smokeyj

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by smokeyj 8y ago
This HN. Capitalism baaad, UBI goood.
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by smokeyj 8y ago
The world wide web my dude
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by smokeyj 8y ago
> Ok, and WTF do you do for people who can't work, or aren't in a position to get a job Make jobs that increase supply, and give some of that supply to those who can't work. China is building new cities from scratch, why n
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> and now you have more money than you get with the UBI alone. And so does everyone else. Prices will reflect that. > Is this really such a hard concept for you? Yes, what's so hard about supply and demand? Housing costs too much
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Do UBI supporters intentionally not understand supply and demand? Who wants to work at a restaurant if they don’t have to? Who will lay bricks and take out the trash if they don’t have to? The idea that UBi can help people find fulfilling
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> the administrative requirements of assessing who and who doesn't need it, and then policing all this, is just too high Oh okay this makes sense. > To make up for this, you raise the taxes a commensurate amount on the people who
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> does not care about the obvious centralization Was there a poll of the community? We're lumping in early adopters of "the web" with promoters of the dot com bubble. The position is uneducated at best and disingenuous a
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Since they don't add information, such comments are off topic. I agree, my bad. But I have noticed a formulaic rebuttal regarding the actions of Zuck. If you look at previous FB related posts the popular comments consistently su
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by smokeyj 9y ago
These excuses seem to be regularly voted to the top. I wonder if Zuck has his minions crawling this site.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Note that he's propably still risking jail time over this. I feel like most criminals are OK with that.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> It seems the crypto community also does not care about the obvious centralization Again, more lies. Where did you get this information? Everyone in crypto knows the biggest risk are the exchanges. I'm curious, who takes time out o
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> If Ripple, Silk Road, Slush Pool, and the DAO all prefer “old way” systems of creating and enforcing trust, it’s no wonder that the outside world had not adopted trustless systems either! CHECK MATE ATHEISTS. Actually the article is pr
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Anyone in the EU can send you such a letter, and you have 30 days to reply. What's the process for authenticating who sent the letter? Seems like a potential new attack vector.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
"If you don't help make drones more accurate, you're the reason for collateralized murder". Or, you could like, just stop droning innocent people to death. Not saying we all have to agree, but just that factually speakin
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Because now there's one way instead of everyone bringing their own In theory. In reality there's everyone bringing their own plus one more. I think the appeal of JS is that it's a universal runtime, not anything about th
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> but maybe that just means I’m just a no-good warmongering fool, right? More specifically, a warmongering fool who can't discern a false dichotomy - because your options in life are rarely ever drones vs more lethal drones. These r
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by smokeyj 9y ago
We should embrace the development of a surveillance state because it could spin-off some cool tech? Hmmm.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Playing devils advicate, what if we left silly ideas at home.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
More like we should care about privacy but don't. This is the place that considers Snowden a traitor and Obama (the dragnet drone king) a God. We can pretend that "omg we always cared about data", but that's not the tr
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Browser mining is basically worthless. If they're running a pool then they have to pay server usage to validate low value shares. I'm not sure CoinHive is even economically viable. Meanwhile, Google - the multi billion dollar publ
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by smokeyj 9y ago
You could just point the miner at another pool and keep 100% of the shares. Cutting out CoinHive is trivially simple. I really don't get the problem though. Someone's website is hacked and points to coinhive, and we want coinhive
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Hearing people’s rationalization for why leaving FB is impossible makes you realize how addictive and insidious the product truly is.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
I thought my account was deleted for years. I randomly started getting FB emails about a month ago. A few days ago I was emailed about being tagged in a dead friends picture. Bye Zuck, I hate you at a personal level.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
What distressed countries like Venezuela lack is trust, making the prospect of a responsible central bank a pipe dream. I see asset backed certificates being more capable of facilitating trade than unsecured IOUs. Reduce the level of trust
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by smokeyj 9y ago
The rules of the chain are arbitrary. Variables can be controlled by government officials. The state could could cut out payment processors and collect taxes on every transaction. This tech could also become a tool for mass surveillance and
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Predictions I make HN hates: - Crypto is going to be worth billions - A country is going to issue it's own digital currency - The future of crypto is commodity backed assets, for example - petro coin! Things that are going to happen t
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Remember when Romney called Russia the greatest threat to U.S democracy and was made into a joke? I remember.
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by smokeyj 9y ago
Zuck now uses FB to help Pakistan enforce blasphemy laws. Would you be okay helping sentence someone to death for "blasphemy"? Zuck has. And now he finds the value in religion as he grooms his political career. The dude is a compl
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Give people proper title to the land they had already had possession of for decades and suddenly they can use it as collateral. Makes you wonder how the municipality keeps track of titles and tax assessments. Without collecting proper
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by smokeyj 9y ago
> Perhaps, but how fine is the line Fine enough to warrant a discussion. Steering the nation with a two party system is like driving a car with only a gas and brake pedal.

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