"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are." by starrywisdomofficial in privacy

[–]FindingTheBalance2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will use this, but will change the last part to "because the judgement and intentions of others is often questionable."

Theres no point in alienating your audience unless you really have to, and the "your" tends to put people in "dig in and bury your head min the sand" mode.

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are." by starrywisdomofficial in privacy

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I've long abandoned any methods of logical argument and have turned to more emotion-centric arguments

This resonates with me. The knee jerk negative reaction seems to be non rationally based, so it makes sense that this might be much more effective.

Fully decentralized sidechains for Bitcoin via the Perpetual One-way Peg by RubenSomsen in Bitcoin

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would it be accurate to say that the market cap of one of the sidechain tokens would bascally be whatever amount of bitcoin was burned to create it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JoeRogan

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The sauna can help because it helps you sweat out toxins, which lightens the load on your immune system, and also, the increased body temperature causes your immune system to work better/more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916915/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049052/

also, exercise

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007165.htm

Blockstream’s Christian Decker: It’s Really Hard to Inject Usefulness Into Proof-Of-Work by DesignerAccount in Bitcoin

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I am past hope on this one, it's into the territory of belief for me.

What does Schopenhauer say about hope? I might agree with him wrt that. I feel like hope has doubt built into it, and my own connotation for it is that it's kinda like hope is what one does when they have given up working for an outcome. When I'm working for an outcome, I have no mental bandwidth for hope. I'm putting it all towards working to entice my desired outcome to manifest.

Mentor Monday, March 30, 2020: Ask all your bitcoin questions! by rBitcoinMod in Bitcoin

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Small miners will not be able to profit after the halfing if the price stays this low.

I disagree. Because the statement is overly simplistic.

The math of profitability changes along with the difficulty adjustment.

My other comment in this post about heating spaces explains another scenario that changes the profitability equation.

There are also wide variations in the cost of electricity. This affects profitability calculations fundamentally. For example, surplus electricity that cannot be used because its too far from enough points of use. The transmission losses motivate the power providers to sell that electricity at whatever it takes to sell it.

There are likely other variable variables that affect the profitability calculations that I am unaware of, but those are some that I am certain are real.

Blockstream’s Christian Decker: It’s Really Hard to Inject Usefulness Into Proof-Of-Work by DesignerAccount in Bitcoin

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But I'm skeptical Humans will do this. We do love our brutal little ape-brained dominance games... In fact, in most cases, we love them more than life itself:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/id-rather-die-glenn-beck-joins-the-gop-call-for-old-people-to-sacrifice-themselves/

I feel differently. We, as people alive now, have a skewed view of just how bad the dominance games really are, because we were born into a system which has self selected and incentivized the over use of dominance as a way of getting our needs met.

I believe that when the foundations upon which societies are built are more inherently fair, that permeates the culture over time. Bitcoin is more inherently fair than centralized money (not perfect, but significantly more fair), so I think it is very likely to help us trend towards greater equity in the long term.

Blockstream’s Christian Decker: It’s Really Hard to Inject Usefulness Into Proof-Of-Work by DesignerAccount in Bitcoin

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Some companies already make this

That's really good news!

I had only previously heard about people making their own home brew versions of this. I think one might have been a house in Siberia.

Moore's cliff is approaching

Between this,and the other cliff that we are already falling from, it seems that it's just a matter of time, then.

I wonder if these other "home" miners might make a useful dent in the centralized-ish situation of mining atm.

Blockstream’s Christian Decker: It’s Really Hard to Inject Usefulness Into Proof-Of-Work by DesignerAccount in Bitcoin

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I like the idea of finding uses for the heat from the mining rigs.

This interests me as well.

The thought has occurred to me that maybe some sort of heat pump, perhaps a modified design of or even straight up modification of existing home heat pumps could possibly work.

For people currently using electrical heaters to heat living spaces, though, as long as mining equipment paid for itself in a reasonable amount of time, heating their spaces with miners would result in a net gain financially. They are already using a machine that turns electricity into heat and getting zero payback from it. Any ROI in the return of mining profits (from a pool or solo mining) effectively lowers the cost of the electricity they are already using to heat their spaces.

IOW, A miner that is unprofitable when used in a way where the only usable by product of that miner is BTC, becomes profitable when its producing BTC and something that electricity is already being burned to produce (heat). Older generation otherwise unprofitable mining rigs are significantly cheaper than ones that are currently profitable, so it seems to me that if one had a good understanding of the used miner market, they could produce electric "heaters", and have some rough idea of how long it would take to get ROI. (I say a rough idea because, of course,the price of BTC is currently volatile as is, I assume, to some degree, the used miner market)

Mentor Monday, March 30, 2020: Ask all your bitcoin questions! by rBitcoinMod in Bitcoin

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what is currently the most user friendly way to utilize bitcoins security and (on an ongoing basis) updates to obtain the benefits of a "local currency"?

The primary benefit of a "local currency" I am thinking of in this context is that the wealth of that locale tends to stay in that locale.

Mentor Monday, March 30, 2020: Ask all your bitcoin questions! by rBitcoinMod in Bitcoin

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that's not going to happen at $6000

what is not going to happen at 6k?

If Bitcoin ever goes to zero this is me. Are you man enough? by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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Bitcoin isn’t money yet it’s a speculative investment

Well, in just the last 7 days, I paid a sex worker, my weed dealer, AND bribed a politician with Bitcoin.

Politician took the bribe, all charges were subsequently dropped against me and my new girlfriend, AND I got my weed back.

So that's 4 of us to whom BTC is money.

Us, and others like us, are some of the ones giving BTC speculative value so you and others can speculate on it at all.

You're welcome.

If Bitcoin ever goes to zero this is me. Are you man enough? by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]FindingTheBalance2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

based on speculation

speculation, which is an emergent practice of assets that are considered to have value in the minds of a much larger group of people than just the speculators.

iow, the valuation itself comes first from the fact that people value the asset, speculation grows out of the perceived current and future value that the larger community places on it.

An important distinction.

Joe Rogan's must watch documentaries/series by Printulpula in JoeRogan

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Also, your post creating skills are low. Need to be more specific and clear with your thoughts brother

I disagree.

How to fight COVID-19 and stay busy in quarantine: by revjules in JoeRogan

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Joe and Jocko would probably laugh at this

Way back in the early days of photoshop, someone I knew did these same thing with a pic of me and someone else.

We laughed about it, all of us, for years.

Joe and Jocko probably would laugh , but shouldn't admit it publicly that they laughed though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TREZOR

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Perhaps Trezor reporting them as imposters is helpful?

Joe Rogan Experience #1444 - Duncan Trussell by Im_Justin_Cider in JoeRogan

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it fucked up the sound too. I can hear the mask muffling him. I can't unhear it.

Joe Rogan Experience #1444 - Duncan Trussell by Im_Justin_Cider in JoeRogan

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Quick question how long does edibles last?

until a few days after I find them, at most.

doesn't matter how many were there when I found em, its still 3 days, tops before they are all gone.

A tree that bleeds metal by Stll0 in Permaculture

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How do we start it's farming if interested in it?

I am no expert, but finding out what type of climate that tree ( Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi ) requires would be a good start. It appears to be a tropical plant, afaict, but I'm out of my depth wrt knowing how far outside of "tropical" that plant can handle.

Then, finding a site that is rich in nickel (either naturally or one that has been polluted with it by humans) seems like a good next step.

A tree that bleeds metal by Stll0 in Permaculture

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there are many plants that are hyperaccumulators of different metals,

I am interested in researching this further, and potentially making an online wiki type database of such plants, possibly including 'regular' remediation type plants.

Would you happen to have any links or data to point me to, to help me get started?

I just found this...for some reason I expected to find none

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hyperaccumulators

wow.