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by toenail 2y ago
Neovim was started 9 years ago..
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by toenail 2y ago
I personally have no need for "stable" assets, so I don't know more than that they exist.
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by toenail 2y ago
It's funny how people keep pretending like there's only on chain bitcoin or that lightning is broken in 2025.
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by toenail 2y ago
https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/tap...
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by toenail 2y ago
> But to answer your question more directly, you should use a money that loses value because its purpose is as a medium of exchange and not a store of value That's an odd definition of money. The ancient Greeks already thought that
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by toenail 2y ago
That's a long post that seems to tell me it's bad for the economy. It's not my job to help the economy. Again, why should I use a money that loses value?
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by toenail 2y ago
We moved to fiat because politicians like the indirect taxation through inflation. It's free money for them, what's not to like?
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by toenail 2y ago
> since rapid deflation is extremely undesirable in a currency What do you mean, why should my money NOT go up in value?
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by toenail 2y ago
> asset class like gold and nothing else, it will never be more than that Lol, gold that can be teleported around the globe for fractions of a cent, yeah.. it sucks that bitcoin will never be more than that.
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by toenail 2y ago
Deflation is the natural state of the economy because progress makes everything cheaper. We only have an inflationary system because central banks print money. Putting a central bank into code and micro-managing the money supply was not pos
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by toenail 2y ago
What do you mean, I use bitcoin and the lightning network all the time for small payments.
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by toenail 2y ago
Bitcoin has lots of uses, you just haven't found one you need.
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by toenail 2y ago
Go to bed later?
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by toenail 2y ago
They would probably have to guess, but start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_(waves) > Many animals are capable of perceiving some of the components of the polarization of light, e.g., linear horizon
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by toenail 2y ago
European nations still have plenty of overseas colonies.. err.. territories. As somebody from an ethnic minority that was eradicated through educational and cultural policies that sounds like a good idea even without the former.
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by toenail 2y ago
Sure, abuse by the government is the exception, private enforcement with little oversight has to be normalized before.
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by toenail 2y ago
That's how governments bypass the legal system: they create private entities that do the dirty work, and when the government wants to illegally censor somebody they use those private entities. Works for speech, finance, ..
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by toenail 2y ago
The person chose to be employed instead of starting their own business. Less risk, less reward.
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by toenail 2y ago
Huh, you can do visual selections in vim as well, and manipulate what you selected.
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by toenail 2y ago
Dunno. Good luck to them, but I never saw a need to rewrite sqlite.
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by toenail 2y ago
Oh wow, you're attributing this ideology to Ted? There is a long history.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
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by toenail 2y ago
> Why is it not a survival advantage? Because you're more likely to hurt yourself while doing anything in the dark?
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by toenail 2y ago
You chose who you follow, and you can block any words you like. I see basically zero politics.
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by toenail 2y ago
You're a customer and it's their choice to have you in their car.
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by toenail 2y ago
It only needs to be cheaper. It beats bus, tram and metro on convenience. It beats ebikes and scooters on convenience and security.
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by toenail 2y ago
Tesla is still getting tons of subsidies, directly and indirectly. We'll see if they are successful once that stops.
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by toenail 2y ago
The promise that needed 1 billion in subsidies to build a new plant? As soon as the government got involved it was clear they couldn't be profitable on their own.
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by toenail 2y ago
Why have taxes at all if the government can just print money?
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by toenail 2y ago
> Inlining functions also has the benefit of not making it possible to call the function from other places. Congrats, you've got an untestable unit.
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by toenail 2y ago
God the hubris of the Wordpress camp.. https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/ > WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred. Wordpress people have been rewriting content

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