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by wyager 4y ago
Total nonsense. Forex markets are extremely liquid; narrow and deep. Right now, I could exchange 3M USD for euros (or vice versa) and not even move the price by $0.0001.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Rising nationalism worldwide is a bane to European prosperity and I don't see that trend reversing. Yeah, the biggest economic problem is definitely nationalism and not, say, excessive covid lockdowns or gas sanctions.
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by wyager 4y ago
Please don't use this thread to shill a shitcoin that doesn't even remotely attempt to solve the issue being discussed in the thread. Even if the shitcoin itself weren't stupid, it's specifically targeting low-power iot
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by wyager 4y ago
> Why aren't their countries desirable as well? See e.g. National IQ and Economic Development: A Study of Eighty-One Nations , by Lynn and Vanhanen. There is a superlinear relationship between average IQ and GDPPC. Research preclud
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by wyager 4y ago
I generally replace HDDs in my personal zpool a few days apart, for this reason. I also order them from different suppliers, so I can get different manufacture dates.
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by wyager 4y ago
This is a direct counter-example to the claim that we cannot engineer a situation where a particle lasts longer than it would in its free state.
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by wyager 4y ago
Disable inbound connections on your firewall and it's the same security as having NAT.
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by wyager 4y ago
> what is the advantage of the European engineer that is worth paying >=10x as much? They produce better product.
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by wyager 4y ago
I'm referring to you personally, but also a number of our mutual readers. I don't need to know you at a personal level to know what your religion is; it's clear from your comments.
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by wyager 4y ago
No.
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by wyager 4y ago
I have a habit of ignoring "tone" in discussions on relatively intelligent message boards because I think most of the people I'm talking to can handle it, and it makes the discussion vastly more likely to transmit valuable in
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by wyager 4y ago
I think we actually are. The main difference between the current state-secular religion and, say, progressive quakerism, is that state-secularism doesn't have an identifiable God. But this is, it turns out, a pretty minor difference in
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by wyager 4y ago
No. That comment isn't really addressed at you; it's addressed at our readers. It's just that people with your parochial (in the literal sense) educational background (which I can infer clearly from your comments) habitually
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by wyager 4y ago
The first-order reason the current regime funds education is that it is a pork-barrel jobs program (especially for college-educated women). The second-order reason is that the regime is mostly staffed by religious adherents to state-secular
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by wyager 4y ago
Constant-on is typically less harmful to the chips than on-and-off. Electromigration or whatever is less of a risk than solder joints going bad.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Perhaps something about the organizational setup of religious-based and funded programs American public schools are a religious-based and funded program; you just don't notice it because you don't even know what your own re
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by wyager 4y ago
Why are you talking about > classical liberalism, the scientific method, liberal arts, music, pedagogy, statistics when our conversation was about > Liberalism and pluralism (your words)? > State-based education is funded largely b
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by wyager 4y ago
> many dogmatic religions want to protect children from influences they cannot control or understand. Yes, for example, the state-secular religion of the US, which is enforced in public schools, wants to protect children from influences
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by wyager 4y ago
> It sounds like you were successfully sheltered from secular and liberal ideas If your utility function is "optimize for the life outcomes of my children", experimental evidence suggests this is a good thing. If your utility f
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by wyager 4y ago
I'd rather have the median homeschool parent influencing students than the median K-8 schoolteacher. I also don't buy your notion that neuroses are directly transferable by contact. If anything, your kid will probably be so annoye
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by wyager 4y ago
Public school (at least as I experienced it) is the worst possible place to learn social skills, unless you're hoping to pick up social skills for living in prison. It's age-segregated, usually monitored by adults, extremely regim
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by wyager 4y ago
> I transferred money for free in less than 1 second today using ‘legacy’ payments. As I've already explained multiple times, it's neither meaningfully free nor instant. If you didn't understand that when I explained it in
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by wyager 4y ago
Yes, no argument from me that the fiat system is adequate for buying a bagel. If all you're ever doing is engaging in small-scale consumption, there's not a ton of reason you personally would care about or even notice a transition
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by wyager 4y ago
> Speed - 1s vs 10 mins for Bitcoin This is a clear indicator that you aren't at all familiar with the payments industry, and probably not familiar with Bitcoin either. There is no extant fiat payment system that settles in 1 second
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by wyager 4y ago
> Bitcoin can handle 7 transactions per second Look up Lightning. To be honest, saying this is a pretty reliable reverse-shibboleth that you have no idea what you're on about. > Your bank account is secured with a password. secp2
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by wyager 4y ago
Are you joking, or do you really think that cash has superior security properties to asymmetric key management? It's a lot easier to steal my cash, or my bank balance, or my securities, or any other physical or fiat asset I own, than i
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by wyager 4y ago
No one leaves all their Bitcoin on a laptop. Even casual users today most likely have a backup of some kind. The process is easy now; buy a hardware wallet or use a phone app, write down the backup words, done. > Being able to call your
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by wyager 4y ago
> speed, security, privacy, trust Every single one of these factors is significantly better in Bitcoin than in the legacy payments system. Your proposed tradeoff is not based on reality. The only one of these things that might plausib
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by wyager 4y ago
Importantly, this only applies to the subsets of financial media that traders pay money for. Bloomberg's free news is garbage opinion pieces, but the stuff you pay (a lot) for is generally decent.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? If someone is driving faster than me, I usually respect them for having a greater risk tolerance of getting a speedin

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