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>There is no reason I see why a capitalist system cannot include intervention by the government You're attempting to redefine the meaning of words to create a strawman where 'capit…

American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. It's illegal to offer services without explicit permission of the medical guild. It has the exact same effect all histor…

1. Jacek Dukaj [0] - virtually unknown due to refusal to write directly in English :( "Perfect Imperfection" is imo the best sf book about trans/posthumanism there is. "Dukaj has i…

It's only possible for everyone to win if basic resources are infinite. Tribalism is the only pareto optimal strategy for finite resources, especially land on Earth.

Allowing for coordinated protocol changes, the optimal length of pre-cooperative identification code should depend on the probability of error (defector). Which after a long enough…

What these simulations show is that tribalism is a winning strategy. Which means not following it leads to death. >We should move beyond tribalism because of it's inherence of prej…

POW can't work at these scales. At $250k/btc mining would burn something close to the equivalent of New Zealand's GDP. As this would be purely electrical energy, energy use alone w…

That's only partly true. There are countries where average wage is $300/month. They are NOT going to buy legal software and media for $40/thing no matter how easy it is.

>You can only say this if you're too ignorant to be worth a damn on the subject, or are insane enough to think that the people who have developed the protocol for the last 8 years …

That's complete FUD on several levels. On a most general level, mining itself only needs the header. Chinese miners can verify blocks and transactions elsewhere and only send heade…

Calling it 'weak' is giving it too much consideration. The only sensible argument against larger blocks is that they boost mining centralization because larger blocks may take more…

It turned out to be a misconception because computers are astronomically easier to use now. If you had to ever configure a config.sys entry for a specific game you know what I mean…

You should ask the question about Core developers' incentives: what do they personally gain from scaling bitcoin? Nothing, at best increase in value of their holdings which they sh…

There's an old idea that solves the storage issue completely - utxo commitments. Literally the only real throughput limit is end user's download bandwidth, which means 500MB blocks…

There's no free market in healthcare. Healthcare in the US is a guild with state-enforced monopoly. Reasonable prices would defeat the whole point of this. Naturally, it's sold to …

>Sweden has a population of 9.8 million yet it has produced Skype Skype is Estonian. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stories/skype/skype-chapter-...

In my case I was searching for something niche very hard and nearly couldn't find it. It turned out it exists, but was marketed to a drastically different market and I was using 'a…

About three years.

>understand that all your years of work can be destroyed by one diagnosis. And plan accordingly. Outside of emergency, you can travel to cheaper countries for treatment.

Affiliate marketing. I'm making about $10k/month from several sites I don't really update. The trick is to install yourself in some customer acquisition path no one else figured ou…

I think the real difference is much more pronounced than what your analysis suggests. A significant fraction of people without college-level education aren't able to pass the non-f…

The idea of completely stopping cheating in systems like these harms meritocracy. I know this sounds outrageous. The problem is systemic - in European post-socialist countries, edu…

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It directly is, otherwise exploitation via voluntary transactions becomes logically impossible. >is not central to socialism The whole point is that workers get their 'surplus labo…

I have amblyopia in one eye too, try doing LSD or one of its semi-legal analogues. While on 300µg I was able to read with the lazy eye and got 3d vision. I was looking at a tree wi…