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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @xz 2 May \ on: Stupid Europeans, and their Stupid European Opinions (The Economist, Pignal) econ
We attribute climatic variation to overall anthropogenic co2 emmissions (based mostly on measurements taken since the 1970s, yet we barely question the overall feasibility of persistantly altering the earth's thermal and hydraulic transport system through large-scale geoengineering projects?
Northern Vietnam flooded this year, Cambodia and Laos seem to be increasingly susceptible to flooding over the years. In 2008 an earthquake collapsed 7000 school buldings and a large part of China was physically affected, offices buildings swayed in Bangkok.
Attempting to control a river that traverses the Tibetan plateau with gates and locks three times the depth of the Grand Canyon is ambitious. How accurate are current earthquake and climatic modelling prediction systems? There are a lot of people living in this part of the world.
Part of this is consumer preferences—paying with a card or a phone is less awkward and clumsy than having a bunch of change slamming around your pocket. But what we gain in convenience, we lose in privacy and freedom
I hear this a lot. Let me ask you, if you had the equivilant to 100 - 1000 USD in most currencies in bills, in your left pocket, and any smart phone in your right pocket, which one weighs more and takes up more space in your pocket?
I don't get it. No coins where I am.
"Let's talk about something Bitcoiners don't like to talk about ...
They don't know, ... they don't like... they are terrified about ... "
I do not like to talk about income?
I talk about income everyday.
I just feel there are so many caveats when people talk about the allure of yield.
Where does the yield come from?
"There are real people buying Bitcoin?"
Who is not a real person?
I'm not a gold guy.
I'm not a Bitcoiner.
I am a real person
I don't like in Dubai, I don't live in the US, I don't live in the UK. So may assumptions here! Anyway, listening to what this real person is saying.
If you borrow from loan facilities to buy, are you a Bitcoiner?
77 sats \ 1 reply \ @xz 28 Mar \ parent \ on: Generating income with MSTY by British Hodl Stacker_Stocks
Good question. Well, I suppose a litany of sources claiming it is/isn't financial advice. I think there's a lot of gut feeling when it comes to these kind of decisions.
Where do I get my advice?
- Stay humble, stack sats
- Buy Bitcoin
You are right, often I'm trapped in my thinking.
and funny that you say that. I deal with living in different countries and different laws quite a bit. It's an interesting thought experiment and a more interesting way to live (rather than complying with things that make no sense.) Was just trying to look at the question in a matter of fact way, but was probably being quite obtuse.
In terms of Bitcoin UTXOs, I see water as a similar thing. It would be like dividing a river in half and saying you can not steal or drink water from one half but you can from the other. Essentially, there is no boundary. Just an arbitrary construct that aims to govern the ungovernable properties of elements.
Cell phones do not add convenience to our lives.
Substantiation
If I collated all the hours of time I spend trying to get shit working.
- scanning QR codes
- signing up new accounts
- entering passwords with/without autofill from password managers
- charging phones
- waiting for phone to boot/shutdown
- being expected to check notifications
To be honest, I'm not against phones. There was a sweet spot for me. The time when SMS messages were rediculously expensive. That was fine. SMS are super useful. Like calling can be super useful. Besides that, I just hate phones and I imagine if I added up all of the minutes that I have used in my life doing the above things, I'm quite sure it would be a few months. If I was to add that to the total fucking waste of time that the catastrophe of human critical thinking that was 2020, I'm looking at wasted years of my life.
People only live for 60-80 years. I don't want more time wasted with useless shit.
Okay, there are some perceivable benefits and this is very much an opinionated rant but, I actually find cash super convenient. Banking (when all of the bank branches are not closing down one by one) convenient. Almost like there was no problem in a developed nation. I feel now we are just on the rollercoaster of mimicking authoritarian payment, social network, everything apps.
Not sure whether it's so controversial, but depends on the location I suppose. I do a fair amount of traveling for one reason or another, and find that the bureaucracy doesn't subside, and the redundancy is taken away which ultimately forces everybody to adopt things whether they like it or not.
While I don't like the idea of civil forfetuire (and theft) residing illegally in a country is a criminal offence.
If I was residing illegally and got stopped with 250K of anything in my vehicle, I might expect some repercussions, no?
If I photocopied ..
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a page from a purchased Holy Bible that was found in a coffe shop without permission, is that theft?
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a confidential document that is of national security interest without permission, is that theft?
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a seed phrase that I found on a bus without permission, is that theft?
I would say that only one of these is due to the fact that I must have entered into some kind of contract that states I'm not to do that by law.
I don't think there is a law against entering a seed phrase into wallet software. There is only a law that prevents unlawful access. This is a little different.
Am I wrong on this?
Maybe it was at the point where Tesla factories were at a bad point in California? But you are right, you have to get your reputation through actual deeds, not just saying things.
Not trying to absolve his lack of commitment. I think that might be a real problem with politics mixing with Bitcoin.
I just saw Elon Musk proclaim that in ten years we won't need jobs and it won't be a problem to have what we need (with the caveat that fulfilment will be a problem.)
And I just came back from my bullshit job and well. After not working over the last year or more, a bullshit job is better than not having one (at least for myself).
Do they owe us a living? Of course they do, of course they do. Owe us a living? Of course they do, of course they do. Owe us a living? Of course they fucking do.
Crass
I haven't read it but I like the quotes you used and I imagine that the book is making a good point. In saying that my job is complete BS, I work with a bunch of interesting people that are qualified and experienced in other fields suck as IT, journalism, etc. The fulfillment part is interesting. Purpose, or what not.
Some of these politicians today look like the most insipid bunch of humans I have ever encountered (I'm from the greater European area) and this leads me to think that if you are not making the world a better place, it's a bullshit job.
BTW. UBI sounds just horrible.
Bullet could travel indefinitely until striking a solid object
This is the most interesting thought experiment, IMO.