Thanks!
Replying here so it's close to the top (sorry): What do people recommend as truly good alternatives? Particularly non-American ones due to Snowden's revelations etc. etc.
I don't disagree with you. I'd say this fits what I alluded to in my second paragraph.
If there are massive protests, it's clear the reconciliation hasn't reconciled things properly, and a better reconciliation must be done, preferably one that doesn't result in more massive protests from either the same…
Presumably, because the people who want to change things do have in-system ways to do so: joining into a new Party, preaching their views, getting elected, growing, until they convince enough people to give them the…
IM cannot be stopped. When a government broadcasts they will censor them, the very next step is for protesters to install something like Bitchat, which does Bluetooth-based, mesh/P2P IM-ing, and is specifically designed…
In principle crypto solves the first problem, but suffers from networking effects: creators won't list crypto for payment because most people don't use it; people don't use it because there's nowhere it can be used. As…
Well, you find it right because you like the fact that your vote is worth n times more than the vote of those you oppose. Were the situation reversed, you'd find that a pretty bad arrangement. Do you know the…
So far the last several Presidents of the USA have decided they don't want that. If you equate what the Presidents of the USA want to what the USA itself wants, then the USA have decided they don't want that. If not,…
And that prevents them from calling the company and ordering them to increase prices so that they can then use the extra income to pay those capital taxes... how?
There's still the problem of how, precisely, we're going to force the rich to pay those taxes out of their own wealth, rather than them simply offloading them in the form of increased prices for the products and…
Long term the tendency is even lower salaries. Right now AI still isn't autonomous enough to do all of the work itself, so it needs developers to carefully manage it to do what it must. If things remained like this,…
That's common sense reasoning, which is to say, not based on anything scientific. GLP-1 is produced by the body to regulate and balance food consumption. People whose bodies produce less than the correct amount eat more…
I think the currently fastest is Hedera (HBAR), at 2 minutes per transaction or so, and that it's also the most decentralized, without that mechanism other crypto currencies have that the more you own, the stronger your…
That's alright. I'm willing to pay $1 for a Big Mac. If the algorithm matches that willingness of mine, I may buy one. Maybe.
Some new cryptocurrencies designed for interbank communication can do 20k transactions per second now, and can scale above that. It's just a matter of choosing the appropriate stack for the task.
Cryptocurrencies in general are a good alternative. They're strictly unsanctionable and, depending on the currency selected, also untraceable, so secondary sanctions would be extremely difficult to apply with any kind…
Those are good points, but it has nuances. To pick from your counter-example, half my family is German, they migrated out of Germany to Brazil after WW1. When WW2 started, our then dictator decided to join the Allies.…
It would come up because it is. Whenever one conflates an ethnicity with a political movement you've moved from politics to racism (original meaning of the word, though it frequently advances into the modern meaning).…
Careful with that antisemitism language. Many of the most vocal critics of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians are Jewish people, ranging from the secular to the ultra-orthodox, for reason both non-religious and…
For the rare few cases it may have been warranted, it wasn't a bad idea. The problem is that for the vast, vast majority of cases in which it was used, it wasn't warranted. Remember: schools don't have tribunals to…
Are there men who fail at relationships because they expect their soon-to-be ex-gf to perform like porn actresses? I imagine there may be some, but not at scale. Are there studies on this? The mind games are from red…
Those issues need therapy. The problem there isn't porn, it's that porn is free or very cheap, and therapy is expensive.
Your first example fits what I said. Notice it specifies what Canadian provinces should do. That's a clear geographic restriction, isn't it? But yes, the moment Canada were to become able to enforce it upon some other…
Betting causes clear social issues. People go bankrupt and their families with it. What issues do porn cause?
Thanks!
Replying here so it's close to the top (sorry): What do people recommend as truly good alternatives? Particularly non-American ones due to Snowden's revelations etc. etc.
I don't disagree with you. I'd say this fits what I alluded to in my second paragraph.
If there are massive protests, it's clear the reconciliation hasn't reconciled things properly, and a better reconciliation must be done, preferably one that doesn't result in more massive protests from either the same…
Presumably, because the people who want to change things do have in-system ways to do so: joining into a new Party, preaching their views, getting elected, growing, until they convince enough people to give them the…
IM cannot be stopped. When a government broadcasts they will censor them, the very next step is for protesters to install something like Bitchat, which does Bluetooth-based, mesh/P2P IM-ing, and is specifically designed…
In principle crypto solves the first problem, but suffers from networking effects: creators won't list crypto for payment because most people don't use it; people don't use it because there's nowhere it can be used. As…
Well, you find it right because you like the fact that your vote is worth n times more than the vote of those you oppose. Were the situation reversed, you'd find that a pretty bad arrangement. Do you know the…
So far the last several Presidents of the USA have decided they don't want that. If you equate what the Presidents of the USA want to what the USA itself wants, then the USA have decided they don't want that. If not,…
And that prevents them from calling the company and ordering them to increase prices so that they can then use the extra income to pay those capital taxes... how?
There's still the problem of how, precisely, we're going to force the rich to pay those taxes out of their own wealth, rather than them simply offloading them in the form of increased prices for the products and…
Long term the tendency is even lower salaries. Right now AI still isn't autonomous enough to do all of the work itself, so it needs developers to carefully manage it to do what it must. If things remained like this,…
That's common sense reasoning, which is to say, not based on anything scientific. GLP-1 is produced by the body to regulate and balance food consumption. People whose bodies produce less than the correct amount eat more…
I think the currently fastest is Hedera (HBAR), at 2 minutes per transaction or so, and that it's also the most decentralized, without that mechanism other crypto currencies have that the more you own, the stronger your…
That's alright. I'm willing to pay $1 for a Big Mac. If the algorithm matches that willingness of mine, I may buy one. Maybe.
Some new cryptocurrencies designed for interbank communication can do 20k transactions per second now, and can scale above that. It's just a matter of choosing the appropriate stack for the task.
Cryptocurrencies in general are a good alternative. They're strictly unsanctionable and, depending on the currency selected, also untraceable, so secondary sanctions would be extremely difficult to apply with any kind…
Those are good points, but it has nuances. To pick from your counter-example, half my family is German, they migrated out of Germany to Brazil after WW1. When WW2 started, our then dictator decided to join the Allies.…
It would come up because it is. Whenever one conflates an ethnicity with a political movement you've moved from politics to racism (original meaning of the word, though it frequently advances into the modern meaning).…
Careful with that antisemitism language. Many of the most vocal critics of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians are Jewish people, ranging from the secular to the ultra-orthodox, for reason both non-religious and…
For the rare few cases it may have been warranted, it wasn't a bad idea. The problem is that for the vast, vast majority of cases in which it was used, it wasn't warranted. Remember: schools don't have tribunals to…
Are there men who fail at relationships because they expect their soon-to-be ex-gf to perform like porn actresses? I imagine there may be some, but not at scale. Are there studies on this? The mind games are from red…
Those issues need therapy. The problem there isn't porn, it's that porn is free or very cheap, and therapy is expensive.
Your first example fits what I said. Notice it specifies what Canadian provinces should do. That's a clear geographic restriction, isn't it? But yes, the moment Canada were to become able to enforce it upon some other…
Betting causes clear social issues. People go bankrupt and their families with it. What issues do porn cause?