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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Dude. Ten dollars was an imaginary number. I’m simplifying to make the maths more understandable.
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Irrelevant. Land prices near settlements will be high. And take my space example. I could have a Bitcoin farm on the moon, using all that passive cooling and uninterrupted sunlight to generate coins, and then send them back via the internet
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
No, you’ve missed the point. The money represents energy. You can’t get a bank loan if you only have 10 dollars. You can get a bank loan if you have an income. The Bitcoin enables you to access money that you could not before. This enables
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
You’ve missed the point. What are you going to do with the solar power in the remote desert? There are no people within hundreds of kilometers. You can’t just mail them the electricity. That’s where Bitcoin comes in, because you can fully u
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Not really. You would be doing a portion of work that would be done anyway, but instead, it’s being done in your house, for free, and you get a warm house. That’s a positive externality. Much more efficient than using energy for the sole pu
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Let’s make it simple. Let’s say you live in a house in a place where the sun never shines and have ten dollars. One electricity costs one dollar. But you spend your ten dollars on a wireless solar mining rig that lives in the desert ten tho
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Ironically, if you had a Bitcoin mining set up in your home, you’d be more worried about keeping it cool. But you raise a good point - heat is another potential positive externality/resource of Bitcoin mining. Imagine if instead of hea
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Essentially. It could be entirely generated from sources of energy which could not be utilized for any other purpose. There is a world of untapped energy that is only restricted by isolation. So you could entirely run bitcoin without increa
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I heard an interesting argument for Bitcoin recently. It represents a way to move energy around the world wirelessly. For instance, you can use geothermal power in a very isolated, cold climate that previously would be unusable for any purp
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I’ll throw in mine. I think if we look at Japanese culture and actions, Kamikaze, suicide, honor, they were highly averse to surrendering. I think once two of their cities were completely disappeared, they realized that they, and everything
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I don’t understand. Break up Spotify?
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Yeah, it’s their free will to censor the content that they deliver. It’s also the consumers free will to have a problem with it. I don’t think anyone here is advocating for a legislative solution to this dispute. Spotify is making a financi
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I can see that you are not here to learn. So my replying to your comment would only be a waste of my time. For anyone else reading, I would direct you to recent research on the lab leak theory, as well as gain of function research conducted
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
It wasn’t just him saying that. I once went on a forum for a journal article, and there were two camps of biologists - those speaking about the similar sections, and those refuting the claims. I noticed that most of the refutations came fro
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
The number of people killed by police annually in the USA is quite low, fewer than 1,000 per year. For a nation with over 300m people and as many guns, don’t you find it surprising that this number isn’t higher? Of course, 50% of this thous
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I don’t think that describes America at all. America would have among the safest and best police by world standards. I recently visited Bangladesh, and the police there were recently involved in a shooting - however, they weren’t able to re
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Well, harsh penalties mean nothing if you have a corrupt and/or underfunded police/criminal justice system. But if you combine a highly efficient and regulated justice system with proper funding and harsh penalties, you will soon
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I mean take the extremes. If there was no penalty, would people be more inclined to steal? What if the penalty was the most extreme? If you look to Singapore, you’ll find a country with very rough penalties by western standards. Yet that tr
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
I agree that we shouldn’t legislate this. But I think people should be aware that limiting someone’s ability to participate in society on political grounds, without trial, is not a great step forward for humanity. Especially when these deci
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Anyone who believes that more severe penalties and a more potent criminal justice system has never been to Singapore. There’s a reason they have almost no crime there.
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Did you not see the throngs of people stealing from trains? The solution here is not to remove disincentives for antisocial behavior. That would be like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Okay, what about if I decide that your post leans too socialist, and contains dangerous anti-freedom misinformation? Would you be open to being silenced then? If the boot is on the other foot, do you have an issue? To make it more plain: if
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
What about if I decided to remove your access to the internet in case you continue to espouse your pro-capitalist thinking? Would you have an issue then? If I am reading your comments correctly, it seems that you would have no issue with be
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
But if I did run HN and had you de-platformed - would you be singing the same tune? You cheer for authoritarianism now, but what happens if the narrative shifts against you?
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
What if I deem your comment to be misinformation because it could lead to people developing capitalistic tendencies? Would you have a problem then?
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
People claiming to be scientists have created a test which alleges to be able to provide a numerical value to morality. Fixed that for you.
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
> I don't know any pilots who have had a simple engine out that wish they would have bailed out. Survivorship bias?
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
No fire = no fuel? Easy way to have an engine failure
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
Yeah, randomness is the only way to break the symmetry problem.
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by throwaway73838 5y ago
One of the difficulties is deciding on a strategy that would work even if the other player used the exact same strategy on you. My solution is to say something like: ‘I will nominate a colour next round. If we both nominate the same colour,

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