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by etherael 5y ago
> This has been happening for some 15 years now, and accelerated after Brexit; covid might well be the nail in the coffin. Estonia will be a useful barometer to keep an eye on for this in the future, but since their tax rate is actually
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by etherael 5y ago
It's one thing to get G7 to agree on something when they're literally in the same club, another to get their client states that might previously have been attractive options like Ireland or Estonia to get on board to some degree.
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by etherael 5y ago
This is just G7 isn't it? Seems to me like all the typical very low tax jurisdictions you'd select for as somebody optimizing tax with the freedom to locate wherever you choose are still open.
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by etherael 5y ago
I agree, that's what I'm getting at. But instead contrast that idea with the more broadly accepted one that it's wealth that's the problem not power even though the former seems like a much more accurate description than
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by etherael 5y ago
> It's more about limiting the amount of power that a person can accumulate over others. Does this not beg the question why not just limit power itself rather than limiting wealth with the target side effect that the wealthy will no
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by etherael 5y ago
> no human adversarial motives It's a historical point of fact that this is untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
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by etherael 5y ago
It's impossible to make people understand a truth they've already heavily invested in rejecting, no matter how obvious and unquestionable that truth is. More than any other thing in the world the BTC saga taught me that. Stupidity
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by etherael 5y ago
Is that actually an argument against something though? If change x allowed devs on the apple store to make more money, why would that be an inherent reason to oppose it, for example? All the arguments that I've heard focused around tha
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by etherael 5y ago
They sound divisive on the matter because for over a decade now they've fruitlessly tried to explain the abject idiocy of backing a takeover attempt by a party whose business model is directly focused around constraining on chain capac
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by etherael 5y ago
Congratulations, you made me come out of retirement purely to disagree with you. No chain more richly deserves death than BTC and BCH is one of the best chains in existence. I'm prepared to sign this message with a Bitcoin key from 201
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by etherael 6y ago
> I'll take your second branch, and I'll take the contrapositive: What I originally said was; "it does exist, it doesn't necessarily imply that the racial phenotype in question must be "superior" or "in
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by etherael 6y ago
> who really has made explicit claims that white people are better than everyone else. Where?
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by etherael 6y ago
I don't agree with them, I don't believe that a statistically observed difference in a particular trait according to racial phenotypes implies that racial phenotype is "inferior" or "superior" to begin with. An
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by etherael 6y ago
Thus making the case why alternative financial systems outside their power are essential.
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by etherael 6y ago
Once again, that simply has nothing to do with free speech, politicians being narcissistic amoral psychopaths is basically in the job description, some of them more obviously than others, but basically all of them. I don't like or appr
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by etherael 6y ago
> So in a world in which the President of the United States openly expresses envy of how Kim Il Sung is treated The fact that a politician is narcissistic is as unsurprising as it is irrelevant to the discussion topic at hand. > calls
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by etherael 6y ago
> Please, enlighten me. Name me a state which conforms to your ideals of 'free speech absolutism' My point wasn't that there was, it was that the things you were pointing out were easily avoided by not going to the jurisd
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by etherael 6y ago
> I've travelled the world too, but with my eyes open :) Clearly not, since exactly as I already said, the examples you cite are restricted to specific jurisdictions it's quite easy to avoid, although the one you go to with the
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by etherael 6y ago
> It's not a 'defence' but a simple refutation of your claim that companies coming under pressure from some quarters to fire employees for sentiments they have expressed is a uniquely Western thing And it's not a refu
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by etherael 6y ago
> I can assure you that there are no shortage of people on the receiving end of non-Western boycott threats for making comments deemed to offend, say, religious sensitivities in India or support calls for democracy in Hong Kong. The best
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by etherael 6y ago
Insisting that someone stick to doing their actual job, while they're at their actual job, isn't tone policing. And the fact that they could do damage to their company by their speech outside the context of their employment is not
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by etherael 6y ago
Genuine question here from someone who is the "virtually nobody" that you describe in terms of being a complete free speech absolutist and seeing attempts to shut that down as perhaps the worst thing happening in the world today p
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by etherael 6y ago
> Once we recognize that all men are created equally, racial violence ceases to be a debatable subject where it's reasonable to support it in any way or form. Except this assumes that's what both sides of the argument are actua
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by etherael 7y ago
Brief search on Ryzen pro seems to imply it's some kind of mobile integrated graphics / cpu solution? I don't think the Ryzen 7 2700 is one of those as it's just a plain old am4 desktop board CPU of the ryzen2+ generatio
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by etherael 7y ago
Using https://old.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/eryb71/best_storage_f... setup and truecrypt + zfs raid with lz4 compression I never see cores even visibly affected by either compression or encryption, the
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by etherael 7y ago
Not a problem if you don't intend to have nodes sufficient to actually be considered "at scale" and your plan from the very beginning is a centralised hub and spoke network.
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by etherael 7y ago
> Yes. There might come a time when block reward.. And if artificial scarcity to increase miner revenue is not only not objectionable but desirable as well as entirely effective, there is no reason that this should not be done repeatedly
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by etherael 7y ago
> I wrote down my understanding of bitcoin and influence of the block size as a train analogy. Here it is for you to make fun of: You and people like you think I am making fun of you because you are flatly wrong about so many things in t
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by etherael 7y ago
> That's true but you it's not guaranteed that you'd get 1000 times more transactions when you increase capacity 100 times. It's a gamble and if bitcoin did that it would get unpredictable result but show miners that
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by etherael 7y ago
Christ could the real actual Satoshi if you're still out there please do this and get rid of this guy once and for all? It would be so worth it even with the negative side effect of the BSV cult trying to use it as evidence that Wright

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