i
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by awt 12y ago
"A decade in the lab will save you an afternoon in the library."
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by awt 12y ago
I suspect taxes (for as long as states provide some value) will always be due in the local inflatable scrip. The same for bond interest payments.
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by awt 12y ago
More likely is that those with a lot of Bitcoin would exit to more hospitable states like Saverin did. In addition, the tactics you propose are not only draconian, but expensive to enforce on a large population. See the War on Drugs. Also,
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by awt 12y ago
Reversibility is all about trusting a third party with your wealth, which has obvious downsides. That said, reversibility will always be there for those who are not prepared to take responsibility for their wealth. Moreover, the scenario y
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by awt 12y ago
Such as?
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by awt 12y ago
Not if you understand Bitcoin. What is stored in the blockchain? If something else were stored in the blockchain, what would be the motivation to do the work necessary to add new blocks?
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by awt 12y ago
This is a new take on fees that I hadn't heard before. Your accounting leaves 1-2% left to make up for fraud, which you don't mention (you mention chargebacks and consumer protection, but give no accounting of these costs in the
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by awt 12y ago
If there were a law that could prevent regulatory capture then I would say go for it, more regulation.
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by awt 12y ago
I saw some on an excursion to the Farallones. Just briefly saw their backs as they came up for air, nothing spectacular, but well worth the cold and sea sickness.
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by awt 12y ago
That would seem to be effective, but if they get your phone while the partition is unlocked, you lose.
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by awt 12y ago
Fortunately as yet there is no way for the USG to grant a monopoly on the manufacture of mobile devices in exchange for access to the contents. An alternate route they can take is through the monopolies granted on various radio frequencies
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by awt 12y ago
> US dollar-denominated ... Right because the USD is relatively more fungible for the time being. > regulate Bitcoin into near irrlevance That will just make dollars less fungible. The Russian oligarchs go to Bitcoin coferences. It&#
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by awt 12y ago
Iran Sanctions: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/p... Russia Sanctions: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/16/politics/ukraine-russia-sancti... Also, USD
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by awt 12y ago
Agreed. Bitcoin is not competitive for small transactions. Given the average transaction confirmation time of 7 minutes (which will never go down) it clearly was not meant to be.
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by awt 12y ago
Most people don't yet understand how infungible the USD is becoming. Argentenians and Venezuelans understand the infungibility of their national currencies much better than Americans do theirs. Wealthy Americans and the wealthy of ot
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by awt 12y ago
Let's be more general. Set A = stuff you can buy with USD. Set B = stuff you can buy with BTC. Set W = all stuff. Set A will always be a subset of set W, and is getting to be a smaller subset every day. Set B will in the future be
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by awt 12y ago
The value proposition is not for consumers. The value proposition is for the wealthy. Bitcoin grants allodial title to wealth. Nothing else does.
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by awt 12y ago
Alodial rights to your wealth. There isn't really another great reason.
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by awt 12y ago
It'll get figured out.
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by awt 12y ago
I would not call the random strings showing up in the general chan spam. I highly doubt it is profitable for whoever sent it. Industrial scale spam seems unlikely on Bitmessage.

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