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by jl2718 5y ago
You know, the taxes they force you to pay are only a minimum requirement. Government is like any other service or charity out there. You don’t have to vote to force other people to buy the product; you can purchase as much as you want yours
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yes. Clearly it’s measured by how much money you take by force from other people and give maybe 10% to anybody that ‘needs’ it.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Not the surplus. Unless maybe you’re selling bonds, but, I doubt that this will go toward austerity.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I see a statically-typed jit-compiled python fork coming.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Publish the addresses, and criminal use of Bitcoin will end immediately. Offer bitcoin address clemency, and the criminals will be delivered on a silver platter by whomever they cashed out with. Yes; I realize the dystopian possibilities. B
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by jl2718 5y ago
They took it from you, and you’re not getting it back.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I thought we had free public housing already. Why didn’t it work the last time we gave away free houses? I thought we could just give them all free houses and the problem would be solved. Why do we have even more people now that need free h
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by jl2718 5y ago
Let’s talk about what does work. Assume you are a world-class ‘idea person’. That means that you know everything about your field, but you’re maybe not great at the specific skills. You have read everything in the technical literature. You
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by jl2718 5y ago
I have noticed that the only productive unit of execution from idea to functional proof of the idea, is exactly one person. It helps tremendously if they have others to talk to about their idea, ‘idea people’, if you will. But it doesn’t wo
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by jl2718 5y ago
But ‘deserve’ is something you can analyze to death and make no progress on except to justify violence or implied threats to make things ‘fair’. A peaceful way to analyze problems and arrive at solutions looks at what positive actions (viol
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by jl2718 5y ago
It is getting pretty ridiculous out there. The gas price today was higher than recent memory with about half of it spent on dog coins. Also, Vitalik is now far wealthier in dog coins than Ethereum. If he was a US citizen he would owe billio
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by jl2718 5y ago
Even the most Pollyanna reports from firms that exist to ‘fight’ crime say it 2% criminal. I don’t know how much of that is illegal source versus regulatory evasion. World black market GDP is estimated somewhere around 25%. And it make sens
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by jl2718 5y ago
It worked out horribly. They were shot, prosecuted, embarrassed, fired from their jobs, and forever surveilled and hunted by the entire domestic apparatus. Your othering use of ‘you guys’ suggests a derogatory view of this event, but your s
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by jl2718 5y ago
Nobody does, but it’s a possibility, and we’re hoping that self-sovereign money makes for a more peaceful transition in those places. If it’s total chaos, the criminals will have total control. We have seen this many times. To see why peopl
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by jl2718 5y ago
Or they know they can’t, so they are moral grandstanding until they come up with a plan for the digital economy.
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by jl2718 5y ago
In other words, a strategic move to protect assets.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Cool. Now do fiat. We don’t want things to be this way either. But they are.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> When if it was inevitable, there would be no bubble to begin with. Crypto is not a hedge against inflation; it’s a hedge against collapse.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think it would be hard to account for because the data is used by search. Can they actually quantify accurately the value of targeting data?
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by jl2718 5y ago
Is there a way to ‘train’ for emotional stability?
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by jl2718 5y ago
I’m not a philosopher, but I’m sure there is a symbolic logic interpretation of this that would reveal it’s absurdity. Something like: A is bad. B is bad. Not A does not decrease B. Therefore, not A is bad.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Nonsense or terrible design. The VPN shouldn’t be able to read anything sent to a tor node. There are easy ways to detect a key exchange intercept with a trusted certificate authority, and probably also with no trusted authority.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> I’d happily trade But that’s not your choice. It’s interesting that you indicate disagreement with how the money is spent, but not how it is taken. This seems like the same concern for those they are taking it from. Can you imagine how
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by jl2718 5y ago
> Plaid. Sorry, you touched a nerve. They seriously think it’s a good idea to type your bank password into an app that is not your bank. That is the best we can do right now for making payments. Or credit cards with only 3% transaction f
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by jl2718 5y ago
Meta: I’m tempted to flag any broad characterization of the human population as stupid. This is mostly because such a statement clearly violates the central limit theorem. However, such a statement might be very accurate in specific cases o
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by jl2718 5y ago
I know this one guy that disagrees with me, and I think he is very stupid. This is proof that everybody that disagrees with me is also very stupid and wrong. The problem is that the opinions that disagree with me are allowed to exist. Under
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by jl2718 5y ago
Read early versions of the Ripple white paper, before they decided to make XRP a store of value. The compulsion to cash in on a settlement layer by establishing your own scarce medium of exchange is too great.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Unemployment insurance is only applicable to people that can work, choose to work, but cannot find work. Your criticism is all about the entire system of work. Different concepts. I think you’re advocating for UBI. Maybe UBI is a better ide
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by jl2718 5y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I just happen to have lived there. You should go check it out and try to find just one Kuwaiti citizen working a non-government or non-executive job. Talk to the people that are working and ask them where they a
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by jl2718 5y ago
Hmmm... I was trying to point out that speculation may be more ideological than evidentiary. Was that missed, or am I the one driving in the slow lane?

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