leafygreene

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by leafygreene 5y ago
That a very significant part of the human population could, at any point (!), decide to switch to crypto as its currency. A currency that gives 1 million coin to each living human and says go and prosper. Could this happen? Maybe when is
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by leafygreene 5y ago
I apologize, but it's clear to me from your pointed responses that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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by leafygreene 5y ago
Yes. These are called common law marriages. 7 states have them. https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/common-law-marr...
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by leafygreene 5y ago
Get married. Doesn't work out? Divorced. Buried in debt for a decade or more, house gone, credit ruined, alimony indefinitely, child support forever, visitation up to a court. As a function of bad credit, impossible to ever get decent
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by leafygreene 5y ago
We compete when we should cooperate.
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by leafygreene 5y ago
This is at least partially biological. We are competitive because our survival depends on it, and deception is of utmost value in a competitive environment. See all of Capitalism, for example.
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by leafygreene 5y ago
I spent three months in the Deschutes National Forest this summer, drought conditions throughout. I watched everyday as honeybees and yellow jackets happily shared a pan of water I'd leave out for them. The third guest was an interlope
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by leafygreene 5y ago
It's that I can see the future for a few seconds that bothers me most. Not the “I've been here before” but the “I've been here before and I know what happens next” and that exact thing happens. It's that few seconds of c
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by leafygreene 5y ago
The major concern is what if government-funded industry such as this succeeds, thereby encouraging more of it, the slippery slope to state capitalism and then Marx. The term escapes me, but it's some sort of neoliberal woo woo I can&#x
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by leafygreene 5y ago
And there's a lot to being an Everyman. It's not a life lived unwell, or it doesn't have to be. One could well argue that unwellness is a function of doing. Read I. Berlin’s In Defense of Idleness .
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by leafygreene 5y ago
It takes me a couple hours to watch a movie, a couple days to read a book. I can re-watch the movie or re-read the book, and enjoy them again even though I already have. The plots won't change; they are predetermined; nonetheless, I am
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by leafygreene 5y ago
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to be anyone. You don't have to go anywhere. Life is not going to stop because you don't do something with your life. What are the 100 trillion lifeforms on earth, 8 billion
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by leafygreene 5y ago
And once you become accustomed to your imperfect pillow, no other will do!
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by leafygreene 5y ago
That's when you bill them $500/hr for your services out of retirement.
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by leafygreene 5y ago
re: survival in 50s. Only if you are by then successful. If not, your career will stall late 30s when you realize tech is age-bound, however immoral or illegal. They absolutely will hire 2 inexperienced college grads over paying for your 2
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by leafygreene 5y ago
The thing with small businesses is that it's all-consuming. If you think you can squeeze work-life balance out of a business, then you are borderline delusional. The (false) freedom, (unstable flow of) money, and (faux) independence of
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by leafygreene 5y ago
Or some country has started a war.
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by leafygreene 5y ago
Wouldn't a poison pill to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry deter mainland China indefinitely? You invade us, we'll torch every fab on our island. Simple and borderline stupid and illustrative of my own ignorance, no doubt, yet it
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by leafygreene 5y ago
You may not want creativity. You can't turn it off. Also, the world needs people like you far more than people like me. I might move the world forward tomorrow because I create x or b or zx or d, we shall see, won't we? But you wi
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by leafygreene 5y ago
I did. Too much bud threw my grammar aside. Corrected.
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by leafygreene 5y ago
Those “Congratulations to Drugs for Winning the War on Drugs” bumper stickers must really bite if you're a DEA agent.