jkepler

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by jkepler 4y ago
M'y physics prof loved his NeXT machine back in the day.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Yeah, I had a Withings semismart watch, one of their cheaper models without a screen. It integrated a pedometer, and had a dial had that would show steps taken, it moved from 0 to 100% of your goal. One had to pair it to the Withings Androi
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by jkepler 4y ago
> but for what it's worth, my emotional frame towards what she did is gratitude. Sounds to me like the basic conflict here is the OP holds to expressive individualism of the sort historian Carl Trueman describes in his book, The Ris
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by jkepler 4y ago
/Can/ one run mainline GNU/Linux on the Cosmo Communicator? On their website, it says Linux and Sailfish OS support are planned, but not ready yet. And, will it be pure Linux, or will it be running on top of Androids HAL (Har
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by jkepler 4y ago
I don't know if its still the case, but about ten years ago I took ViaRail Canada from Vancouver to Toronto. It was a four-day train ride (with a brief stopover on Bamff) and the vast majority of it was remote Canada crossing the Rocki
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by jkepler 4y ago
Frappucinos are frivolous uses of energy. Where ought one draw the line?
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by jkepler 4y ago
Yup. Ethereum is now ruled by the riches people in that network. Sounds an awful lot like legacy financial networks that are also run by the rich. The question is, can a truly decentralized blockchain maintain its security against all adver
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by jkepler 4y ago
You're correct that using waste methane to generate electricity for bitcoin mining is small, but its growing, which is good news. And this is significant for the climate as methane gas has a /far/ larger warming effect than C
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by jkepler 4y ago
Actually, look at the deal Kissinger cut with the Saudis in the early 1970s, creating the petrodollar system: the US dollar became the world's reserve currency because the Saudis agreed to only accept dollars in exchange for oil. The c
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by jkepler 4y ago
But why single out Bitcoin? What about all the data centers serving Netflix movies? Others might say those are excess. Consider the annual energy consumption of tumble-dryers in the USA (which uses more energy than bitcoin mining): in Euro
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by jkepler 4y ago
Actually, the Puritans left England for Holland because they were at the receiving end of violent imprisonment for holding religious convictions that differed with the Anglican church and authorities. Then they left the Netherlands because
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by jkepler 4y ago
What if one only buys a laptop once every three or four years? Then it would be 1/3 or 1/4 of a percent of annual salary.
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by jkepler 4y ago
I suspect you'd have to never cross a border/barrier where ID was required, and you would need to pay cash (or bitcoin) in-person for everything, as you would be cut-off from the banking system. You'd probably also be limited
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by jkepler 4y ago
You took my stapler.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Thanks for this list!
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by jkepler 4y ago
Bitcoin is already thermodynamically secured by proof-of-work, as miners burn electricity for the right to add new blocks of transactions to the blockchain. The ESG crowd can criticize energy use, but human civilization flourished with abun
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by jkepler 4y ago
Gold's physical characteristics tended towards centralization. Centralizing gave the institutions controlling the gold strong incentives to allow debasement of gold-backed money, as it gave those institutions handsome profits and stron
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by jkepler 4y ago
Ethereum is not Bitcoin. Ethereum just showed the world Botcoin's unique value compared to Ethereum and the thousands of crypto projects so often conflated with Bitcoin. The 2017 Bitcoin scaling wars proved that one can't simply c
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by jkepler 4y ago
Libertarians should be protesting against violence toward the unborn child... libertarianism's core principle is nonviolence towards others.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Are you familiar with https://identity.foundation/ ? Its a group of companies and developers working on decentralizing identity.
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by jkepler 4y ago
On Android, if you use AndOTP, the app allows you to easily back up all your OTP secrets to an exportable file, with optional password encryption. Trivial to then import into another phone.
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by jkepler 4y ago
SMS is bad for 2FA not because it can be spoofed, bit because of SIM-swapping attacks that let the attacker trivially take your 2FA codes from you---gaining access to your protected accounts while you're locked out. NIST recommended ag
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by jkepler 4y ago
The French government adopted Matrix for all their internal and inter-ministerial communications, to avoid dependence on foreign corporate products. https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix_french
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by jkepler 4y ago
Actually, what you call brand recognition could be monetary adoption, as every nongovernmental money such as gold or silver had widespread adoption on their merits. Bitcoin solved the Byzantine generals' problem in adversarial network
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by jkepler 4y ago
Accept bitcoin for your products and services, and when you run your books, look at it from the perspective of bitcoin to see if you're profitable or not, even if you legally still need to keep your books in your local government'
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by jkepler 4y ago
Some of us have read Bastiat (in French!), Mises, Hayek, Rothbart, Solerno, and other "heterodox" Austrian economists, and have a better understanding of how money arises and how central bank interference in monetary and credit ma
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by jkepler 4y ago
Read Rothbart's Mystery of Banking, https://mises.org/library/mystery-banking . Or Mises' Human Action.
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by jkepler 4y ago
Bitcoin mining currently consumes less that 0.2 % of global energy consumption. Smartphone use and the associated radio infrastructure use somewhere between 1% to 2% of global energy. How much energy do central and commercial banks, auditor
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by jkepler 4y ago
Many---nearly all---altcoins are dangerously close to ponzi schemes, except bitcoin. Bitcoin stands apart as the sole protocol that's really decentralized and doesn't promise ridiculous returns. However, given that Bitcoin is jn t
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by jkepler 4y ago
Can you provide a source for your statement? Nothing in the Satoshi white paper says that was the purpose, and Satoshi wasn't even sure if the project would work as digital cash, much less enable wealth transfers.

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