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by etherael 4y ago
Absolutely, thus if. I am no longer under the illusion that any significant fraction of the global population of which the market consists will eventually figure this out and migrate away. There is every possibility that they won't and
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by etherael 4y ago
For the tldr crowd the root cause is Windows' insistence on automated self maintenance and updates etc. If you keep a mostly stale out of date windows VM around for when you absolutely have to use it and linux is your daily driver, thi
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by etherael 4y ago
You sure you want to deprive anybody who has ever been allocated the tag "criminal" the right to private communications? You might want to think long and hard about the members of that class, and what fate they are subject to when
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by etherael 4y ago
Anybody who rejects the hypothesis that some tribal group to which they belong is how the truth is discovered and defined, and accepts the reality that it must be investigated without reference to the narratives and worldviews of said triba
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by etherael 4y ago
> Lol… the founding documents of the United States are pretty explicit about not trusting government. Something like 80% of people don’t trust news media today. Sure, but that's not what I mean by the status quo. Almost all humans s
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by etherael 4y ago
Birds not being real? What on earth?
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by etherael 4y ago
The truth values of the narrative in question doesn't actually change the point the article makes, though I suspect this is because they're accidentally right rather than they went out of their way to make allowances for the fact
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by etherael 4y ago
Realising after reading something insightful and simultaneously truly malevolent to the extent that I finally accepted that the two things could coexist without cancelling each other out if you simply adopt a philosophical perspective I fou
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by etherael 4y ago
Sure, but that will happen no matter what given the public are idiots and the authorities are authoritarian. And that goes double for places like Australia where both of these things are particularly so. And yet it will still be possible to
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by etherael 4y ago
Sure, they can make thinking of a pink elephant criminal, too. That doesn't mean it will actually be effective.
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by etherael 4y ago
If you were taken hostage and had access to a teleportation device that would extricate you from the situation, but was extremely difficult to use such that the vast majority of people would be unable to do so, would you be ethically obliga
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by etherael 4y ago
While you're absolutely right that this is their attitude, what they will do, etc. The laws of mathematics steadfastly remain consistent despite your latlon and it doesn't matter what random idiot politician thinks about it. This
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by etherael 4y ago
I am not talking about any particular political framework at all. I am trying to point out that if you start from that premise you prejudice the kinds of diagnoses and solutions to any potential problem you come up with. Which is of course
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by etherael 4y ago
Stop tyring to do everything through naked force and pursue market solutions that people adopt because it's economically advantageous for them to do so? Stop sending SWAT teams at people already trying to do this? ( https://y
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by etherael 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=etherael#31924953
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by etherael 4y ago
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/223 Special notice to "The incumbent implementation (based on the existing Bitcoin consensus protocol) will continue to trade as BTC even if the B2X chain has more hashing power.&quo
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by etherael 4y ago
I am aware of the official cover story. You appear to be unaware that it is a lie. Look up the historical record. By what metric was the BTC chain allocated to the present by bitfinex? I'll give you a hint, hash power not only had noth
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by etherael 4y ago
And bitfinex backs blockstream and the rest follow because they don't want to add to the confusion and tether prints billions into existence to signal fake assent to fundamentally idiotic changes like permanently limiting chain through
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by etherael 4y ago
About five years ago they permanently restricted transaction volume to about 4 per second. After that I stopped paying attention because you couldn't ask for a clearer demonstration of their complete control than the fundamental destru
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by etherael 4y ago
Mining BTC doesn't get you voting rights at all. The core devs will still make pants on head retarded changes and the centralised exchanges will dutifully trade their trash output as if it were really bitcoin, mining just gets you the
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by etherael 4y ago
Project direction controlled entirely by core devs and the centralised exchanges that bless their output as "bitcoin" regardless of the fact it directly contradicts the original consensus mechanism for the project and the changes
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by etherael 4y ago
I think the biggest problem with the observation is that it equates "the world" with "my world" and does not allow distinction between the two. We each individually, are the center of "my world" and expect &quo
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by etherael 4y ago
Having had direct experience with Japan, South Korea and Thailand, it's also really difficult to overstate just how much more cost effective mundane medical treatments can be. Things that would bankrupt you in certain countries are min
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by etherael 4y ago
Don't pick a country to work there. If at all possible get a location independent career or sufficient passive income that you don't even need to work except when you want to, and pick a country based on whatever you decide is mos
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by etherael 4y ago
Exactly. Which is why I also added unenforceable. The government can make idiotic evil and harmful laws till the cows come home, and history shows that indeed they do. The value in innovations like cryptocurrency are about making a particul
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by etherael 4y ago
You are not obligated to follow a law purely because it exists. I realise you will immediately jump to the alternative here but you should take a step back and consider the implications of being obligated to follow any harebrained, harmful
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by etherael 4y ago
What if you think the only political problem worthy of resolution is politics itself? That is, the two wolves and a lamb voting on who is for dinner model expanded up to encompass 7 billion dumb apes. I would argue the only thing worth cari
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by etherael 4y ago
It was the original plan to change the blocksize all along. Satoshi said in 2009: "The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide. Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that
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by etherael 4y ago
This would be true if the number being 32x'd was actually high, but that is not true. It was 1 megabyte. 32 megabytes over ten minutes is not even 512kbps. Other chains that process much more throughput, as well as BCH itself, has been
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by etherael 4y ago
> If you fork a project, even if yours becomes more popular, that doesn't mean you get to take over the original name. That's exactly what happened with BTC. And yet almost everybody calls it Bitcoin.

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