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You're coming at it with a framework of thinking that has already been immersed in present ideas about money. Check out, Debt: the first five thousand years. We tend to under estimate how differently people of different time periods and cultures think.

The more interesting question in that case, is why play it at all, if you're going to take all the life out of it only you demonstrate a hollow win.

Respect.

First and foremost because "they" cashed out all their profits over seas and bankrupted the company, neatly avoiding any of the responsibility of dealing with the repercussions of their actions. This is the most basic strategy of mining companies everywhere. They. Don't. Ever. Clean. Up. Their. Messes. If they did, most mining wouldn't be profitable. This is why people get up in arms about the DAPL pipeline and other such projects.

Here's my favorite group of smart people working on solving climate change.

Http://regen.network

Disclosure: I'm fairly dubious that we as a modern discourse fully understand the reality of life, and propagation, shaping of life.

I have a lot of reservations. And I often times find myself rather disgusted by the attitude and approach of many people in the scientific worldview.

That being said, I do believe there are some interesting numbers out there about how much more efficient dairy is than just simply eating your animals. It also produces a relatively large amount of fat, which is is incredibly important (for your brain, and much else) and is one of the more difficult parts of a diet to attain in most ecosystems.

There could possibly also be advantages related to the ease of lactobacillus fermentation.

Is it possible that the information emitted by the universe to queries simply escapes you.

My cryptological brain can't herp but replace here... The "selected at random" with "selected in ways we don't understand"

Under rated perspective here.

This is the wisest comment here.

It's also widely used in milk, to cover up the blue color of milk from industrial milk production facilities where thousands of animals are locked up in big metal sheds with poor quality food.

Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.

I'm working on a pretty cool project. It's called Regen Network. We're a distributed verification network for ecological data with a strong bias towards encouraging more regenerative agriculture. And we're using a blockchain as part of our verification model.

I have to agree that for the most part we haven't seen any real products come out of the crypto space. And there's a lot of chaff. It actually blows me away sometimes how many icos there are

And with the entire premise of our reality came crashing down...

Also, it's not the same book. There are literally hundreds of lineages of the Bible, having traveled to us through multiple languages, very different cultural perspectives, rewritten and re translated adding in their current perspectives and removing one's they don't agree with. Not to mention just plain old misunderstanding.

No shit. Extra bonus if it has any usable topsoil left...

I totally appreciate OPs insights here. It can be so tempting to see things linearly. But obviously the real world is anything but. There's a curiously wicked theory out there by David Abrams that part of this seeming human predilection for linearity has occured somehow through neural conditioning involved with adopting systems of writing, compared to the crazy fractal ocean of sensory input that living in a real living landscape begets. The writing has a start. A finish. It progresses in a single visual direction, and what's more, the pieces themselves only represent reality. The letters themselves are completely different from the things they are describing. And they might be one of the first objects in human history that work like this...

Anyway, the book is called the Spell of the Sensuous, and it's dense af, but bursting with fascinating lines of inquiry.

Yes our financial system isn't based on speculation. Good one

Pressure cooks everything faster. You can literally take frozen stew meat and have it tender in an hour.

I think agricultural collapse is a much more likely scenario then us running out of oil. The book 1493 all about the ecological exchange of contact with the new world has some phenomenal perspective about it all. Our high input monocropping is pretty tenuous. Look at the lifespan history of commercial pesticides and fungicides, they used to be 30+ years around the turn of the century. Today, a newly discovered pesticide has a lifespan of about three years before it becomes not effective. The extreme lack of genetic diversity in our crops is a time bomb waiting to happen. If you think the Irish Potato famine was bad, it's going to be a mere footnote to the kind of agricultural disasters we will see come out of the next century. Rubber trees are a particularly vulnerable piece, 99% of all rubber produced in the world comes from southeast Asia from a handful of clones brought over from the Amazon. They can't monocrop rubber in South America because of leaf blight. Yet when that blight makes it over to se Asia on somebody's boot, things are going to get weird fast. No rubber means no industrial hoses, gaskets, and tires. We don't have any economic means to reproduce natural rubber. All the computers in the world won't make a difference

I think agricultural collapse is a great place to start researching. The book 1493 all about the ecological exchange of contact with the new world has some phenomenal perspective about it all. Our high input monocropping is pretty tenuous. Look at the lifespan history of commercial pesticides and fungicides, they used to be 30+ years around the turn of the century. Today, a newly discovered pesticide has a lifespan of about three years before it becomes not effective. The extreme lack of genetic diversity in our crops is a time bomb waiting to happen. If you think the Irish Potato famine was bad, it's going to be a mere footnote to the kind of agricultural disasters we will see come out of the next century. Rubber trees are a particularly vulnerable piece, 99% of all rubber produced in the world comes from southeast Asia from a handful of clones brought over from the Amazon. They can't monocrop rubber in South America because of leaf blight. Yet when that blight makes it over to se Asia on somebody's boot, things are going to get weird fast. No rubber means no industrial hoses, gaskets, and tires. We don't have any economic means to reproduce natural rubber. All the computers in the world won't make a difference.

Move to Thailand.

I pay ten dollars a gallon for fresh non pasteurized milk from a local family that has seven cows. I don't buy a lifestyle from them, I buy fucking good milk from animals that are loved like family, and I'm proud to be helping them make a living doing something that is good for everyone(including the cows). It's not a lifestyle, it's just supporting people who aren't shitting on everyone's future.

What exactly are you suggesting? We only communicate with email?

Lisk, Monero, Iota, and Factom. To be exact.

There are still several hundred once prominent MMOs called MUDs that came about in the 1980s and are all text based. They deal with these sorts of problems in very diverse and creative ways. If you've never played one, I might suggest Duris, Land of Bloodlust.

It's old-school, beautiful, huge world and incredibly delicate, strategic and fun combat. It's a race wars, so RvR style full player killing and full player looting. Rough game :p but makes modern MMOs look like Fisher Price editions.

Coinbase had one million new accounts opened in a seven day period this month. The rise is substantially organic in new people coming in.

And we can accept skin grafts from sus scrofa (but many people don't believe Gene McCarthys theory that we're descendant from pig / monkey hybrids)

It's kind of like, I come over to your house for dinner... Murder your family members, and sell you to a slaver, then your house is mine.

Pretty straight forward.

Check out macroevolution.net if you want to really twerk your noggin.

That's assuming you're only dealing with cracking a hashed version, or you have unlimited instant opportunities to "get it right"