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npc12345··on Programming in the Apocalypse
You will own nothing and be happy.

Bill Gates tells us to not eat meat and owns a gigaton of farmland.

He rells us to ride bikes and has the largest fleet of private jets in the world.

npc12345··on Ask HN: What Is Today's Lead?
Seed oils
npc12345··on Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air
Oh my you're right.
npc12345··on Ask HN: Could Bitcoin be replaced by an ERC-20 token?
0. A dollar your ancestors earned in 1919 buys about a 1/100 right now of what it used to.

1. A dollar you earned in 2019 buys about a quarter right now of what it used to.

2. A bitcoin you bought in 2019 buys about 5 times right now of what it used to.

3. A bitcoin bought in 2135 will buy around the same in 2135, that it will buy in 2235.

...and 2335

...and 2435.

You don't seem to care about [0] and [1]? I DEEPLY care about that.

[2] is noise, just like a dollar in 2019 buys more than a dollar in 2002, who cares, it's not whole picture, and you'd be wrong calling the USD a ponzi by looking at that particular timeframe

[3] is the whole point of Bitcoin.

If you don't care about [3], then more power to you, keep working for the politicians, as for me, I want to work for my family and children, and my grandchildren.

If you don't /get/ [3], then I don't know what to say.

Everything else, every single other talking point is noise, [3] is where it's at.

Even [3] is ultimately noise, and all of this discussion about Bitcoin is noise because...

...you cannot ban Bitcoin, so why go against it?

Acccept it.

Embrace it.

Adapt.

Overcome.

Start doing at least some of those steps because bro, you cannot ban it, as simple as that.

Bitcoin is here to stay.

npc12345··on Joseph Stiglitz: 'We should shut down the cryptocurrencies'
They'll never get it man.

They want to government up their a$$.

That's why I no longer argue with them, not as much as I used to.

Every successful, cool and relaxed person Ive known in real life is against all of this shit.

npc12345··on Joseph Stiglitz: 'We should shut down the cryptocurrencies'
You can't.

That's the whole point.

npc12345··on Ask HN: Could Bitcoin be replaced by an ERC-20 token?
https://www.endthefud.org
npc12345··on Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air
Aren't they equivalent?
npc12345··on Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)
The only correct answer in this godforsaken discussion.
npc12345··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
They had me until "Android Go Edition"
npc12345··on Is VISA down everywhere in the US?
Visa transactions can be reversed, Lightning transactions can not.

Bit a of an apple to oranges comparison anyways but that's the biggest difference.

npc12345··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
I see your point now.
npc12345··on Why isn’t new technology making us more productive?
There's also people with no high school diplomas making 6 figures from advertising on those very same social networks.
npc12345··on The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021)
Gotto go through this again?

- Battery life - Trackpad - No keyboard flex - Superb screen and superb handling of the high dpi - M1 is superior to anything intel or Amd.

It's not fanboy'ism it is what it is.

npc12345··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
(I upvoted you btw, I don't like to censor).

I'm a maximalist and even I am not that disingenous.

npc12345··on .01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin
This is fine.

The point of Bitcoin is "they" cannot print more of it, they have to earn it fair and square.

npc12345··on Is VISA down everywhere in the US?
No, that is not how lightning works.
npc12345··on Ask HN: Non-US Person Incorporating in the US
If this this is avoid taxes just open a bank account in panama.
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