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There is no "good parenting" fix that will keep children from trying to access inappropriate content, forums where unhealthy conversation takes place, pornography, and worse. Being…

Original spelling is intended, a purposeful and humorous misspelling introduced by a meme.

Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests-frozen-bank...

And the automation failure that doxxed someone who donated to his campaign and got that person fired from their job.

I think the thrust of sayings like "the learning curve is a wall" is to indicate that there is little to no slope , which is to say you don't get the benefit of time spent learning…

This is a nice response. Thank you for sharing.

This is all well-trodden ground. First, if you are concerned about things like confiscation, then you take the recommended security steps such as running your own node. At that poi…

Bitcoin produces a money that cannot be debased by inflation on a whim and which is very hard to forcibly confiscate. It can be transferred in minutes to any place on the globe, ac…

Animal fats are great. One of the staples of healthy human diets for hundreds of thousands of years.

Sure: in the United States, social media companies have been diligently removing content critical of government COVID policies and recommendations, even criticism from scientists a…

It is silly if by "escape government control" one means avoiding taxes, buying illegal substances, etc. But if by "escape government control" one means a currency that the governme…

Although it's true you introduce some level of trust in that scenario, it's patently false that you lose all the benefits of bitcoin. A company offering accounts via Lightning woul…

>Yes there is they need a channel, which costs $20 to open and $20 to close. No, they don't need to open a channel via the blockchain. They can have an account with a third party, …

Energy isn't being wasted, that's the point. What proof of work and the blockchain allows is a monetary network that (a) does not rely on trusted third parties for verification, wh…

That's why second-layer technologies like the Lightning Network are being built. Bitcoin doesn't have to function as a currency to be wildly successful (since being a currency isn'…

> Is someone in the third world chomping at the bit to pay $40 to open and close a single LN channel when that’s 10% of the GDP per capita of some of those countries you plan to he…

>As far as scaling Bitcoin goes: prove it. It’s been a decade and it still does 4tps. Sure. The Lightning Network already exists, is working and in use, and can in principle do ess…

It's far from clear that Aurelius was a bad emperor. Most historians have judged him to be quite a good one, in fact. Rather than a weakness, the teleology inherent in Stoicism is …

That isn't quite what Epictetus means by what's under our control. Back then one could generally travel from one end of the Roman Empire to the other (e.g., from England to Persia)…