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by jkepler 4y ago
Connect the public water utility to a bitcoin mining operation, with contractual rights to dial down/turn off the bitcoin mining and use that electricity as backup should the water treatment plant's other source of electricity fai
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by jkepler 4y ago
You're correct that the Cedi has lost value compared with the US dollar while existing in a world where USD is one side if nearly every international business transaction. However, look at the US dollar over longer durations against wh
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> China? They do too much contract manufacturing for America, and no one wants yen or a currency from a dictatorship. Yen is Japanese currency; yuan is China's money.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Doesn't help that the US seems set on destroying the world's confidence in the US dollar: first the 2008 financial crises and monetary creation (I.e. devaluation) in response; then much more recently they hammered nails in
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by jkepler 4y ago
Add to this that the US Federal government has conducted numerous hot wars to protect USD dominance. Remember when Saddam Hussain and then Kadafi in Libya each started selling dollars for euros? War. https://bitcoinmagazine.com&#
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by jkepler 4y ago
I had a basic Withings, not the Steel, and there was a lot I liked about it, particularly getting many months out of each battery, and the step counter being a dial from 0 to 50 to 100% of whatever target number of steps one set in the comp
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by jkepler 4y ago
Rather than reducing birth rates (which would mean less creative problem-solvers to care for the climate and the broader natural world and human cultures), in the long term we ought to increase energy production. Abundant affordable energy,
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by jkepler 4y ago
To even pose the question of animal suffering is unique to humans. After all, it's only humans who create humane societies to advocate for animal welfare. Why? I don't know how others belief systems would explain that, but from a
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by jkepler 4y ago
2nd paragraph of the article states, "Employment insecurity and the rising cost of living are also taking a toll and expanding the profile of those at risk of homelessness. " Yet, UBI would drive prices up more, as its simple mone
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by jkepler 4y ago
Does anyone have a non-paywalled link to the journal article, rather than just a news story about it?
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by jkepler 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Booklet_3G
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by jkepler 4y ago
For nearly 10 years I used a compact netbook with an Intel Atom Z530 1.6 GHz and 1G RAM, a Nokia Booklet 3G. I swapped the HDD for an SDD, and given its fanless unibody aluminum design and its 10.1in 1280x720 screen, it was silent and useab
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by jkepler 4y ago
Lineage OS can often do WiFi only on old Androids. But unless I'm mistaken, if a device only has 3G, and you want to travel with it away from WiFi, you can't even get 3G data on the device, as they shut off the 3G networks in the
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by jkepler 4y ago
This, exactly. I have two ancient Nokia N900s that came out in 2009, runs a Debian variant natively and there's the Maemo Leste project that brings mainline Linux to the device (amazing!). However, is already useless as a phone in the
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by jkepler 4y ago
Or its in reality TV.
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by jkepler 4y ago
You buy a digital claim to own a non-scarce jpeg, that anyone can copy, but only you can "own". Problem is, to enforce your ownership rights you are relying on the security of whatever the underlying block chain is. And, we know t
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by jkepler 4y ago
> ... when there isn’t place in the real world even for the largest one? Uh, go visit El Salvador. Every MacDonalds, every Starbucks, and tons of local businesses accept "the largest one." That's because bitcoin stands apa
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by jkepler 4y ago
What about Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC ? I recently installed it in a Qubes to be able to run some specific database software until I can export the data to an open, libre database. My understanding was that LTSC didn't require an accou
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by jkepler 4y ago
And probably if one can still program lisp, one could write an escape vehicle for an alternate universe...
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by jkepler 4y ago
I was at a conference and 5 minutes into the plenary speaker's keynote address, his Windows 10 laptop that he was running his presentation slides from started an obligatory none-cancelable system upgrade. I don't think Microsoft s
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by jkepler 4y ago
I've worked for a non-profit that is officially Microsoft Office based, and our policy manual say all field staff (who provide their own laptops/computer hardware) need to be able to interact with MS Office file formats. I and an
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by jkepler 4y ago
If a project is actually decentralized, you can't simply fork the code to fork the community. In truly decentralized systems, the consensus rules define whether one is into the system or not. The big problem here is that most of the
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by jkepler 4y ago
> If bittorent was invented today you'd have to buy into some pyramid scheme to use it. Bitcoin was effectively invented 'today', yet you don't have to buy into a pyramid scheme to use it.[1] For example, you could si
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by jkepler 4y ago
Don't attribute to malice what could simply be ignorance. Right now, people need to pit in some serious time (upwards of 100 hours minimum) learning about true decentralized open technologies like bitcoin , so I think uninformed ignor
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by jkepler 4y ago
Pay a bit more annually to a reputable DNS company. For example, I initially whet with GoDaddy, until about ten years ago when I read that they were shutting down people's domains simply upon a "we're investigating thisbperso
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by jkepler 4y ago
Thanks.
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What are you referring to? Are Debian's default installations going to include the non-free repositories, which aren't officially part of Debian?
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by jkepler 4y ago
How does NixOS compare to running Debian Stable? I've never had problems with upgrades breaking things on Debian stable.
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by jkepler 4y ago
> It's fundamentally a problem of trust. Absolutely. That's where bitcoin could help a new platform, as a decentralized trust protocol. The bisq.network protocol requires people to put up significant bonds to perform roles that
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by jkepler 4y ago
Does OpenBSD have any kind of cryptographically measured boot like Heads (which I believe can only boot to GNU/Linux)?

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