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by heckerhut 6y ago
Read Debt by Graeber so you can stop believing in the myth of barter. Then think again.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
More generally, prisons all over the world serve much more often as a place to put people that society has failed than vice versa. It’s a sad truth that gets very little recognition since these people have no lobby. The American prison situ
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by heckerhut 6y ago
You mean a bearsheet?
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Great comment. Thanks.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Yes, spot on. HN mostly hates crypto but for all the wrong reasons. I learned a lot about the community here when I first realized that.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Wow, this guy has a war fetish. Makes the ideas and intent behind OR and its subsequent sale to FB all the more questionable. Sick, sick world.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
In Europe, private companies can sue based on anti competitive behavior. It’s not limited to government agencies. Makes sense if you think about it. I’d assume it’s similar in the states.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Yes, completely. Running on a t-mobile world flat. None of the people I talk to has any clue where I am. I tend to not show video.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
I bought a boat and made the driving license right when the lockdown started in March. Put solar panels up, big batteries and a 4G hotspot. Been living on the boat ever since. Best decision ever.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Wow, rarely seen such good writing on this topic. Encouraging to see that these ideas are well and alive and kept available until the impossible suddenly becomes possible.
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Every single example you give either falls under contractor or employee. Simply because you don‘t know legal language, doesn‘t mean lawyers don’t have simple, binary ways to deal with this that fully captures all of your examples. Law is no
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by heckerhut 6y ago
Assuming that money is what they’re after. Are you reading Durov’s channel on Telegram? Also, having invented the Russian Facebook and forcefully selling it to the Kreml - I don’t think he needs any more money. He’s playing a totally differ
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by heckerhut 8y ago
hehe. I’m from there too.
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by heckerhut 8y ago
well said.
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by heckerhut 9y ago
Lessig: https://youtu.be/pcYJTIbhYF0
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by heckerhut 9y ago
China is actually quite environment savvy. They understand that environmentally friendly tech is an economic growth machine. The US less so. I do t worry about China as much as I worry about US.
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by heckerhut 9y ago
It’s based on a quorum of white-listed accounts that are allowed to sign blocks.
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by heckerhut 9y ago
That’s social welfare. We already have that in most civilized places. It’s a punishment for failing to have a job whilest keeping you barely alive.
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by heckerhut 9y ago
Yes. Evolution is actually its own evidence. Biological evolution evolved out of necessity. Without constantly changing evolutionary pressures exerted by an organism's external environment there would be no need for evolution and it t
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by heckerhut 9y ago
nope, it's ICOs
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by heckerhut 11y ago
The author falls into many traps of the law vs code debate. There is a big difference between wet and dry code, as Nick Szabo, the original inventor of 'smart contracts' put it. Admittedly, it is very stimulating to entertain thou