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I adamantly reject the belief that some people are inherently better and deserve special treatment by society and before the law because of their ancestry. This includes all nobili…

Ketamine is not a psychedelic (in the hallucinogenic sense)

that's just how cheap they're to make (once you have the factory setup; which isn't cheap)

essentially turning that crytpo into the financial system that the original crypto (bitcoin) was trying to differentiate itself from (or make obsolete, we do not know satoshi's pol…

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yes there's a loss, not a monetary/economic loss, but a loss of (potential) power. the fact the loss is "potential" irks me about calling it a 'loss'; it's not quite a loss, but a …

what's worse, open source has nothing to do with freedom

but it's all about the managed lag. how else would all those billions in R&D would be worthwhile for investment institutions? as I see it (and stretching my reasoning), the lag is …

I have failed at words.

> I would rather we try new things. This is contingent on the capacity of a society to weather any bad outcomes from the new things. which given as they new, their outcomes are unk…

again, on my own very stretchy way of thinking (which involves big leaps in reasoning). you're saying that a company has a right to protect its secrets, but I'm hearing something c…