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Face-to-face social gatherings - parties, dinners, clubs, meetups Membership organizations - country clubs, professional associations, alumni networks, charitable boards Personal i…

Also ex-Base! Gee whiz.

18 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/6hc3w/comment/c03udg0/ > "This code is reserved for future use." > For when AT&T, Comcast, TimeWarner, et. al. have succeeded in…

> It's really difficult to build agentic applications on top of Bitcoin. That's because brain power is being corralled around entities that seek to maintain their control as toll k…

Ethereum is a scam.

Low interest environments exist because liquidity is growing in the financial system. As that liquidity escapes into the consumer system, which it always does, it causes inflation.…

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That's why there's layer 2 solutions like Lightning to scale bitcoin's usability. And application-level solutions like Cash App.

I don't use E2E encryption to evade my government. I use E2E encryption to protect myself from criminals and malicious actors. Oh, government == malicious actors ??

And how about relative to M1 money supply?

You've earned yourself a promotion.

> National governments are the source and the only legal creators of money. And those closest to the money printer benefit. And hint, the average joe is furthest from the printer. …

You really believe that the USD, as the world's reserve currency, doesn't require its military to keep it that way.

There are server farms within the military, so by proxy, the USD does require server farms. Then the private financial institutions have server farms.

True, the USD just requires violence and cohersion.

End the FUD https://endthefud.org/

Tangentially, anyone tried dry sauna therapy sessions at night before bed? It's helped me tremendously with sleep and more. It's a bit considered a luxury, but maybe you can find a…

Sounds like an interesting theory. Who will be the ones that do the productive work that pays for UBI?

4 weeks of primary on-call.