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by eric_cc 2y ago
> Just leave your key with your lawyer or a notary, and existing regulation about fiduciary duty handle everything just fine. Would you really trust your lawyer with your bitcoin seed? If they stole everything from you, how would you eve
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by eric_cc 2y ago
Can you prove this?
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by eric_cc 2y ago
I’m surprised to see this is Still a popular opinion. I could never imagine going back to wired headphones. That feeling of my head being tethered to a device is not something I’d want to revisit. That said, they certainly make much more se
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> Coffee shops don't accept gold bars either, yet gold has certainly been money (not so much these days). This is true but it's largely because of the logistics. It's not that coffee shops don't want gold, it's j
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> Now it's just, an asset, that's worth money, for reasons? Wrong. There are multiple narratives for Bitcoin. I'd argue the most popular narrative in the United States today is that it is digital gold. But if you follow cl
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Same. Toy project and it’s not worth the risk of using netlify. What’s a good, simple alternative for a VueJS app?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
I agree. I could have expressed my thoughts better in this case. It wasn’t just OP I was considering. I was thinking of a common AI take that I’ve seen when I wrote my comment. Regardless, will do better to express my thoughts and agree tha
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> Bitcoin is the epitome of monopoly money I see it as the polar opposite, backed by math. A politically controlled money supply with no immutable math-based proof of its release schedule is Monopoly money. Cuck bucks. Look at the 100 ye
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Give them football, video games and cannabis.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Democracy is an ideal. There absolutely are bad implementations, democracies that get hijacked and are democracies in-name-only, dumb populaces, etc.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> there would never be war in Europe again Lol
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> will never go away Nothing is forever. It’s unlikely unmodified Homo sapiens are dominant on earth 1,000 years from now.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
We do have, at the very least, an idea about how human creativity works and it is an input output pattern.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> we need and will continue to need UBI for non-AI related reasons This mentality is why bitcoin is going to cruise through 1 million dollars a bitcoin and on and on. Print Monopoly money and people who earn will keep seeking out sound m
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> I don't want much out of life, but I do want the ability to influence my own personal situation. We are still animals in the animal kingdom. It’s survival of the fittest as long as resources are not infinite. You can never expect
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> The rate of change that AI forces upon us has never before been experienced. On what timeline?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Reading your opinion on the subject, I believe you’re struggling to make sense of what is happening. I suspect there is a combination of factors here: you are reinforcing a bias, can’t wrap your head around it, don’t have much experience wo
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by eric_cc 3y ago
What do you find “really weird”? Dracula debuted in 1897 while Godzilla debuted in 1954. Isn’t this the main reason one is public domain already and the other is not?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> I know this is difficult to digest, but compared to a lot of the rest of the world, almost every US politician is conservative. Source? This reads like a Leftist talking point. I’d be interested in understanding who trained on you on t
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by eric_cc 3y ago
This reads like total denial. COVID was years ago. The city I’m in bounced back and was mostly normal late 2021. I also was interested in the outcome of Portland’s experiment. It has failed. The war on drugs is anti-liberty and I recognize
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Why Russia / Ukraine? There is nothing particularly notable about this conflict compared to others. War has always been war.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> even if he gets a huge sentence will just get eventually pardoned after 6-10 years According to you? Because “trust me bro”? What are basing this on?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> It's safe to say 32 hours of work does not produce more than 40 hours. This is too simple. 32 hours of huge output may produce more than 40 hours of light output. If the machine/human output is a constant, then sure you’re co
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> It's a non-sensical argument. Your take is equally non-sensical. There is no magical constant unit of time that represents maximum productivity. It’s all relative and fluid. It’s based on many many variables. And even if such a ti
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> working 32 hours is not as productive as 40 hours. Absolute statements like this on this topic are invalid. It’s relative and fluid and not something you can prove scientifically and definitively.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
When they say “defender” or “environmental activist” - what does that mean? I’m struggling to understand how you qualify for those titles. Am I a defender if I say I want to protect land or do I have to go further and do something more agre
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Absolutely not. Forks are extremely important. Where did you come up with that idea?
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A decentralized system that arrives at a shared consensus.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
So you’re a self-aware villain. That’s pretty neat.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> I read through this thread and I can't help to feel reminded of the discussion about cryptocurrencies. Same. Some people are simply wired to be perma-skeptics / perma-bears / perma-negative. This community is still full

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