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Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on: October 21, 2019, 03:47:32 PM
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We still have a lot of oceans to be our ever expanding frontier. We don't need to go to space for a long time yet.
Good luck with the salty waters and may be with filtering them. We are getting ready to leave the earth soon. We had a water maker on the seastead. It put out 60 liters per day of fresh water. All run on solar. |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on: October 21, 2019, 12:23:54 AM
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That's Jeff Berwick's (The dollar vigilante) event iirc. I used to watch his content a couple years ago before he started reminding me of that coked out friend who lost his mind. Made some good calls in Bitcoin, at least I'll give him that. Should be a good party for sure with a lot of familiar faces. What will you be speaking on? Escape. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 18, 2019, 05:58:55 PM
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the problem is that theft, is diversly understood, take the conquest of byzanze, many european orthodox christians considered it an outright theft, why didnt osman used his army to build himself a castle instead of stealing the castle of the byzantinians and the constantinope dynasty.
same is with americans who use their advantage in technology to spam the entire world with how good they are and dominate it financiallay.
stealing sometimes if a form of liberation from a tyrant. thats why people do it. god takes and god gives.
regards
Yet another person who will justify stealing as ok. I am not looking for solutions to brainwash people. There are too many ignorant people in the world to educate. The solution needs to be in protecting private property from those people. We need to stay one step ahead of them and this should not be a very difficult task because they tend to be unintelligent. Guns, guard dogs, security systems are a start. Bitcoin is great. HOAs provide local security for neighborhoods. But we need more. There should be segregation. Those that support theft should be kept far away from those that want to protect their property. In a seastead community there should be checks on people entering the area to ensure that thieves are not approaching. If a community wants to be a den of thieves then go for it. All the better for identifying people as such. |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on: October 16, 2019, 05:19:40 PM
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 via Imgflip Meme GeneratorBtw..... one of my best friends is a salesman for BMW, yesterday they had an inspection, they asked where is the gender-neutral restroom...... They didn’t have one.... the guy said better provide one it will be obligated! Where the F*** are we going at  It's just (one) result of sick human minds. Bad news is, we all have this sickness, buddhists call this part of our mind "the ego", which makes us vulnerable to hysteria. If we continue like that, crippling common sense, we will end up pretty bad as society. All I need is a few million bucks so I get to choose my own society of healthy people. Poor fucks will have to interact with those sick people every day, like I have been doing for nearly 10 years...  In Thailand the roles seem still intact. Men make money and bring food home, women take care of children and cook. When I will be rich one day I think Thailand could be a nice place to live. Stay away from Thailand. They will try to get your money by giving you a choice between death, life in Thai prison (a fate worse than death) or all of your bitcoin. The lucky get out while they can. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 13, 2019, 12:07:30 PM
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It is completely based on reality. You are only using basic intuition and preconceived ideas about how things worked and ignoring data and research that sometimes provides counterintuitive results. I understand how one can start off thinking that people will reproduce infinitely but there is a mountain of research and real-world evidence that shows the more education women have, the less they reproduce. Nations with higher human devleopment have lower birth rates and many of the highest, most socialized nations with large safety nets and welfare actually have birth rates below replacement. This is because women who have more education end up with physical autonomy and the ability to afford contraception, birth control and pursuit of professional careers. They end up delaying motherhood and end up with only a few years of fertility by the time they are settled. https://www.economist.com/international/2019/02/02/thanks-to-education-global-fertility-could-fall-faster-than-expectedNorway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland are all under 2 children per woman. Certainly not infinite reproduction despite universal access to education, healthcare, shelter and food. Not only do these countries still function, but they are all among the most well-off in the world. This is not communism at all and its definitely not the crap you call communism. Meanwhile look at all the countries with the high rates of births and they are all countries with high levels of poverty, poor education, and poor healthcare. The correlation and causation are undeniable. The key thing here is that we need to produce more humans. Space is quite large and if we want to spread humanity throughout the cosmos we need more than what we have here on Earth right now. We need to come up with pro-population strategies. We need to encourage a lot more sex. For every Ocean Builders home that we create, the coral garden that goes along with it will start soaking up CO2. Coral reefs make up 90% of the world's ecosystems. There is over three times as much hurricane free ocean space than there is habitable land in the world. This means that if we fill the ocean with these coral building homes will be soaking up CO2 at such a high rate that we will need more humans to produce CO2 so that the plants will be able to survive. If you want lower birth rates you want all the plants on the world to die. How dare you! |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 10, 2019, 12:28:04 PM
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Nice analogy.... But in some countries where people survive below a 1$ a day as a result of the greed of the government stealing it's deemed the order of the day for survival.
All well and good. The question is not about stopping stealing, stopping communists from stealing, stopping governments from stealing... it is about how to prevent it from happening to you, as an individual. This is bitcointalk afterall...could we not have a blockchain based reputation system to help with this? A thief database like the child predator map? Know the level of thievery in your neighborhood/city/country in order to know how much money you need to spend on securing your property. |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on: October 07, 2019, 08:41:41 PM
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I hadn't been following this closely for a while, but the class action complaint against Tether/BitFinex makes things look pretty bad for them... How important are they to the current ecosystem at this point? How much has the risk of Finex+USDT going the way of MtGox already been priced in? The complaint doesn't completely convince me that Finex was printing USDT to manipulate prices, though it's certainly possible. I've been skeptical of USDT's backing for a long time. If they weren't manipulating, then the whole matter looks like the US government stole their money and then turned around and said, "Now you're operating at fractional reserve, so you're fraudulent!" Reading through it shows just how hard it has been for Bitfinex/Tether to maintain a bank account with so many governments and banks getting in their way. I do not know who the Plaintiffs are but I assume they are butthurt bcash and shitcoin holders who are mad that Bitcoin won the split war due to the value rising. "Tether’s monopoly power allows it to raise prices and exclude competition within the cryptocurrency market." They provide zero evidence, all circumstantial about correlations between the price going up and the release of Tether, including times that they had difficulty with their banks but they assume that those banks were their only path of getting funds. As someone who lives outside of the US and has to deal with these shitty banks, you figure out ways to move money in non-traditional ways (completely legally). It is more a study in how much KYC/AML laws are shit and everyone needs to just get all of their money into bitcoin already so they don't have to deal with that bullshit. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 06, 2019, 11:20:13 PM
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I don't think you understand how big the universe is
Wow! Space is big!?! I never knew that...thanks for the insight (is it big enough to dispose of nuclear waste after we have used the nuclear energy to power cities for decades?). and how far we are from being able to access and live off of resources beyond earth. The universe is not "full" because that fails to imply the vast amounts of empty space between matter. Empty space that we cannot develop the technology to fully overcome because it is outside the boundaries of the laws of physics. You don't seem to appreciate the difference between space travel and space colonization. Its like being able to swim in the ocean for a few minutes vs being able to travel across the ocean. It would take tens of thousands of years just to reach the nearest star if we left today. Even as a meteorologist and space enthusiast, I'm more interested in what we will do on Earth in the near term. You can't simply respond to immediate problems with "well who cares because in hundreds of thousands of years we will probably solve this problem". Its really just a fancy way of ignoring problems.
Also, you have it completely backwards. Human ingenuity and progress like space travel was only tapped into by the Soviet union and NASA which required national pooling of public resources. Private firms today are still piggy backing off of technology that first was developed by these governments in the 50s.
Great for NASA. We also got Tang out of it. Now it's time for the big boys to actually do something with it. I believe completely in incrementalism so I, of course, understand that we are not building space colonies tomorrow. I do believe we will be building ocean colonies tomorrow (starting next week actually). From ocean colonies we can build a launch loop to start sending infrastructure into space. From there we can start colonizing our solar system. From there we can build technology to move further and further. When we go further and further we will be able to send humans all over the galaxy where there are also resources like there are on Earth. We may run into the problem of not having enough humans to live both on Earth and those that want to be transported to other worlds but hopefully the population grows at a faster rate. Human ingenuity and progress in that whole thing depends wholly on the government getting out of our way. My dealings with the Thai government demonstrate this very thing. They tried to interfere with that roadmap to space colonization before it could even have more than one house floating in the water. Not through NASA nor any public resources. Just private individuals trying to bring progress to the world. But do not worry. Where one government failed, others see opportunity and have expressed the desire to stay out of the way as they see the benefits of being the world's space port. But back to the OP. You are certainly one of those that we need to protect ourselves from. I am ok with your ideology existing as long as I can protect myself and my belongings from people like you. For every thief coming in the night to steal our belongings we can use technology to stop them. For every Navy that comes to take away our property, there are technological advances that can be developed to thwart them. It will just be a technological race and the "public" will be funding your side of the battle until they grow weary of working most of their lives just to fund theft. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 05, 2019, 12:23:59 PM
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"In a universe full of planets and energy"
What are you on about? We live on Earth and can't survive 1 second without it's resources. The rest of the universe is completely irrelevant.
And that is why you adhere to a flawed system. You have no confidence in human ingenuity and progress. Stop worrying about doling out a Model T to every citizen and start allowing progress to happen unequally. The universe is full of resources, space travel is imminent. All the sooner if people like you get out of the way. But such technological advances cannot happen without greed, and allowing people to keep the fruits of their labor and shoot for a better life than everyone else. That is the breeding ground for progress and will take us beyond the stars. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 04, 2019, 10:10:52 PM
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What do we (as individuals) do about preventing those who do not believe in private property taking our property.
You have several options a. Push for a society where everyone has equal opportunity to obtain private property b. Push for an adequate amount of public property that serves as an alternative to private property and can still meet the needs of those who do not believe in private property c. Brainwash the masses into thinking you have a or b. but there is no scenario where you can just take everything, leave the masses with nothing, and not expect them to come for your head. a. is irrelevant. Nothing in this whole universe can be equal to another thing nor should it be desirable. b. public property should not exist. You would think that with the tragedy of the commons playing itself out over and over and over people would realize that shared resources are just about the worst way to deal with resources. The brainwashing by the public schools can likely be held accountable for the continuance of such a failed system. But of course, you can't blame them for trying to perpetuate their own inadequacy. In a universe full of planets and energy, I think you are wasting time believing that someone can "take everything". |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 04, 2019, 04:37:06 PM
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Until there is one Dyson Sphere and a full galaxy for each human in the universe, I don't believe we need to worry about resources per person
I think you have it backwards. I believe in specialization. Not everyone should be a breadmaker. That would be a boring society. We need artists and historians and everything else. For this reason, you and I have completely different ideas about what is stealing and what is not. This means end up I wondering why you think stealing is ok and you end up wondering why I think stealing is ok when no one actually think taking something that rightfully belongs to someone else is ok. I'm just trying to address the topic. Well, you (communists/people who do not respect private property/etc.) fall into the reason for the original question. What do we (as individuals) do about preventing those who do not believe in private property taking our property. I respect that communists think differently and I do not believe that any social structure can exist by requiring everyone to adhere to a specific ideology. Thus the reason why someone who respects private property must be personally responsible for protecting those rights. This, I believe, may come down to upgrading our ways of protecting property via technology (autonomous drones, blockchain reputation system, tracking devices, etc.). No, I do not believe every person should be a bread maker but if you have the unlimited power of a Dyson Sphere you should not be worrying about 10 people remaining and only 10 loaves of bread. Through technology all of the needs (and wants) of individuals can be obtained in this vast universe if only those who value equality over progress would get out of our way and let humanity move forward (each according to his own desires). Once we can individually protect our own private property through more advanced technology (such as being able to hold your private Bitcoin keys in your head), then the state will no longer be able to steal as easily as it currently does. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok
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on: October 03, 2019, 11:07:04 PM
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This blurs the lines At the same time, having vague definitions of stealing, like "taking a fair/survival portion of something that is not rightfully owned is not stealing" also blurs the lines between what is stealing and what is not. By defining it in such a manner, you create a top-down definition to which you have to now define what a "fair/survival portion" of something is. Is taking a piece of bread when you're starving stealing? How about taking some gourmet dishes from a restaurant? What if that was the closest thing around? What if there was nothing else around? What if you had to choose between taking the gourmet dish, and putting your hand on the stove for 10 seconds? If taking one piece of bread is not stealing, is taking two pieces of bread stealing? How about three? Four? Onwards?
See how your answers change as these questions develop and try to develop some other scenarios. This tests the rigor of your definition and in turn tests the rationale thereof. Thats the point though. I just wanted to point out that it isn't always so simple. All definitions of stealing fail in their own way. With personal property its simple but beyond needs, everything is difficult to determine. The person taking it is in the best position to know if they are stealing but no one truly knows because no one knows who these things belong to. This is why its best to have restaurants setup like a local trend in my area. There are no prices and they simply ask "what would you like to pay for that today" and you make a donation. Most people pay normal prices but some pay much less, some pay much more, and no one steals. Imagine the following for simplicity 1.there are 10 people in the world 2.only enough resources for 10 loaves of bread or less per week. 3. everyone needs a loaf per week to survive Here is how it would work by my moral code. -anyone who takes 2 or more loaves in one week is stealing no matter how they acquired the bread. -taking 4 or less loaves of bread from someone who has made 5 loaves is not stealing unless you keep 2 or more for yourself. -if someone gives you 2 loaves of bread and you keep both, you also stole one loaf of bread. Of course its never that simple because our world has so many more variables and contexts at play. Its hard to determine what is stealing and what even is property. Until there is one Dyson Sphere and a full galaxy for each human in the universe, I don't believe we need to worry about resources per person. And if you still cannot produce a loaf of bread with nearly limitless energy and a full galaxy at your disposal then it is likely best that you not eat anything at all and do a solid for humans as a species. |
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