Growling_owl

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by Growling_owl 5y ago
the Internet is now being used by 4 billions people, so it basically mimics humanity Back in the 80s and 90s you were cherry picking the elite and the intellectuals, the internet of back then was never going to be representative sample of h
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
> Once you're big enough to be a target, you have to spend money on lobbying, and contribute to campaigns. Absolutely not. You do the opposite of that. You go at layer zero. At the population level and enter the culture wars arena w
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
Okay, let's do the reverse. If you are somebody who wants to win an election, whose vote are you winning by proposing and/or signing a bitcoin ban? It's not like Bitcoin has a CEO that you can point at in the Forbes billionai
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
1) Elections in America are always close, every race, every candidate is not safe. That's the nature of the 2 party system, hence every vote counts 2) You are getting your data from the wrong source, Coinbase alone has 56 million verif
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
What if those who produce, use and mantain those tanks, ships, planes and rifles suddenly lose trust in the mean of compensation which the government offers them in exchange of their services? Nobody ever thinks about this, but government a
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
Nobody, not even Biden has the political goodwill to make Bitcoin illegal and enrage so many constituents (aka lost votes) The only ones who maybe can do it are Xi and Putin, and the latter seems more pro than against because everything whi
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
Everything old is new again. This is nothing revolutionary: The Hollywood Stock Exchange was a similar project
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
> science _overwhelmingly_ supports vaccination Not to be pedantic about it, but science always, and in any event supports non vaccination for self and everybody else vaccinating instead. This is true for every disease. If possible it&#x
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
There is no money to be made in the form of profits or FCF from renewables. Not only that, there is no money to be made in energy which isn't fossil in general. This includes Carbon Capture, storage, and nuclear fission/fusion as
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Ask HN: Anybody ever encountered the elusive “Reverse-Spinoff” in their carrer?
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
Imagine waiting 24,000 years for round #2!
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
> If we dismiss all corporate criticism as just another inevitability, then corporations will run unchecked without any criticism Who needs criticism when you are in control of B2 bombers? Let corporations play, let them compete and give
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
> For facebook, it was decimating any local ISP growth by snatching their market When the hated big guys move, there is always the suspect that somehow, somewhere, somebody else could have done it better, or with less externalities or w
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
> More people probably knows who Elon Musk is than what Sweden is anyways Musk is like a weird combination of Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump. He tweets like Trump, but when he gets on stage he stutters and speak as badly as Michael B
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
How come when a company is not American the intro is always: [Country's]+[company name] Whereas if the company is American it's always: [founder's name]+[company name] I don't know if it has to do with media or with the
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
This is historic! Now a country has BTC as legal tender, add to that the 700 B marketcap and the fact that it cannot be banned because nobody has enough political capital to piss off millions of holders. We are in a new era. The social mess
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by Growling_owl 5y ago
It's not just social media. Media in general has a heavy bias on negative reporting , that's because humans are wired to have huge spikes in attention when there is a hint of bad news or character assassination. Back in the days i