vitehozonage

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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Agreed. I dont think im alone in feeling like the future world wont be something i want to live in at all. The future and present seems so incredibly dark to me. I see no motivation to be saving with a long-term perspective. Savings and ass
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
It is interesting. I'm surprised moderation here doesnt try to nudge people to stay on-topic to some extent
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
monero exists
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
How else can you do private digital transactions other than with something like monero? Given that cash is dying, and mass surveillance on all transactions is incredibly dystopian for reasons I hope are obvious, it fascinates me that HN doe
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
>Cryptocurrency has two main applications: illegal transactions, and speculation. So, two of the most valuable applications possible?
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Monero exists
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Yes it seems like 100% of the articles are misleading clickbait. I don't think it's a suitable source for HN ever
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
I'd say everyone that has the ability to use it. Society is in a dark age where basically nothing else is fit for use; one bad click on most machines could compromise you for years, it is an insane situation. Even if you have other nee
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Accurate. I had a immigrant Russian professor in undergrad QM whom provided no notes, I could barely understand anything he said, and he just said to use L&L as the course book when people asked for help. I spent hours trying to read it
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Our worldviews seem to be so different that I struggle to know where to begin with responding to that. I don't see these concepts of "vice" and sacredness, it seems strangely religious
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Most of the working class is selling the majority of their waking life-hours under the same circumstances, I suppose you see that fundamental foundation of our society as coercion and slavery too if you are consistent? I don't see much
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Yes. It is a different world than ours obviously, but it warned of a myriad of horrors, most of which have already been exceeded in my view. That's my genuine viewpoint. For example, one of the most chilling aspects was the telescreen
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
What do you mean? Sarcasm? It's already worse than 1984, further down the slope than people's nightmares used to be
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
>Do you believe slack messages are private? Or DMs on twitter? How about the content you store on Notion or Google docs. No, so I would never choose to use them for communications with my intimate small groups, and nobody should. >sec
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Difficult to have "real connections" in a small, intimate group if you know you're being watched. Putting a 1984 telescreen in the room has a chilling effect. Without E2EE that's what you are building. Small, encrypted g
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
What did you use to implement end-to-end encryption?
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
All of these laws are always absolutely useless against serious criminals. Outlawing technology doesnt work, because they will break laws, use open source code and not trust closed source code. For example, if you outlaw encrypted apps like
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Agreed. Yet the Federal Reserve has a mandate to maximise employment, so to me it seems American society is quite literally manipulating the economy with a goal that's equivalent to maximising time away from your family
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
>Babies are expensive but they aren't life-changing expensive. I can't comprehend how you can say that. This is an actual human being with basically unbounded ability to benefit from absorbing your time and resources. >Why i
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
>Eating out 6x a week, buying expensive coffee and the latest iPhone might pale in comparison to making a Little You. Are you joking? What it really means is cutting back on things that actually affect quality of life. Like not being abl
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Zcash has directly admitted that it already had a catastrophic inflation bug [1]. Nobody can prove if it has been hyperinflated by an attacker. Developers linked to DARPA and the Israeli government had the knowledge, capability and opportun
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
I solved the P versus NP problem too but I didn't bother to formalise the math. Do you believe me? That's what you sound like. If what you write is true then please write the paper; it would be tremendously important. Until then i
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
The bitcoin whitepaper is titled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'. Cash is private and peer-to-peer. Peer-to-peer is impossible if chain analysis companies are required in the middle, as it is now to make sure you
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
>the Universe is not infinitely old You don't know that. Claiming that there is a start to the universe is an absurd, religious ex nihilo argument.
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Could be true that there is nothing with infinite density. But it is certainly not known with certainty, so the statement is horribly wrong. >It could be that relativity and the physics around black holes, the big bang, etc. are wrong. O
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Yeah, I stopped reading when i got to that sentence
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
They say that, but they know it isnt true
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
Agreed. I think it is even worse than the workplace. My social skills were stunted because I mainly learned how to attempt to socialise in a structured prison-like environment. I was trained to obey the authority figure saying to ignore fri
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by vitehozonage 3y ago
It's been so volatile, with the prices dependent entirely on hype regarding adoption, so there is certainly no conclusion at all to be made about deflationary currency - the impact of inflation on prices is essentially negligible compa

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