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hndamien
5y ago
Flows - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/flows-chat-without-internet/id...
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hndamien
5y ago
Yes, however the injustice is that only one side appears to be doing the time for laws broken.
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hndamien
5y ago
If a protest is authorised and legal in the eyes of those that you are protesting, is it really going to be an effective protest?
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5y ago
Where can you get NMN?
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5y ago
https://getsession.org/ Already does all of these.
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hndamien
5y ago
So you won’t run out of them. But they are not knowably finite or trustless, so not inherently great money.
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5y ago
How do you run out of something that is infinitely divisible?
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5y ago
Is it not money if I can go to McDonalds and buy burgers with it. And then go to Starbucks and buy a coffee with it? https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/essay-from-el-salvador-b...
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5y ago
Does the term "expensive" really make sense for an infinitely divisible medium of exchange? Can money be more or less "affordable"? The more meaningful metrics are purchasing power and historical and expected purchasing
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5y ago
There is a fundamental. difference to why they evangelise this as correcting a root problem of fiat money. Fiat money causes price distortion and monetisation of non-monetary assets. It also acts as a constant handbrake of people heavily re
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5y ago
Isn't this always going to be the case with money, especially hard money. Partially due to the definition of "wealthy"? The money appears to be unfairly distributed amongst the wealthy people. Yes! Thats how money works! If y
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5y ago
Australian police are allowed to secretly add data to your phone. The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) t
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5y ago
The real problem is that houses carry a monetary premium, but you also need to live in them. Fix the money.
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5y ago
Well, the greater point is that you can target taxes.
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5y ago
You could just apply the tax to investment properties. In Australia we have the opposite. Tax breaks for investment properties.
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5y ago
You can target taxes such that they don't hit poor people.
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5y ago
You can compare the M2 growth rates here and understand why one has crazy inflation and not the other. https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/money-supply-m2 https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/mone
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5y ago
Bisq
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5y ago
The caveat is that the currency is being debased and interest rates are being manipulated, forcing people out on the risk curve.
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5y ago
Buying Bitcoin might be a potential response since buying a house for protection is probably out of the question for now.
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5y ago
Not in substance.
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5y ago
It really isn't hard to beat the markets, just buy Bitcoin.
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hndamien
5y ago
Why not just hide it from accounts that show dislike attacking behaviour? Surely this is trivial to detect from Google AI/Deep Mind?
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5y ago
It should be stated we need to do x starting today to improve by this rate to avoid X. Then we could update the rate. Less sexy, but more accurate.
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5y ago
Tesla is the safest car on the road. In fact, the three safest cars on the road.
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5y ago
Given that space is expanding in all directions, isn't it almost guaranteed that the Higgs field has a vector component, like particles in a rising loaf of bread do?
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5y ago
Theoretically an independent could get enough support to form a party that could win. My point is that at least the system is structured that such an outcome could happen over time, or that the process of this happening forces major parties
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5y ago
You have a preferential voting system, not the lesser of two evils.
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5y ago
It's very Australian to care when it is too late.
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5y ago
> Money is a promise that someone will work for you. Incorrect. Money is (supposed to be) proof you did work/ created value.
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