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by beaned 3y ago
> 93% of trips are less than 30 miles, but the vast majority of drivers take occasional trips But they still take these occasional trips, and getting there in an expected way is important to people. So I think the relevant statistic is n
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by beaned 3y ago
Yeah but they use it mostly to represent Bitcoin Cash. The history is irrelevant; bcash doesn't stand on its own legs and the misnomer is used to trick people. It's dishonest.
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by beaned 3y ago
Well what's BTC and what isn't? The bcash people still desperately cling to the r/btc handle for their subreddit.
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by beaned 3y ago
Increasing block size decreases decentralization. (Or rather, increases centralization.) Satoshi's true vision was that decentralization was a prerequisite for everything else. Block size increases presuppose infinite scaling of bandwi
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by beaned 3y ago
Yeah, pretty much.
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by beaned 3y ago
Contentment with one's lot in life is easier to fake than income. These stories are popular because they provide a fantasy outlet for people who work hard but are unhappy, to justify their choices by villainizing the path not taken. It
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by beaned 3y ago
I think it's a little disingenuous to make a comparison so extreme, but I guess I'd just ask why that theme seems so popular. Money doesn't make you happy, it's true. But there's a reason it's always presented
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by beaned 3y ago
Certainly exists, though I think it's the minority. It's generally not difficult to tell who is happy or not from their choices, too, and I suspect in such cases the scenario may be reversed. E.g. the graphic designer who is conte
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by beaned 3y ago
Everyone knows who's made a smart decision in adulthood by choosing and succeeding in a career that allows they and their family to prosper. In my experience when you come home for Christmas and everyone's asking questions to the
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by beaned 3y ago
The thing that annoys me most is that there's no reason MFA needs to be tied to your mobile device, and I have to pull it out every time I'm signing in somewhere on my computer. Just let me have an MFA program like Authy on my lap
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by beaned 3y ago
It's run by anyone who wants to support the consensus mechanism with more decentralization. I run it on my laptop.
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by beaned 3y ago
Running a business requires continual effort, it's a different question than simply "owning resources." You could do that of course. But then you probably don't actually own the resource directly. You probably own the co
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by beaned 3y ago
Further, resources decay. Land is taxed, bananas rot, cars rust. If you purchase $1B of actual hard assets with $0 left, you will not be able to maintain the upkeep. They will be spoiled or sold by the next year.
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by beaned 3y ago
They don't actually own the resources, that'd be untenable for any individual or even large family. They own a token that represents a claim to resources, and realistically they can only use so much for themselves. The difference
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by beaned 3y ago
Eventually such a practice will bite you in the ass when you form an opinion on something you think doesn't matter, but actually turns out to matter.
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by beaned 3y ago
So far he's abiding by the law and not going to jail. What is in "his own telling of his own story" that suggests he should be happy to go to jail? It seems like he's trying hard not to.
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by beaned 3y ago
We only have one life, nobody wants to sacrifice 3 years of it. Just because you and I consider potential alien life disclosures to be important doesn't mean we have the right to demand someone with that knowledge sacrifice their own l
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by beaned 3y ago
A good point. A couple thoughts here might be: 1. They make exceptionally few mistakes overall anyway; 2. Perhaps it is the interaction between armed force technology and their vehicles which creates problems for them (whether intentional o
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by beaned 3y ago
Is there a place to read more about this claim that Snowden had access to "almost everything classified"?
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by beaned 3y ago
Right, like what would be their motivation for exclusively interacting with governments rather than, say, landing in Times Square? I guess a counter thought would be that they haven't actually tried to interact with anyone at all, mayb
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by beaned 3y ago
Anchor was everywhere when I lived in SF for a good while. It was the reliable staple when you knew everything else at the party would taste like bitter barf. It did sell where it was made; perhaps they could've made a stronger effort
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by beaned 3y ago
Some of these just seem like things people say when they don't want to dig in to a conversation for convenience, or don't have an interesting reply. The article sort of lays them out as having a type of sideways intention, but oft
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by beaned 3y ago
None of your examples actually align with the general sentiment here. In your examples, you cite specific goals that should fail, which may be part of a broader approach which includes more noble goals. For example, you say that Microsoft s
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by beaned 3y ago
Do the people who actually work for his companies generally feel the same way?
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by beaned 3y ago
Is it..? All the replies to this thread just mention how he has abhorrent politics but there's no specifics. I'm not sure anyone really knows why they dislike him, and thought critically about it. A lot of it seems assumption-base
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by beaned 3y ago
There's definitely a strong element of people here rooting for Twitter to fail because they dislike Elon's politics.
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by beaned 3y ago
I don't have a horse in this race but I find it odd that your dissenting opinion is down voted when you provide a reasonable rebuttal with a source, when the post you're replying to is just an opinion from authority. Would be grea
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by beaned 3y ago
But how funny would it be if AI ends up pumping crypto by it being the money it can manage directly and instantly from your computer?
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by beaned 3y ago
Yeah, this is a huge difference in, for example, 2 of Ayn Rand's books. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The first is a simpler story with fewer characters, and though their dialogue obviously matters, much of the message happens t
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by beaned 3y ago
One theme seems like it's not that hard to distill. That aimless young men with no prospects and no philosophy are more inclined to participate in destruction, and end up destructed. We have English literature classes for the very purp

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