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why? asset holders in this country have a free fed put, wage earners get smashed in the face. you can make a solid case this institution is more harmful and free banking is much be…

This is definitely true but btc buys you more of almost anything else too (btc/X): X is one of s&p500, housing, gold, etc. except maybe $nvda or $tsla. For example the btc chart in…

It is b/c he says so! Since they dont value it -- it must be stupid or wasteful!

"Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy’s ability to produce goods and services." I would rather have (monetary) deflation wh…

Just to be clear, do you believe there is a connection between money printing and decreased purchasing power?

C is an abstraction over assembly. It is also minimal compared to prolog.

satoshi's use of cash probably referred to the concept of final settlement.

Probably alternating cold/hot temperatures. Probably best to sit in a dry sauna and jump into a cold (very) shower. Nothing beats it. You should come out feeling refreshed, if not …

Possibly the coolest data structure to visualize was invented to visualize complex data: zig-zag from the great Ted Nelson.

Humans, on time scale of 100s of thousands of years. You wouldn't expect Earth to be too dissimilar from today, if not for fossil fuel consumption.

Is it known what are, perhaps narrow, the climate conditions for humans? Humans evolved during the Pliocene which was 2-3 degrees warmer than today. My gut feeling is not good, esp…

oh man; they should of selected 42 or 1337 study subjects!

he is conflating things with value and a good unit to measure said value -- which is itself very valuable.

bitcoin in its finite, pre-determined supply and halvings every ~4yrs (formed through consensus) while going through s-curve adoption brings forth its unique number go up technolog…

I just looked at coinbase's about page they have 35MM users now. Bitcoin is going through s-curve adoption like the internet. Fools on here look for conspiracy theories because the…

Yeah. ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise. I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type …

"statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power" SML

how about counterfeiting the taxpayer's money?

Look into Cantillion Effect "...recipients of new money enjoy higher standards of living at the expense of later recipients..."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantill…

These policies exacerbate inequality. In fact, I think economic inequality wouldn't be an big issue without this crap.

I am sure these best genes will "trickle down".

What is their position on nuclear? I don't see anywhere were there's a plan to replace Oil + Gas + Coal (renewables atm will not come close!). James Hansen has the carbon dividend …