whytaka

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by whytaka 9y ago
I've switched to another exchange because of this.
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Right. That we talk about consciousness suggests that the physical drives have feedback of the perceived experience and are able to make determinations about it which is experienced again in perception as thoughts. I firmly believe that mos
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I don't know what you mean.
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Gains from trade is maximized when traders specialize in their most productive work. When profit is reinvested, it raises the standard of living. - Econ 101 If for any reason, you truly value your neighbourhood chicken farmer Bob's liv
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by whytaka 9y ago
Invisibility is minimalism is simplicity is easy is good.
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by whytaka 9y ago
Perhaps it is relative and your friend is right to call it as he sees it. From my perspective, I don't think it's unnecessary at all. People are dying from 'overwork'. Staff aren't able to leave before their superio
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by whytaka 9y ago
I think it is apt to call it insane. Consider this: it's not uncommon to see people 'working' nearly twice the hours of the Western average. Yet their GDP per capita is comparable if not equivalent to the Western average. Sin
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by whytaka 9y ago
Your experience isn’t a reliable setting to make the call about human nature because a different setting may produce different outcomes. UBI isn’t utopian. No one lives large for free. People simply get the basic support.
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by whytaka 9y ago
That's funny. The proponents of UBI would say that it in fact is the key to maximizing productive social behaviour. Of course, it's a matter of worldviews. You might think innate human behaviour is laziness and only forceful contr
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For most people, $500 would be taxed and $500 is then returned. So what would be the change?
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Economic research has shown that in aggregate, cold hard cash is the most impactful aid you can give someone as well as the least impactful intervention you can impose on the market. The freedom to make your money work for what you personal
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by whytaka 9y ago
Our phones, their glitziness, and the way they captivate definitely hijack the mind's operations when it's saturated by them. It's a rough solution but simply dampening the strength of the signal is one way to manage our mind
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by whytaka 9y ago
I think the biggest cost to sustaining fiat is the power of the sovereign that backs it up. To a good extend, you have to also account for the military that secures the borders as that which also supports the currency.
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by whytaka 9y ago
I found this article to about Zero-Knowledge proofs to be very helpful. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-kno...
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by whytaka 9y ago
My hope is that it'll be a very near future for me. I spend a good 70%+ of my waking life in front of a screen. I really don't need it when I'm out and about. If I need to deal with something with more than a quick dictated s
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by whytaka 9y ago
I think in the past the Japanese simply didn't make much of a distinction between blue and green and the traffic lights are an artifact of that.
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by whytaka 9y ago
Yes but perhaps we don't need a bigger pie, we just need it shared more widely.
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Apart from this ICO ban, how has the Chinese government acted against Bitcoin? If anything, the large presence of Chinese miners in the blockchain space should suggest that they have the government's blessing.
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Being unremarkable is easier to accept if you tried and failed than if you know you never really tried at all and you squandered the chance.
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Venezuela.
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Good point. Perhaps the Chinese feel secure their transition into a consumer economy is on good footing. I've noticed my China stocks go up 50% in the last month or two. Confidence is way up.
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The petrodollar is how the US collects their tributes.
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I think this is the reason China and Russia have been hoarding gold and backing cryptocurrencies. They are waging an economic war against US hegemony by attacking their currency. It is strategically timed too considering the US just spent t
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by whytaka 9y ago
I concur. Poetic and succinct.
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by whytaka 9y ago
According to some reports, the entirety of the world's current wealth is measured to be north of $240 trillion dollars. [1] There will only be 21 million bitcoins ever. Let's say we were to measure all of our wealth in bitcoins, a
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Where are you citing this from?
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by whytaka 9y ago
As a beginner who'd struggled with learning Rust over the last few months, here's my advice: Ownership and Borrowing is front and centre in the intro texts to Rust and it's no coincidence. Understanding the concept(s), their
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by whytaka 9y ago
I can imagine something like carbon credits working well with this. What else?
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by whytaka 9y ago
How exactly are ICOs performed? 1) Set up mining software. 2) Start running it on your own machines and mine enough tokens for ICO. 3) Sell tokens. Profit. ?? Are investors at some point invited to run the mining chain on their own machines
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by whytaka 9y ago
That's really not what was said. Surely you are familiar with statistics and distributions over population. I agree it wasn't a smart thing to say, but I don't think it furthers the discussion to misrepresent it.

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