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by jkepler 5y ago
So he would retire once his kids were grown & out of the house.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Or wait until the house of cards that is fiat money turns into real money with no counterparty risk. Look at the risks involved in having central banks as the final counterparty for all our government's fiat monies: [0]. This is why in
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by jkepler 5y ago
But don't scammers already use banks under false identities, or bank accounts for which they stole the credentials?
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by jkepler 5y ago
I think Jitsi group calls can be end to end encrypted, provided all participants use Chromium 83, per https://jitsi.org/security/ .
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by jkepler 5y ago
Would you mind documenting this claim, please?
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by jkepler 5y ago
Bitcoin can even be a base layer for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO)s. Take a look at bisq's DAO, built directly on top of bitcoin by using colored bitcoin for its BSQ governance token. Its been operating and paying for t
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by jkepler 5y ago
>> there's nothing inherent in money that makes it that way > Yes there is. Typically money is legal tender ... Parent comment was right, subjective value thesis says people will value things (including money) differently. And
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by jkepler 5y ago
> mRNA vaccines do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19 That has caused resistance among friends I know, who say that its not a real vaccine, since vaccines give you a small dose of a live virus to trigger one's immune respon
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by jkepler 5y ago
Problem is, Telegram stores all conversation data in their cloud with homemade encryption, and WhatsApp is proprietary, owned by Facebook, and has been target of numerous security breaches... So, something encrypted via open standards and s
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by jkepler 5y ago
Good question. I'm not sure if the details, but you could learn more here: https://oilmanmagazine.com/how-and-why-natural-gas-flaring-i... https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business&#x2F
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by jkepler 5y ago
Figures someone would mention laundering money.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Hilarious !
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by jkepler 5y ago
Except that bitcoin fits none of the definitions of a ponzi scheme, unless you think money as a technology for storing wealth is a ponzi scheme. For example, under the gold standard (1870s until 1913), the US saw gradual price deflation, me
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by jkepler 5y ago
No, under the iron grip of central banks.
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by jkepler 5y ago
One could read up on how bitcoin mining is being used in the west Texas Permian Basin to help reduce flared methane gas. Or, how electric companies could mine bitcoin to provide their grids with power consumption for demand/supply load
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by jkepler 5y ago
> Still interesting and scary to think that individual can basically "destroy" irreversibly any amount of savings by forgetting the keys/ sending it to wrong address and that can be done with 1 click. That's exactly w
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by jkepler 5y ago
When I was a kid and full of enthusiasm for Legos, I bought a very small pirate set---a rowboat, a canon, a pirate and a soldier---with money I'd earned, because my friend had a larger set with the canon, and it fired a piece via a spr
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by jkepler 5y ago
I agree. My son is just getting into Lego, and I find I'm avoiding most of the newer sets in favor of decent-condition used vintage sets, simply because what he enjoys is having enough general pieces to create and imagine new things.
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by jkepler 5y ago
> Serious war is around the corner. Not hypothetical wars. Serious war may look different from the past of nation-state wars. We're living through the emergence of network states. Given how the Internet enables non-tangible property
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by jkepler 5y ago
> The definitions although seemingly scientific are simply a re-enforcement of the biblical idea that the world was created for us, and that we can essentially do as we please . . . That's a historic misinterpretation of biblical te
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by jkepler 5y ago
So robots programmed to learn could be considered sentient ?
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by jkepler 5y ago
Couldn't a robot be programmed to respond to stimuli, and to communicate with other robots? Would that then be a form of sentience?
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by jkepler 5y ago
Archive link, anyone?
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by jkepler 5y ago
Exactly on point regarding Debian. I've been running Debian stable since 2012 or 2013, and I've only upgraded my hardwear when a motherboard died or when I wanted a new laptop for reasons other than the OS.
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by jkepler 5y ago
By Westphalion model, do you mean the sovereigty of nation states?
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by jkepler 5y ago
This is why I still use a i7 Thinkpad x230: ease of repairability.
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by jkepler 5y ago
I'm also in France, but in a larger city, but what you said still rings true. I prefer older Thinkpads, as if something breaks I can either fix it myself or take it to just about any computer repair shop on earth and they'll have
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by jkepler 5y ago
Agreed. US cities generally have way less population densities than European cities. Basically, the New York City metro and perhaps Chicago (mostly within the El, but perhaps more broadly if we include the commuter rail lines) are the main
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by jkepler 5y ago
Is the increase in child speech and reading problems due in part to the breakdown of family structures and the corresponding absense or regular family meals together (with conversation) and family reading aloud? Those would be significant h
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by jkepler 5y ago
Hmm, oddly enough, I've found Debian stable to be the most stable OS for my uses. That said, I do more writing and email than I do programming, so perhaps library dependencies aren't such a big deal for me. If I can run tex-live,

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