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by miscreanity 8y ago
First off, I want my amazing AI and renewable/sustainable energy generation via microgrids and all manner of eco-friendly technologies. However, the economics and individual freedom aspects are pushing those forward; there largely orth
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Linear thinking cannot bridge the gap in the complex, nonlinear world we live in. There is a time for unions and there is a time for leaving a broken system. The ocean is bigger than textile mills in the Carolinas and there are more factors
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Practices that work during a growth phase rarely work effectively when an organization (business, country, etc) has reached the latter states of its lifecycle. One example is unions: they organized and protected workers in a period when com
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by miscreanity 8y ago
I've been both a wage earner and a business owner, having gone from a similar perspective as yours to wondering why I was funding incompetence, laziness and war by paying taxes. Most business owners I've met, both small and large,
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Death was more of a concern in the 1800s regarding medical procedures. Multiple jobs just to get by sounds a lot like today yet plenty of people still grow, learn and create.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
2. Agreed. Out of curiosity, would you consider it sensible to directly tax the production of a robot? 3. The larger the trend, the easier to forecast. Historically, empires fail slowly and then enter a rapid final decline. Martin Armstrong
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Yes, impressive but the scale had to be sufficient - it wouldn't work well for a smaller residence. That said, a large enough modernized variant may work well for neighborhoods.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
The US as a nation was/is strong thanks to its people, not the government. This has been due to the fact that the US Constitution is restrictive - individual freedoms are expressly permitted and functions of the state are explicitly li
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by miscreanity 8y ago
2. Sustained growth at that rate is unrealistic. Going from dirt farmers to office workers is the kind of shift we're looking at over the next decade, but with a shift from office/service to creative work. Machinery displaced farm
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by miscreanity 8y ago
1. There are numerous cyclical factors that affect the productivity of a population. Growth in the US post-WWII was strong enough to offset taxation. Additionally, the US has enjoyed a status of economic core which has helped to prop up the
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Concentration of power inevitably leads to abuse - the only question is how long it will take until the taxation burden becomes overwhelming. It appears we're fast approaching that point and the next decade will break many Western nati
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by miscreanity 8y ago
There are wealthy individuals and organizations that seek to make profit from charitable projects and the example presented is far from the worst; corruption as seen in the Red Cross is one such issue. However, I expect the proportion of th
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by miscreanity 8y ago
As @lostmsu points out, government surveillance is a greater issue. The paper currency you may have in your pocket has serial numbers on it but it is impractical to associate those numbers with an individual, much less the sequence of trave
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Proof-of-Stake units don't have to be acquired via public exchange, so ownership can concentrate without visibility; same as any other crypto system. It would likely work well enough for a period of time but as the system starts to sho
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by miscreanity 8y ago
You can try to stop it, but that never works in the long run. Ever. If there's going to be a social element, it will be exploited to the game's level of popularity. That isn't to say a game can't remain closed and privat
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by miscreanity 8y ago
This happens in any field during growth. Blockchain is a tool which you can blame all you want, but will not change the outcome. Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology or whatever the name is of late has shown the possibility of standa
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by miscreanity 8y ago
>If your criticism was based on actual knowledge Actual knowledge would probably say that institutions are positioning rapidly. Look to the crypto systems that are currently being integrated into the financial system, the primary of whic
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by miscreanity 8y ago
The technology is useful for exactly the things proponents are trying to fight against. Crypto systems are incredibly powerful control and tracking systems - the ideal tool for banks and governments. That's where the use case is.
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by miscreanity 8y ago
While not participating means no "real world" money involved and an uphill battle for adoption. The game would have to be an outstanding gem, and even then markets will form. Would it be worthwhile for a game developer to spend ti
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Each consensus method (Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake, Directed-Acyclic-Graph, etc) has weaknesses that can be exploited by a large or influential enough entity - there are no exceptions . All it takes is time. By the time the system has re
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by miscreanity 8y ago
This seems similar to what Artemis Networks has been working on, although they don't use the waves for computation but communication. https://www.artemis.com
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by miscreanity 8y ago
Yes. Who makes the rules? There is no safety in trusting government or associated companies.
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by miscreanity 9y ago
Blockchain systems enable structures very different from what we're used to, much like proprietary and open source models can differ greatly. Instead of needing a healthy profit margin for server operation as in your Google example, bl
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by miscreanity 9y ago
Bingo. Blockchain systems are ideal for tracking & control, even beyond credit cards and the like. Bitcoin is simply so much more accessible.
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by miscreanity 9y ago
>The solution, in my opinion, would be to continue to erase traditional gender roles. While it may nice to imagine an idyllic world devoid of gender roles, that simply is not reality across the board. Each couple has their own idiosyncra
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by miscreanity 9y ago
I don't have the link offhand but all privacy coins can be unmasked by large enough organizations. Monero is currently the most resilient to direct analysis. Keep in mind that enough data points from outside the system can be used to a
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by miscreanity 9y ago
I can say one thing... after having learned most of what the article outlines the hard way, I'm still waiting for hardware to trial. Meanwhile, MIMO capabilities are improving steadily; not quite the same approach but functional and pr
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by miscreanity 9y ago
I would argue that Bitcoin is the coin, not a national cryptocoin. Russia world not trust a US coin, the US would not want to use a Chinese coin, etc. Bitcoin is effectively neutral territory but is effectively controlled through centralize
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by miscreanity 9y ago
For fintech, v64 has made the case very well. In another reply, I explained the use case for government is control and tracking via blockchain. From the consumer perspective, the benefit will be convenience. We have car find that automatica
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by miscreanity 9y ago
The ultimate use case is control and tracking beyond any form created thus far. Paper currency that may be in your pocket has serial numbers printed on it. Those numbers cannot be readily associated with an individual. Bitcoin and all other

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