fanciestManimal

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by fanciestManimal 5y ago
The claim was incorrect. They are included. That's fundamentally different than claiming some kind of issue with how this information is calculated for cars.
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by fanciestManimal 5y ago
This is true for people in the middle to the bottom of the pay spectrum in the US. From experience where insurance paid ~1 million for a significant healthcare expense and my out of pocket was $4k -- when you are in a field with such a low
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by fanciestManimal 5y ago
There are also the the equality of opportunity issues that still exist for cultural reasons... which seem like obvious things to correct. For example, having a "black sounding" name on your resume causes you to not get called in f
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by fanciestManimal 5y ago
Maybe I missed something in this discussion, has someone ever said "I'm a Christian" and then been fired?
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by fanciestManimal 5y ago
The analogy isn't really 1:1 in the first place. I see plenty of people wearing cross necklaces every day, which is more equivalent to wearing a shirt with an upside down pentagram on it. If the Satanist started wearing shirts with hat
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by fanciestManimal 5y ago
Do you think there are (per capita) more or fewer software developers today than there were in 1980? I kind of think the inverse of your point is true, to be frank. On a per capita basis, I think it's it likely that way more people und
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
It depends on where the miners and users go. I don't know that we can predict today what people in the future will view the incentives to be, but its certainly not impossible that the collective view of the bitcoin community might shif
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
Yea, difficulty would drop. You'd end up producing a block more often than every 10 minutes. There's probably some lower bound on difficulty (and block frequency) that also maintains network consensus.
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
It's not inconceivable (to me at least) that at some point in the future it would be politically or personally beneficial for the leadership of a totalitarian government to do something that is economically costly to it's citizens
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
Yea I can't see a power like China controlling bitcoin to be a good thing. I also can't see myself maintaining a substantial fraction of my wealth in a unit of value subject to the whim of a totalitarian government. It's not
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
It's an unsolved problem, and all solutions would require a majority of the mining pool to get on board. You could periodically increase the block size, splitting the transaction fee among more transactions. Although larger blocks make
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
And yet people still own dollars. I own various investments, and also dollars. I'm aware of what a hard fork is, I'm also aware of what a 51% attack is. The risk of that down the road could be a fair amount of incentive for folks
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
And yet more people use dollars, and have bank accounts with dollars or their home country's currency. Bitcoin's block reward can be changed as well, it's not some immutable law of the blockchain. I'm not claiming that i
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
So I own some crypto too, but the dollar has a much larger social network effect of people who agree it's the store of value for the future, no? So does the Euro. It's a bit weird that you would claim that bitcoin's intrinsic
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
Do you think you might be understating the probability of failing in business, and overstating the odds of getting laid off? It's not like many businesses haven't closed their doors during the COVID pandemic. I also doubt the perc
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by fanciestManimal 6y ago
"Since most full-time jobs involve a single employer — it’s a one single point of failure — meaning, you just need your employer to fire you to lose your income. With a business, you usually have more than one customer and in the major