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That does sound similar except you'd have younger employed members making money to add to the pool of equity and also working on self sustainability like farming to feed the member…

I believe it is the norm, but nobody talks about the ones that are operating successfully. You only hear about the ones that end in shootouts with the feds.

I think you believe a "cult" only means a situation where people are held against their will by crazy religious nuts trying to assert their sovereignty. Those are the only examples…

There aren't any distributions if you don't personally own any assets or have any bank accounts -- the "church" pays for it all on your behalf. You also don't fit any legal definit…

They sued the federal government decades ago for illegally collecting Social Security taxes and won. It's not fraud.

My best friend was in a famous cult half his life. That's nothing like a cult. He had unlimited money ($25k a month was nothing) and freedom to do anything he wanted for 15 years. …

Change happens quick. We all started relying on smartphones seemingly overnight.

No kidding, I was threatened with legal action for significantly less shenanigans back in my day.

Sounds fascinating actually. Any good articles you recommend about NK doing this?

42.zip, yep. i have a copy if anyone wants it

You make good points I wasn't considering when I wrote that, and thanks for the mempool expiration info

Good point, but I bet this could be changed in ZFS.

It must be doing something because when I got my blue filtering lenses I could put them on and feel physical relief of pain/strain in my eyes

doesn't the zfs diff command mostly cover it? You have snapshots, diffs, and clones which is basically equivalent to commits, diffs, and branches. You're missing commit logs and th…

It's not about double spend. It's entirely possible two miners successfully mine a block simultaneously but one of the miners didn't include your transaction in the block they mine…

Pretty much all of it

> non-removable battery Considering how important it is to keep Lithium Ion batteries within a safe temp range for longevity and the risk of thermal runaway I'm not so sure we will…

Swap files can be dangerous as some filesystems require memory allocations to write and if you're out of memory...

Only accessible to the bank and every megacorp they're selling your data to

You're exaggerating the state of MTProto 2.0. They haven't rolled their own with this release.

That still makes them part of the 1% I think a lot of people get confused about the 1% and the .1% where the billionaires live.

Household appliance is not the same thing. A Juniper firewall is an appliance. A NetApp SAN is an appliance. An Ooma VOIP phone system is an appliance. A Kindle is an appliance. A …

So he's worth several million but that's still not part of the 1%? what?

Only takes about $500k to be in the 1% https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-you-need-to-m...

My phone is an appliance and I'm perfectly fine with that. I dread owning another computer I have the responsibility of maintaining. We are drowning in "computers" these days.