RedBeetDeadpool

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by RedBeetDeadpool 3y ago
Yea its peanuts. Not as quickly as your politicians are.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Because there are no dollars involved. If they do as you suggest, at the start: A holds gold. B holds dollars. C holds oil. A trades B, gold for dollars. A holds dollars, B holds gold. A trades C, dollars for oil. A holds oil, C holds do
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> What does matter: the NYT's decision to focus skeptical reporting on tech as an "important power center" sure seems to have been vindicated. So in effect the NYT which have been an "important power center" of A
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > it makes boring reading. > it makes boring > boring >
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
How you said it: > Twitter’s already headed down the uncool social media curve like Facebook before it. There will be an exodus, but it would have happened either way. Once the parents get on, it starts the decline. When the grandparents
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Looks like you were downvoted ... no response. You know what that means.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> My belief is that public forums with reach into the tens or hundreds of millions are fertile ground for nationalist and genocidal movements, and they will be used for that purpose if it is not actively prevented. Yes, we must crush all
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> Reddit has hundreds of millions of users and millions of subreddits. HN is probably fairly comparable to a mid-sized subreddit Yes, since you're going to bring up a generalization in my argument in order to dismiss the whole thing
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
yikes. Fair enough.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Chicago is slowly dying by self imposed policies. Cue in guy shoving stick into bicycle wheel then holding shin meme. Chicago is a great city and everything you mentioned is completely avoidable. But again, its shoving a stick into its o
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Good news is they do exist, and manufacturers do make them even if they are prohibitively expensive. If you want it enough you can actually pay to get it made and shipped to you, which is better than not having that option at all.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
And that is generally true. Whats your point exactly? Since we're here, what are some examples of this not being true? And again, whats your point?
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Other forums do not suffer from this particular political lean. Reddit mods in particular are known for authoritarian ban hammering because its the only way to quiet ideas that go against their worldview, and they often approach it as a ho
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Because injecting billions into a corporation so they can compete with overseas companies after the fact, is more feel-goody than removing the policies that made corporations move overseas to begin with.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Generally anything that does not fit the ideologies of a typical reddit mod, and yes they will have certain belief systems, as most people do not have the time or desire to be moderating even for a few hours a day for no monetary rewards, w
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
I agree with this sentiment. Health studies are basically an oscillation between different diets these days. I never know when a new study will come and debunk yesterday's fad diet. Just avoid processed foods and exercise more.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Network protection, network adoption, stability, and decentralization. Not only that, with lightning, its has unparalleled speeds of transactional finality compared to a legacy system that relies on centralized databases and is still slow
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released updated official mortality data that showed 45,222 firearm-related deaths in the United States in 2020 — a new peak. Wonder how this has changed since the lockdown.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
From my previous comment: > I don't want to share the answer I'm not here to win arguments. No. I wont be "getting to the point" because I'm going to keep it for later.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Actual value doesn't stay the same even when its running. I don't see why this is a problem, but if you want to use this as an argument, then go for it. ("Actual value" in dollar terms I assume? correct me if I'm wr
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
You asked a very good and important question. I don't want to share the answer, but know that it explains a very important topic on economic systems. Since I'm not going to be giving away the answer, I want you to at least ask yo
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Everyone responds with your exact comment. 100 people in a room. All of them might have bitcoin. None might have bitcoin. One might have bitcoin. Five might have bitcoin. 99 might have bitcoin. Two might have bitcoin. One guy might ha
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> You’re a piñata if the attacker says you are, not just because you’re broke. And so are you. Doesn't matter if you don't actually have a bitcoin. Lack of provability means the attacker says you have a bitcoin so therefore y
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Ok got it. So a gangmember will torture you because you have bitcoin just because you drive a lexus, even if you might not control a single satoshi. Which means gang members are suddenly going to torture anyone who lives in Beverly Hills b
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Because the universe is full of "not a pinata"'s. If an attacker is blindfolded swinging their baseball bats hoping to hit one, its utterly futile on the attackers time spent on earth. They are infinitely better off working
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
It only takes one guitarist to start a song, and I can play a few chords.
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> when the music stops When the music stops, your account in the global open distributed ledger is stored in hundreds of thousands of harddrives distributed evenly throughout the entire free world. And when the music starts again, your a
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
Or better question. How many whacks on a rock would an "attacker" have to make before they decide its not going to print any money and they are just wasting their life? Keep in mind, no one knows if this rock prints money or if t
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
At what point does one decide a pinata is empty if there is 0 evidence available that a pinata might not even be a pinata?
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by RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
> I'm sure there exists an amount of force that can pry it from your living body though :) No there isn't, because you don't know how much I have. I can always give up some and claim I gave up everything. To do what you

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