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Or to put it another way, the "intellectual capital" argument presupposes that you aspire to become a bully yourself, and live among a society of similar bullies. There is no incen…

To follow up on this, since we may still be talking past one another, I do not believe that the software design is deficient or that the disconnect between the implementation and a…

There are two concepts being confused here: Git branches and what I'll call "logical" branches. The mutable object in the Git data model known as a "branch" is really just a ref an…

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... The current holder of the domains and trademarks was elected as the custodian for a limited time (through the end of…

> What you are describing is a full-reserve bank. Yeah, like I said: an honest bank. It's an open secret that money "in your bank account" isn't actually in your account waiting to…

Users include both buyers and sellers. Slow settlement and reversible transactions are a boon for buyers (and for fraudsters abusing chargebacks to get free stuff). For sellers the…

> Now, an L2 service could go lower but then they're taking on more risk which they'll want to be paid for and it's basically reinventing Venmo or Square Cash. It feels like there …

You do fractional reserve banking with BTC the same way you do it with any other currency: You only keep enough BTC on hand to cover the projected worst-case withdrawals, and take …

> due to leaked credentials (in this case the card number + CVV + exp date) That information is practically public already, since you have to provide it to everyone you purchase fr…

> you have no explicit right to privacy in the US According to the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the People have the right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,…

> My employer is known to pay for jury duty, so I always get picked. Wouldn't that unduly bias the jury selection? In effect the employer is being allowed to buy extra representati…

> If we did some sort of perceptual hashing to each video, would it not be logical to assume we'd all be flagged? Flagged for what, exactly? The perceptual hash would show that all…

> if you have 51% of the bill or such you can get it replaced What if it's the middle third of the bill that's missing? Does the 51% need to be contiguous? The links suggest that y…

Mostly people are living longer. When SS first started only 55% of males and 60% of females who made it to age 21 would have survived their working-age years to retire at age 65 in…

If you have no flexibility as to location then you have no bargaining power; of course the prices will be sky-high. So you plan multiple potential routes (the road or rail doesn't …

Hey, my answer is actually to eliminate the position and put no one in power. I don't trust all idealists myself, though I'm not convinced corruption is better. But the OP was pinn…

In 1945 there were 42 workers paying SS taxes for every retiree collecting benefits. For equal pay / retirement income after SS taxes, each worker only needs to provide 2.3%. Today…

I didn't mean to imply there was anything like voluntary consent involved. I'm on your side here. But there is popular support for this program which wouldn't exist if it were pres…

No one with a profit motive would be interested, which is the whole idea. You'd get idealists and people seeking to make a name for themselves instead. (I'm not saying this is a pe…

You are correct. Nonetheless, those paying in to the system today acquiesced to the plan under the assumption that they would one day be able to take their place as beneficiaries. …

> Now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction -- no project can be built because no one is willing to step on anyone's toes. I don't see this as a bad thing at all. We co…

Crazy suggestion: Bar politicians from owning property or having any income (including gifts of goods or services) apart from the stipend for their appointed position. For life. Ev…

That's easily solved: Just don't announce who was selected until after the vote.

> You cannot go on someone else's property and start yelling because they have the right to kick you off, violating your right to freedom of speech. No, that does not in any way vi…

You're thinking of Bitcoin. In the RSA blinded signature scheme the token holder doesn't need a private key, so there's nothing to reveal. The tokens are signed by the issuer (i.e.…