Because it doesn’t point to a “good” outcome. It just boosts self-esteem.
Sure you might encourage someone to do something they wouldn’t. But you have no modality to indicate that the new action would be “good” regardless of how you define “good”.
Culture-based behavioral regulation is a reliable way to ensure homogeneity of a unified set of cultural values, which we could reasonably call “the collective good”.
Would you tell Hitler/Stalin/Mao to “just be yourself?” Of course not! You’d be encouraging evil. They didn’t need encouragement because they were malevolent narcissists. But that begs the question, how did they become narcissists? I’d posit it’s, at least in part because someone, at some point encouraged them to “just be themselves”. And look how that bloody went!
I’m also basically an anarchist. I think there’s a massive difference between forcing people at gunpoint to do a certain thing and encouraging people to follow a good path.
You probably wouldn’t want someone you care about to get addicted to crack. But you wouldn’t kill them if they refused to quit. Nahmean?
The mission keeps me here. The lack of polish keeps me from getting addicted.
Sometimes pictures are blurred, I tap and they still don’t load!
Sometimes I tap a reply and I can’t see the original post for 30 seconds.
It all started in 1914 when the Bank of England effectively printed £150 million, more than 60% of the money they raised for the war.
Without money printing, England would not have been able to afford to join the war. What we call “World War 1” would have been a brief, local conflict.
Always a Bitcoin maxi BUT I dipped my toe into Monero not long ago. Lots of FUD surrounding Monero, esp around mining, decentralization, supply audits, etc.
What ultimately turned me off of it was liquidity. Even DNMs are far more likely to accept Bitcoin than Monero. It’s much easier to pay with Bitcoin or turn Bitcoin into USD. Most of the KYC-free buying of Monero involves buying Bitcoin first.
Also pseudonymous, unconfiscatable, and uncensorable are 99.9% as good as true anonymity.
Yes, DNMs adding Monero but not removing Bitcoin.
I think that momentum speaks more to Monero being better than ZCash and MimbleWimble
That said, I’ve seen ransomware discounts as high as 10% for paying in Monero over Bitcoin. That’s not nothing.
ime the Japanese brands are purists and mostly make 100% cotton jeans with no stretch
Oni, Momotaro, and Pure Blue Japan are great brands. Not stretchy tho.
To prioritize privacy, UTXO should be just larger than expected spend.
The worst thing for your privacy is to pay a 1mil sat invoice with a 100BTC UTXO and expose your wealth.
Have some UTXOs at approx:
-500k sats
-1mil sats
-5mil sats
-10mil sats
-50mil sats
-etc
Keep in mind CoinJoin sizing too
Last time I looked deeply into KYC-free, it was bank account, cash in envelope and mail it, or ATMs with 10% fees and 20% spreads
This robosats thing looks v promising
Find a woman who shares your traditional values. Can’t build a foundation on sand.
If you’re religious, I recommend meeting her thru that. If you’re not, I recommend finding God and meeting your wife at a Church event (in that order).
Liquid is a transparent and federated sidechain. Adam Back cannot singlehandedly rugpull Liquid on a whim.
There are risk-reward tradeoffs with using Liquid. They’re completely transparent so I analyzed them and chose not to use Liquid.
Are all Bitcoin-related companies opportunistic? If yes, then agree to disagree. If no, then I’m curious what the difference is to you.
Every child deserves to preserve their innocence. Every rapist should be prosecuted (and castrated imo).
What is it, 100x more per capita rapists among public school teachers vs priests? But the priests get 100x more coverage. A trick of the devil to make the unchurched feel righteous and keep them from the Lord.
Optimize based on the business.
Short names are more likely to get remembered, hired, and promoted.
Polish, British, French, Jewish, etc. last names always carry certain connotations. Look how Hollywood peeps regularly use false names.
People with “two first names” are stigmatized in sales roles. “Dave Charles” for example.
You gave him $20 for a reason, you want milk. If you only wanted a quart and nothing else, you’d have given him $2.
Your friend should buy the half gallon. Period.
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