notanzaiiswear

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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I want to comment on one more thing: calling somebody a "troll" is an insult. Over several years, I have been called troll many times, just because I called out leftist conspiracy theories or misguided conceptions about economics.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I strongly suspect you never had a 101 humanities class. Pretty sure "philosophy" is all about what you know and what you can and what you have to believe. Maybe you confuse it with "Bible class 101", where you get told
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
That is why people are supposed to have arrangements with other people who can decide for them when they are in coma. Usually it is family, but you can also designate other people. At least in my country that is the case, not sure how the U
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I mean if the government kills them, obviously. Would it then be free speech? Everybody could say what they want, it's just the consequence could be a death sentence.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Not freedom of consequences: that is a bit too vague. What if the consequence is that somebody shoots you dead if you say the wrong thing? According to you, they still have free speech? Actually I think some real world dictator was literall
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
People have different ideals. A lot of people really care about free speech and freedom in general.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Is this just the IQ debate, or "nature vs nurture", on another playing field? It seems very obviously that some people operate on another level than others. If methods exist to boost the "normal" people to the genius lev
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Why would it need blockchains?
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
In my opinion, the job of politicians is to free me from having to deal with politics. That is why they are called "delegates" (in my country at least), because people delegate that job to them. Having to consider every minor poli
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
"The Wahl-O-Mat is organized by Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education, which describes itself as a “federal public authority providing citizenship education.” Despite the somewhat Orwellian language, the agency is widely trusted
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
No you don't have to remember the master seed. You should write it down and hide it somewhere, though. You need it if you lose access to your wallet. (It's a bit like a backup of the encryption keys for your hard disk, if you have
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
But if somebody downloads the data, and they can track the source to your computer, do they even have to decrypt it on your computer? (I mean does law enforcement have to decrypt it on your computer, or could they just indirectly prove you
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I think you can also import them in "light" wallets like Electrum. That way you don't have to download the whole blockchain. You may be leaking the information that somebody with your IP address has Bitcoins, though.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
He needs the public keys to check the balance.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Those random words are the master seed. Usually you don't enter the master seed to use your wallet. Your wallet encrypts the master seed and unlocks it with a password of your choosing. I suppose they are talking about the password to
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
But weren't the steam boilers also copies of UK inventions?
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
No I am not in the US. I also don't think private insurance has to work like that. Here in Germany "public insurance" is like that, every "medical intervention" has a code and pays a certain amount of money. Doctors
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
What I have heard is that Germany was kind of what China is today. First they produced cheap copies of the high tech coming out of places like the UK. Eventually they established quality standards (the TÜV, an organisation ensuring quality
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
What exactly do you mean? You mean because it could be the casino scam you describe elsewhere, that they only open the other door if you picked the right door? Then I think the confusion might stem from the concept of probability. I think w
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
So most Berliners know nothing about economics? The park would not be "given to the rich", presumably the parts open for building would have been sold to "the rich", with the money benefitting every Berlin citizen (ideal
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Actually, at least according to Wikipedia, the description is "the host will always reveal a dud no matter what happens". According to Wikipedia, the original problem statement was like this: "Suppose you're on a game sh
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
But it has nothing to do with the Monty Hall problem. It would be a completely different game. The only common thing would be that they are both narrated as game shows.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
What would he reveal in case 3) if you haven't picked the car, if not a goat? That variant doesn't seem to make sense. Likewise for 2). If Monty reveals the car, you just pick the car. I also don't think his knowledge really
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
But that is nonsense - apartments are apartments, even if wealthy move into those apartments, it would free the apartments they previously lived in. Also, it would be money for the city. Also it is not just social cases who have problems wi
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
I'm not in the US, but afaik they provide the best medical care in the world. Socialist restrictions of course also exist in "socialist" systems like here in Germany. There also seems to be a constant shortage of workers in h
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Why don't you know the costs upfront? "Socialist insurance" doesn't automatically cover everything you want or need, by the way. Rather, there is a government mandated list of things that are covered. There are presumabl
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Sure, why not? Also, if others see they don't heed contracts, they will start avoiding to do business with them.
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
The problem is: who gets the cheap housing in communal ownership? Supply is limited. So if you don't pick the person who is willing to pay the most, who do you give the apartment to? Who gets to decide? Are you sure you want to live in
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
The argument of the empty apartments in Berlin comes up all the time, but it is a myth. Maybe in London it is different, for various reasons, but in Berlin, that is not the reason for the issues. [1] Even if only new luxury apartments are b
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by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
Yes, they have to live somewhere . Not necessarily in central Berlin, or central San Francisco. There are plenty of places with cheap housing in Germany. Also just because people need something, doesn't imply they have to be given tho

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