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by sparkie 5y ago
He does a good enough job laying his views it out in the article. > misreadings of basic economics Willing to bet he has never read Basic Economics[1]. If he had, he would know that several of the assumptions he makes in this text are fa
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> " If you sell your crypto and make a profit in dollars, it’s only because someone else bought it at a higher price than you did." Note: Making a profit in dollars does not necessarily imply making an increase in purchasing po
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Paragraphs 4 and 5 are wholly biased opinions. Author seems to have absolute faith in policymakers to do the correct thing, and has a cartoon-like assumption about people only hoarding money.
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Use MusicBrainz Picard. The MusicBrainz database is probably the best there is, and it does a good job of automatically tagging your music. Once tagged, every file will have a unique musicbrainz_trackid (UUID) in its metadata, which can be
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It evokes an emotional response in bitcoiners because it is literally the only viable solution to the massive problem of theft via inflation of the money supply. People care about this great injustice which is one of the main sources of ine
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Speculation is a distraction from the greater goal. When there are volatile exchange markets, people will always try to take advantage of them to make money. The fact that people see bitcoin as an investment is really a testament to just ho
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It was supposed to solve the problem of trust in third parties. Satoshi made this absolutely clear when he released the software and final version of the whitepaper, and he mentions it twice in the whitepaper. https://satoshi.nak
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Bitcoin has utility; it separates money from the State. If that's not useful, I don't know what is. When the State deliberately debases its own currency year on year, and suddenly there is a useful option for saving, which nobody
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There's giant a flaw in the authors assumptions. > The investors are all those who have bought or will buy bitcoins; they invest by buying bitcoins, and cash out by selling them. Who says I want to 'cash out'? Why would I
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All "blockchain voting" ideas miss the real threat model: Who issues the ballots, and how can you possibly know that Sybil has not been issued many? No blockchain is going to solve this. Not ETH, and not Altman's Eye scanning
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I mistook the details above. The other works they were bribed into releasing code for were still violating licenses, but from different license holders. > "The SFC will grant a new license, but on one condition - not only must you p
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That isn't true. The GPL licenses can be fully revoked if the license violator does not comply with the license after 30 days of being informed by the copyright holder of their violation. There is no "automatic renewal" unles
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But you don't need to publish the link unless it is requested.
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Being powers of 2 is more efficient because computer memory/buses/caches are aligned to those sizes. It does not necessarily imply that they are less secure than with fields of non-power-of-2 sizes. There might even be a security
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There's a fairly recent work called SHAPES[1] which attempts to address this kind of customized memory layout without having to give up the OOP abstraction. You can try out different memory layouts without having to modify the types th
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Around 2 or 3 times a year. Not took any for 8 months. I also use DMT occasionally. Last time was about 6 months ago. I've had 7g myself and yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. 3.5g is enough.
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Randian? Try Rothbardian. My agenda is simply to be left alone. Your agenda is to interfere in my business.
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Government isn't always the problem, but it is almost never the solution. Every problem that government "fixes" creates half a dozen new problems. Now they need a dozen more laws to fix those. Everything becomes so complicate
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> To me this just sounds like more of the same stuff our societies keep pushing: that all the problems are ones of individual responsibility, not systemic flaws. You're depressed because there's something wrong with you, not th
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You're still at it. Who is "we"? What is "our"s? Stop pretending to speak for everyone else.
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You can go out and forage for wild mushrooms without digging through cow dung. "Mushrooms grow on cow dung" is true, but not the whole truth. It's part propaganda to discourage people from eating them. Mushrooms simply grow a
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You can't address societal problems before you address your own problems. And who is "we"? You should always ask this question when you see the word. Most people use it incorrectly because they falsely assume it includes peop
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If you pick fresh this may be a good idea. When you buy dried shrooms, it's not easy to tell what one fruit is because they shrivel up and break easily. Some sellers break them up deliberately - if some fruits are more potent than othe
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Dosage is usually measured in grams for the dried out mushrooms. There's no standard scale because the amount of psilocybin in each mushroom can vary quite a lot. Counter-intuitively, larger fruits tend to be less potent than smaller o
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That's because the other 7+ billion were not smart enough to compete with him for nearly a year, despite it being made public at the time Satoshi began mining. The "pre" in premine means "before," as in, they mine t
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Which one was the first spend and which one was the double-spend? You are talking about a distributed network where there is no universal time by which this can be measured. The blockchain is the solution to this problem. It provides an ord
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Unless Vitalik proposes a rollback.
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of Zircon over seL4? I've read up a bit on seL4, but can't seem to find the rationale or design decisions behind Zircon. Not sure why Google needs to roll their own microkernel when there
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If an apple falls from a tree, does the apple move away from the tree, or does the tree move away from the apple? In order to determine whether something has "dropped", you need to have a frame of reference to compare it to. You h
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"Monetary policy" is the term used by fiat economists to describe their policy, which inevitably boils down to debt expansion towards infinity. Bitcoin is an experiment at providing an alternative to infinite debt expansion, by de

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