seibelj

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by seibelj 5y ago
You are the one who asked what value the guy who owned a roofing business provided! Talk about sneer
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by seibelj 5y ago
Your comment reveals you have never owned a successful business. Please - start your own business and see how easy it is, and how little value you provide.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Managing crews of workers - but I see ownership and management as work, as I am myself a business owner and manager of many people. But some would argue management is somehow not "real work" even though I've been pulling 70 h
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by seibelj 5y ago
I had a roofer come today and it was the company owner, he said 3 of his guys are out taking the free money so he's back to working. I've heard enough anecdotes to believe that getting free money for rent and food is enough to kee
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by seibelj 5y ago
> “The FTC’s Complaint says almost nothing concrete on the key question of how much power Facebook actually had, and still has, in a properly defined antitrust product market,” the filing reads. “It is almost as if the agency expects th
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by seibelj 5y ago
In America we have a concept known as “the rule of law”. An independent judiciary prevents mob justice from simply seizing wealth from people and private entities. We even prevent the government from doing so (at least theoretically). To se
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by seibelj 5y ago
There are many who would disagree that PoS provides the same security guarantees as bitcoin's proof of work.
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by seibelj 5y ago
The point I was making is in regards to people who want bitcoin mining banned - it was attempted in NY and the elected politicians folded under pressure. That is the democratic process.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Democracy is based on interest groups. They form around issues and pressure politicians in an organized way. Interest groups could be unions, business groups, social justice groups, or broad demographic groups that are not organized but pot
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by seibelj 5y ago
There are some who consider any use of electricity for Bitcoin mining to be wasteful. If you extrapolate, the problem is either, 1) They believe that they should be able to decide what electricity can be used for, or at least through the
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by seibelj 5y ago
A brief tangent - the only useful bit of voice recognition for me has been telling Siri to remind me about something at a day and time. Calendar events don't work well (gets inserted on the wrong calendar, can't invite attendees p
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by seibelj 5y ago
I’m trying to point out an uncomfortable truth that a lot of green promoters gloss over or fail to acknowledge. In some cases natural gas may be the best option for the environment given a location - that’s simply a fact. Producing solar po
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by seibelj 5y ago
Wind turbines are manufactured using petrochemicals and currently have no way of being recycled, so they build up when they are replaced. GE hopes to turn them into some form of cement, but that may take decades https://www.bloom
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by seibelj 5y ago
You must agree that open source software and physical hardware installed on buildings powering a critical service are different things? The ISPs have enormous labor forces that are represented by telecom unions, this is an extremely regulat
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by seibelj 5y ago
My understanding is that one-way functions are not broken by quantum computers.
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by seibelj 5y ago
My understanding from your original comment about “capitalism” was that there is a strong ideological bent to this which is why I mentioned that. We are in agreement on the actions and ends but probably disagree on the means, whereas I come
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by seibelj 5y ago
I think it can work but I wish you and the NYT would acknowledge this for what it is - a government subsidized black-market internet business. I think it would easy to start many businesses by replacing “employees” with “volunteers” and “wa
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by seibelj 5y ago
Well if you speak for the NY Mesh project as you claim, and your stance is that taxpayer dollars should go to wire up residents with internet they can’t rely on, can’t get support on, and have to pay for help with a tip-based system or else
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by seibelj 5y ago
NY Mesh now has an official contract with the city to wire up housing projects and low income housing, according to the article. This is not a hobbyist situation where all of the working class will learn how to be network engineers. I don’t
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don’t see how anyone goes through the hassle of installing this for a, “eh, maybe it works sometimes” internet connection. This has nothing to do with capitalism other than the basic understanding that people won’t give their time away fo
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by seibelj 5y ago
The article mentions a problem is the mesh goes down and they rely on volunteers to fix it. Furthermore the “volunteer” who installed required a $50 tip to come out. I get why this is so much cheaper but without an organizational structure
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by seibelj 5y ago
The point is, if you are conducting shady business, and your potential customer immediately begins spouting off about all the crimes they have done and how you are now assisting them with their crimes by transacting, you should run away!
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by seibelj 5y ago
No idea what your comment means. The Austrians begin by looking at the individual. Only individuals can ascribe value to things. Nature does not know that an apple or a house has value - only people do. Individuals thus are the drivers of t
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by seibelj 5y ago
The Austrian view of economics (and of human philosophy), when I finally sat down and read through the material, made so much sense to me and deeply affected me. It clarified several things I had been feeling about the world that I couldn’t
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by seibelj 5y ago
Completely disagree with the causes of the Great Depression, which is a very complex topic and primarily the result of easy money, a stock market bubble, subsequent trade barriers and tariffs, and the utter mismanagement and idiocy of gover
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by seibelj 5y ago
Being able to lend money cheaply and easily by printing new dollars every time a loan is approved is a mistake. It’s called malinvestment and it enables firms that would not normally receive funding in a truly free market to do so. In a har
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by seibelj 5y ago
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a believer in Austrian economics. This is a a different view of economics from mainstream economics, which is universally Keynesian / Monetarist. The way I think about the world and manage my investme
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by seibelj 5y ago
"Creating more money" is simply diluting existing holders of money. Capital != money, value != money, productivity != money. Printing more money does not create wealth - it redistributes it to preferred recipients. The gold standa
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by seibelj 5y ago
Universities will enter a period of consolidation. Many will shut down entirely but some will merge with larger fish. Highly motivated individuals will eventually be able to get their foot in the door to corporations via YouTube learning, I
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by seibelj 5y ago
Mine is city, section 8 housing. Trying to do a paperwork thing for my tenant and we did everything required on the deadlines but no one has ever contacted us and the new website they created is stuck on “Step 3” of 6 of the process. Not re

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