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michael bay and top gun, sure, but rambo? I don't remember that having a particularly pro-war attitude.
That's because it's about PTSD. I suspect the commenter is either ignorant or just decided to roll in all the terrible sequels...
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Bitcoin is the first (and most stable) theoretically unseizable currency. You can store bitcoin in your brain, get persecuted by your national government for criticizing their actions, travel across a border, get kidnapped, offer up a decoy wallet, get released 3 years later, wander into a town with an internet cafe, and theoretically, you could have access to your funds within hours, without the consent of or depend…
> Bitcoin is the first (and most stable) theoretically unseizable currency. Bitcoin is subject to federal policy as much as anything is: as much as secret Swiss bank accounts. You imply evasion works. But that certainly doesn't mean it is federally legal, legal with the IRS, or legal for whatever other reasons. You have the risk of serious consequences if you are caught breaking the laws that apply to you. Your argum…
I suspect a lot of more of the 0.1% have gold hidden than many would expect. I've met two eccentric 100 millionaires that advocated for hiding gold as a wealth preservation mechanism. I think this is becoming the primary non-trading use case for Bitcoin - met both of those individuals through conversations about crypto.
One of the things that has kept me out of the cryptocurrency space is that when their advocates discuss value, they speak in pure nonsense. A big part of that problem is that value is very difficult to discuss. On the one hand you have the classic goldbug that insists that gold has "intrinsic value", which is some sort of platonic ideal thing that gold simply ambiently has and defies any attempt to nail down what it…
https://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2014/03/on-bitcoin-and-ludw...
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>Bitcoin is the first (and most stable) theoretically unseizable currency This is an absolute farce. Maybe talk to us when there are no longer reports of being able to easily scam someone out of all of their money with a non-reversable transaction just by sending them an image with a script in it.
Name a currency that scammers don't get fools to part with.
This has been a concern of mine for a while; I have also published absolute garbage just to see how far I can take it. I've published music under various pseudonyms, books underneath different pen-names... the list goes on. I've retracted such publications, but it is frightening if one person like myself had the curiosity to try, what is already out there, and, what a well-funded nation-state actor could do. ---- Pos…
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Pro-war fiction? That's like the standard movie for several decades from Rambo to Michael Bay's epics and Top Gun Maverick, and in movie form that has far wider appeal, 10000x the audiences, and is way more glamorous! "weird pro war fiction" would be very low in effectiveness...
michael bay and top gun, sure, but rambo? I don't remember that having a particularly pro-war attitude.
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michael bay and top gun, sure, but rambo? I don't remember that having a particularly pro-war attitude.
That's because it's about PTSD. I suspect the commenter is either ignorant or just decided to roll in all the terrible sequels...
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Pro-war fiction? That's like the standard movie for several decades from Rambo to Michael Bay's epics and Top Gun Maverick, and in movie form that has far wider appeal, 10000x the audiences, and is way more glamorous! "weird pro war fiction" would be very low in effectiveness...
The original Rambo was actually anti-war. Did you even watch it?
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Name a currency that scammers don't get fools to part with.
At least with fiat currency you have a chance of getting the transaction reversed! Most people will not trust a currency where this is not possible, or at least they will hold it with a centralized trusted custodian who can offer transaction reversal—which defeats the purpose!
Someone could make a service with delayed settlement that is denominated with Bitcoin, and it would work just the same.
If you pay someone with a $100 bill, your only recourse is to ask for them to return it: the same as Bitcoin.
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A lot of the underpinnings of such a manually-curated knowledge base did exist in the early 2000s, in the form of Yahoo! Directory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
Yeah, that's actually related to what I'm thinking of. The idea is a crowd-sourced and well-executed iteration on the old Yahoo! directory. https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...