taolegal

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by taolegal 4y ago
> do you support banning CrimethInc? Not really, but free speech goes hand-in-hand with free association. Musk obviously has the prerogative to ban people. > do you also support banning anti-vaxx misinformation at the height of a soci
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by taolegal 4y ago
Let's face it: central planning has had a horrible track record. Every centrally planned & highly regulated sector of the economy is broken. Whether it's housing, energy, education or healthcare it all sucks, regardless of the
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by taolegal 4y ago
There's no lying, and that you're suggesting that they're lying reveals your own bias. And it also reveals that you don't support the idea of free speech, since you seem to believe it's only a politically motivated
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by taolegal 4y ago
> The fact that you can make an argument that 'it's just computation no different from any other computation' is ignorant of the point and kind of jeuvenile. Why call me juvenile? That's not necessary to make your arg
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by taolegal 4y ago
> I'm reasonably sure that global military industrial complex mostly uses digital money transfers. It seems like your concept of fiat might be wrong. Fiat isn't synonymous with physical tender. Fiat is just sovereign money in w
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by taolegal 4y ago
> stopped working for me when I graduated high school and entered what some may call the real life > future of finance wet dream doesn't actually ever scale to 1% of what's needed, stop burning fossil fuel, and find a new ho
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by taolegal 4y ago
Lightning works and it's easy for anyone to start using it now. Whether you want to discount it cause it can't immediately onboard the entirety of humanity within an arbitrarily short timeframe is just nitpicking because there cer
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by taolegal 4y ago
Punishment is about desert, rooted in morality. A sin/crime/misdeed just definitionally deserves punishment. Read The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment by CS Lewis [1]. The other position is that humans need to be cured of their p
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by taolegal 4y ago
Not sure what you're trying to get across. Am I supposed to think that locked shelves is normal or ok, should we minimize yet another needlessly bizarre and inconvenient impediment in ordinary life? Because of some romantic anecdote ab
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by taolegal 4y ago
Ok looks like you're going to judge bitcoin on its transaction capacity. There's nearly an infinite number of transactions that can occur nearly instantaneously on L2 with the lightning network for example.
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by taolegal 4y ago
> only proof of work Banning proof of work is tantamount to banning computation, it's silly and infeasible unless you want to start monitoring what people calculate. Which for anyone remotely sane is laughable on its face.
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by taolegal 4y ago
ITT: liberals saying it's cruel that Musk changes the company. As though any company has an obligation to employ people. And most importantly, even though Twitter basically just employs PhDs, and other smart people, to hijack our monke
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by taolegal 4y ago
> None of you deserved to be treated like this. Give me a break. This sector of the economy is literally the upper echelon of humanity. They won the lottery compared to most people and act like this is some affront. What a bunch of balon
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by taolegal 4y ago
> The market is solving the problem for humanity The market still considers a bitcoin to be worth 10x more than ethereum.
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by taolegal 4y ago
Since fiat is mostly just used to enable war, and most all war, especially in modern history, is senseless slaughter: we should do everything we can to subvert fiat.
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by taolegal 4y ago
Criminals wear shoes and need shoes. We should ban shoes.
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by taolegal 4y ago
> the cost to run the mining network is greater than the value created No evidence is offered about this at all. But even so mining should be a pretty low-margin and relatively risky endeavor. You don't want mining to be profitabl
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by taolegal 4y ago
Bitcoin doesn't stop working with less energy available. The beauty is that difficulty adjustments will work at any level.
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by taolegal 4y ago
Read up on Progressive history and, yes, it's very clear that the early 20th century Progressive movement loved the concept of a corporation. While most aren't self-conscious enough to realize it now, they still love corporations
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I'm scare-quoting expertise because it seems like you think there's an expert way to run a corporation. And that's a very progressive sensibility towards corporations, and precisely why they actually like them (what's mo
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by taolegal 4y ago
> advertiser-friendliness is a sort of low-resolution but approximate passable democratic mechanism for marking boundaries of civilized discourse This reminds me that progressives have historically always supported corporations as comple
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by taolegal 4y ago
So should the platform be guided by advertisers? Especially one that’s apparently the de facto public square?
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by taolegal 4y ago
free is the worst price
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by taolegal 4y ago
you're still not explaining how people are unable to get it at any point in its history
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by taolegal 4y ago
> had a huge advantage anyone could have decided to buy bitcoin when it was cheap. the advantage of bitcoin is that your enemies have to expend prohibitive amounts of energy to screw anyone over, and that protection is accessible to ever
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by taolegal 4y ago
> using their wealth to suppress their political enemies You could say that about practically every Democrat. Usually they brag about it “we have the most donations under X amount.”
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by taolegal 4y ago
For people who are just reading comments, it might be worth highlighting the magnitude of their findings, they suggest that a third of covid deaths could be avoided with a cheap and plentiful vitamin: "Mortality within 30-days of COVID
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by taolegal 4y ago
But doesn't everyone usually say how dumb the general public is, citing the results when posed a ridiculous question? Can't help but feel people are citing democracy here when it aligns with them but otherwise they're scornfu
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by taolegal 4y ago
There's a control aspect, but I think the labels are just standard totalitarianism. That maybe 30%~40% of the population (hopefully not more) don't have a spine & just conform to anything in the hopes of social reward. So labe
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by taolegal 4y ago
> I'm angry about this and I won't forgive and I won't forget. Me neither. They attempted an unconstitutional mandate even after promising they wouldn't do it during the election. I'll never forgive that or forge

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