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by pharke 4y ago
> This would serve as an effective frontier, like that which the United States used to have, giving families a failsafe in case of hardship. This implicit safety net for new or recovering families naturally favors a distributist small-ow
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by pharke 4y ago
That's a terrible analogy, nuclear weapons are more akin to everyone being armed with grenades and trapped in the same room. You're going to get hit no matter what so as soon as one person pulls a pin their target is going to do t
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by pharke 4y ago
> NATO need merely declare it has no offensive ambitions. Which it doesn’t. Then there’s no existential threat. Let's examine that from a counterfactual standpoint. Let's say that during the invasion of Iraq Russia had decided
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by pharke 4y ago
> I would expect things to stabilize at a technology level of maybe the late 19th/early 20th century and start back up This is the part you should be concerned about even if a nuclear winter doesn't or can't occur. Ask you
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by pharke 4y ago
Interesting ideas and worth pursuing but currently my favoured approach for terraforming Mars would be by bombarding it with asteroids and comets. We can do this with technology that already exists, we just need to mass produce rockets capa
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by pharke 4y ago
If you were able to defeat the crypto algorithms used by crypto currencies wouldn't that also mean you could defeat the cryptography used by banks, governments, online commerce, etc.? It would essentially be a doomsday scenario for all
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by pharke 4y ago
> Inside, wide corridors ("streets in the sky") run along the central long axis of every third floor of the building. Each apartment lies on two levels, such that the room on one side of a corridor belongs to the apartment that
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by pharke 4y ago
Agreed on the Cite Radieuse, the hallways are what I wish all apartment building halls looked like. Essentially interior streets, two stories high with apartment windows facing onto them, large windows to the exterior, benches or places for
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by pharke 4y ago
Everyone always goes straight to outsourced manual labor as a solution. It's a bad solution. If we weren't a nation run by corrupt middle managers trying to inflate their own salaries and sense of purpose we'd have stuck with
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by pharke 4y ago
Without the exploitation of cheap labor and China work practices, we would have been motivated to automate the manufacturing process and your iPhone would cost 100 dollars.
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by pharke 5y ago
I think the first question is a very valid one. You say that newly created money will simply go to people who aren't at the wealth cap but my question is how exactly would that happen? I don't see a direct connection between the
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by pharke 5y ago
Where would new money even go in a system with both fiat currency and wealth caps? Do you have to constantly increase the wealth caps with inflation? How do you perfectly manage that rate? As we can see governments are not capable of doing
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by pharke 5y ago
Isn't it more important who gets the money and how the money is spent? Like if you create a trillion dollars but it goes to a single person who is incapable of spending it all so most of it winds up in high priced assets or investments
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by pharke 5y ago
If you make all skins and cosmetics available to everyone then you're back to square 1 and people will use some other heuristic to decide who they should pass to. I think this is actually an argument for paid cosmetics, it would impr
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by pharke 5y ago
You're strawmanning, they don't ship Rocket League with all the graphics turned off and force you to pay for them. They sell silly hats and skins in addition to the already great graphics that they provide with the base model.
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by pharke 5y ago
The essence of both a bank and a cryptocurrency is the ledger. Everything else is an implementation detail.
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by pharke 5y ago
In the middle means that you have a large number of small centralized services that are interoperable. That way you get most of the benefits of centralization e.g. someone else manages the technical details, you benefit from the network eff
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by pharke 5y ago
It's an exchange, the cryptocurrency itself is the bank. Banks don't require dollars or any fiat currency to exist, hell they invented paper money. The major difference is that banks had the advantage of gold and other precious me
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by pharke 5y ago
If Australia were to refine the uranium for export you wouldn't need anything special in the ways of shipping other than good containment and careful handling. If you replaced all power generation with nuclear that alone would drastica
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by pharke 5y ago
Australia could be producing a lot more Uranium, it has an estimated 30% of world reserves and if you sort the list in the Wikipedia article about reserves by Reserves as of 2015, it's at the top. Canada also has large reserves and is
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by pharke 5y ago
I think we just need a balance between decentralization and centralization. Think of banking as an example. If you want to be fully decentralized you can just use cash only and keep all of your money (or gold) in a safe at home. A fully cen
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by pharke 5y ago
I think it's more of a Goldilocks problem. Too little centralization and things are nearly impossible to do because you have to host your own email, website, blockchain, VOIP, photos, etc. Too much centralization and you have a single
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by pharke 5y ago
Isn't that a problem worth solving? It had to be solved for banks to work as reliable institutions. Having a single blockchain in the end is probably as bad as having a single bank, although for slightly different reasons.
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by pharke 5y ago
I take issue with this, I don't see any discontinuous advances happening every year. I see incremental advances or the results of miniaturization and mass production making things small or cheap enough to reach mass market. Those are e
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by pharke 5y ago
> Leo (Norbert's Father) had educated Norbert at home until 1903, employing teaching methods of his own invention, except for a brief interlude when Norbert was 7 years of age. Earning his living teaching German and Slavic languages
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by pharke 5y ago
> Our understanding of the world is so advanced that revolutionary changes are bound to be rarer Didn't physicists say exactly the same thing before Einstein?
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by pharke 5y ago
The arts is also one area where one on one tutoring is still extremely common if not the defacto method of education. e.g. music lessons, "musical families", mentorship from fellow band members.
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by pharke 5y ago
Having a tutor is superior to simply having access to all of the information in the world. The tutor acts as a guide to that information, they structure the presentation of that information to you based on your individual needs which means
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by pharke 5y ago
Isn't the important thing whether or not tutoring produces a higher percentage of Darwins compared to our current model of schooling? If it does, then shouldn't we expend some effort on identifying students that are more likely to
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by pharke 5y ago
This argument is being framed incorrectly. It's the fundamental discovery that counts, not the implementations. The discovery of steam power is more important than Hero's Engine because discovering that you can do useful work with

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