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by npoc 10mo ago
If monitoring really is a problem isn't simple automation the solution?
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by npoc 10mo ago
The thing is - the world young people are accustomed to is just a carefully managed matrix. There are glitches. "Why do house prices endlessly rise?" "Why am I working so hard in such a technologically advanced world yet can&
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by npoc 10mo ago
The purposes of money are: - store of value - unit of account (a measuring stick for value) - medium of exchange Allowing the financial system to inflate the money supply destroys two of those fundamental qualities. The fact it can additio
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by npoc 10mo ago
TLDR: to understand bitcoin you have to see the problem it's solving - most people are blind to it even though it affects their lives terribly. https://x.com/saylor/status/1878154748353818932 > "The b
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by npoc 1y ago
That's right - it doesn't really matter if people have to convert their savings from bitcoin to government tokens in order to buy things. Bitcoin is still extremely functional at protecting people from the massive debasement that
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by npoc 1y ago
I'm not going to spoon feed you, but look up the "What Is Money? Saylor Series" podcast episodes and that will answer all of your questions. Look up Gresham's and Thier's laws for the quick answer
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by npoc 1y ago
If you're interested in knowing why, the reason for this is century-long expansion of the money supply at an average of ~7% year. This halves the value of the dollar every decade and assuming you get an average payrise of 2%/year,
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by npoc 1y ago
The paper and its author is completely irrelevant. It was only required to convey an idea, and that idea has been understood, refined and elaborated much further since then. Bitcoin "is what it is".
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by npoc 1y ago
Define "right-wing". Ultimately either the evidence is correct or it's not, no matter how it's funded. This documentary demonstrates how much of the current mainstream evidence is in fact incorrect, explains why it'
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by npoc 1y ago
That will only be a temporary phase while LLMs still produce bugs that LLMs can't predict or fix themselves.
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by npoc 1y ago
> The ten minutes I watched was one big appeal to authority. "Here's Doctor X, a highly respected scientist. Look at all the big name universities he's linked to. Fair point. Although two wrongs don't make a right. &g
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by npoc 1y ago
Well, I'm afraid that that only goes to prove errors in your intuition and critical thinking skills. Your facts are incorrect and your logic uses an appeal to (lack of) authority fallacy.
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by npoc 1y ago
I disagree completely. Videos allow you to time-stamp exact moments for reference and provide animated evidence, rather than just stills. Some videos are meant for entertainment, others are not. Same goes for books and other text-based medi
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by npoc 1y ago
But surely that holds true for any evidence? Much of the video is showing how (and why) the government-funded evidence for global warming is wrong.
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by npoc 1y ago
We can both be right - when man-made global warming isn't actually a thing. I agree that > a government that does nothing to tackle global warming is "bad" and I think you would likely also agree that > a government tha
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by npoc 1y ago
To clarify I meant over the last 5 million years. There has been no man-made climate change during the period of "modern humans" either. It's not a conspiracy as such - it helps to think of government and corporations as an A
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by npoc 1y ago
Why's that? A topic as big as this takes quite a lot of refuting. If you're interested in finding the truth, then you'll at least begin watching it to see if it offers any promise.
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by npoc 1y ago
There is no man-made global warming crisis. The earth is in fact one of the coldest periods in history. Thoroughly explained here: https://youtu.be/KDwCUAueLUU What the "man-made global warming crisis" is , is an
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by npoc 1y ago
Unlucky. All three of mine work on GrapheneOS https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
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by npoc 1y ago
The cause of inflation is printing more money than they destroy. But that's how the incentives lie. The banks get paid (interest) to print (loans). This is why we bitcoin.
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by npoc 1y ago
Show me the incentives (being able to charge interest on money printed out of thin air) and I'll show you the outcome.
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by npoc 1y ago
Not if you run the GrapheneOS variant of Android.
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by npoc 1y ago
I agree. A lot of new additions to C++ make coding with it simpler, not more complex. However it does mean there's more to learn, because the old style of the language still exists and is still accepted by the modern compilers as oppo
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by npoc 1y ago
200MB blocks would lead to a >100x increase in size of the blockchain compared to the 1.6MB blocks we currently have, putting it at around 100TB. Of course that would significantly reduce decentralisation - instead of a standard 1TB disk
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by npoc 1y ago
Base layer is impractical for normal payments no matter what size you make it, and increasing it reduces decentralisation, weakening the strength of the network.
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by npoc 1y ago
It is relative to 2025. And nowadays bitcoin has instant, cheap, private Lightning payments too.
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by npoc 1y ago
"Obviously ridiculous" - this often depends on whether you are aware of certain pretexts or not. For example, whether or not you're aware that the banking system is collecting interest on all the money in the world, every sec
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by npoc 1y ago
If I was the state, conspiring against the people, the first thing I'd do would be to program the masses to ridicule the intelligent ones who spot the signs and theorise about a conspiracy - I'd teach the masses to point and laugh
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by npoc 1y ago
The amount stays the same, it's just the value of it going up, which it will continue to do against everything else forever.
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by npoc 1y ago
This would lend weight to the hypothesis that there's a significant amount of nation-state mining occurring. This way they can obtain bitcoin in secret without causing a run on the price.

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