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> there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from [taxation] If automation really takes off and entire factories can be run by a handful of people it might make sense t…

It might be intentional. I noticed the accent too and it really left the impression that china is a technological leader now and might not need to adapt to the west as much anymore…

If this turns out to be true I wonder if it'd be practical (given the financial resources) to have pressure sealed rooms that you spend a lot of time in at home (e.g. your office).…

I read that all mainframe components, even CPUs, were redundant and hot-swappable and that instructions are executed on two separate CPUs to detect faults and correct them on the f…

There will never be post-scarcity, because we'll never have enough. Using cutting-edge technology always requires people to work hard to build said technology. If it didn't require…

To give some technical background: yes, using Lightning (as they seem to do) for affordable BTC payments is challenging for most. As far as I am aware that is why they rely on cust…

Exactly this. Just tax the value added in your country if you are so inclined (or even better the resources used to do so like land, infrastructure use, …). If you find out that's …

Tax competition is what keeps governments in check. Taxes are just fees for services in the territory of the state (e.g. security, market access, infrastructure, …). If these servi…

That only really works for stable countries anyway. While shit is hitting the fan there will be enough incentive not to care about some silly rule as long as breaking it is not eas…

It's certainly a nice tool if your country is falling apart. Nearly every other asset class is less accessible, transportable or secure against seizure than Bitcoin. When countries…

Thx for the pointer, nice to know the name of the theory. Although it only covers a part of my argument. My concern was also in regards to how much military tech could be built on …

Am I the only one who is worried every time such a news drops? Achieving high-tech autarky is a first step towards a war with china becoming viable. Not that the alternative would …

The correct way to do this would be using OP_RETURN imo. This special opcode is meant for committing to data like this. So for example one could commit to 4 bytes representing the …

Well, the problem with that strategy is that there are many such explorers and returning wrong data isn't in their best interest. Remember that the recipient address doesn't need t…

It seems to be a static site, which seems reasonable since it aggregates a lot of data and might encounter high load when something goes wrong, so generating it live without cachin…

> Instead of collaborating though I see IntelliJ continuing on the path of their custom implementation. I haven't checked in a while, but RLS was sub-par for a long time (feature- …

As a former BlackBerry 10 user (QNX based with C++/QT native apps) that's something that annoys me endlessly about Android. How can a simple action like displaying a small, locally…

> You could periodically increase the block size It's unclear if that would solve the problem. If BTC becomes a global store of value (which it seems to be in the process of), the …

Isn't that exactly what the submission is about? It seems to be a tool to convert any newsletter into an atom feed by creating a fake inbox. This lets everyone consume the content …

Probably an unpopular opinion on a VC site, but to some degree recessions are good and needed to weed out underperforming and utterly useless companies to free up resources. The la…

Thx, I must have missed it (it admittedly is very small ^^)!

Which platforms are actually supported? I didn't find that on the landing page. Seems like an interesting product if it works on linux and with Signal etc. BUT: Stating "Privacy fi…

I mean, sure, if all you need is some marketing fluff I can see how this might work. Most landing pages seem to actively try to keep me from finding out what I need to know about t…

This seems like a huge failure to correctly price products if there are actual shortages and people standing in line (except maybe on launch day, that might be good publicity). The…

That's a very bad idea. If there was to be a super cheap/free tier it also had to be rather limited in bandwidth, barely enough for e.g. remote school to remove these barriers. But…