I've been through enough to not let some dude intimidate me.

Where's your battleship dude?

From what I was told of Singapore, part of their success is due to the stiff punishments they had to put into place on thieves. They essentially accepted a lot of citizens who were thieves and had to completely change the culture to get to the point where they are now. Perhaps it is about severe punishments but they also restrict access very well.

I do lean toward personal responsibility, but the very simple act of running into the store to buy groceries while you have anything in the bed of your truck means you have to either bring it with you, have someone guard it or put it inside the truck. Little simple things like needing to chain down your lawn furniture and stuff like that. I was recently the guy guarding the truck while my friends were buying groceries and was approached by 3 different people gauging my level of protection vs what may have been in the truck bed. One guy implying that he would bring some guys with guns if I didn't give him a bit of cash (acting like he was joking the whole time).

We are working with a solar company that claims to achieved 70% efficiency. Unfortunately it is not production ready but they may partner with us to showcase their product.

It would be truly revolutionary if they can achieve it.

It seems to me that the end of the month futures closing has always been met with a big crash. Apparently someone realized this early and sold a few days before the end of the month.

I suspect the price will climb back up with yet another crash at the end of the month. Perhaps a day or so earlier than this month.

Until BAKKT grows a bit more volume.

I asked about the theft culture in one country I was in. They said that because there was such plentiful food growing on trees ("if you are hungry you can pick a breadfruit and feed your family") that people have grown to be scavengers. You go fishing, you pick fruit, you walk along the road and if you see something, you take it. If someone's house is unprotected, you stop by and grab what you want. No big deal.

As far as the punishment for theft, there was one factory that decided to have the police set up a check point as the workers were leaving one day and check everyone's car for stolen items from the factory. Every single car had something they had stolen. The police ended up just letting them all go because they could not round them all up.

I agree with the high trust and low trust thing. Perhaps this is why many Americans are against open borders, the cultures clash quite a bit in those regards. I believe Stephan Moleneux touches on this as part of the reason for the fall of the Roman empire.

I do not believe that the solution is to teach another culture not to steal. I do not believe Communism will work because they require that everyone stops being greedy...I do not think that any system that requires everyone to think the same way is a good system.

It does come down to each person to protect their own property. Perhaps automation can clear up much of this. Maybe a combination of a blockchain based reputation system and ways to capture evidence against thieves would allow for exclusion or some sort of automated warning when a known thief is nearby.

Someone who has been proven to steal may suddenly have mini drones hovering around him when he enters a store, watching his every move until he leaves. A micro location device embedded in everything. etc.

I do not think that having someone protect you from theft is that bad. Most places I have lived in in these places were a place where I had to pass by a security guard to get to my residence. I felt better that they were there.

Having bars on your windows is not liberty...that's more like living in your own prison.

This was Ron Paul's platform.

Not advocating war got him nowhere.

I have been all over the world and have found that there are some cultures that feel that stealing is perfectly fine.

The solution to theft in most of the world is to discourage it through shame and punishment. But some parts of the world do not really see it as wrong. There is no point in shaming and while it may be technically against the law, it is not really enforced because it's "not that bad".

The thing I notice in these cultures is that every individual takes measures into their own hands to protect their goods and property. They have bars on the windows, razor wire fences, etc. (even the poorest homes are barred up). There is usually someone in the more populated areas when you park your car who watches your car for you (upon receiving payment), etc.

Most people in the west do not need to deal with this and are perhaps lucky in living in a place where theft is not as common.

But the countries where theft is common, people are better at preventing theft. I can see why someone from one of these countries going to the US would think "they just let you walk into the grocery store and take food off of the shelves by yourself...no guards at the door or anything", "people leave their homes unprotected with just windows that can be broken", "look, a perfectly good car with so many parts for the taking unprotected".

I see a few solutions...everyone evolves protection of their own property (either paying for a service or taking measures into your own hands every day of your life). Or it becomes exclusionary based where thieves are not allowed in a certain area and that area restricts newcomers allowing those in the protected area to live without too much worry about their property.

I'm not sure which is the better solution. The first solution sucks needing to worry about thieves every day, the second solution makes people soft and sort of prisoners of their location.

I worry about the future due to the way we are building our seasteads.

The hurricane free zones of the ocean make up 3 times the space as there is habitable land.

Each of our seasteads grows a coral ecosystem underneath.

Coral reefs harbour the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally and directly support over 500 million people worldwide, mostly in poor countries.

If we make enough seasteads to cover more than 3 times the habitable space in the world, with the amount of coral that goes along with it...

we may start running out of CO2 due to the coral.

Solution?

We need more humans. Both to live and buy the seasteads, and to create precious CO2 to feed the coral and other plants of the world.

How do we create more humans?

Sex.

Ocean Builders needs to encourage people to have more sex if they are going to live on seasteads.

And as the ocean is just the next frontier on the way to colonizing space...we need a lot more humans for the future.

So stop worrying about everything you may be concerned with now...and start figuring out how to have more sex.

QED

I showed that to the money guy behind the seastead project (who was about to go buy a cargo ship before the Thai navy thing).

He responded with just one word.

sub

want

Pearl farm?

Quick update. Moving forward on the next phase of building.

Here's a sneak peek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIo6usoRvqo

Location to be announced "soon".

The plan would be to not worry about fitting into those regulations. The seastead company itself would not be the only one. There would be several companies residing on the seastead that will not need to be regulated but will still need some sort of structure.

What I would want to do is create a sort of Bitcoin business software where you configure the software for your own business and now you can get started (accepting bitcoin, payroll, assigning roles, etc.). Just like loading up Wordpress, choosing a template, company name, some pictures and blurbs you now have a company website.

The anonymity is not too severe as far as the employer not knowing the employees or the employee never seeing the employer. You can have an anonymous CEO if you incorporate in Belize. I am thinking more in the lines of protecting those that are running the company in the same way you would want to incorporate in Belize to avoid the meddling of certain super powers into your affairs.

True, it would need up front money as opposed to going on loans. Which brings in the investors. That part I cannot figure out unless you have an x of y multi sig wallet where y is the amount of shares with x being at least 50/66% of y. Which would need to be changed for each new share holder. That could get complicated very quickly. Which is fine if software is handling everything in the background. But it just needs to make sense and not have holes.

This.

Other planets do not have Bitcoin._yet...

I used to consider this theory when writing code. Give me enough time and enough monkeys and I can code anything...so when my boss asks if some sort of software can be written my answer was always a confident "yes".

Then I saw a video where they gave a keyboard connected to a computer to monkeys...and no...monkeys would never do shit with a keyboard. Smack it a bit and just go and play.

So my whole career was a lie.