Viewing profile — VarFarYonder

Seems like basic supply and demand rather than something nefarious? But I guess if we accepted that, nobody would be to blame.

Doug Stanhope did a good bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgXwc-Gy19E

You can find the printout he refers to during the lecture here: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/5/7046/files/20...

This lecture contains the best advice I've come across for academic writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecPrwqjbGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-La8gyNVCI

> In fact, a system where you can lose your life savings if you forget your key or download a piece of malware is not particularly trustworthy. No amount of explaining how SHA-256 …

Strip it back to basics. What is worry? It is when you're compelled to react to a thought with more thoughts. The response is habitual. You cannot let the thoughts sail by without …

> The open questions for philosophy are a function of our present limitations, and as those limitations are overcome, the space for philosophy shrinks. I don’t think it says much t…

> Are you saying that you believe Richard Feynman didn’t have a working grasp of the issues at hand? Or are you saying that “philosophers of science” don’t know anything about the …

> Unfortunately instead of sticking to ethics, morality, and other hazy constructs, too often philosophers think they have something useful to say about everything. They do have so…

> The core ideas in philosophy could be summarized on one page with little information loss. This probably seems horribly arrogant, but that's just how I honestly see things. I thi…

> Researchers at Curtin University in Australia observed 20 participants working at standing desks for two hours.

> Now compare this to online banking and seriously tell me that this is easier. It's not. But compared to storing large amounts of dollars, pounds, or euros, it is easier. > Yes, y…

> I meant individuals rarely keep gold as a store of value. I think individuals with an actual portfolio of investments will hold gold or have some exposure to gold. Also, you woul…

> Hardly anyone uses gold as a storage of value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_report...

It's irrelevant whether exchanges accept privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, because people could always use atomic swaps: https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-are-atomic-…

Here is a graph showing the number of lightning network payment channels on the bitcoin mainnet: https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/lightning-network?orgId=1

I've looked for it previously and not found anything. I'm hoping that MS are working on it in secret, but seems unlikely.

James Mickens gave a great talk about how we could build a better browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uflg7LDmzI

> If I had a large holding in Bitcoin now I would be cashing out or I'd be nervous. I'm not saying it won't go higher, I'm saying that at some point its demise is inevitable. Might…

Fungibility is something other cryptocurrencies have and that could be added to bitcoin via a hard fork. That's one of the strengths of cryptocurrencies: they can adapt. And, in my…

> Bitcoin is global at this point. No one jurisdiction is going to shut it down. Especially as countries like Japan are embracing cryptocurrencies. That must make other countries w…