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by starbugs 7y ago
This reads as "we will make tracking harder for everyone else but us" to me, which is even worse.
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by starbugs 7y ago
I have a theory: Centralized infrastructure tends to be less complex and therefore cheaper. Economies of scale drive people into using a centralized monolith and then network effects do the rest. If you want a decentralized system to sustai
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by starbugs 7y ago
> Preserving your wealth in a risk free fashion is a service the government is providing to you. That's a big portion of the reason why the army, police et cetera exist. It costs them and you a lot more than 1% per annum. No, the go
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by starbugs 7y ago
I was talking about issuing debt for the sake of being incentivized to do so, because of negative interest rates. Infrastructure investments that are profitable later on are a different story. However, I live in Germany, and when I go out I
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by starbugs 7y ago
Germany has invested substantially into tackling climate change. Google "Energiewende". Maybe also do some research on the internet infrastructure in Germany. It's a cartel. That's why service is so bad. I'm not say
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by starbugs 7y ago
You are basically saying that I don't have a right to preserve my wealth for the time period I see fit and that the government (I consider the central banks to be part of the gov) should enforce that by manipulating interest rates. Wha
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by starbugs 7y ago
This. Plus all the new money printing debases the currency eventually (even if you are the world reserve currency issuer). This is what transfers the bulk of the wealth from the bottom to the top. Wages can't keep up with inflation and
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by starbugs 7y ago
Germany is not in a position to print the reserve currency of the planet.
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by starbugs 7y ago
If debt is issued to invest productively, yes, then it's good. Now look at what caused 2008. I don't think it was good debt that got us into this situation.
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by starbugs 7y ago
The ECB has been "printing money" like crazy for the last decade. Inflation in Germany is between 1 and 2 percent. Why is that a problem? If you've saved some money it's already eating up about 1% (or more) on an annual
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by starbugs 7y ago
If I remember correctly, it was a debt crisis that caused this. You basically allowed people who couldn't pay to "own" houses that were so beyond their means that (combined with a couple of financial derivatives) it collapsed
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by starbugs 7y ago
So why not print all the money everyone needs? I'd start off with a couple of million EURs. Oh, you also want a couple of million? No problem. Oops, hyper inflation and we're back at the start. Seriously, this doesn't work.
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by starbugs 7y ago
> Is there any reason not to "borrow" when you're being paid to do so? You still have to pay it back in the future and you can live beyond your means to the point where you can't?
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by starbugs 7y ago
Uhm, sorry, but is the author serious? I mean, how did we come to the point where not being indebted is bad and should be condemned?
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by starbugs 7y ago
Regarding your first question, yes. Source: I have been a student at University of Bremen and attended some of his lectures (I remember at least one titled "Physikalisch-technische Grundlagen Digitaler Medien").
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by starbugs 7y ago
To me it looks as if AMP is on the edge of being legal in terms of antitrust law. Even if Google doesn't admit to it, I bet they prefer AMPed sites in the ranking. The AMP icon might be another thing that makes it difficult with regard
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by starbugs 7y ago
Great article! I admire him for not giving up and even becoming a successful entrepreneur under these severe circumstances. Yet, I'd like to post a warning here. Putting the metaphoric gun to your head, as the article suggests, may som
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by starbugs 7y ago
Apple did this a while ago. Safari only shows the domain and the lock icon, nothing else. I get the discussion about Google changing the web to something that pleases their pockets over everything else, but I am not so sure whether that&#x2
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by starbugs 7y ago
There seems to be a significant incentive to getting data that fits the purpose and run it through these algorithms. It's probably not trivial, but paid experts should be able to deal with it pretty quickly. It's probably enough t
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by starbugs 7y ago
> [...] it could promote a widespread and significant melt event like the one in 2012. During that summer, nearly all of the ice sheet experienced melting, including the highest elevations that rarely exceed 32 degrees. I think it's
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by starbugs 7y ago
And that's quite logical if you think about it. How else can you explain the amount of your gains/losses when trading crypto for crypto and then back to fiat again.
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by starbugs 7y ago
From my experience, it's not really a matter of getting tracked. It's a matter of whether you can explain your income conclusively, which isn't easy if you don't report all transactions.
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by starbugs 7y ago
So there are — effectively — none. And even the hypothetical solutions nobody wants to commit to are being disputed in the style you can witness above.
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by starbugs 7y ago
Aside from the direct opportunities making the problem even worse (sell millions of ACs) presented here already: This is a serious opportunity for mankind to learn from its mistakes and become a sustainable society. Let's hope it doesn
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by starbugs 7y ago
Great, good luck! Your GitHub README looks reasonably good. This is likely going to be successful. The website has some issues. The download page displays empty dropdowns on the left-hand side of the download buttons, for instance (I'm
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by starbugs 7y ago
It would be better to repost the direct link (if not posted yet) and use the Show HN title there. Look at the "Show" section (linked above) for examples.
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by starbugs 7y ago
This discussion reflects an additional problem. There is no agreement about the solution. Try selling people a problem without a solution. Good luck!
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by starbugs 7y ago
It's a hard sell. It's devastating to think about, very negative, and it almost always means that people need to quit doing things they've come to love. It's like trying to get someone who's addicted off their drugs
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by starbugs 7y ago
Nice work! As you may have noticed HN does not support markdown, so you might wanna change this post. Also, I'd recommend to repost a direct link to the GitHub repo and add "Show HN:" at the beginning of the title. You may ha

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