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by dpatru 6y ago
The value of bitcoin is that it is a money with a fixed supply. A gold-backed government currency is approximately the same and would render bitcoin unnecessary. Yet no government is willing to issue currency that is convertible to gold on
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by dpatru 6y ago
The US has not fought wars to prop up the dollar. Instead, the strong dollar has enabled the US has been able to pay for its wars by inflation. Had the government been forced to directly tax its citizens to pay for the wars, the wars would
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YouTube censors Congressional testimony that contradicts the official Covid info(bigleaguepolitics.com)
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Hate Speech now includes buying against Wall Street hedge funds(greenwald.substack.com)
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by dpatru 6y ago
Before you criticize bitcoin you should understand the problem it is solving. Bitcoin is a technological solution to a government-created problem: the creation of money from nothing because politicians and government leaders want to spend m
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by dpatru 6y ago
Consider this in context: No ban for fighting the wars in Iraq, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. No ban for torturing people or extraordinary rendition. No ban for mass illegal spying on Americans and lying about it. No ban for droning weddin
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by dpatru 6y ago
> . . . cabs are vastly better than most offerings from Uber, since the car is designed for transporting paying passengers . . . > Aren't the levels of Uber that allow a Prius to be used much, much cheaper than a black cab? If yo
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Tesla Boat (2019)(youtu.be)
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by dpatru 6y ago
I think your assertion that inflation (money printing) is necessary for inflation is wrong and certainly not obvious. Investment necessarily comes from savings. One must not eat some of this year’s corn so as to have next year’s seed. Wheth
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Quantum Country(quantum.country)
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Ask HN: What are the strengths and weaknesses of your time management system?
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Architect Felix Candela, popularizer of the hyperbolic paraboloid in(artmuseum.princeton.edu)
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by dpatru 6y ago
> Until YouTube joins the Senate, I think they’re fine doing whatever they want. I think it's reasonable to assume that the American government contains the same kind of people that are in governments the world over and throughout h
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by dpatru 6y ago
> they're just stopping them posting it on THEIR service. Newspapers do that all the time, TV and Radio does it all the time. Why is this different? Newspapers, TV programs, and radio programs are publishers. In contrast, Youtube,
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by dpatru 6y ago
US Treasuries pay in dollars. Buying a Treasury is a bet that dollars will still be valuable in the future. Am I wrong to see the high value (low interest rate) of Treasuries as a consequence of the value of the dollar, not a cause? If peop
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by dpatru 7y ago
Before you advocate punishing private company managers, consider holding government employees, managers, and politicians to the same standard. Every manager in government should be sure that the people who report to him or her are following
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by dpatru 7y ago
Rather than requiring users to give them information, the city might improve things by providing real-time information about its traffic. This would enable individual users to make their own decisions as to where and when to travel possibly
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Attkinsson's complaint against Rob Rosenstein for hacking her computer(docs.google.com)
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by dpatru 7y ago
> Why is typed functional programming measurably better than procedural? Why is it better than OOP? Definitive answers are in demand not exploratory experiences. Functional code tends to be shorter than procedural code. This allows you t
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by dpatru 7y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2Ry-pC6Rw Here are my kids making vegan mac and cheese.
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To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (1996)(dkeenan.com)
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by dpatru 7y ago
Sending troops is more expensive and less effective. Troops cause collateral damage which results in more terrorists.
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Feds demand names and IP of app downloaders(forbes.com)
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by dpatru 7y ago
I read this last week. Then today I learn that Epstein is found dead. I feel like I'm watching a conspiracy from a novel play out in real life. This article predicted that Epstein would be killed: "Given my personal lack of intere
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by dpatru 7y ago
As a counterpoint, consider this quote from an article [1] by economist Robert Murphy: "In the climate change debate, people often forget that under all but the most catastrophic scenarios, the future generations who will benefit from
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by dpatru 7y ago
> It is quite shameless, here is an awesome volunteer run basic service project, and this is a Blockchain rent-seeking VC startup. You're implying that there is something shameful with providing a market for connectivity which allow
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by dpatru 7y ago
> we could create a law that sets the maximum price for medicine in the US at some multiple of what's charged abroad. Why create more laws and complexity? Why not simply repeal the laws that prohibit importation of drugs and possib
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by dpatru 7y ago
Free markets mean that other sellers are free to compete. This is why food, an essential good, is generally cheap. Any seller of food can charge an arbitrarily high price but cannot exclude competing sellers.
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by dpatru 7y ago
> Right to be forgotten gives the individual the right to have his data removed from permanent storage by companies, for whatever purpose: not sure how it relates even remotely with censorship. Books are also permanent storage, often sto
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by dpatru 7y ago
A free market transaction benefits both parties; both buyer and seller feel like they are better off as a result, otherwise they would not agree to the sale. Therefore, just as the French government can say that the American company is bene

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