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Next Steps : Engineer a virus to mine bitcoin using the brain power.

Said in another way, do you prefer paying for your car in bitcoins, which is likely to increase in the next years, or $, which will decrease? Bitcoin may be good to store value (go…

Well you could do the same with paper-gold. But since its value increases over time you have no incentive to prefer it over $, which have a decreasing value. Stop focusing on tech …

The problem of bitcoin is that there is a finite amount of it that will be available. As use of bitcoin is scheduled to grow, the pace of the production of bitcoins needed to suppo…

I have a Ms in Economics and work as an economist. Most of the criticism and debate I see here is quite interesting, and the reflexions of the author of the article are similar to …

I work as an economist at my country's ministry of finance. Since my daily job is to write studies and reports about IT, HN is quite useful to keep in touch with what's happening. …

I was referring to fast-fashion brands such as Zara, H&M, etc... On a large scale in the near past, you can see a drop of quality in the clothes sold on the market. You may say tha…

This does not contradicts what I'm saying. Maybe you should mention that in the US this prosperity is financed by debt.

Quality food is cheap? Have you ever lived in a big city? If you come to Europe, you'll see that building a nice house wasn't reserved to the rich. And anyway, if we believe GDP fi…

Thanks for the sci-fi, but you underestimate the scarcity of other things : land and natural ressources.

It could if the internet ecosystem wasn't dominated by platforms that concentrate exchange and thus the value created. Linux is very innovative but lacks enough users to endanger t…

When was the last time you ate a real tomato? Not the one grown on hydroponic farm and full of water, but a real one coming from an old and tasty variety full of flesh? Big food pr…

The problem with this explaination is that it focuses on the technical aspect and not on the economical one : how is the value created shared among the people in the economy? Techn…

René Girard is a joke. His theory about mimetic desire is pseudo-science and does not rely on evidence. Girard is a litterature teacher that got the mimetic idea reading 19th centu…

Google is a search engine of indexed webpages. Not a universal delivery machine of the TRUTH (tm) nor an annex of your brain. Besides, this kind of debate is one step away from lys…

It's funny how american leftists are using today the exact same witch-hunting techniques as the anti-communists of the 50's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

Lol let's just burn the forests! Organic forest is so bad for the environment!

Here you go about the absence of pesticides : http://www.fermedubec.com/publications.aspx Basically, french state's scientific body reviewed this organic permaculture farm for 4 ye…

It isn't necessarly the case : permaculture has very high yields and low costs compared to oil-based agriculture.

Tilling the soil is not needed if you practice organic permaculture farming.

You are not scientists, you are merely technicians understanding little about how nature and especially soils works. GMOs and extensive agriculture using glyphosate slowing sterili…

This thesis is clearly refuted by the findings of much older (-800 000) remains of humans outside Africa. See for instance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man . IMHO the mos…