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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cc0Pics 38s \ on: What's your ideal fantasy character load out? AskSN
A smart firemancer of course!
And a magic photographer who can duplicate things by taking an image of them or teleport using an image.
Could be used in a novel or game I guess.
Cheers,
Cc0Pics
If Libertarians believe themselves to be capitalists, and presumably they do as they believe in the supremacy of the free market, then yes, some capitalists or at least Libertarians who call themselves capitalists, do not understand the underlying requirements of capitalism, as you cannot have strong functional capitalism without property rights and the rule of law that government provisions.
But the crucial point beyond that, which I suspect you are missing is that in a world where people are organised into competing groups, under governments, - nation states are competing for resources - raw materials, labour, capital and markets - and it is the nation state with its diplomats and the military standing behind the diplomats that strongly influence the availability to raw materials, labour, capital and markets.
'Free' markets do not exist in isolation from the laws and monopoly over the use of force that nation states claim.
Good government is essential to enable strong economic growth and wealth creation.
Government is a crucial driving factor in the wealth of nations.
In denying the crucial role of government Libertarians commit economic treason by seeking to undermine the fundamental requirements of a strong economy.
Bitcoin is very hard to use by most people. People aggressively argue with me about this, but try sending someone new 1 sat to demonstrate the technology? No you can't. (I've literally been accused of "missing the plot" (what plot, bro?) by pointing out that very small transactions on lightning may be extremely uneconomical due to base fees on routing nodes). The whole lightning "you need money to receive money, but don't worry, it's only at the start" betrays the great ignorance on the bitcoiners part.
Also people like DarthCoin love to insult people for being stupid and that he doesn't need them, but if you want widely accepted money you will need not only people you think are stupid, but actually stupid people to use it. Furthermore you need to accept that your actual enemies and people who you hate or they hate you should also be able to use it.
On the technical side I don't see a scalable solution that will scale for all the people on earth. But for this part I am hopeful that it is solved (once upon a time I didn't expect something like lightning either).
I have no idea. I think economic signals are going to be really chaotic and confusing, until things settle down a bit.
51 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 40m \ parent \ on: What's your ideal fantasy character load out? AskSN
I have almost zero control over my reward function. I belive there was a study where they hooked electrodes to rats brains and let them hit a button to release dopamine into their brain and the rats would starve to death rather than quit hitting the button. I'm kind of like that.
No, the big concern with public microdata is that the information can be linked to an individual. The government has lots of records about regular people that are supposed to be confidential.
Data scientists who work with this kind of data, like me, have to take lots of precautions to make sure we aren't publishing information that can be linked to a specific person.
Of course, that was purely the financial return. Since I only ever studied what interested me, enjoyed the college experience, and never worried about grades or anything, the real returns are almost definitely positive.
personally identifiable information
like, who authorized payments? cuz that'd be very important info
His analysis fits very much into the dialectic of historical materialism that there is no capitalism without a state. I don't think you're a Marxist, and it's none of my business either, but I see in your comments your attempt to show that capitalists don't know how capitalism works. This is a very common criticism that national developmentalists and communists make.
That's always the bigger problem—the counterfactual of what you could have/would have earned working instead.
Opportunity costs are one hell of a perspective
I only paid for some of my undergrad, but I went to an inexpensive school and had a partial scholarship. After that I took classes that my job paid for and got paid a stipend during my PhD.
Even so, I bet my return is only slightly positive, because that's a lot of foregone wages and work experience.