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by throwvirtever 5y ago
For context: - "Arnold" is Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born American actor who served as Governor of California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger - The US Constitution restricts eli
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Is it the smart who are successful?
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
When people think something is bad and keep encountering other people saying it is good, they respond. There's no reason why anyone should get "involved in the space" before expressing their opinion.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Of course it's possible to live in a more basic, debt-free way, but my suspicion is that in the USA (which is the scope of the article) most people do not, which reduces the pool of people with enough time and energy to do something in
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Did people during the period(s) of high innovation have as much personal debt (especially home mortgages) as people do today? A lot of people have too many bills coming in every month to devote time and effort to things too weird to "
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> [I]f there were legitimate buying of BTC with Tether, which is plausible after the ass-whooping USDBTC has taken recently, new Tether would need to be issued to keep the 1:1 peg. Can you explain in detail why new Tether would need to b
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
"Intuitive for who" is a good question, and I hope the answer is "intuitive to the new/occasional user". I've used a number of different DAWs, and the main challenge is that if I haven't made any music for
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
I feel like I'm too ignorant of mathematics to be confused by this "proof". When you set out to prove "for any set of n horses, every horse in that set has the same color" and you then "suppose for all sets of
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
I wasn't referring to upgrades, I was referring to control of the existing, finite supply of Bitcoin. In a Bitcoin-centered economy, a relatively small community of "whales" would have de-facto control of the supply, because
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> Bitcoin is totally elitist and mostly a vehicle for speculation. I agree, but the parent poster does have a point. There are places where the economic situation has deteriorated to the point that using Bitcoin can solve some problems.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
But his point that Bitcoin is also essentially controlled by a central authority, i.e. the Bitcoin community, has merit. (Even if the control isn't formal, owning a large percentage of a finite "thing" still counts as control
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Ideally cryptocurrencies will disappear on their own before lots of people have lots of money tied up in them. Regulating them makes them appear safer than they actually are.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
I don't understand this push for regulation of cryptocurrencies. Just let the mathematics govern. It'll either work on its own, or as people lose their money to trickery and/or carelessness, there will be less and less to r
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Is there any objective reason (performance, reliability, etc) to avoid certain TLDs?
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> outside of our comfy western countries most people have this problem. Can you cite some evidence that there are people keeping long-term savings* in cash and has adequate internet access and computing resources to participate in crypto
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> You don't see how people are unhappy with getting their savings diluted by unlimited money printing? Money printing dilutes wealth if you hold it in cash, but every other asset appreciates. Moreover if you have more debt than wea
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Wouldn't a dozen prepaid SIM cards mean 12 times as many things to defend? Also wouldn't anyone you paid to "do it for you" need to be trusted, undermining the no-trust principle of cryptocurrencies?
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> But no one forces them to be in that industry, other than their desire to earn high wages. High wages are definitely a factor but being competitive and feeling energized by trades paying off count as well. It's a combination of h
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> A disgrace for education but a win for educational communism. I was under the impression that (actual) communist educational systems were geared predominantly toward the most advanced students, rather than the other way around. Cranki
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> It felt like a lot of formality with no real benefit to either side. Isn't the intent to benefit third parties though? I thought the point of pay transparency is to provide information to people who don't have the connection
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
You abandon the shorthand altogether, so that "cryptography" and "cryptocurrency" are distinguished the same way that "astronomy" and "astrology" are.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> share the profits from trading The purpose of trading is to get money, not to share it.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> For the bubble to burst, a lot of underutilized housing would need to come onto the market at once... It doesn't have to be a lot. It might only require a little underutilized housing to cause a price drop, depending on how inela
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
Few people want to join a small community with an entrenched social hierarchy though. In the microblogging world there's also a hierarchy, but the old guard gets pushed aside, replaced, or made irrelevant more often. Newcomers have a
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> [T]hey behaved like visible light, yet they were not detected by the human eye. The early days of discovering things that were real, but not human-perceptible, must have seemed almost magical. We're used to it now, but initially i
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> Because they aren't getting cheaper They aren't, until they are. Then people have problems.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> [I]n the 1970's software didn't exist There actually was software in the 1970s, and earlier.
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
> When I was at apple, we did this thing people called "key[n]ote-driven development"... > Big yikes. If Apple's products are essentially sold via a "keynote", it makes sense to have a keynote presentation as
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
I don't quite understand the obsession with homeownership. If a large enough percentage of people rented from property management companies, there would be more impetus to have strong tenant's rights laws to protect residents, and
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by throwvirtever 5y ago
An IQ is just a number coming out of a test. Whether or not that correlates to something useful for humanity, or even the individual being tested, is a different question. Surely the majority of useful discoveries are made by people with

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