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by ephbit 5y ago
Steadily though at times sluggishly going along on my (pretty much exactly) today 14 years old Laptop with HDD ... I dread the next few years ... almost everyone (developers/users) will take the luxury of fast seek and generally fast d
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by ephbit 5y ago
Agree. Many people critize bitcoin for its current volatility and entirely neglect that it can totally change in the long-term. It appears reasonable to me to expect the system dynamic along a pathway towards (possibly) wide adoption to go
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by ephbit 5y ago
> 3. Is profitable or generates organic revenue (i.e., has customers actually using their product and paying them for it) Does an e-mail provider accepting payment in bitcoin count?
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by ephbit 5y ago
The distinction between store of value and speculation is rather fuzzy IMO. Is putting money into gold for savings (because an actual savings bank account currently not only loses money in real but even in nominal terms) speculation as well
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by ephbit 5y ago
John Mearsheimer spoke about this in this IMO quite entertaining talk in Jan 2019 here: The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities | SOAS University of London Mearsheimer's "NATO example" concerning Russia
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by ephbit 5y ago
Awesome .. I had pretty much the same idea a few years ago .. the name I came up with was .. brokeipedia ;-)
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by ephbit 5y ago
Sounds like flattr.com would have worked for you.
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by ephbit 5y ago
> I’m suggesting that lower and middle class folks have far more debt as a percentage of net worth and therefore benefit more as a percentage of net worth than wealthy folks from inflation (“being at the spigot”). Agree. This is one effe
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by ephbit 5y ago
> During our first talk, she never broke her cool when questioned about the inflationary moment and what it says about her theory. She laid out her response methodically. Times are weird, supply chains are constrained, decades of corpora
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Ms. Kelton laid out other suggestions M.M.T. economists have made in a recent blog post. Among them: Medicare for All, cutting the Pentagon budget, repealing some tariffs and unclogging the ports. > Medicare for All, cutting the Pen
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Raising rates now would cool off investment, the logic goes, and how is that helpful at a moment when we don’t have enough factories or cargo ships? Exactly. The world needs at least twice as many factories and cargo ships as it has ri
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Many economists, both mainstream and M.M.T. ones, did not think that the March 2021 package would be inflationary. But homebound consumers, flush with cash, spent their money far more heavily on goods than they typically do, and it too
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Ms. Kelton and her colleagues make clear that the pandemic relief packages did not follow one of M.M.T.’s key tenets — they did not try to account for resource constraints ahead of time. In an M.M.T. world, the Congressional Budget Off
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Last summer, Ms. Kelton called inflation a temporary sign of “growing pains.” By the fall, she painted it as a good problem to solve, compared with a continued weak economy. Framing things positively always helps, yes. I'm awaitin
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by ephbit 5y ago
> ... Ms. Kelton, and the movement she has come to represent, now seem anxious to control the narrative. The pandemic spending wasn’t entirely consistent with M.M.T principles, they say — it wasn’t assessed carefully for its inflationary
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by ephbit 5y ago
> ... if a government controls its own currency and needs money — to make sure its citizens have food and places to live when, say, a global pandemic pushes many out of work — it can just print it, as long as its economy has the ability
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by ephbit 5y ago
> ... if you try to cut the money printer (without taking some.huge debt), you have to squash the deficit ... Right. Governments would have to do sound budgeting. But people who advocate for a balanced budget typically get laughed out of
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by ephbit 5y ago
As every aspect of the world that humans interact with, the internet too is shaped by all interacting people collectively. Some sites that are heavily used by people have grown away from their original purpose toward simply generation reven
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by ephbit 5y ago
> If the stimulus creates economic activity yielding revenues in excess of the stimulus itself then it can be 'free.' In a growing economy (where more tangible goods and services are delivered to customers) this can be true, ye
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by ephbit 5y ago
> However, I strongly suspect poor folks and especially middle class folks, have far more debt as a percentage of net worth than rich folks do and so spend more time at the spigot so to speak - relatively, not in absolute terms. It reads
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by ephbit 5y ago
> I'm not rejecting the cantillon effect wholesale, I'm asking for a quantification .. You might as well ask for a quantification of the Matthew Effect [1] ... you won't get one. Would it be helpful? Yes, probably. But mor
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by ephbit 5y ago
For quantified self / self tracking, I'd recommend: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.samco.trackandgraph/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.smasi.tickmate/ https
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by ephbit 5y ago
> i need to be able to browse audio files by any folder structure that i make up myself VLC can do that. > remembering the position is a must VLC generally does that, although not in all cases. (If you select a file from the browse ac
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by ephbit 5y ago
Those fundamental reforms - which aren't only necessary in Argentina but basically in every major country, apart from maybe China - would be to: Reverse the ever more effective mechanisms big corporations have come up with in almost ev
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by ephbit 5y ago
Well 2020 isn't really that long ago, is it? When huge amounts of money were pumped into stabilizing the financial sector after 2008, that's when some people already warned about it inevitably causing inflation if not short-term t
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by ephbit 5y ago
This unexpected delay might be one of the reasons why economists came up with the Modern Monetary Theory MMT.
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by ephbit 5y ago
As well as Tox. https://tox.chat
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by ephbit 5y ago
The off-the-grid approach is indeed something that makes Briar and scuttlebutt somewhat similar. What sets them apart is scuttlebutt's special concept of how it works as a social network, dissimilar to Briar.
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by ephbit 5y ago
> Then I tried another distro,and another, distro after distro, until I found one which never pulled this type of crap on me, and I'm sticking with it. Which is? Gentoo?
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by ephbit 5y ago
Awesome news. Sadly though, it is yet another non ECC RAM board. IMO they'd have had a USP, had they made it ECC.

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