adh636

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by adh636 3y ago
Hopefully there will be consequences for him abusing the legal system in the way he has.
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by adh636 3y ago
I hadn't heard that one before. I like it! Nice article.
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by adh636 3y ago
> Should all our financial systems be open source too? Yes.
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by adh636 3y ago
Trying to better under the origins of a global pandemic is not an inconsequential endeavor.
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by adh636 4y ago
Not so sure your analogy works here. Aren't containment buildings meant to protect the area where the reactors are? I think the closer analogy would be saying the US needed to tap the breaks on the Manhattan Project because nuclear wea
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by adh636 4y ago
> I did not say that he broke any laws, nor do I believe that what he did was illegal in the slightest? >> Where they literally tried to create slave farms to obtain these in game currencies? 'literally tried to create slave f
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by adh636 4y ago
> For a slightly higher cost... > I don't understand this factory farm model Seems to me like you understand it just fine. Or maybe you are underestimating the cost difference or people's ability/willingness to spend m
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by adh636 4y ago
> A few people are being, in my view, harmful to everybody, including themselves, for no clear benefits to themselves, and for no gain for society. This is where your argument keeps falling down for me. This may be your view, but I and m
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by adh636 4y ago
Your argument seems to be that energy use that doesn't benefit you is wrong. I would be surprised if the idea of telling purchasers of energy what they can do with it, or computers what calculations they are allowed to make, will find
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by adh636 4y ago
PoW incentivizes renewable energy development. It's certainly not rolling it back. It used to also incentivize GPU production, but as of today that has been diminished as well. Instead it is only current asset holders who reap the rewa
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by adh636 4y ago
Or you can memorize 12 words. Not saying this should be the common practice or that everyone should do it, but having the ability to store your wealth in your mind is useful.
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by adh636 4y ago
Patently obvious? I think there are multiple plausible explanations. Building things people want gives credibility. I find it more bizarre people have such passionate anger towards others.
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by adh636 4y ago
Study of money is very scant in the modern education system. Looking down on people newly exposed and interested in economics is boorish. I also believe there are incentives ingrained in our society to keep some of this knowledge "secr
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by adh636 5y ago
https://squareup.com/us/en/press/bcei-white-paper
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by adh636 5y ago
Gave up their rights by "illegally" protesting, huh? So basically if you protest the government, and that government says your protest is illegal, you lose your rights. I don't see that being such a healthy path for a free so
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by adh636 5y ago
So if I'm understanding this correctly, you had the device set to let in ambient sound, but a motor vehicle slamming on the brakes was filtered out, and you consider this to be a good thing? Sounds dangerous to me.
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by adh636 5y ago
Amazing book. I think the concepts around the whole Uplift trilogy are great. The first one was a little tough for me to get through, but the next two are among my all time favorites. It's interesting to think about the potential of di
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by adh636 5y ago
People looking for a decentralized store of value and access to a form of banking and payments would not consider it a waste of resources at all. I think that is a very privileged position. I would recommend reading the work of Alex Gladst
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by adh636 5y ago
I don't know him personally so I could certainly be mistaken, but from listening to him speak/write and based on his charitable giving I don't get the impression at all that Jack is motivated by riches. I think he is genuine
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by adh636 5y ago
Decentralization and censorship resistance matter very much to the people who want bitcoin to succeed and become the native currency of the internet and the world, as does a nearly impossible to change monetary policy. Bitcoin has made very
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by adh636 5y ago
The bond market is over 100 trillion. Why would people buy bonds returning low fixed interest rates in depreciating currencies if bitcoin with a fixed total supply becomes the global reserve currency? Gold is currently at a 10 trillion d
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by adh636 5y ago
This is only true if you don't think Bitcoin is solving an important problem. For me, I think it is solving arguably the most important problem. That being said, even if I think clothes dryers (which use more energy than bitcoin) are
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by adh636 5y ago
Sorry, I am not sure I completely understand your argument. You expect the energy used for Tesla cars to more easily migrate to greener energy? Bitcoin mining is completely location independent and is able to migrate to cheaper (which as
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by adh636 5y ago
How about mass transit, bicycles, running, walking. Lets stop using airplanes and use blimps instead. Maybe there are benefits to using energy? Energy usage is how society and technology advances.
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by adh636 5y ago
The same argument people made against Tesla saying why electric cars weren't really better than combustion engine cars. They said Tesla cars use a lot of energy, much of which comes from coal and other dirty sources. What a joke that