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by solveit 6y ago
The government gets away with this stuff because people can't coordinate their power, which looks basically the same as powerless people turning a blind eye. You guys are describing two facets of the same thing, but the people do in
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by solveit 6y ago
I do in fact think Myanmar's military will give multiple fucks about killing Norwegian citizens. Destroying their facilities, less so.
483.
by solveit 6y ago
Depends on the digital stuff. BTC in particular is incredibly traceable. Tax on conversion to fiat if source of BTC is a country that doesn't tax carbon. Any sensible anti money laundering system should be tracking all the relevant i
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by solveit 6y ago
> 25% of men over 65 didn't toil in the workforce, so clearly retirement had already been "invented" But were they retired by choice or were they just too frail to work? > And, of course, there is the entire other half
485.
by solveit 6y ago
Instead of banning whatever arbitrary thing the government deems to be using too much electricity, you could just tax carbon.
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by solveit 6y ago
Sure, but where do we draw the line on people saying bad things while venting?
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by solveit 6y ago
I am conflicted because I agree with you, but also think that if someone said it was always an angry black man they would (rightly) have been fired without half the controversy.
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by solveit 6y ago
This comment is none of informative, kind, necessary. I would rather see less content-free sneering on HN.
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by solveit 6y ago
Could you define "market" because I don't think you're using the word the way I would use it.
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by solveit 6y ago
It will harm the environment, but no less than the rest of our economy. There are two problems being conflated here. In basically all of society, people harm the environment in order to acquire resources. In proof of work, you go one step f
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by solveit 6y ago
At that point that's just energy spent on acquiring money though.
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by solveit 6y ago
Like ludicrously expensive mechanical watches after they got good, cheap, and obsolete (in that order).
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by solveit 6y ago
Ironically, America basically shows how the 1% can maintain control of the global hegemony for decades without any effective resistance. The fact that this system of oppression is fractally recursive adds to the irony.
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by solveit 6y ago
Yes, but a baseball card is just a piece of paper with some ink on it. It's only trivially harder[1] to replicate than a pointer to a JPEG. We have already established that sentimental value + proof of provenance suffices to yield basi
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by solveit 6y ago
> the second your ass enters the work world Yes, but the name of your school and your GPA does tend to affect the manner of your posterior's entry.
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by solveit 6y ago
They say that about every problem we can't solve.
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by solveit 6y ago
I think it's fair to say that an extra marginal tens of millions of dollars or so will not affect Musk's life in the slightest. I find it hard to believe that Musk is motivated by money at this point.
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by solveit 6y ago
More charitably, people have an instinctive tendency to bend over backwards to apologize for things they're not responsible for in the interest of cordial relations. This is good if you're casually trying to make friends, but bad
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by solveit 6y ago
We think unions and laws tend to distort markets much more than honest straight cash transfers.
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by solveit 6y ago
This is how we become doctors. And we don't have the excuse that a swashbuckling frontend dev could literally kill people.
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by solveit 6y ago
Perhaps the Falklands war? Argentina circa 1982 was stagnating but still about the 20th largest economy in the world. Taiwan is also sitting at about 20 right now. Of course, a PRC/ROC war is likely to be much much more serious than th
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by solveit 6y ago
To take one example, the global counterfeit brand market is worth trillions. They don't trade exclusively or even mainly in BTC (mostly you'd sell with physical cash), but they do use it for the reasons I mentioned above.
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by solveit 6y ago
I mean, yes, they exist. And the public record is fine because you just create a new address for every transaction and cash out. Just because phone companies keep a record of who's calling who doesn't mean phones aren't usefu
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by solveit 6y ago
Because BTC is what they take. The coordination is more important than the tech. Granted, this is only because I don't patronize the super illegal Go To Jail Go Directly To Jail Do Not Pass Go type of merchants, but the point stands. I
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by solveit 6y ago
Completely irrelevant to your point, but fun fact: a horse can actually produce like 14 horsepower.
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by solveit 6y ago
A speculative store of value that everyone has coordinated upon is utility, and this has little to do with the quality of the underlying technology. The fact remains that I can pay merchants of varying degreees of shadiness in BTC much ea
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by solveit 6y ago
That says more about you than it does about cars and Bitcoin. I like having code that nobody can take down but don't drive.
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by solveit 6y ago
It's certainly not just America, but it does seem to be disproportionately America. Source: Am Korean who has lived in the US and UK
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by solveit 6y ago
You can't send gold over the Internet. The question isn't whether Bitcoin lets you do things that couldn't be done before, it's whether those things are valuable .
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by solveit 6y ago
You could tax at the fiat off-ramps.

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