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by jl2718 5y ago
… among people* who took an online survey. * not sure about this
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by jl2718 5y ago
Seriously, nobody would invest if that wasn’t 100% true.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Or just sell bonds like they already do for 10x what they collect in tax revenue. Taxation just lowers the interest rate. BTC/ETH/etc create public utility (security etc) by controlled inflation without any tax. And no Bitcoin min
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by jl2718 5y ago
What is the “change” he was talking about here?
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by jl2718 5y ago
The only thing ‘outside forces’ want the land for, is the right to tax the inhabitants.
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by jl2718 5y ago
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” Focus on ‘unusual’. All the words in this document have a meaning.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I misread as “the” people and was confused. Sad.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Skype? How outdated is his understanding of computer security?
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by jl2718 5y ago
They say that honest and nonviolent people have no need for self-keyed cryptography, that using it just enables criminals. This is true, but nobody is self-encrypting to help others to prey upon them. They are doing it to prevent becoming a
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by jl2718 5y ago
Interesting. So what they are actually building, is a Bitcoin reserve for a central digital currency, replacing USD, SDR, or gold reserves. The trick here is that it is a one-way accumulator. Bitcoin comes into the reserve but never leaves.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> Unlimited free speech may create a tyranny. Citation required.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I found this to be quite useless for understanding modern propaganda efforts. Mostly this is just telling subjects of propaganda that they are dumb, and they should be less dumb. As usual, this view on other people is incorrect. A proper tr
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by jl2718 5y ago
During the men’s 1500 freestyle heats it was noted the Katie Ledecky would have had the top seed by a significant margin if she were to compete with the men. Similar things sometimes happen in ultra running. I wonder if intersex competition
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by jl2718 5y ago
I did not expect html, http, or even tcp/ip to become dominant. I didn’t expect CSP centralization. Video over http/tcp? You have got to be crazy. Portable code in text (JavaScript) seemed ridiculous. I was quite young at the time
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by jl2718 5y ago
Part-time classes, although this would definitely be impossible in my current job, and I imagine that’s true for most software developers today.
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by jl2718 5y ago
This is just some guy’s pontification. The chart I gave is the exact relationship asked in the question. Your “100s of years” of economics is just a bunch of powerful people deciding how to spend less powerful people’s money. Bitcoin turned
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by jl2718 5y ago
How is that less broken? Did you read the article that says the wealthiest 0.01% pay interest on loans instead of taxes on gains? Interest takes zero effort to collect. Taxes take huge expensive bureaucracies and constant harassment of citi
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by jl2718 5y ago
I’m not sure that is exactly true. I’m not personally concerned with agents of chaos, but I am concerned with those that would victimize others to get what they want. I don’t know how to stop that. Some say the option of stable employment h
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by jl2718 5y ago
I have never read a comic book. Maybe I should start. Is there one you would suggest?
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by jl2718 5y ago
I’m 2014 I went to the funeral of my former classmate who had died of cancer. His father, who was a semi-retired biotech scientist, had an idea for how to prime the immune system with patient-specific molecules. I didn’t have a job, so I to
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by jl2718 5y ago
Important information: “By default, the apiserver does not verify the kubelet’s serving certificate, which makes the connection subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, and unsafe to run over untrusted and/or public networks.”
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think a society must first define their values before trying to align to them. Elimination of pain and suffering as a primary value, changes everything. A superintelligent overlord given that objective would simply eliminate all life on e
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by jl2718 5y ago
Imagine the possibility that this story is being pushed to build opposition support for stronger financial surveillance laws.
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by jl2718 5y ago
It is. And you’re in it! Has anybody seen the movie: “The Gods Must Be Crazy”?
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by jl2718 5y ago
Is there a rule against this? If you have better facts, please provide them. Disparaging a source of information adds nothing to the conversation.
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by jl2718 5y ago
The theory behind this is NOT that the poor students will become productive and valuable members of society. It is that they will become criminals if you don’t do everything you can for them, and one criminal is more costly to society than
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by jl2718 5y ago
These matches suffer from a very common problem in recommendation engines, which is a tendency toward matching with the long tail of randomness. The problem is that your matching engine assumes perfect accuracy in vectorization, but actuall
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yes; that's exactly my point. Bond sales set interest rates for everybody, and tax revenues are nothing but bond purchases.
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"Monetarily sovereign countries don't tax to fund their operations. Rather, they tax to fight inflation" Another way of putting this: we are paying the interest on their loans. That is, the only thing that would be different
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by jl2718 5y ago
https://imgur.com/a/EgRehxM Spoiler: 80% drop in US GDP relative to monetary base.

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