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by olalonde 2y ago
That's simply false. Name one unregulated market where this has occurred.
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by olalonde 2y ago
> to keep a free market from collapsing into one of the natural end states What is that natural end state? Natural monopolies are exceedingly rare, almost all monopolies are the result of government intervention .
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by olalonde 2y ago
If I understand correctly, only one of the "murder-for-hire" allegations was dismissed with prejudice[0]. However, he was suspected of orchestrating a total of six "murder-for-hire" plots. [0] https://freeross
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by olalonde 2y ago
Prosecutors often choose not to pursue additional charges against someone already serving a life sentence. This approach helps avoid wasting court time and resources on cases that are unlikely to change the individual’s circumstances or con
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by olalonde 2y ago
I wonder if the decision to drop the "murder for hire" charges was originally influenced by his existing life sentence, and whether the pardon now alters that reasoning. Is it still possible for him to be prosecuted on those charg
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by olalonde 2y ago
What's your source on that? Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Amazon all operate in China and I don't believe they had to give up 50% of their local subsidiary. Google withdrew from China because it didn't want to comply with local
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by olalonde 2y ago
This is an interesting thought experiment, but how is it relevant in practice? In free-speech countries, people are not exposed to just a single source of information. That simply doesn't align with reality. It's akin to criticizi
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by olalonde 2y ago
> A democracy that is NOT a direct democracy is already admitting this. This is exactly the reason we have proxies in a representative democracy. I think it’s less about admitting this and more about the impracticality of having citizens
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by olalonde 2y ago
I read some, including 1984. What's your point? 1984 portrays exactly the kind of world I’d want to avoid - one where the government controls access to information and rigidly suppresses foreign influence.
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by olalonde 2y ago
Bingo. I never understood why "foreign influence" was supposed to be a bad thing. Free speech is grounded in the idea that people are capable of reasoning and forming their own opinions. If we truly trust in that, the source of t
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by olalonde 2y ago
I don't understand, how is he destabilizing the UK democracy?
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by olalonde 2y ago
I wasn't aware of that but wouldn't it be against the principles of democracy to penalize someone due to their political beliefs?
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by olalonde 2y ago
Shit posting on X = playing dirty?
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by olalonde 2y ago
You could say that about all the American tech companies that are banned in China. They just have to comply with Chinese law and will be unbanned. For example, Google, unlike Microsoft/Apple, chose to withdraw from China rather than co
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by olalonde 2y ago
They have a well-known brand with a large audience and reputation.
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by olalonde 2y ago
I would say you could have those preferences and values without being a nationalist. In fact, there are dozens of nations who share those values.
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by olalonde 2y ago
That was sort of my point: it's not a reasoned stance (e.g. culture X is objectively superior), but an emotional one (e.g. I have an emotional attachment to culture X).
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by olalonde 2y ago
> Nationalists are not motivated by reason. It's curious how nationalists, who often claim their stance is grounded in objective truths, almost always champion the nation of their birth.
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by olalonde 2y ago
I’m not sure why you keep invoking "recency bias." When forecasting the near future, as Ehrlich was doing, it’s entirely reasonable to use recent trends as a baseline. Are you suggesting progress might slow to the levels seen in p
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by olalonde 2y ago
I didn't claim the relationship was linear. People in poorer countries still have relatively abundant food by historical standards and aren't at risk of starvation. However, when food availability drops below a certain threshold,
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by olalonde 2y ago
I disagree that the prosperity we've experienced was truly "unexpected". Humans are self-regulating: fertility rates drop as resources become scarce (e.g. people are less likely to have children when struggling to meet basic
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by olalonde 2y ago
You just need one honest pair of eyes watching the code to sound the alarm. Even if the Bitcoin core developers conspired to sneak in malware, it might affect a few users but would be quickly detected and wouldn't impact the Bitcoin ne
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by olalonde 2y ago
Not Paul Ehrlich's worse prediction. His most infamous was that "hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death" in the 1970s[0]. It’s curious how he managed to remain influential despite a track record of such i
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by olalonde 2y ago
It has held for the past 15 years. You are also free to inspect the source code of Bitcoin Core and/or study the protocol for flaws.
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by olalonde 2y ago
Bitcoin mempool is a term for the "pool" of unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions. They probably meant this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool
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by olalonde 2y ago
First, it's important to understand that Bitcoin is fundamentally a protocol, not a piece of software. Bitcoin Core is merely the most widely used implementation of that protocol. Second, would you apply the same line of reasoning to o
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by olalonde 2y ago
Wow, how does that work? Archive.org can't possibly archive every YouTube video, right?
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by olalonde 2y ago
I was about to comment that the domain was quite clever...
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by olalonde 2y ago
Not me but Craig Wright aka Faketoshi referenced court cases hallucinated by a LLM in his appeal. https://cointelegraph.com/news/court-rejects-craig-wright-ap...
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by olalonde 2y ago
Through a SDK, it's the next sentence... > These days a great SDK, not a great API, is a hallmark, and maybe even a necessity, of a world class development experience.

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