jkepler

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by jkepler 5y ago
In the post he says that the apple computers all reset at midnight, automatically.
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They also get a ton of data about the world through free play, especially outside in nature, but they experience it as play, not data gathering.
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When I lived in Chattanooga back in 2011, the Electric Power Board offered fiber to the home with an offer of a Gigabyte up and down---hence the original use of Gig city for Chattanooga. I think this was even before Google showcased fiber t
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by jkepler 5y ago
Yet another reason why I think Switzerland would be a great country to move to.
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Correlation isn't causation. Bitcoin's network started January 3, 2009, so its halving cycles are roughly correlated with US presidential elections. Bitcoin is also global, and countries like France (home to Ledger and active bitc
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by jkepler 5y ago
You are confusing scarcity and monetary hardness. Its super easy to create more sacks of garbage, and if demand for them shot up, a ton of people would bring their own sacks to market, crashing the garbage sack price. This happened to silve
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by jkepler 5y ago
Energy use promotes human flourishing. Look up fatalities from climate-related catastrophes in the past hundred years---floods, winter storms, hurricanes, heat waves, crop-failure induced famines---and you'll see a steady downward tren
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by jkepler 5y ago
Isn't this convenience at the cost of trusting a third party, I.e. Transferwise, with your money? They can unilaterally hold, delay, or stop you from using your money.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Right. But problems with Tether don't affect bitcoin. People who want dollar-pegged digital currencies can hold other USDx tokens, including DAI, which is all provably based on over-collateralized (minimum 150%) debt obligations in a d
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by jkepler 5y ago
Real money = bitcoin, so yes, if people leave their bitcoin keys on the exchanges, they'll loose real money. Not your keys, not your coins.
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by jkepler 5y ago
If you look at the classic definition of a ponzi scheme, bitcoin doesn't fit, though central bank fiat currencies do. See macro economist Lyn Alden's excellent article for the full explanation: https://www.lynalden.com&
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by jkepler 5y ago
You're correct, except that the waking up with be those holding dollars loosing confidence, not bitcoiners. If you look at the classic definition of a ponzi scheme, bitcoin doesn't fit, though central bank fiat currencies do. See
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by jkepler 5y ago
If you look at the classic definition of a ponzi scheme, bitcoin doesn't fit, though central bank fiat currencies do. See macro economist Lyn Alden's excellent article for the full explanation: https://www.lynalden.com&
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by jkepler 5y ago
Mine are sociology, philosophy, and programming: La technique ou l’Enjeu du siècle (The Societal Society) - Jacques Ellul [0] A New Critique of Theoretical Thought - Herman Dooyeweerd [1] Surveillance After September 11 - David Lyon [2] The
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by jkepler 5y ago
Philadelphia, Tennessee, and Nashville, Pennsylvania would have made fun additions to the map.
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Or five cups is 13 to 20 demitasse cups [1] if you live in Europe, which would be an enormous amount of coffee! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demitasse
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by jkepler 5y ago
I'm still a bit bummed the Neo900 never happened. I think I read somewhere that once a year Google does free PCB prints if the board designs are free/libre design. If that's true (source, anyone?) does anyone who reads board
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by jkepler 5y ago
A year ago with work-from-home, my father who's near retirement began using LinuxMint on an old laptop for his work, and other than initial unfamiliarity with a few programs, no problems. He's not at all a geek, nor very adept at
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by jkepler 5y ago
> How did we end up in a place where we demand the system of government be democratic, with all the emotional language of freedom, self-determination and so on. And then we carved out an exception and made it so our places where we work
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by jkepler 5y ago
Like emacs coffee mode, https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CoffeeMode
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by jkepler 5y ago
> It genuinely does not matter whatsoever how much $1 buys you at any given time. It's a unit, like a liter, except one whose definition changes over time. Except that the whole point of units like liters, inches, or joules is that
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by jkepler 5y ago
Inflation is good for corporate debtors, too, which is why governments around the world are so generally enamored with it.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Won't t 3D-printing metal appliances be more and more widely feasible in coming years? And, at least here in the EU, right-to-repair [1] labeling gives consumers the ability to more efficiently vote with their wallets. Its also happeni
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by jkepler 5y ago
If one converts unused 15MW hydroelectric power in Canada to bitcoin, and sends the bitcoin elsewhere, say Japan, couldn't one then buy ~ 15MW of energy? I think that's the sense people mean when they say its a store of energy. Ho
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by jkepler 5y ago
> If someone had an unlimited cheap source of green energy, it would actually make Bitcoin less secure as it goes against proof of work - proof of work literally requires an “expensive” operation, exchanging work (energy) for security. T
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by jkepler 5y ago
I haven't ever run into that in 8 years of running a various GNU/Linux distros (MeeGo, Elementary OS, Maemo, Sailfish OS, Debian)... though I've never run Ubuntu.
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Sadly, this is true. Though it also leaves a huge opportunity for people to encourage cleaning staff (or drivers or any other manual labor in cultures that privilege intellectual work) with brief yet heartfelt greetings and genuine thanks f
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But doesn't his tweet also implicitly say they're HODLing for the long term? He said they won't sell any BTC until there's less energy consumption... does that mean they wait until the miners are 100% on renewable energy
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by jkepler 5y ago
> I’m surprised the guy in the article could go decades without eating any veggies ... Doesn't he eat a whole onion every night? Onions are vegetables right? I would agree it sounds like a lack of green veggies, though, if that&#x27
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by jkepler 5y ago
Tor, the onion router, perfect combination of spicy and sweet, as long as the TCP/IP packets are raw.

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