rantwasp

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by rantwasp 5y ago
The same control ARE applied to cannabis. You cannot drive high and claim you're not drunk. The punishment (at least in my neck of the woods) is basically the same.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
if meth was legal and readily available, would you still have this issue? slap a big warning: causes death. Have programs in place to help people with addiction and let things work themselves out
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by rantwasp 5y ago
is this causation or correlation? do you know potheads that are wildly successful? because I do. And it does not seem to be linked to weed
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by rantwasp 5y ago
since you brought up the supreme court I am going to assume you are in the US (correct me if I'm wrong). We in the US like to plaster freedom everywhere. And it's FREEDOM this, FREEDOM that. But I'm sad to report most people
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by rantwasp 5y ago
when this is selectively enforced and only people of a certain color or ethnic group have to pay the heavy price of possession I call bullshit on the "war on drugs". this is not and has not been about drugs from day one.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol. here is a crazy idea: make them legal. also, decriminalization is usually a step towards legalization. because it's too much to straigh-up legalize them. also, it's beyond me how some people can get on their high horses about
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol. no. there are 2 parts: one is mining the block, the other is propagating the block. if you do what you describe, computing blocks would not be enough. you would also need to recompute blocks to account for what happened on the block
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by rantwasp 5y ago
faith != intrinsic value. all forms of money are worth something because people collectively agree that they are worth something and trade them for goods. the USD is not special. BTC is not special. People getting on their high horse about
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by rantwasp 5y ago
cost of something != it’s environmental impact. so you would have more expensive imports, maybe. and you would move to produce things locally. also, the cheap imports are cheap because there is a human price (ie basically slavery) paid at t
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by rantwasp 5y ago
> The criticism is that it's roughly speaking the least efficient system humanity has ever implemented. Maybe, but setting bitcoin aside for a moment, the blockchain and the distributed trust is a revolutionary technology. Imagine p
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yes and no. it’s enough to interact with someone that messes up and your identity is revealed. also, in today’s surveillance society I would assume that the gov knows which bitcoins are yours
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by rantwasp 5y ago
that’s simply not true. bitcoin and blockchain is as traceable as it gets. it’s all there in the ledger.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lumber is used in construction. no construction? less housing. less housing? more rent.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol. what’s next? you used terraform and it was awesome?
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by rantwasp 5y ago
why not both? IMHO inflation is real and it's going to bite us hard
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by rantwasp 5y ago
SAM is cloudformation. cloudformation is the thing to use if you’re on the AWS cloud
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by rantwasp 5y ago
i wish this was a demand and supply thing but I am really afraid this is going to turn out to be inflation. And it’s actually all the prices that are going up - we’re just talking about wood because we have a good narrative around it.
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yup. you would expect items that are illegal to be prohibited. you would not expect travel checks to be banned. Travel Checks!!! also, most payment processors ban guns, ammo and porn. that’s straight up un-American!!!
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by rantwasp 5y ago
you're making a lot of assumptions here. what coin? different coins work in different ways. Also, "51%" attacks have been known to be executed against "proper currencies, with backing of a central bank" https:&#x2F
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by rantwasp 5y ago
nah. you're talking the tech. I'm talking about the actual authority. What if someone decided that they would not issues you a cert? How would you do business at that point? But it's so efficient you says... Also, it's e
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by rantwasp 5y ago
yes, but no. how would enforcing such jurisdiction even look like? you cannot take something off the blockchain. Can you shutdown miners? sure. So what? The mining will happens somewhere else. Can you really prohibit developers from working
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by rantwasp 5y ago
lol Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full You may not use the PayPal service for activities that: * violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation. * relate to transactio
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by rantwasp 5y ago
sure thing. we have invented something and now we are trying to apply it /s how did the authorities and the chains of trust emerge in the first place? Is a system that uses a central authority more or less stable than a system that doe
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by rantwasp 5y ago
when you understand that a centralized authority decides what is okay and what is not okay and after that bans transactions that pay for the "not okay" items you will understand why a centralized authority is evil. The magic keywo
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by rantwasp 5y ago
when you dunk 100 times you get a free tshirt!
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by rantwasp 5y ago
Can't wait for my 3$ as compensation for losing all the data. Seriously now. A class action lawsuit should end with the culprit being out of business in cases of extreme negligence like this one. Anything less just incentivizes them to
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by rantwasp 5y ago
How generous! I’m going to extend the date when I’m going to reconsider using Chrome to late 3023
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by rantwasp 5y ago
nah. if you’re working on yourself that’s fine. if you’re working a lifetime to be the best at something only to be cheated out of it, we’re talking about something else. to nail this point home: if you are training to ride a bike and you’r
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by rantwasp 5y ago
i don’t think you need to have competed before to have a huge advantage induced by hormones that were normally biologically there. The real question is: where do we draw the line? if a female athlete injects herself with hormones that give
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by rantwasp 5y ago
here is a thought experiment for you: no more genders in sports. at all. everyone competes under the same rules. we bother with quirks like gender? i mean, we want equality right? everyone competes under the same rules /s

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