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defaultprimate
5y ago
We will never achieve AGI
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5y ago
No, and I suspect many miners will do this because they anticipate the same thing I do: PoS will be a catastrophic failure with myriad exploits, vulnerabilities, and philosophical paradoxes that arise with popularity. "Decentralizatio
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defaultprimate
5y ago
No it didn't, you'll notice I had very precise descriptors in each comment. I'm glad you accept that your perspective that Western colonials were uniquely bad is blatantly false.
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5y ago
>It's hard not to economically progress when one robs and sabotages all the largest economies in the world. You mean what literally every society and culture was doing for all of human history? Native tribes across the globe were in
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5y ago
I have repeatedly, your inability to observe data from the CBO and BLS is not my problem
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5y ago
Weird how the West progressed but many cultures hadn't even invented the wheel by the time of colonialism. Nice try with the pre-enlightenment & pre-colonialism whataboutism though. Instances of cannibalism for reasons other than d
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5y ago
>What he is not is a primary source or a good source of unbiased anything. Oops I guess the Senate finance committee fucked up then https://medium.com/beyond-pen-and-paper/the-poor-arent-getti...
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defaultprimate
5y ago
Sounds like something the Englishman would follow up with except about 1914s geopolitical state vs 1939s
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5y ago
This feels like something an Englishman that was pro appeasement would have stated to a Pole right before it was invaded.
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5y ago
First, Dan Mitchell is a primary source. Second, many of the pieces source BLS data or similar entities.
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5y ago
lol at thinking Daniel Mitchell is just a "guy" >How is this relevant to median income/wealth measured over time? Because the age and dominant generation of the population massively affects the median household wealth. It&
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5y ago
Gonna be interesting to see this same exact article and reasoning applied to non-eradicating vaccines in the future.
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5y ago
There's these things called citations, there's tons of them throughout the piece, those pieces further cite primary sources for the data. Learn these things before you try to engage in conversations about this topic: The differenc
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defaultprimate
5y ago
>represent guides According to the sculptor. What may they represent guides for? Perhaps some prominent expeditions Roosevelt was famous for that were critical in establishing the museum?
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5y ago
I'm sure I am, with your unrealistic perspective of human progress and development and the uncomfortable truths of history you refuse to acknowledge. I, for one, am glad we decided cultures like Nazism are not valid or worth preserving
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5y ago
Yeah man, all cultures are valid and deserve to exist, even if they sacrifice thousands of children annually, regularly participate in cannibalism, etc. Westerners should have just ignored this stuff when they encountered it. The world woul
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5y ago
Not according to the data. https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-poor-get-poorer-w...
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5y ago
I wonder if you've ever looked at a graph of wealth accumulation of every economic strata in the US, or just inequality. There's nothing wrong with inequality if the poor are getting richer, have more access to resources, and a hi
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5y ago
>which does not in fact depict Roosevelt's Amazon expedition Prove it
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5y ago
Prediction: Former Activision workers attempted to form a union, but were quickly replaced with a more productive workforce The gamedev labor market is way too competitive with way too many competent professionals chomping at the bit to w
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5y ago
>>You can have a smart contract that writes reversible transactions to the blockchain No you can't. Once a smart contract is included in a block, it has finished executing and is irreversible. The transaction is irreversible, aga
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5y ago
A transaction is definitionally something that has been written to the blockchain, so no it isn't. In the case of layered solutions, you're no longer using blockchain. If we want to count uncomitted transactions on a second layer
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5y ago
If you write the software the mining pool uses to mine, you own the hash power.
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5y ago
Irreversible transactions
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5y ago
>a solution that does not involve moving away from autonomous ledgers that use cryptoeconomics to maintain consensus. What are your proposed solutions to identified problems then?
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5y ago
>blockchain on principle - as opposed to problematic elements within the contemporary blockchain space The problems are impossible to decouple from "blockchain on principle" because the problems are intrinsic to the data struct
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5y ago
More excess deaths have occurred post-vaccine and vaccine adoption is not correlated with a reduction in excess death at the national level. https://www.usmortality.com/excess-absolute
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>Articles like this want a return to serfdom, under the control of officialdom Ironic thing to state given the reality of hash power distribution and supply of bitcoin that actually moves compared to the total >in a form more useful t
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5y ago
Missiles and 20mm are a lil bigger than than your thumb, but your point still stands lol
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5y ago
They have been neither used nor studied in humans prior to COVID-19, save for once, for rabies, with 101 participants, and that study was concluded in 2018.
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