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David Graeber argues in "Debt: The first 5000 years" that trade started out as being based on debt, and then this turned into a medium of exchange. Barter was never widespread.

Full text of tweet: > Today we filed an official complaint against @henet (Hurricane Electric) with the @AGOWA (Attorney General of Washington State) over their censorship of legal…

This article is very strange. It describes CSW as a "polymath," and more or less uncritically gives his side of the story: > Contrary to what the email to Hearn seems to indicate a…

Aligned how? If you download the code, it won't change under your feet.

Banks are usually liable for that.

> The country’s two mobile phone networks sent messages to people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic in order for the time not to cha…

> No they can't. What do you mean "can't"? My bank certainly has the information, since I can see it online if I log in. Of course they would have to change the law, but this also …

> Great, except each country is tiny and cross-border commerce common, so you end up having to implement all of them… Yes, and this can be done by software firms. You don't need to…

Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is: "Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more…

> Economists would surely love the anonymised spending data, were it to be made available. They could get this from banks already. > Retailers would presumably save by not having t…

I don't think anyone is that advanced. As long as people watch it, they don't care.

And yet nobody uses them. I wonder if there's some reason for that?

> Some central server needs to be the arbiter of randomness What, no? My hash-based system is entirely random. The only issue is that draws are done with replacement, so two player…

SEPA isn't great, but there exist functioning country-wide systems as you mention. > And even if you wanted to implement all these systems, it's so much effort that you're back to …

> What would be sort of awesome, though, would be a distributed bank (or prediction market, or casino) along these lines I think this is already possible for poker, and will never …

It's unlikely that web3 will solve it; cryptocurrency already exists, and its many serious issues are not going to be solved by a fresh coat of paint or "moar adoption". If you wan…

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182431 "on Suspicion of Human Trafficking" might be relevant to the title, methinks.

Care to elaborate? Do you have any advice?

According to John J. Ray, the clean-up guy, FTX.us is solvent, or at least more so than the FTX.com silo.

I don't think you should suggest people are "not even human," even if they're behaving in a deeply unethical fashion.

A game with whose stakes?

Altcoin devs are not paid well; Bitcoin devs make entirely normal SWE salaries according to public information, and I can't imagine DogeCoin or whatever is any better. All the big …

That would also be the case for just spamming people with "go join our cult" links, and I haven't seen this once. The limits load on other things: - Local presence of the cult - Ab…