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entrop13··on Postmodernism is Anti-Mind (Literally)
Yea, so maybe it doesn't exist yet. And us talking about it is like pre enlightenment era humans talking about Modernism when Modernism is basically all the ideas that have happened as a result of the enlightenment period.
entrop13··on How We Learned to Kill
It's true that as society progresses it off loads the killing work onto fewer people - executioners, soldiers, drones, etc. These killings are presumably justified by the will of the larger society otherwise these men wouldn't be paid to do this. So a smaller part of the population does an increasing porportion of the killing, but does the overall number of people killed decrease?
entrop13··on Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency of the internet
Couldn't a central bank just reimplement its monoply on money creation as a monoploy on mining, then sell those mined BTC below market value to banks to give out as loans? Adjusting the discount given based on the amount they want to increase inflation as they already do, essentially replacing the mint with miners. If the price of miners + electricity ever becomes < the price of printing paper currency + losses due to forgery this might be a good idea.

After mining stops spitting out coins they would just charge transaction fees (sales tax) instead of mining like the btc network already assumes will happen.

entrop13··on Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency of the internet
digital/analog really makes no difference for fiat currencies. What matters is the way their managed and peoples belief that they will continue to hold value for the long term. I doubt any states will go digital for awhile due to purely cultural/psychological reasons.

Humans like physical objects even if they're worse, just ask any vinyl record enthusiasts to explain why they like vinyl and you'll see this dynamic.

entrop13··on Bitcoin is not for goverment. Bitcoin is digital currency of the internet
those arn't liquid assets. who's suffering from dunning-kreuger effects now? nice puppet account you got there with 1 karma. also land and property are taxed so... yea
entrop13··on RapidShare is Shutting down
also the m-disc is a dvd/blueray that lasts 1000 years
entrop13··on RapidShare is Shutting down
care to share that script?