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by paconbork 4y ago
The actual free speech absolutist position would be "if it's illegal, the government can intervene. Otherwise, it remains"
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by paconbork 4y ago
Ultimately it would be the community deciding to value the PoS fork as "real Ethereum". Something similar happened with ETH and Ethereum Classic, where classic is the unforked version that nobody cares about. A PoW fork will almos
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by paconbork 4y ago
Could it have been someone working with a car repossession group?
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by paconbork 4y ago
The article mentions both "conservationists" and "endangered species advocates", who I believe tend to consider themselves (and are considered by others to be) environmentalists. Here's an example of a wing of the N
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by paconbork 4y ago
One advantage of other technologies over solar is space efficiency. Obviously we're not physically lacking in space to install solar, but when even solar farms installed in the desert can be shut down by "climate activists" [
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by paconbork 4y ago
My guess is that this probably indicates that the primary obstacle to construction currently isn't developer capital. It could be that housing construction is still profitable, as there's comparatively less political resistance an
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by paconbork 4y ago
Eh, it exists and it's an inevitability that it will eventually be used in terrible ways. OpenAI and Google people just want the CV booster for having created it but want to pretend it's not their fault when it's used to do a
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by paconbork 4y ago
Only if they have a garage or somewhere to park overnight with charging
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by paconbork 4y ago
According to their website ( https://www.seattle.gov/police/police-jobs/salary-and-benefi... ) the starting pay is about 84k, but does go up to six figures after a few years. Alternatively, you could go to a nearby
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by paconbork 4y ago
Maybe it was a notable point in some sanewashed version of the protest, but you'll note that the slogan was "defund the police", not "fund social workers". Acknowleding that the issue is that social services are und
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by paconbork 4y ago
It's easy enough to use a single "and" in a sentence, but "and and" and "and and and" and so on are more difficult
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by paconbork 4y ago
I mean that ambiguity does exist currently (see https://twitter.com/willsmith ) but would certainly get worse. And it would be way too easy to get a verified account and then just change a few things to look like some famous
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by paconbork 4y ago
Sweden and Norway have more billionaires per capita than the US does.
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by paconbork 4y ago
Yeah, the Foreshadow attack leaked signing keys, so you could attest to a modified program running outside an enclave. I think other attacks didn't get that far though
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by paconbork 4y ago
Are you thinking of Secret Network? If I remember correctly, they use SGX for transaction privacy (transactions are encrypted with a key that is only known to enclaves). An SGX break I think would just make it a generic proof of stake netwo
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by paconbork 5y ago
A land value tax targets the land only, not the structures on top of it, so nobody is penalized for improving their property. It also means that within an expensive metro vacant lots are taxed at the same rate as dense residential buildings
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by paconbork 5y ago
Isn't Toronto a pretty unique case in North America? If I understand this [1] correctly, then they're 4x the next largest city in terms of construction cranes. I thought I remembered reading that part of the reason why is that the
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by paconbork 5y ago
Yeah that's basically where I'm at. The ability to not have to move and the ability to improve the place and keep the value of my improvements are worth a large premium to me.
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by paconbork 5y ago
In theory, yes it would be nice to have the wealth more spread out, but jobs aren't concentrated in Toronto just for lack of creativity. The agglomeration of talent causes firms to be more productive, earn more money, and pay employees
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by paconbork 5y ago
>doesn't Canada only have a population growth rate of around 1%/yr? It seems like you could easily build your way past that without giving up the advantages of immigration and a little population growth. You would think that wo
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by paconbork 5y ago
Is that not what already happens in the current system where living in the wealthy school district is required to go to the wealthy school?
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by paconbork 5y ago
But more mining reduces the expected return of mining, so a miner would need marginally cheaper energy in order to break even.
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by paconbork 5y ago
Really that's just an inherited property from physical art
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by paconbork 5y ago
Do any of those allow you to resell purely digital art?
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by paconbork 5y ago
I'm just waiting until we come full circle and can purchase a bundle of streaming services. Maybe it will come with phone and internet
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by paconbork 5y ago
Depending on which estimates you look at, Tokyo is somewhere between 30 to 50% cheaper than San Francisco. It's also a vastly superior city in just about every possible way
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by paconbork 5y ago
Only if I can do so while flying Delta Airlines
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by paconbork 5y ago
>Do people still use wired headphones on the go? I do, at least. The main reason is that they just work. I never have to worry about pairing with different devices, walking too far away and disconnecting, keeping them charged... I have a
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by paconbork 5y ago
I don't think categorizing obesity as important for economic activity is accurate. There's many more angles to promoting a healthy lifestyle than just consuming less. For example: eating healthier (more expensive*), buying a gym m
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by paconbork 5y ago
If the most important thing is relative ownership then it sounds like you would prefer the poor to be poorer, provided the rich were less rich

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