reedjosh

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by reedjosh 5y ago
This assumes your vote matters. Governments around the world are consumed by regulatory capture and corruption.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Currency competition alone is a major milestone. The USD is the _legal_ tender of the US. As in other currencies are not allowed. Because digital currency can't just be taken down, those that don't want to live under an inflationa
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by reedjosh 5y ago
It's just that decentralized is not what I'd call a system controlled by 7 people that in turn controls the legally enforced tender of over 300 million people.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Anything, that is, except actually forging coins or bills. Of course none of it is forgery, but the net impact is no different. As soon as the USD loses its reserve status, the US won't be able to maintain its hegemony that is fun
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by reedjosh 5y ago
The federal reserve is Decentralized? > The Board of Governors' seven members guide the entire Fed system. > The Board and FOMC make the Fed's decisions based on research. https://www.thebalance.com/the-feder
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by reedjosh 5y ago
At least with privacy coins censoring transactions shouldn't be possible. Also with Monero anyone can cpu mine it, and transaction participants are obfuscated. With ARRR, miners don't know the identity of transaction participants.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> The equivalent in the real world is a bunch of aircraft carriers and planes and bombs and people with big guns, which gives the ability to say (credibly) that it is a crime to forge dollars no matter who you are or where you live. Larg
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by reedjosh 5y ago
POW guarantees distributed security better than any other currency so far. POS relies on a _relatively_ small number of nodes to run the network. POW is more _government_ proof than any other method. To many the threat of central bank digit
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by reedjosh 5y ago
How much energy maintains the USD's reserve status?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
100% Monero is amazing. 1500+tps and it's just getting started. Faster transaction speeds, privacy, just awesome!
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Best: ignore your corporate overloads and do what's interesting, but do it well enough the overloads can't really be upset. Worst: two here... If something's hard to understand, it's probably just done poorly. You may ou
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Maybe card makers should add fluff to match the weights? Like a thin piece of paper in packs without foils?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I'm also not claiming anecdotes are what are making up my mind. I was simply responding to the suggestion that I walk into a hospital. I too believe that anecdotes are poor evidence at best, and I completely believe others have had 180
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I can't just walk in. That said I know several people that have had it. Some elderly with existing conditions. Worst case was my aunt who got pneumonia from it. She's in her mid sixties and diabetic. She was in the hospital for a
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> WTF? Why? You have a free, safe, live-saving vaccine being offered to you! Why would you not take it?? People have real distrust of the system that produced the vaccine and even distrust of the media that purports this disease is so de
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> acknowledge the geopolitical hurdles Each of those vaccines come from a UN/WHO member country. Geo politically power is wielded by globalist financial elites. These elites generally believe the world is overpopulated. Bill himself
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Couldn't a service provider use an internet backbone with a one time pad comms protocol to essentially have a secure controls channel? Then once a year a rep could fly out a few terabytes of OTP to each location and all comms would be
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by reedjosh 5y ago
And there's no reason unspent money couldn't just become a tax. So, a negative interest rate from your perspective, but a revenue stream to govs. At that point, good luck ever having enough sovereignty to retire unless the Gov san
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I've only ever really heard it, which is probably why it's hard to google. Basically the elite overlords of society want us eating bugs like good little slaves, but that doesn't really do the meme justice.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
It completely removes privacy that physical cash allows. It also allows for a true negative inflation rate. Imagine being unable to remove your cash from an account that earns negative interest. Digital currency enables this. And _does_ mas
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Why should we be forced to chose?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
And ARRR is that fun court jester that might be a Rothschild someday.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I love you for this comment. I'm just picturing those that don't know the meme reading this. Edit: wow, that google search is ugly.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Agree. The prices to trash the junk in my aunt's garbage when she passed made it a gross game of 'do you think Goodwill will take it?' It would have cost thousands had we not sorted most of what ostensibly _was_ garbage into
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I do contribute locally, and I donate to media sources and causes I believe in. I should add that I also support local farms and businesses now that I have the funds.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Again, voluntarily sure. I view redistribution of wealth via force to be a net negative on the wealth of society. > evidently your luck, as well. I worked at a Burger King, a hardware store, an apartment complex (plumbing toilets and wha
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Dead people's families can. The parent poster talked about being `lucky` in that his parents could pay for his college. I want my kids to be `lucky` enough to afford housing and _if they really want_ college.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Now go pitch it to the 50+ copyright owners that you'd need to convince to make this happen. How about instead I pitch it to people that make content I _actually_ want to see. The Netflix/Spotify thing was just an analogy. Be
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> What’s wrong with paying money so others can live? Nothing if it's voluntary. > I grew up upper middle class with parents who paid for college. I didn't. > I could have just as easily been born to a family with 0 wealt
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Best you can do is take what your salary affords now and jam it into leveraged assets. Preferably assets that you can pick up and leave with. This is probably 90% of the reason for the crypto boom.

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