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by jkepler 5y ago
Hmm, in my experience helping others move has been a great was to care for others, and its usually also meant people were willing to help me move. But if you prefer the independence of minimal living, that's also advantageous.
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That farmer is happy keeping tabs on his space. He enjoys his work, his place, and doesn't much mind (it seems) what others think of him.
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Except that Proof-of-work isn't wasted energy: it secures the bitcoin network/system by making it prohibitively expensive to attack, as well as provides a means to confirm groups of transactions in a decentralized manner. Bitcoin
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I would add Andreas Antonopoulos's video, as well as the What Bitcoin Did podcast as good starting points. Also check out the book, Inventing Bitcoin.
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Wait - wasn't it relatively free-markets and rule-of-law property rights that enabled the west to outcompete the USSR, spending just a small fraction of GDP on defense compared to the Soviet defense percentage of GDP? And didn't r
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Won't 3D printing also spur local manufacturing?
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You stated, "We all LIKE that current system... " Who is the "we all" you speak of? Its certainly not me (I've had far too many frustrating, expensive, time-consuming problems with the legacy banking/financial
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I did this, but found I was saving way more articles than I ever had time for. Before long my backlog of stiff to read was overwhelmingly long, so I quit saving articles.
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I'm pretty sure all of Dürer's works are public domain, given how long ago he lived. One would simply need to find reproductions of them that ate also public domain or copylefted.
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by jkepler 5y ago
I think they're too aware that with real dollar inflation probably running at least 10% per year (per Michael Saylor), they'd loose too much value for them to consent to holding only cash for 2 to 6 years. For every $100K they had
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by jkepler 6y ago
« (And something like Bordeaux to Lyon needs to cross the Massif Central, which will significantly increase the cost of construction, which potentially makes it even less likely to happen.) » Indeed. Currently by train, Bordeaux to Lyon wou
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by jkepler 6y ago
Why do we need credit cards, or a credit score? Seems to me we'll all be in better shape if we called them 'debt cards' so we'd be less inclined to load on debt. Can't we architect an asset-based economy, rather tha
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by jkepler 6y ago
No, the previous comment was correct, in that an open lightning channel balance is inherently at risk, if you're wallet software isn't monitoring that the lightning nodes you're dealing with follow the protocol. If a node bro
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> Having to work consistently is the norm, not a treadmill. Agreed. Work is what creates value for others. However, trading one's work for money that's designed to loose value over time via the inflation tax central banks impos
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Does bitcoin as a FOSS project change this, at least for itself as a project?
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Probably there were a bunch of construction workers there the last time that Ramo was resurfaced. Also the periphery is probably regularly mowed by the state DOT.
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Walled gardens? Sounds more like a prison cell with wheels.
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"Hoarding" is simply a characterization of what others call saving. Look at economic history: places where people are able to save effectively tend to grow significant investment in economically productive activities.
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Agreed. I would still use my old Nokia N900, but its browser can't deal with what it sees as all the expired SSL certs... so that phone's become primarily a small digital music player.
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Isn't the underlying problem here the idea of Intellectual Property doesn't really correspond to real property? If I have an ax I use to provide lumber to our town and you steal it physically from me, that's theft. But if you
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Thanks for the link!
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I'm in France, and have met some of the excellent folks who help framasoft with their project to degooglize the Internet. I know a number of people who dispair, thinking they can't protect their privacy. But gradually, those who k
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by jkepler 6y ago
There's Fairphone, already two generations of modular phone design. Unfortunately, they're only officially supported in Europe. But if you're in Europe, and want a modular phone, they're where its at.
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by jkepler 6y ago
> .... In other words, "desirable places to live" is not a finite, limited resource; we can create more. > Most human wealth is like the latter, not the former; we can create more of it. But you have to have a mindset that y
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by jkepler 6y ago
K-9 Mail defaults to asking the user if he or she wants to load images, at least on my Android phone.
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So, compare the volatility of Apple stock to Bitcoin for the last year or two. Which is more volatile, and which one has a long-term downward rate of volatility?
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Thanks for your response. Perhaps the pre-WW1 period is too different from today because we're still living in the 100-year+ experiment if central banks and applied Keynesian theory. If the Austrian school's business cycle theorie
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I love the town of Bayeux, and agree that the tapestry is a jewel. Great museum experience. With the popularity of comic books today, this is a great way to introduce folks to Norman history.
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If its only taxes that are forced on us, why then do US notes say that they're legal tender for all debts public and private. That sounds like force to me: I may want payment in bitcoin or Swiss francs or whatever, but if the payee wan
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by jkepler 6y ago
2% inflation over 30 years destroys over half the purchasing power of the saved money. So no, moderate inflation doesn't encourage saving. It encourages the unbridled consumerism that has created environmental catastrophe. Bitcoin, as

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