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901.
by beeflet 2y ago
You don't need to implement a sales or income tax in order to subsidize the government's operations. One proposal by "single tax" based on property tax, proposed by a certain Henry George has interesting merits. One such
902.
by beeflet 2y ago
Nonsense. The range proofs are the proof of supply. If you have a cryptocurrency where the range proofs don't work, you obviously have bigger problems than the supply. I wouldn't store your value in a cryptocurrency. They're
903.
by beeflet 2y ago
The problem with digicash-type of solutions based on blind signatures like GNU Taler, is that you need a centralized service to operate them. Digicash failed because banks wouldn't adopt it, and you have to recognize that centralized i
904.
by beeflet 2y ago
The difference is that if you want sovereignty of your own bitcoin on the lightning network you need to run the lightning daemon yourself, open a channel, and maintain it and deal with closures of the payment channel. Payment channels are u
905.
by beeflet 2y ago
why come they aint got so much taxes
906.
by beeflet 2y ago
I don't think they are asserting morality or blame. That's just what the game is. We specialized into intellectual property while de-industrializing. The product we make as a country is information, which can be copied across a le
907.
by beeflet 2y ago
>Try easier hands like Two Pair or Pair or High Card I've always found that bigger hands like Flush, Full House, Straight are easier to work with because they get more chips and mult whenever they level up. I've only used small
908.
by beeflet 2y ago
On the first day I played, I would always get stuck ante 5-6. The thing is, you need to build your strategy around the "X Mult" jokers in order to progress past that point, which often involves completely pivoting your strategy in
909.
by beeflet 2y ago
I would be more willing to accept that state of affairs if StarLink had better competition.
910.
by beeflet 2y ago
Tor is pretty hard to block. I think that some sort of mixnet is pretty much the solution to all ISP/Government spying and censorship on the web as they make the law de-facto unenforcable
911.
by beeflet 2y ago
It's more like shutting down a library because you are unwilling to censor the books
912.
by beeflet 2y ago
Table 1.1: Priority offences by category
913.
by beeflet 2y ago
IDK how comfortable people would be eating the national bird every thanksgiving
914.
by beeflet 2y ago
This is trump's last term in office
915.
by beeflet 2y ago
The discussion of what we're going to do about taiwan was totally absent this presidential election. It's the most important matter of our time and no one is addressing the elephant in the pacific. Instead, there is no primary ele
916.
by beeflet 2y ago
maybe through some distributed system like BOINC?
917.
by beeflet 2y ago
I think this will be good for (actually) open source models, including training data. Because that will be the only way to confirm the model isn't hijacked
918.
by beeflet 2y ago
You can have escrow or something using a 2-of-3 multisignature if you are worried, but you can also just have trust mechanisms outside of the payment network.
919.
by beeflet 2y ago
Man, I really don't like self driving cars. In the future, government assassinations will just be done by hacking your car and driving you off a bridge. Plausible deniability at the push of a button.
920.
by beeflet 2y ago
I wonder how many times you could come to court with bogus cases until they patch the software
921.
by beeflet 2y ago
My poor grandmother spent her entire weekend baking this AI slop and no one went to her birthday
922.
by beeflet 2y ago
I think the volatility of the currency is caused by a lack of it's use in real markets, not the other way around. In practice, the volatility isn't that big of a problem on an individual level.
923.
by beeflet 2y ago
If you are going to mine monero, try p2pool. It is better for the decentralization of the network, is capable of even smaller payouts and has no fees.
924.
by beeflet 2y ago
There is nothing stopping people from using it as peer-to-peer cash. I used crypto sell a GPU to someone I know. I regularly use it to trade hardware over the internet, and I would use it more if more vendors on ebay and such accepted it. I
925.
by beeflet 2y ago
The difference between theft and a scam is that a scam requires participation from the victim based on a false premise, whereas theft requires no participation from the victim. >whether a bank issues bullshit fees, whether an employer do
926.
by beeflet 2y ago
The difference between a real crypto exchange and a scam crypto exchange is that you can actually withdraw your cryptocurrency from the exchange. This nuance lost on the common cryptocurrency speculator given that they have no idea what cry
927.
by beeflet 2y ago
Maritime power, international order, and alliances matter. You can keep the name! Names matter to egotistical politicians who want to secure an easy "win" to demonstrate their capability to their stakeholders.
928.
by beeflet 2y ago
IDK i've never played it
929.
by beeflet 2y ago
It's like wikipedia except it spits out incorrect information at an alarming rate and has no references. Still, impressive that it only weighs 10s of GB when wikipedia alone is on the order of ~100GB
930.
by beeflet 2y ago
thats more than double digits if you counting the hands at the keyboard

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