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How is it that PoW is better though? No single individual can mine profitably anyway. You also need to be part of a pool to get some share of the profits.

It's easy to dismiss the difficulty of something when all you see is a webpage explaining things very well and simply with some cool graphics. That webpage looks really cool, but t…

What happened to the freedom to have your money without it losing value without having to resort to risky alternatives to prevent it from happening?

Gold is a metal made in the burning core of dying stars. It doesn't really care about buyers and economy. We use gold for many purposes other than as a store of value, and that is …

"Hey we're not removing your ability to speak, just your tongue!"

Totally agree with you on this. We're reaching a point where the services some private companies provide are becoming too important to remain private, or at least, being served in …

'Never' is a long timespan :) It will be solved, sooner or later. The universe will be fully understood and manipulated. By us, a modified version of us, or some other entity, perh…

I have the opposite experience. I had fears of having heart problems, or in my head, and at some point in my life I went to doctors and they all sent me away, they couldn't find an…

I've used Anki for language learning but didn't find it that useful. A problem I encountered was that while I could remember words and expressions in the Anki environment, I couldn…

Harm maybe not, but used definitely. If you're not useful to a sociopath you will not be in their life. And if something goes wrong, you definitely incur the risk of getting harmed…

I attest to this. This book should be required reading in school. There's so much suffering in the world being done to children in the privacy of homes. That suffering goes without…

But are the billionaires the ones actually responsible for creating all that value? Is Bezos actually responsible for 10 000x the value of what Amazon produces than a worker? If Be…

Indeed. I use something instead called "savings rate". How much per hour of the money I make is not spent in basic stuff? I also go one step further. In calculating this savings ra…