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by toolz 5y ago
I've tried basically every ego-death drug that exists (or that I'm aware of) and I've still not felt the need to assert to people that they have a non-functioning part of their brain they aren't using to understand &quot
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by toolz 5y ago
> “Intimate” may not be a great word Intimate was the centerpiece of my curiosity. Sure I can have feelings about the universe and the rocks that exist within this universe, but there is no intimacy. > isn’t that as close to “intimat
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by toolz 5y ago
Do you have intimate relationships with rocks? and if so can you describe what that relationship is like? Does your conscious self acknowledge this relationship or are you just speaking in some metaphysical sense that is completely intangib
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by toolz 5y ago
To follow this line of thinking, are you suggesting I can have an intimate relationship with a rock? If you're not speaking to the point about intimacy, what point are you speaking to, because your post isn't very clear what poin
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by toolz 5y ago
No, verification is not belief. You can believe in the methodologies I suppose, but that is not what is being said when people say "believe in science". They are saying "believe in the findings from people you haven't m
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by toolz 5y ago
The fact people think anyone should believe in science speaks to how political many scientific subjects have become so political. Imagine if scientists just "believed" science and never tried to reproduce. Belief is an awfully ter
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by toolz 5y ago
I feel like your response embodies crypto critics quite well. Someone asks a question, someone answers how crypto helps and then someone else moves the goalposts.
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by toolz 5y ago
How many crypto bugs to date have you followed that you would classify as harder to resolve than it's more traditional counterpart?
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by toolz 5y ago
if you want to save and don't have a bank within a reasonable traveling distance - what are your alternatives? Almost everywhere in africa will have at least spotty internet within walking distance - the same can't be said of acc
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by toolz 5y ago
If you wanted to understand how crypto can help, you should've asked a question - not declared something about crypto that was both incorrect and tangential to the point being made. close to 50% of sub-sharan africa owns a cell-phone a
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by toolz 5y ago
No, it gives you more options to handle security in a more robust way and how you see fit. There is no "purpose" of crypto - it's a tool and a tool that has more options than current popular asset protections can offer.
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by toolz 5y ago
Do you think bank insurance is free? You seem to think crypto can't have insurance or maybe that it'll be costly while ignoring that bank insurance is something you are paying for. It's not free and the bank isn't doin
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by toolz 5y ago
and how many people have had money locked up by the very institutions that exist to protect those assets? I trust me _way_ more than I trust nameless corporations.
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by toolz 5y ago
no, you don't have to be a full node to have complete control of your wallet because of asymmetric cryptography. You hold the private key to your wallet and without that private key no one can spend your funds. It's not terribly
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by toolz 5y ago
It seems like religious people would be far less likely to seek professional help for abuse and that would skew these numbers greatly, considering the methodology. Religious community members have far more reason to avoid acknowledging thei
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by toolz 5y ago
Specifically I'd like to see some quantifiable data because any region (including the EU) can be claimed to have horrific social problems without anything other than subjective data to back up those claims. To be honest, I've neve
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by toolz 5y ago
you don't have to be a synced, full node to have a wallet that you alone have full control over So to answer your question, yes I actually own the wallet and no it didn't take more than a minute at most for many different coins
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by toolz 5y ago
This is incredibly uneducated. If I were to talk about fiat with this level of ignorance I would say things like "transferring money takes weeks!" in reference to ACH. Any cursory google search will show you that you are wrong a
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by toolz 5y ago
You need to research lightening network for bitcoin if you think that sounds cheaper. I'm sorry, but that's just easily not the case. 80% of the world is not more accessible when the alternative is practically 100% of the world.
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by toolz 5y ago
payID has KYC just the same as crypto but crypto is globally accessible, cheaper and just as fast to receive crypto you don't even need KYC actually, just to on-ramp from fiat...and if you mine crypto you don't even need KYC - so
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by toolz 5y ago
so payID, something not all countries have today can match the speed of crypto, can't match the fees and have a huge block on 1st time transactions. crypto wins there - payID sounds like it's been something that should've exi
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by toolz 5y ago
lightening network for bitcoin (and many many many other coins/layer2 solutions) are practically free whereas credit cards charge sellers something like 2% _minimum_ on charges.
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by toolz 5y ago
I can send many orders of magnitudes more in crypto (XLM in case you're wanting a reference, but there are more) faster and cheaper than that. and payID holds first time transactions for 24 hours...this isn't even marginally reaso
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by toolz 5y ago
well over 90% of illicit purchases are done in fiat and you've really not been paying attention if you think those are the only benefits of crypto. There's an entire country that uses crypto as legal tender. I could stop there, bu
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by toolz 5y ago
thanks for the reply - no idea why you're getting downvoted as this strong contrast of perception is what I was interested in hearing about. Do you feel like your fear is rational? Statistically my gut instinct would be to think you ha
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by toolz 5y ago
Yeah, the comment had me curious as well. It's literally just a guy posting pictures of his guns and family. The most dramatic thing on there was the bio part that said "politically incorrect" while appearing to have nothin
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by toolz 5y ago
Until you want do something completely distributed that requires trust. The runtime isn't great, but then again, what runtime is better that meets those requirements? ACH is far slower than many blockchain solutions, for example.
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by toolz 5y ago
I'm curious in how you interpret my comment here - in what way am I portraying this issue? What I mean to show is that forest fires have gotten immensely better, likely because of technology over the years. Which is exactly what I he
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by toolz 5y ago
I'm probably overly calm about climate change. I can't trust that science isn't trying to sensationalize the problem so much so that I end up discounting everything I read. Take this [1] paper for example I just happened upon
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by toolz 5y ago
we are testing for antibodies but antibodies aren't the only immune system response and depending on who you ask might not even be the "main" defense against covid.

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