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> I grew up in a very privileged white world, with an attitude that I could always talk to the police because they were never interested in me. I felt that there would be unlikely to be an outcome where I got in any real trouble even if I had been breaking the law in some childish but “not actually bad” kind of way. Doing some dumb stunt or smoking a little weed - “nothing serious”.

What you describe as the "very privileged white world" sounds exactly how the citizen/police interactions ought to be.

It is a fragile balance that has been built and maintained by your society. The way you describe such as legacy is problematic, as people often see 'privilege' as something 'unfair', something to distance ourselves from. And by saying that the correct citizen/police interactions are a privilege, you push for everyone to average down, rather than make a better world for everyone.

You should instead focus on making sure everyone has the best chance of having a decent civil society. The best start is by using your everyday language as a way to anchor the correct interaction as the goal, not something to be avoided.

Ex:

"Last Friday night two officers brought me to my parents. I was a little too 'agitated'. It scared the shit out of me, but they let me go with a warning. I tell you man, I'm happy to have such friendly officers in my city." (<---
anchor it as a goal)

"My friend from a different place got in trouble with the police last week. It looks like it's a pattern. Hopefully we'll find what is causing this friction soon and stop this shit." (<--- point out it's an unwanted consequence and that something has to change.)
Take a trip to any non-first-world capitalist country. Funny how only a handful of countries benefit from capitalism, while the rest have their resources and labor pillaged. Sounds a lot like a capitalist business.
As an avid listener to both, Limbaugh is quite a bit more manipulative. I say that as a life-long Republican.

Edit: I should add that Limbaugh demonstrates an ability to use logic and analyze topics that makes me think he is being intentionally deceitful, mostly by leaving out relevant facts.
The BCH blocks are all very small. Go look at their blockchain stats. Most blocks are 10kb in size. The network is barely used. Once they start actually mining big blocks we’ll get some real data. I think it’ll be very interesting to see, tbh.
Why do you disagree with the evidence presented by the intercept? It seems to me that there was an intent to misinform the public, either by multiple sources deliberately feeding the wrong information to multiple news agencies or the news agencies misrepresented how many independent sources had verified the information.
Don' worry, next it will ISPs with a no-benchmark / speed test clause.
Anecdotal but holy shit this fits me to a T.
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what if politicians (Governments) decide that bitcoin is illegal?
How do you know what you are and are not accused of?
Your link is a news article and not actual research. The details of their specific test are barely provided. Please provide actual research as I have provided you.
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Now I am intrigued. Do you have a benchmark you could share?
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This is the kind of propaganda Core is pushing.

Note that there is no CEO and the very same people who refer to Bitcoin Cash as Bcash refer to Ethereum Classic, Bitcoin Gold and others by their proper name...
>deter people from making journeys that cause such a nuisance.

Connectivity and interaction is the whole reason we have cities. Urban planning that seeks to prevent trips ("transportation demand management") defeats the purpose of living near other humans. Why have cities at all, if you are going to design them to be isolating?

When it's easier and faster to navigate 50 miles between farms than 5 miles between urban neighborhoods, the city has thoroughly and catastrophically failed. I'm not surprised that this happens accidentally. But the idea we should deliberately make cities hostile to their residents' desires to get around just seems crazy.
Where I grew up, there are no professional firefighters; it's all volunteer, just something people did as a hobby, basically. I think they might elect their own chief and officers, or it might be on the public ballot, with the dog catcher and other town positions. Usually, there's nobody on duty at the station, so when a call comes in from the 911 dispatch at county or wherever, their pagers or cellphones go off and they leave work to rush to the station, gear up, and go out.
The idea seems to be that BTC is a store of value (eg: gold) and payments is something to be implemented on a different layer.
People aren't tried in a court of common sense, they are tried in a court of law. If the law doesn't protect the use of common sense, then the law should change.

"Some lawyer in a YouTube video" is still far more qualified to tell me how to behave around the police than you are. Regardless of whether you think it is common sense or not. Obviously, you have to weigh the risks and decide for yourself, but that is such a trivial statement that it really doesn't need to be said. What needs to be said is that you don't know the risks unless you know the law and the status of the investigation; thus common sense should tell you not to talk to the police at all.
> Things proceed as above, but your lawyer now has ammunition to use to help you in court.

We see it in the news time and time again, that public defenders spend a total of 15 minutes with their clients before trial. If they meet them at all.

We see time and time again that poor Americans spend months waiting for trial. In jail or out on bond (unable to get a job because of the bond).

For poor Americans self-subjugation might be a reasonable legal strategy.

We certainly hear of many innocent people taking a plea bargain, because it was faster than waiting for trial. And because they had no faith in the US justice system.

Just google around, there's lots of problems, pretrial detention is just one reason why poor Americans would be encouraged to submit, rather than demand justice:
http://www.pretrial.org/the-problem/
Is there a good place to start reading about all of these scaling proposals, and maybe keep up to date on new ones as they emerge? Failing that, got any good links to papers/blogposts about the ones you mentioned?
>Yet, also, IQ tests are strongly influenced by cultural knowledge

Raven Progressive Matrices, I believe the most used IQ test today is not influenced by cultural knowledge. IQ has an amazingly high correlation with academic success and work success, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSo5v5t4OQM
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I live in Australia, and people always freak out when they see me post pics on spiders around our house on Facebook etc. "Ozzie critters kill you!" they say.

However the most common spiders in our house are Huntsmen spiders [0]. As big, frightening looking and FAST as they are, they are completely harmless to humans, and they eat a lot of the larger bugs around the place. We even give them names as they tend to hang around for days/weeks.

We do have poisonous spiders, but they are rarely found indoors, and I know the places to avoid outdoors where the Redbacks and Mouse spiders live.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r011GRdai8Q (arachnophobe trigger warning)
The only way there could ever be proof of such a thing would be from whistleblowers and that would be major news (or so I believe).
We're talking account passwords for web services mostly, right?

I think that would explain why admin, administrator and root are rarely used as usernames.
"the specimen, the size of a dried apricot..."
> "That's not an understanding problem. That's lack of experimental evidence."

I find that phrase very interesting. I don't wish to single you out, as the underlying sentiment is something recognisable, but I would suggest you can't have scientific understanding without experimental evidence.

The scientific method relies on both definition of a hypothesis and exploration of that hypothesis through experimentation. If you only have a series of untested hypotheses then at best they're a bunch of educated guesses. Verification through experimentation is at the core of what elevates science beyond idle conjecture.
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My mindset is that having problems with Facebook will be a lot better than not having. So I'm using react-native as much as I can.
and what happens if Governments decide by law that bitcoin is illegal?
Of course there’s a CEO. Here’s an official statement from him:
https://falkvinge.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/letter-from...
> He was fired because he gave up control of his company and for no other reason.

That's not true. The Macintosh in its early years was severely underpowered and expensive, and the Apple II hardware was driving the revenue of the company.

Jobs wanted to shift all the marketing spend onto the Macintosh as well as drop the price to below cost, and caused a crisis with the board of diretors who ended up firing him.

Jobs had the same problem with overambitious hardware at NeXT. They couldn't even sell enough NexT machines to universities and the enterprise because they were still expensive to produce and underpowered, and had to stop making hardware and lay people off.

Moore's Law didn't catch up with the vision until the mid 90s, and luckily he and NexT's operating system were brought back into the fold at Apple then.
Just want to point out. Socialism doesn't give rise to fascism in any way. Fascism is basically late-stage capitalism, and a rejection of socialism. Communism is late-stage socialism, which is a utopian society.

The words are a bit bundled up in usage. The communist revolution lead to a State-Capitalist USSR, which most scholars would say is not what socialism actually is (as per your Richard Wolff videos) I suggest watching his intro to socialism videos to get a clear understanding of the terms. The USSR revolution was supposed to bring about a socialist society, but Stalin basically decided that being in a State-capitalist society was good enough, and ended the transition there.
No it doesn't. The purpose of Bitcoin is sound money.. A finite currency immune to governments' and central banks' desire to devalue currency for debt financing.

Bitcoin is more scarce and therefore better store of value than any fiat currency could ever be.

Do you not understand second layer solutions do not put your Bitcoin at risk? You commit to a payment channel which defaults to closing the channel according to original amounts when opened.. if the other party doesn't follow through. Again, your funds are not at risk so it's not like a bank, and there's no fractional reserve nor devaluing, so the SOV use case is preserved.

Not at all like current fiat money system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_warrant#United_Kingdom

> In England and Wales, a local magistrate issues search warrants, which require that a constable provide evidence that supports the warrant application. In the majority of cases where police already hold someone in custody, police can search premises without a search warrant under Section 18 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), which requires only the authority of an inspector.

> Under Section 18(5)a of PACE, a constable can conduct a search immediately without an inspector's authorisation. This subsection allows a constable to search the home of a suspect(s) under arrest in their presence before they take the suspect to a police station (or other custody location). Under Section 32 of PACE, a constable who arrests a person who is on their own property or has just left their premises, may immediately search both the suspect and the immediate area.

At no point did I say that the US is a "poster child for privacy," but the laws work differently.
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If you want to know why Animal Control would rather just leave the stray cats alone, look up "Pinky the cat" on Youtube. ;)
I called a Lyft. I waited for 8 minutes, the driver rode right past me (As I was waving my phone), turned, and stopped three blocks over. (It was perfectly safe to stop and pick up on my street.)

After waiting for 5 minutes, I cancelled the ride, and was charged a fee. I walked half a block to the arterial, and hailed a taxi in two minutes.
No. The web as it works right now is naturally centralised, for a simple reason: the bandwidth costs on a server is proportional to the size of its audience. This is why we need YouTube to begin with, instead of millions of people posting their videos on their personal page.

There are other factors of course: firewalls, asymmetric bandwidth, security issues, technical ignorance… But the client-server model does play a significant role.

If you want a truly decentralised web, you need to modify a couple things: get rid of HTTP, and use a P2P protocol instead. Generalise IPv6 and get rid of NAT. Give people symmetric bandwidth. Make secure software that is simple to implement, simple to use, and hard to misuse (it's not that hard dammit, just look at qmail).
I'm going to do the same in 2018. It'd be great to do it in a group.
Wow, sorry to hear that. Beautiful photos, sounds like an amazing yard. Did you move somewhere you can have a wilder lawn?
It depends on your definition of "micro payments" ... With a fixed number of bitcoin ever in existence for it to ever become a real world currency two things have to happen
A) it's value inflate to a value that is an order of magnitude of all the value of the world ....
B) be cheap enough, and fast enough that you can buy gum at the corner store

Without micro payments it's stuck in a niche paying ransoms and doing drug deals
It's a story about a man trying to get home, and a woman staying faithful in the face of uncertainty. Anything else is reading too much into it.

That's the story as summarized in a potential entry for a 'most trite message board comment' competition of some sort. The actual story is another story. Either that or people have been doing it wrong and reading too much into it for a couple of thousand years.
Out of curiosity, what did this look like from the street?
The US federal government continues to violate treaties by providing substandard services to reservations. Additionally, the US continues to steal sacred lands (ie DAPL - the pipeline could easily have been built through a primarily white town with no religious significance to anyone).

US state governments continue to use history textbooks which gloss over the Native American genocide and usually don’t mention the 20th century Native American Movement at all.

I think that’s enough American institutions continuing the oppression of Native Americans to justify the use of the word “we.”
Where are you not?

The right not to self-incriminate is pretty wide-spread :)
Does every conversation about bitcoin have to devolve into snark and disrespect? It's not fun. It doesn't do any good for anyone.
I am absolutely fine with that. You have to start somewhere, right? And I will have an MS, not a PhD.
Ah that's a shame it would have been really interesting to see how that worked in reality.

I wonder if it could be measured the _other_ way around - i.e. are the sustained tiny blocks on BCH _increasing_ decentralisation compared to BTC right now? I can't find any good information on block propagation time though :(
They are fascinating organisms, and the more we learn about them the wilder it gets. Radiolab did an episode that talks about some of the things they do. They present evidence that the fungal networks are what make forests possible, and that fungi are not simply passive participants: in woodlands that are affected by global warming, the fungi send nutrients from dying trees that are not well-suited to a changing climate to different species which are better equipped to survive the new temperatures instead of what they normally do, which is to share the nutrients with young trees of the same species. They essentially farm the plants whose nutrients they rely on.

Paul Stamets, mentioned briefly in your second linked article, has been doing research into their antimicrobial and antiviral properties. A handful of soil has hyphae that are only one cell wide, but something in the neighborhood of miles long, so they are constantly being attacked by any number of organisms and have developed advanced countermeasures that we can take advantage of to fight the maladies that plague us. There are treatments available in Japan for cancer, called PSK and PSP, which are essentially extracts from the Turkey Tail mushroom. He has performed studies that show promise in combating colony collapse disorder in bees with extracts from the garden giant fungus, which he discovered by watching bees congregate to lick the mycelium.

Their networking concepts have been refined over millions of years, and are undoubtedly worthwhile to study, but it seems that we are only beginning to scratch the surface of what we can learn from fungi.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/from-tree-to-shining-tree/
The half life of DNA is roughly 521 years [1]. The sample was 99 million years old, so you could expect roughly 3.33347 × 10^-57200 [2] percent of the DNA to be left. And considering humans have about 7 billion base pairs [3], you could reasonably expect no real recoverable information to remain.

[1] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/10...
[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.5%5E(99+million+%2F+...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome
I always leave spiders alive in my apartment. I've lived in two. In both cases, when I first moved in I had bugs. After leaving spiders alive, I then had almost no bugs.
They absolutely can arrest you without probable cause. It’s illegal but that is to be decided later - and your case may never be decided if they find some excuse after the fact to legitimize an illegitimate arrest. This is made easy by the protectionism that happens amongst the police.
In most countries the police does an independent investigation, and what you say to them can also be used in your defense.

The police can be called to testify on your behalf; just as well as they can testify against you.

Not always a reason to talk, but it makes it less dangerous to help the police. After all we do want to help the police catch criminals don't we?
If in doubt you should probably assume you're accused of wrongdoing.
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IMO that money is far better spent in a way that allows you to develop skills in areas you're passionate about while making money.
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Hmm, that's an interesting take I had not considered before. I can totally see where our modern sense of sexuality/morality could get in the way of some of Homer's subtler themes.
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There is strong historical evidence for civilizational cycles.
I'm perfectly fine with some people ending up with undeserved wealth if it comes along with higher prosperity for everyone. Capitalist-leaning systems have an unbelievable track record in this regard, while socialist utopias all seem to wither and die, usually while impoverishing, starving, and murdering millions in the process.

To be clear, I'm not talking about social democracy, and I'm not talking about more mixed economies, which all developed countries have to some degree. Capitalism isn't perfect. It's horrible in many respects. Call me when you have something better, because socialism isn't it.
All it takes for a 22 year old straight out of school to write ad tracking code, spam software, or god knows what else, is 120k combined compensation. No, software developers are not any different from lawyers, finance, big oil, or any other industry with deep institutional issues that routinely subvert humanity.
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I was vacuuming spider webs in my house today because I had guests visiting which always triggers a flurry of cleaning.

I avoided vacuuming the spiders themselves though, those little dudes are helping us out.
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The mental bit is possibly related to Joel Spolsky's

{smart, not-smart} X {gets things done, doesn't}

analysis [1]

>People who are Smart but don’t Get Things Done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical. ...

Also, the ADHD thing of course.

Definitely I'd like to get more done, and for my mind and body to hurt less, even if it costs me some IQ points.

So I experiment with neotropics: cold black coffee in the mornings and magnesium taurate at night for example.

Also interval training of course: swimming 40 x 25 metres on the 1 minute works for me.

Plus sun-bathing for mood when possible.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
> so is the tendency to invariant aspects of culture as .....

What are you trying to say here? Invariant is not a verb, and it's definition of "never changing" doesn't make sense in the way you used it.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/invariant
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57886-all-great-literature-...

You wanna argue with Tolstoy?

I might refer you to TVtropes. All stories are the same eventually.
Sorry for the pedantic response but the best way to know if you're employable is to solicit offers for employment by applying for positions you're interested in. You'll get valuable data in the form of response rate and possibly feedback on your resume/portfolio. Also, you'll get practice interviewing which is another skill entirely.
Could you provide an example of socialism done right (not social democracy) where you'd love to live?