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by beeflet 1y ago
You can disagree with the 2nd amendment but if anything, the reverse is short-sighted. You're suggesting that we massively increase the power of the government forever to solve a short-term security problem.
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by beeflet 1y ago
In the USA we have amendments to the constitution, which take considerable political effort to change. These amendments can restrict the types of laws that may be passed. This system works because the changes are not just recorded in the pa
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by beeflet 1y ago
here's your conspiracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g take it with a grain of salt.
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China has reportedly stolen personal data from 80% of Americans(bgr.com)
6 points by beeflet 1y ago|1 comments
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by beeflet 1y ago
It's worth discussing. This is true, you can use bitcoin to buy someone else's energy. Energy is largely fungible. But the whole economic system you are describing has a net loss of (free) energy. What is that other guy going to u
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by beeflet 1y ago
No, I just thought it was too long and distracted from my initial point. I can't edit it back, but for anyone else interested it was like this: "In the same way it's better to fund public services by taxing things directly th
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by beeflet 1y ago
The new trend of starting a "token" on top of some PoS cryptocurrency greatly saddens me. Back in the old days, you would have to actually start your own cryptocurrency (like Dogecoin) every time you wanted to sell some worthless
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by beeflet 1y ago
Yes, but that should be done in a way more transparent way (donations, fees, etc.) than manipulating the tokenomics of the coin out from under you.
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by beeflet 1y ago
payment channels and the "lightning network" present solutions to the micro-transaction problem for bitcoin. They are worth looking into. However on bitcoin, they wouldn't be sufficient alone to scale up the network. The prob
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by beeflet 1y ago
anna's archive, one would assume.
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by beeflet 1y ago
A lot of bitcoiners like to fool themselves into thinking that bitcoin is some form of energy. That's not the case: you can turn energy into bitcoins, but not bitcoins into energy. In the same manner you can turn time into money, but n
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by beeflet 1y ago
the traceability of bitcoin presents a problem in this situation. bitcoin isn't exactly fungible.
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by beeflet 1y ago
This is gonna be a disaster. They would have been better off using an existing cryptocurrency instead of rolling their own. The problem with these "meme tokens" is that they are typically designed with terrible tokenomics that ben
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by beeflet 1y ago
The ceiling for the destruction caused by biological weapons is far greater than chemical weapons. There is no chemical weapon that can hijack the victim to make more of it.
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by beeflet 1y ago
the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In our lifetimes we will see a brave new world controlled through eugenics.
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by beeflet 1y ago
I think one reason why people won't have children is the gene-editing and the IVF that is coming. Nothing is left to chance, or to god any more. Having children is now a clinical affair. It's spiritually void.
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by beeflet 1y ago
>For this reason I do not think that curying diseases will lead to designer babies. Well, you're wrong. Where is the line drawn for what constitutes a disease? Retardation? Autism? Eventually every child below, say, 130 IQ will be c
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by beeflet 1y ago
Because there is an information disparity I could profit from instead of doing free work for you. Even if that disparity is just "posting the vuln to my blog" to get e-famous.
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by beeflet 1y ago
I thought it was kind of interesting that Valve is adopting this open-source approach to mods of Team Fortress 2, so I posted this here. I guess it's a product of their freemium item economy model.
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Open Fortress on Steam(store.steampowered.com)
2 points by beeflet 1y ago|1 comments
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Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary(petertodd.org)
6 points by beeflet 1y ago|0 comments
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by beeflet 1y ago
I just watch it with my eyes closed
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Is Microstrategy a Pyramid Scheme? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by beeflet 1y ago|0 comments
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by beeflet 1y ago
I think that we are approaching a "solved" state of society, but that solution involves some level inequality. It is "solved" in the sense that a game of Monopoly is "solved" and approaches steady-state as one
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by beeflet 1y ago
I am not opposed to helping homeless people, I'm opposed to this idea that humanity's main purpose is essentially to harbor as many people as possible who have no agency. I think that we should have greater goals far beyond that.
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by beeflet 1y ago
I think elysium isn't an effective sci-fi in the sense that it discusses the effect of technology on mankind. It is just a metaphor for the US/Mexico border. The only takeaway I got from the movie is that the robots look cool, it&
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by beeflet 1y ago
Is the purpose of mankind to support drug-addled hobos?
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by beeflet 2y ago
By "terror supporters", do you mean anyone who bad-mouths our greatest ally?
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by beeflet 2y ago
I used to like xkcd, but he has made some comics that have had a pretty negative effect on society as a whole. Famously, I think that comic #1357 is a ( https://xkcd.com/1357/ ) great example of unintended consequences.
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by beeflet 2y ago
I think we are in this situation because the boy cried wolf

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