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For context: - "Arnold" is Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born American actor who served as Governor of California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger - The US…

Is it the smart who are successful?

When people think something is bad and keep encountering other people saying it is good, they respond. There's no reason why anyone should get "involved in the space" before expres…

Of course it's possible to live in a more basic, debt-free way, but my suspicion is that in the USA (which is the scope of the article) most people do not, which reduces the pool o…

Did people during the period(s) of high innovation have as much personal debt (especially home mortgages) as people do today? A lot of people have too many bills coming in every mo…

> [I]f there were legitimate buying of BTC with Tether, which is plausible after the ass-whooping USDBTC has taken recently, new Tether would need to be issued to keep the 1:1 peg.…

"Intuitive for who" is a good question, and I hope the answer is "intuitive to the new/occasional user". I've used a number of different DAWs, and the main challenge is that if I h…

I feel like I'm too ignorant of mathematics to be confused by this "proof". When you set out to prove "for any set of n horses, every horse in that set has the same color" and you …

I wasn't referring to upgrades, I was referring to control of the existing, finite supply of Bitcoin. In a Bitcoin-centered economy, a relatively small community of "whales" would …

> Bitcoin is totally elitist and mostly a vehicle for speculation. I agree, but the parent poster does have a point. There are places where the economic situation has deteriorated …

But his point that Bitcoin is also essentially controlled by a central authority, i.e. the Bitcoin community, has merit. (Even if the control isn't formal, owning a large percentag…

Ideally cryptocurrencies will disappear on their own before lots of people have lots of money tied up in them. Regulating them makes them appear safer than they actually are.

I don't understand this push for regulation of cryptocurrencies. Just let the mathematics govern. It'll either work on its own, or as people lose their money to trickery and/or car…

Is there any objective reason (performance, reliability, etc) to avoid certain TLDs?

> outside of our comfy western countries most people have this problem. Can you cite some evidence that there are people keeping long-term savings* in cash and has adequate interne…