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by jkepler 6y ago
Nope, bartering (at least in the US) is still taxable on the fair market value of whatever you're exchanging.
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What historical period are you referring to? If you look at the first 200 years of US history, for example, there was plenty of real world growth on spite of slow price deflation. Gold and silver jointly backed the banking system until the
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> Otherwise they'd be unable to tell how many $ you paid to acquire the Bitcoin you just spent. This is a massive reconciliation and record keeping overhead problem if you live in a jurisdiction that taxes crypto transactions for c
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by jkepler 6y ago
Not necessarily if one works for a firm that moves you every few years. My family and I have lived in 5 cities in the past six years, due to changing work assignments.
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by jkepler 6y ago
Sure. Layers, like the Internet is made up of protocol layers. Bitcoin on-chain is layer one: slow, sure, and after 6 confirmations considered irreversible and immutable. Layer 2 protocols would include the lightning network and the liquid
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by jkepler 6y ago
But how quickly does SWIFT or ACH settle? When one wires money overseas, settlement is counted in days, not minutes or hours as in bitcoin's case. Most of us use layer 2 or 3 solutions in our legacy national currency systems, such as C
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by jkepler 6y ago
I crossed from Southampton to NYC with my family of 3 on the Queen Mary 2 in June 2019. Amazing experience, and one we hope to repeat sometime. I'd found a 57% sale on cabins right after Christmas 2018, and even with upgrading to have
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by jkepler 6y ago
I doubt most authentic sea shanties were ever under copyright to begin with. I remember learning a handful of them in the 1980s in primary school, back before they were trending online---back in 'pre-history' before the web was in
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by jkepler 6y ago
Well said. Also, using Gotenna's TxTenna ( https://txtenna.com/ ) with Blockstream satellite downloading of bitcoin block data, one can send and receive bitcoin transaction data all without local internet connectivity.
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by jkepler 6y ago
M'y guess is Moxie would shut the company down before introducing a backdoor. Also, if the gov tries to ban it, its just open-soirce software, right? Haven't courts (in the US at least) ruled that code is speech, and therefore pro
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Amazing how form and freedom aren't antithetical, but are actually part and parcel of true liberty.
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But bitcoin is open source (logiciel libre), and its pretty capitalist: look at how it enables people to put market value on really-hard-to-find prime numbers. What's needed to counter any 'open source is communist' rhetoric
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by jkepler 6y ago
Do you have a source on the priceless paintings not being damaged? I heard otherwise.
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Fennec (Firefox) on Lineage OS.
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Thanks for linking to the counter-anti-desintermediation article. I knew the general ideas, but not the term.
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by jkepler 6y ago
But if one reads Parker's terms of service (TOS), they reserve the right to moderate illegal content, as well as claim unlimited global usage of any content uploaded to their platform. Thus while their ethos was largely anti-moderation
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by jkepler 6y ago
Evidence, please. I lived in a major US city, have a friend there who's a senior-level libertarian cleaning state trooper, and he told me the protests he knew about personally were peaceful. Nor did I see violent rioters myself.
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by jkepler 6y ago
For perspective on a veterinary surgeon's work and world, James Herriot wrote eight books , starting with, "If Only They Could Talk" in 1970. [0] To learn what its like to start a non-profit/NGO working to help homeless
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by jkepler 6y ago
Bots that we've trained. And there's also an xkcd for this: https://xkcd.com/2228/ .
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by jkepler 6y ago
Yup, exactly. My thoughts on CAPTCHAs expressed well by https://xkcd.com/1897/ https://xkcd.com/2228/ .
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Free money also pulls many of the brightest into finance, as big finance's proximity to Washington and the money spigots is lucrative. There is a proper place for finance, but right now it seems everything is finance.
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by jkepler 6y ago
True, but when you compare the price of housing, rent, higher education, or health care, or art, you'll see a different story. The Consumer Price Index (at least in the US) excludes so many things as to not be a real measure of the dol
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by jkepler 6y ago
> Money is just a lever. If you focus all your mental energy into acquiring the leverage without ever giving any thought to where you want to pry, you can end up badly lost. Agreed. In other words, money is just a linguistic tool for com
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by jkepler 6y ago
You would enjoy the children's picture book, "Father, May I Come" by Peter Spier [1], as it tells the story of Dutch costal rescue in the 17th and 20th centuries. The first time I read the story to my son, I nearly cried at t
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by jkepler 6y ago
In the early 20th century, British children's educator Charlotte Mason emphasized the importance of air quality, outside air, and frequently changing one's inside air: "Unchanged Air.––Parents of pale faced town children, thi
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by jkepler 6y ago
You can't. Don't trust, but verify. If a company or individual needs strong privacy, they should verify any encryption claims. This would mean using only libre/open source software like Jitsu or Linphone, as one could verify
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by jkepler 6y ago
How long until owners of autonomous vehicles (or vehicles with autonomous mode) demand libre software so that they (or the tech wizards they hire) can make sure there are functional off switches. Otherwise the AI overlords win.
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Depends on your license.
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Owners of GIMP get free updates (or any other FOSS/libre software or OS), and can improve things themselves with the right skills. Car software out to be the same.
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by jkepler 6y ago
Also time stamping, as mentioned multiple times in comments above. See opentimestamps.org for a self-hostable implementation that can run on bitcoin or litecoin's networks.

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