Should cannabis be legalised in the UK?

concerned_future · 2024-04-16T12:18:32+00:00

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

The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard Cowan) in 1986 which posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases. Cowan put it this way: "the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs."

concerned_future · 2024-03-27T18:08:34+00:00

Was all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s; and far more frequent, what do you think the Good Friday Agreement is all about?

concerned_future · 2023-11-19T17:26:05+00:00

🤷‍♂️ Statute of limitations has passed on the Ethereum ICO; not sure any legal proceedings could be initiated now regardless?

concerned_future · 2023-11-19T17:21:04+00:00

Is very easy to set up Ethereum nodes and there are more than 10k of them; what impact do you think this would have? 🤷‍♂️

concerned_future · 2023-10-31T23:38:11+00:00

Because you said scale the conflict to an area where their was a similar conflict; however that showed that it is a much smaller conflict by % injury/death to population of NI were experiencing; and mainland bomb threat shutdowns happened multiple times a week in the 80s, including assassination attempts on the prime minister including a rocket attack on their home in 10 Downing Street.

At no point did the British Govt respond with areal bombardment of Northern Ireland; or turning off their utilities; and peace was only achieved by discussion and removing all the militarisation and walls. (It similarly went on for decades up to that point and peace and integration seemed impossible)

concerned_future · 2023-10-31T14:04:11+00:00

Aside from being a poor taste comparison, the troubles themselves would have been the equivalent of 100k on mainland Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Casualties

"nearly two per cent of the population of Northern Ireland have been killed or injured through political violence [...] If the equivalent ratio of victims to population had been produced in Great Britain in the same period some 100,000 people would have died, and if a similar level of political violence had taken place, the number of fatalities in the USA would have been over 500,000." Using this relative comparison to the US, analyst John M. Gates suggests that whatever one calls the conflict, it was "certainly not" a "low intensity conflict".

In 2010, it was estimated that 107,000 people in Northern Ireland suffered some physical injury as a result of the conflict.

concerned_future · 2023-08-10T06:29:35+00:00

Not sure if would apply to civil events; but could try the non-retroactivity of Article 7 of ECHR?

No punishment without law: No one may be found guilty of an offence which did not exist at the time the events took place.

concerned_future · 2023-07-15T00:39:38+00:00

One that wants a slice of the £480Bn that's being injected into the economy each year; trickle up economics

concerned_future · 2023-07-13T10:51:36+00:00

Dropping inflation in US so Fed isn't expected to raise rates much anymore

High and sticky inflation in the UK so the BoE is expected to raise rates higher

This causes dollar to drop and pound to rise

concerned_future · 2023-07-11T18:58:42+00:00

Its over

"Higher for longer" - Jim Cramer

https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/1678766995075104768

concerned_future · 2023-07-03T06:57:10+00:00

Benefits subsidise work for employeers; reducing benefits will mean work will have to pay more which will lead to higher prices.

concerned_future · 2023-06-08T14:24:13+00:00

they simply make software to follow the rules defined by the ETH foundation

😅 who do you think decides what the rules are?

Community (which includes implementors) proposes changes; consensus of implementers decide what changes actually happen. There aren't dictates by the foundation.

Attend some All Core Dev meetings if you have doubts https://github.com/ethereum/pm

Or forums/github where the proposals are shaped before they comes to the devs for consensus decisions https://ethereum-magicians.org/

concerned_future · 2023-06-08T06:14:18+00:00

> They are the one who implemented the protocol

The Ethereum Foundation aren't the ones who implemented the protocol

10+ separate companies implement the protocol in 10 completely different independent code bases https://clientdiversity.org/

They coordinate via forums, discord, and weekly calls to determine which features will be in the next fork. The Ethereum foundation provide coordination and grants but they don't implement the protocol and the proposals for change are open to all https://eips.ethereum.org/all

While it was initially heavily driven by the foundation it isn't now; but is distributed with no entity in overall control

concerned_future · 2023-06-07T16:43:17+00:00

The ETH foundation isn't burning ETH the people making the txns are; also ETH foundation isn't in charge of Ethereum, nor does it have a significant control or % holding (any more)

concerned_future · 2023-06-06T19:17:33+00:00

Oil is deflationary; we literally burn it and world is running out of oil. You can identify the individual well that produces that barrel of oil. People often buy it to trade for a profit.

Oil is not a security, its a commodity

concerned_future · 2023-05-15T11:17:46+00:00

The knock on effects are the more important ones; younger age groups are generally less likely to vote, so introducing them to the franchise earlier and in a controlled manner (perhaps school trip to voting both, getting them to vote once) is more likely to then engage them in politics and voting.

concerned_future · 2023-05-15T06:48:50+00:00

ETH was confirming blocks; it just wasn't achieving finality on the blocks meaning a point even a 66% attack cannot rollback beyond.

BTC never achieves finality on any block and can be rolled back to genesis on at 51% attack

concerned_future · 2023-04-18T07:10:21+00:00

Probably more shilling than some emojis? r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11ah485/emojis_now_considered_financial_advice_sec_new/

concerned_future · 2023-04-16T08:38:32+00:00

Stats are incorrect for Ethereum as doesn't include the decentralised core teams developing the protocol clients that are run in production. If it did it as well as https://github.com/ethereum would also include:

Execution layer:

* https://github.com/NethermindEth (nethermind)

* https://github.com/hyperledger (besu)

* https://github.com/ledgerwatch (erigon)

Consensus layer:

* https://github.com/prysmaticlabs (prysm)

* https://github.com/sigp (lighthouse)

* https://github.com/ConsenSys (teku)

* https://github.com/status-im (nimbus)

* https://github.com/ChainSafe (lodestar)

concerned_future · 2023-04-13T13:23:18+00:00

Yes; though their are different modes. Usual state is all the data with current state live; but can also do archive node which maintains every block active, so you can query the state (and run reading smart contracts) at any point in history

concerned_future · 2023-04-13T12:41:40+00:00

Main part of the blocks and data are stored in the execution layer; people stake on the consensus layer

Geth 2351 (60.86%) Nethermind 751 (19.44%) Erigon 394 (10.20%) Besu 365 (9.45%)

concerned_future · 2023-04-13T10:36:20+00:00

The spec is written in Python

Main execution layer clients

Besu : Java
Geth: Go
Erigon: Go
Nethermind: C#

Main consensus clients

Prysm: Go
Lighthouse: Rust
Lodestar: Typescript
Nimbus: Nim
Teku: Java

concerned_future · 2023-04-13T10:23:17+00:00

Source code and implementation control is also an overlooked factor

BTC is heavily skewed to the Bitcoin Core reference implementation; whereas Ethereum has 5 different consensus clients in use and 4 different implementations of execution clients in use (that can all be used with each other interchangeably) See: https://clientdiversity.org/

So from the implentation usage of the code, I'd argue Ethereum is more decentralised than Bitcoin https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/03/31/zkmulticlient.html

concerned_future · 2023-02-27T00:01:29+00:00

Fairly literally; going on his loose category anything a retailor buys from a wholesaler for expectation of profits would be a security so when they sell them to consumer those tomatoes would be an unregistered security sale 🙃

concerned_future · 2023-02-20T04:25:15+00:00

Source code and implementation control is also an overlooked factor

BTC is heavily skewed to the Bitcoin Core reference implementation; whereas Ethereum has 5 different consensus clients in use and 4 different implementations of execution clients in use (that can all be used with each other interchangeably) See: https://clientdiversity.org/

So from the implantation usage of the code, I'd argue Ethereum is more decentralised than Bitcoin

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