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by duckingtest 9y ago
>There is no reason I see why a capitalist system cannot include intervention by the government You're attempting to redefine the meaning of words to create a strawman where 'capitalism' can have any property you want, whi
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by duckingtest 9y ago
American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. It's illegal to offer services without explicit permission of the medical guild. It has the exact same effect all historical guild systems had: price gouging and reduced suppl
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by duckingtest 9y ago
1. Jacek Dukaj [0] - virtually unknown due to refusal to write directly in English :( "Perfect Imperfection" is imo the best sf book about trans/posthumanism there is. "Dukaj has interesting take on post-humanism, both a
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by duckingtest 9y ago
It's only possible for everyone to win if basic resources are infinite. Tribalism is the only pareto optimal strategy for finite resources, especially land on Earth.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
Allowing for coordinated protocol changes, the optimal length of pre-cooperative identification code should depend on the probability of error (defector). Which after a long enough time of winning (ie. close to zero defectors) would lead to
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by duckingtest 9y ago
What these simulations show is that tribalism is a winning strategy. Which means not following it leads to death. >We should move beyond tribalism because of it's inherence of prejudice. Considering an inherent property of a winning
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by duckingtest 9y ago
POW can't work at these scales. At $250k/btc mining would burn something close to the equivalent of New Zealand's GDP. As this would be purely electrical energy, energy use alone would be equivalent to that of Spain or simila
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by duckingtest 9y ago
That's only partly true. There are countries where average wage is $300/month. They are NOT going to buy legal software and media for $40/thing no matter how easy it is.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
>You can only say this if you're too ignorant to be worth a damn on the subject, or are insane enough to think that the people who have developed the protocol for the last 8 years are all misguided Argument from authority >where
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by duckingtest 9y ago
That's complete FUD on several levels. On a most general level, mining itself only needs the header. Chinese miners can verify blocks and transactions elsewhere and only send headers to the actual mining sites. A dial-up should be enou
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by duckingtest 9y ago
Calling it 'weak' is giving it too much consideration. The only sensible argument against larger blocks is that they boost mining centralization because larger blocks may take more time to propagate. Which may be true but it requi
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by duckingtest 9y ago
It turned out to be a misconception because computers are astronomically easier to use now. If you had to ever configure a config.sys entry for a specific game you know what I mean.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
You should ask the question about Core developers' incentives: what do they personally gain from scaling bitcoin? Nothing, at best increase in value of their holdings which they share with lots of free-riders, and only until they sell.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
There's an old idea that solves the storage issue completely - utxo commitments. Literally the only real throughput limit is end user's download bandwidth, which means 500MB blocks or so for 10Mbps download. Spv clients are fine f
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by duckingtest 9y ago
There's no free market in healthcare. Healthcare in the US is a guild with state-enforced monopoly. Reasonable prices would defeat the whole point of this. Naturally, it's sold to the public as 'safety' or other BS.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
>Sweden has a population of 9.8 million yet it has produced Skype Skype is Estonian. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stories/skype/skype-chapter-...
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by duckingtest 9y ago
In my case I was searching for something niche very hard and nearly couldn't find it. It turned out it exists, but was marketed to a drastically different market and I was using 'alien' terms, so to speak. I think I noticed a
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by duckingtest 9y ago
About three years.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
>understand that all your years of work can be destroyed by one diagnosis. And plan accordingly. Outside of emergency, you can travel to cheaper countries for treatment.
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by duckingtest 9y ago
Affiliate marketing. I'm making about $10k/month from several sites I don't really update. The trick is to install yourself in some customer acquisition path no one else figured out. When I started my first attempt I didn&#x2
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by duckingtest 9y ago
I think the real difference is much more pronounced than what your analysis suggests. A significant fraction of people without college-level education aren't able to pass the non-financial admission requirements, or drop out. Which al
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by duckingtest 9y ago
The idea of completely stopping cheating in systems like these harms meritocracy. I know this sounds outrageous. The problem is systemic - in European post-socialist countries, education is based mostly on rote learning which becomes more
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by duckingtest 9y ago
http://www.wicab.com/
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by duckingtest 9y ago
It directly is, otherwise exploitation via voluntary transactions becomes logically impossible. >is not central to socialism The whole point is that workers get their 'surplus labor' stolen. The concept doesn't exist witho
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by duckingtest 9y ago
I have amblyopia in one eye too, try doing LSD or one of its semi-legal analogues. While on 300µg I was able to read with the lazy eye and got 3d vision. I was looking at a tree with lots of branches and suddenly it clicked. I retained 3d v
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by duckingtest 9y ago
The core but unspoken idea of socialism is a zero-sum world. Everything stems from that. Marx's labor theory of value is an attempt to explain how economy works given that premise. In a zero-sum world every profit indeed means loss for
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by duckingtest 9y ago
Villains in Atlas Shrugged may appear ridiculously one-dimensional and simplified, but then one look at Venezuela today should convince anyone they are indeed realistic. That's not accidental - after all she lived in the early USSR and
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by duckingtest 10y ago
What you described is a life of a house cat, happy that the food's always there and that there's lots of time to sleep. A bleak life devoid of any ambition and goals. I can't imagine the brainwashing required to make people a
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by duckingtest 10y ago
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/jun/02/high-ef...
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by duckingtest 10y ago
That's pretty pointless... it has absolutely nothing to do with basic income. It's a limited time stipend. The recipients' behavior would only be identical if they were so dumb as to not plan more than a month ahead.

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