CryptoPunk

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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>Personally, I think if we had better laws Musk would be looking at charges of criminal negligence for encouraging people to think they have things like actual "autopilot" and "full self driving". But as it is, he
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
I think it stands to reason that nuclear power plant design and construction efficiency would have progressed far more quickly with continued construction of nuclear plants. And the amount of fossil fuel usage that greater energy production
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>Which trend? 1. Uniswap now has deeper liquidity on several major trading pairs than the leading centralized crypto exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance: https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3-dominance 2. Th
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Do they consider putting someone in prison, for their refusal to surrender their privacy and private property in complying with the Income Tax Act, a violation of Human Rights? How about confiscating someone's fruit cart because they d
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>but still ran on a platform of "taxes are evil". One can have a morally consistent world view that holds that voluntarily submitting oneself to the state's tax obligations to be a moral good, comparable to donating to
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Red Terror (Spain)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by CryptoPunk 4y ago|3 comments
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>The sad reality is that many poorer and financially illeterate people have been tricked by VCs and other grifters into this with billions of dollars spent in advertising. I'm a consumer of tether. I know the risks, and I take a
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
I was not referring to this particular project. You implied all crypto projects are scammy. I was taking issue with the over-generalization. And as an aside, not being in compliance with SEC regulation does not in any way make a project sca
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
There is nothing inherently scammy in using a distributed blockchain to record balances, and cryptography to authenticate updates to the balances. While opening the door to financial contracts to every one in the world with a computing devi
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
I entirely agree with you on the damage done by lockdown-imposed remote learning for kids. I don't believe we're at a place technologically where telecommunication can fully substitute for in-person learning. If left to our own de
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Utterly disingenuous characterization of the impact of Musk in his capacity as Tesla's first major investor, first chairman and 14 year long CEO, and of SpaceX on commercial space flight: But before you point at Musk and Tesla or Spac
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
The property of being preserveable affects more than just the appropriability of resources. Cereals being preserveable also would have made them more tradeable, and trade increases productivity. Taxation is a concept related to trade, in t
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The Dominance of Uniswap v3 Liquidity(uniswap.org)
3 points by CryptoPunk 4y ago|0 comments
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Intelligence is a higher order trait so harder to describe, but it is still a discernible trait. Roughly speaking, intelligence is the ability to achieve an objective through modeling scenarios in order to determine more optimal behavior. I
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Any source for Thiel being a fascist?
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Every one has challenges. Claiming certain groups have more challenges implies being able to measure the difficulty of challenges, in order to be able to ascertain the challenges of one group are greater than the norm.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
But why does one's address have to be fixed to provide these services / establish these qualities? Society adapted to advance the listed social causes in the historical context where having multiple or frequently changing residenc
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
No fixed address, but: >>To access the No Fixed Address programme, you must be experiencing housing or homelessness difficulties and receiving support from one of our partner charities. >>If you aren’t receiving support from She
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
And the Democratic Party claims voters should not be required to show photo ID to vote.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that Thiel supports a return to monarchy?
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
All of these are crude generalizations. If marginalization can be definitively stated to exist in someone, then it can be measured, and if it can be measured, then it can be directly compensated for without resorting to generalizations. I w
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>Let's be honest, the reason so many people are opposed to this view is because it has been wrongfully used in the past to justify very real oppression and inequality of opportunity. At the very least, it is a very dangerous min
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
This is sophistry for social justice ideology masquarading as science: >>Racial inequality costs the U.S. economy an estimated $16 trillion in lost gross domestic product (GDP) (4), failing to hire job seekers with a criminal history
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>After all, we know disruption and innovation rarely comes from big incumbents. Tax the shit out of them and turn that into funding and options for the rest. Making it less likely that companies become very large, profitable and valu
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Flight evolves all over the planet, across diverse environments. But in any case, there will be some commonality in environments across many planets, owing to what environments are the most probable hosts of life, and to the fact that the l
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
You've hit the nail on the head with this. I often see "big idea" thinkers who I find to be brilliant, like Jordan Peterson, criticized, and I think a lot of that comes from literal thinkers who 1. apply a rigorous evidentiar
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
This context is quite biased by ideological preconceptions.
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The End of Industrial Society(palladiummag.com)
161 points by CryptoPunk 4y ago|173 comments

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