These are worth a mention as well

Thanks! I completed all milestones in scientific and militaristic legacy paths in the antiquity age. Those were my two achievements. Do you get some boost with those achievements in the subsequent turns?

Cool! I am new to the Civilization series, and Civ 7 is my first time. I have already clocked over 40 hours in two weeks. I think I have two steam achievements. What do the achievements mean?

I've been hooked on Civ 7 as well. Can't get enough number of turns, haha

Not all socialists want a state, I have already recommended a book by Chomsky to read if you want to get an idea of what their form of anarchism is.

Why is TOR funded by the US govt in the first place?

There won’t be monopolies in an ancap world, so your arguments are founded on a weak base. So, what’s your solution- shift to communism?

Yes, it makes sense. However, once you explore the world of private property, profits, prices, and voluntary exchange, it is difficult to reconcile that with the taxation structure and theft that the left casually proposes daily.

I apologize for my sweeping statement about the 'left' not getting Bitcoin. I know plenty of people like you get Bitcoin and that Bitcoin is for everyone. This anti-capitalist sentiment is just becoming so fashionable with some of the left-leaning folks I have spent time with that I am unable to comprehend how they say those things while wearing trendy clothes and accessories that they could never be in their grasp in a communist world.

I can appreciate where you are coming from. We currently have a crony capitalism setup and not a free-market capitalism setup. We would never have too big to-fail banks in a free market. I doubt we would even have the monopolies we do today without cronyism. It is the lobbying by big companies that curry favor with politicians across the world that has led to suboptimal capital allocations.

What you mentioned above is my primary thesis as well- know enough to sound cynical and pseudo-intellectual at a party, but not enough to put their money on their position(either short or long based on their conviction levels)

Can you elaborate on your reasoning for both of the points you raise? I don't understand why circular economies of consenting individuals participating in trade using magic internet money are not ancap. Also, what does oppressing the plebs mean?

They're the Noam Chomsky 'On Anarchism' kinda socialist anarchists that want the workers to own the factories and dismantle the government and want anyone who is hierarchically above to justify their position and shared resources type. I do not find the idea very coherent, so I also struggle to put it into words. I lose the plot when someone says an individual cannot own private property. Then the whole idea of trade breaks down, and then the prices. I can appreciate some communes that trade, like the Kibbutz in Israel, but I haven't read anything like a Rothbard equivalent of a socialist anarchist who lays out their arguments clearly from first principles coherently.

No pardon. Doing wash trading with Alameda research and risking user funds should be made an example of for future shitcoiners

Well, this means a $2T asset is scaling well on layer 2s and that it’s ready to add another $2T fairly soon

Just signed up to try this out. How is it different from venice.ai? They provide access to the latest model while focusing on privacy. Leaving aside their shitcoinery, which was recently introduced, the latest LLMs work seamlessly there. If Maple is Bitcoin only, then that would be a plus.

This is a fascinating way to look at it. It presupposes only financial and material well-being(through tapping into other people's children) as being sufficient. I think it is a necessary condition, but don't think it is by itself a sufficient condition. It doesn't discuss emotional well-being and how having kids to support you might give that emotional comfort. Then again, I am only speculating; kids could show the middle finger and not care a hoot about their parents when they grow up.

It is also funny that when people are unable to plan for their retirements and raise children at the same time(due to fiat debasement and inflation), they decide not to have children. Either way, seems, capital markets seem to lead to fewer children, haha

Let's go! I guess we will need to hit the 1EH/s range to stand a good chance of mining within a week :)