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by heimatau 6y ago
> The only way that the dollar can and will be dethroned is if some other currency becomes widely used in commerce. Ultimately, it boils down to: 'do the people want a deflationary or inflationary currency?' Stability is subjec
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by heimatau 6y ago
> In 2008, miners used CPU's, Umm. It's not that old, testnet maybe but not the public blockchain.
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by heimatau 6y ago
I find it bizarre that this comment is upvoted since it's so deeply ignorant of the evidence/history. I'll cite my sources down below but I want to emphasize that I really thought the HackerNews community would be more inform
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by heimatau 6y ago
Now onto Amazon, meat plants, and many other large-ish businesses that do this corrupt abuse of their workers time.
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by heimatau 6y ago
>You said: The Peerage and Nobility is intrinsically woven into the concept and definition of English social and civic life. There is no 1:1 mapping of that same characteristic in the United States. There is no Aristocracy. >> I sa
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by heimatau 6y ago
Yes but I felt it was wise of me to talk to readers whom...might've thought you were serious. :)
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by heimatau 6y ago
> Aristocratic comes with way more baggage than what you describe; and you only have to look at jolly old England to see that. To be an Aristocrat. You had to be landed, but you also had to fit somewhere in the Peerage or established Nob
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by heimatau 6y ago
> State Senators were still voted on by the People...I kind of wonder whether it was better to let the State Legislature decide. It seems you don't understand the difference between how the people directly elected US Senators since
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by heimatau 6y ago
> Besides Hamilton, they absolutely did not. How would you define the ability to vote, as only going to select white men? Land owners of a certain acreage, looks like only 6% of the population fit that bill [1]. These people were a bit c
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by heimatau 6y ago
This was very eloquent. I appreciate this description.
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by heimatau 6y ago
Better late than never to learn.
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by heimatau 6y ago
> Rejecting US citizenship is difficult and costly Freedom isn't free.
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by heimatau 6y ago
> honestly any attempt to add jail time to the mix would probably have all kinds of disastrous consequences to the balance of those checks. If this governmental system is to by dynamic enough to survive, its parts need the ability to pro
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by heimatau 6y ago
> Colan R said: So technically, through representative democracy, the regular people did agree to the constitution because their representatives agreed on it. >> xxpor said: Not the same thing IMO. It actually is. This country is
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by heimatau 6y ago
>Nitpick, the constitution isn't a founding document. There was that whole Articles of Confederation thing. Let's totally 'nitpick' because the structure that our entire government is built upon the Constitution. &quo
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by heimatau 6y ago
> If the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law..." and Congress still makes a law, what are you going to do, throw Congress in jail? That's nonsense. Actually, it's nonsense to think anything to the contrary.
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by heimatau 6y ago
I didn't know that. This was very helpful. Been here for a while too (a few years passive read prior to making an account).
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by heimatau 6y ago
> I think it's the time to leave superstitions and religions behind So, when the planet is on the brink of going in flames, you choose division instead of commonality. You're choosing to focus on where you disagree than where y
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by heimatau 6y ago
Well, he got to eliminate competition and had a copycat tech ready in the wings. Typical business/cronyism move.
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by heimatau 6y ago
To the dead thread by lcall/thefounder: To them it's very related. "Signs of the times" giving people a 'sign of His coming'. 'The sun will darken' (most of Cali the sun is a bit more dim due to all t
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by heimatau 6y ago
>> That's like saying a 90miles/gallon car is 1% of the way to getting 9000 miles/gallon. Yeah. I think that would be apt to say. If you're able to do some napkin math about the sheer amount of R&D to get to th
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by heimatau 6y ago
This boils down to theoretical vs applied. The OP approx. stated that we're basically 1/100 of the way there and this theoretical drive is currently impossible to implement. I've changed my career path because of these proble
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by heimatau 6y ago
You had me until 'facing...overpopulation'. To boot, Elon Musk has talked about this [1]. We are not facing overpopulation. Population is contracting currently and will continue for at least a few decades. [1] - https:/&#x2F
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by heimatau 6y ago
> Not that many decades IMHO since removing the gold standard (1970s), this problem came up. I'm glad you have been able to but that possibility was shrinking every year. Less and less people were able to do what you did, starting i
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by heimatau 6y ago
> Could you speak about administrators that vote for their own interests. So, given the rising costs of Health Care and College both situations are good examples of this. The rising 'costs' are more people in administration. Th
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by heimatau 6y ago
>In a few months we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes. Actually this has been true for many decades, not just the last 10-20 years. The issue is exas
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by heimatau 6y ago
I'm curious how this will shake out. On one hand Epic (and any developer) is building their business on Apple's property/ecosystem. On the other hand, Apple has demonstrated anti-competitive behavior in numerous instances. Du
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by heimatau 6y ago
Hopefully this won't go far. Federal law is supposed to be a minimum and States can go more restrictive (i.e. regulation through NN).
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by heimatau 6y ago
Thanks for these links. I've saved them for future reference!
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by heimatau 6y ago
> we still aren’t telling the public that room air purifiers are a ‘good thing’ (for making indoor air like outdoor air - in regards to virion density per cubic air volume) > The filter technology is essentially the same as in the N95

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