reedjosh

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by reedjosh 6y ago
I do agree with you. I'm just pointing out that both are intended as rights of a sovereign individual to protect oneself from both other individuals and government.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
But note how the encryption ban comes about after the firearm ban in the country of discussion. Firearms rights (at least in the US) were intended as protection from tyrannical governments more so than even self protection. Though I acknowl
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I think for me it was just the shear lack of change no matter which politician was in office. From there I started looking for why. At some point I also realized advertisements are purely bribes meant to shackle speech. Once I abandoned ad-
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> They realize they lost the other war long ago No, I vote ignorance. Most people don't even realize the current global political landscape is a battle of systems (E.g. Rules Based and China's Belt and Road Initiative). The ide
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Only somewhat related. What is the general thought on https://www.pandata.org ?
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I wish corn/wheat weren't subsidized. Half of a typical supermarket is filled with artificially cheap grain based product. The `stick to the perimeter` mantra about how to buy healthy food is directly related to the fact that grai
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by reedjosh 6y ago
This and most modern buildings are heated and cooled via a central heating/cooling system which distributes the hot/cold via water. So, it may be even though you don't have the heat 'on' there is still hot water run
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Well, at the moment that hardly seems relevant since the arms governments worldwide have are SO radically powerful as to completely imbalance the relationship. Not merely physical are their weapons either.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
This is why Governments shouldn't be allowed to force these sort of things. Governments can be and often are wrong. Also add to this potential influence by malicious actors.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
If it were a truly free market the entire music business would have to collapse or adapt as copyright wouldn't be a thing. I personally just try to exit the whole system. I love https://freemusicarchive.org/ . I would l
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by reedjosh 6y ago
While CPU power theft via malware is a real issue, it in no way prevents Monero from working well. It actually just adds more nodes to the network. And of the many forms of botnet malware, it seems one of the less harmful.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I really don't want a centralized organization to have visibility of all transactions along with the power to cut them off.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Monero is > 1600 transactions per second and it's set to scale with CPU power and network bandwidth along with further improvements to the underlying implementation. Proof of Stake is much greater still. Cardano and Polkadot for exa
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> That's not a false positive. "Moreover, positive real-time reverse transcription (rRT)-PCR test results that are close to the limit of detection (LOD) of an assay have a greater likelihood of being false positives. One key ex
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> i think we have to ask ourselves how much of a existential threat does this thing pose to the species. I'd say not as great a threat as setting the dangerous precedent of experimenting on an unwitting populace.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I would prefer not to consent to a possibly dangerous 'weaker' version of COVID. This idea would completely take choice away and experiment on the human populace.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> But I agree that voters will have little interest investigating the facts around dozens of laws proposed over 40 years ago... Wouldn't that be great though. You are probably right, but _if_ people would, then the system would wo
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> Do you check which farm it is from and give it a sniff. As I mentioned previously..sampling to me means buying a few brands before establishing a preference. So, in a way yes. And since you're so incredulous, yes, I have two pref
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Cool. Then yes, I don't view milk as fitting the definition above though I realize many do.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Indeed you can. We also purchase heavy cream in glass for our coffee.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I think you mean if you are willing to buy it regularly without sampling. We bought a few brands prior to our current buying pattern. I am not willing to buy milk without sampling. Currently we have two that we like. Basically, one has extr
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I'm seeing a resurgence of competition on quality too. I personally purchase organic grass fed glass bottled milk from local farms. Sounds snobby and onerous, but it's available at any Whole Foods. Quality food is truly worth it.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> Take the Serious Eats version. Ad ad ad... some irrelevant random video trying to play when I clearly don't want it to. The site is really not about the quality of recipe, though they could be made better via your contribution.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
I don't disagree. I believe my point was slightly missed by most. Any other recipe site you visit today will have you scrolling for days just to find the ingredients amid ads and filler backstory. I just love that this bucks that trend
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by reedjosh 6y ago
No website can fully replace life experience. Either way, the simplicity of presentation here transcends any such criticism which misses the point entirely.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Dude was clearly missing a /s
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by reedjosh 6y ago
The quote was there to be attacked as the status-quo thinking. Your response is essentially one of the article's points.
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by reedjosh 6y ago
What would value be in this equation? What people deem the value? I like the idea that money is a store of value. Not that it itself is value, but that so long as it is hard enough (can't be reproduced easily) then you can save it to u
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by reedjosh 6y ago
> Good X and Good Y both increase in price over some period of time, but one does by 2% and the other by 4%. What is the true value of inflation? 2% or 4%? Or is it 3%? Or is it 3.5% because you buy one of the goods twice as often as the
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by reedjosh 6y ago
Yes, the average of the above for the entire economy. I agree, but the methodology of CPI does not at all match anything grounded in the averaging of the above logic. A proper measure of inflation should start from the individual level and

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