cykros

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by cykros 1y ago
When you use "society" as a synonym for "the establishment" there probably isn't one. Never did much care for Rousseau myself though, or the fascists and communists he spawned.
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by cykros 1y ago
If you're buying cheap things with on-chain payments, it's a bit like sending a bank wire to Starbucks for your coffee. Lightning exists for a reason. Comes with far more privacy too -- arguably even more than Monero, if done righ
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by cykros 1y ago
Must have been awhile ago, perhaps during the ordinal craze. Fees today are between 0-1 sats/vByte, even for immediate block inclusion.
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by cykros 1y ago
I'm shocked hearing there are people who try to read everything in their RSS queue. That's madness. I get 300-600 in any given day. What it does though is give me a range of headlines from news sources I've chosen to follow,
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by cykros 2y ago
They were aiming for NON toxic? lol. Could have fooled me. Nostr or gtfo.
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by cykros 2y ago
Parents covering school mostly went away in the 90's outside of the particularly wealthy segments of society. Mostly student loans since then, which people hope to have paid off by the time they retire to avoid having their social secu
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by cykros 2y ago
In fairness, as a philosophy major, I realized fairly early on that most of what we read was out of copyright. I suppose if he's assigning stuff that is ABOUT what some philosophers wrote, it makes sense, but forgive me if I prefer jus
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by cykros 2y ago
THAT is gross. At least when books were expensive, you knew you could recoup some of that cost the following year selling them back. It also meant you could buy them cheaper used. Assuming you didn't have a professor assigning their ow
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by cykros 2y ago
I wish my books were that cheap. 20 years ago. Even used they were well above that price.
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by cykros 2y ago
One of these days, just like most bitcoiners today have, the government is going to learn the hard way that bitcoin and crypto are not the same, and should not be treated the same. One has no issuer, the other has them. One has an immutable
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by cykros 2y ago
I remember when that was the point of Bitcoin. Just about every other crypto out there is more fiat than fiat itself is, between centralization and arbitrary issuance. And it still is for many; the banks just sort of want to throw their two
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by cykros 2y ago
Are people that bristled by RMS that they're this obstinate about refusing to call it GNU/Linux? Seems to be a No Real Linux fallacy...
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by cykros 2y ago
I'd love to see a sound system a la Jack or even Pulseaudio compared to Android's native sound system, though do recognize that at least for phones there are challenges, as of course you need to kill other sounds to accept an inco
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by cykros 2y ago
Turning off weapons we're providing to others would be devastating for the domestic defense industry, right up there with the shot to our own foot that kicking Russia off the SWIFT system was. Trump may be okay with aggravating our all
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by cykros 2y ago
Nah, republicans love infringing upon free market capitalism quite regularly. But they insist on being the ones directing how it is done. All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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by cykros 2y ago
With only 4x the population too! And even that's looking dubious, despite the American economy being all but in a state of cardiac arrest.
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by cykros 2y ago
You can use money to buy things people are willing to sell. You can use power to get people to do they would not otherwise do. Generally, if money is able to get people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do, there needs to be some so
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by cykros 2y ago
The British also realized that as long as the Americans would borrow from the Bank of England, and were willing to trade their raw goods to England where they could be processed into industrial goods and then sold back to them, there wasn&#
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by cykros 2y ago
They were also financed with a finite resource, or at least, one that grew at a much slower rate, governed by the laws of physics as they impacted the economic feasibility of gold mining. Rather than an indefinitely large supply of "mo
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by cykros 2y ago
Cryptography, as the state department used to understand, is a munition (but of course, thank God for the First and Second Amendment). Cryptography based peer to peer currency that can replace a debt based system of inflation that provides
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by cykros 2y ago
What part of "people with access to credit at low rates have an unfair market position" is so hard to understand? The Cantillon effect isn't about an actual money printer; it's about who gets to spend newly issued broad
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by cykros 2y ago
Looks pretty nice for a hosted platform solution. I'd argue that even lower friction in some ways is just installing a Nostr relay (heck, it can be to your phone through the app store) and pointing a long form Nostr client at it like Y
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by cykros 2y ago
s/elite/elitist/
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by cykros 2y ago
Yandex Browser. Has full extension support on mobile too, which Brave does not.
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by cykros 2y ago
Most judges aren't really all that interested in hearing cases because someone was offended. Usually there need to be damages, or laws broken. Turns out the world isn't bsky.
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by cykros 2y ago
Everything you've just brought up as a concern is addressed, and more, over at https://endthefud.org The energy use is a big one people who don't think it through keep coming back to (thanks to the WEF planting this bo
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by cykros 2y ago
Serves as a nice reminder to the boss how nice it was when we were all working from home...
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by cykros 2y ago
There's still life on the Fediverse? I figured everyone had migrated to Nostr by now. Except perhaps the people running their little fiefdoms getting their dopamine hits every time they de-federate another server. The whole ecosystem
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by cykros 2y ago
Who cares what they call it? Anyone that cares about decentralized social networking and is serious about it is on Nostr by now anyway. Let them say whatever they want in their cold, lonely, dark corners, which they've all secluded the
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by cykros 2y ago
When your major export is financial services, the wealth doesn't typically spread around all that much. There are plenty of Britons that aren't poor; just look at the City of London. Building out the monetary and trade networks th

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