steelstraw

What % are for non-violent drug related charges that we could expunge by making marijuana legal?

It's crazy to me that this hasn't been done.

Does China have the right idea with respect to kids and the internet? Should we effectively ban kids from social media and restrict their usage at the ISP level?

Would like to see the arguments for and against.

That is an extremely well argued and important thread. It's really worth reading the whole thing.

1Password has raised almost $1B. Surely they could put at least $1M toward a critical bounty?

That is terribly low for such a critical issue. There are Ethereum L2s that pay out $2M bounties.

https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1491821215924690950

The article says that only accounts for 1 in 7 homes though.

I don't get how people are still buying houses at these prices. Are they paying beyond their means? Wiping out their savings? Or what?

They could store it in the form of digital energy (Bitcoin). With that you're able to capture what would otherwise be wasted energy.

"The gas, which would otherwise have been burned off, is instead routed to a bitcoin processor.

For years, oil and gas companies have struggled with the problem of what to do when they accidentally hit a natural gas formation while drilling for oil. Whereas oil can easily be trucked out to a remote destination, gas delivery requires a pipeline. If a drilling site is right next to a pipeline, they chuck the gas in and take whatever cash the buyer on the other end is willing to pay that day. But if it’s 20 miles from a pipeline, drillers often burn it off, or flare it. That is why you will typically see flames rising from oil fields.

The process reduces CO2-equivalent emissions by about 63% compared to continued flaring.."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/conocophillips-is-selling-ex...

Interesting. They have the right idea (using a black rectangle) but in the wrong program. I can see how this could trip up non-technical people.

There's a lot of people who don't want to admit (to themselves even) they were wrong about Bitcoin 12 years ago and are still grasping onto that belief for dear life. Hoping that it will fail and prove them right all along. See, I was right Bitcoin wasn't worth $10 and is a useless technology!

So the cognitive dissonance is getting worse the bigger crypto gets and the longer it lasts.

> He has a crypto fund that he needs to make returns on, so he has been shilling crypto / web3 / "decentralized" / blockchain hard with his personal brand.

That's unfair. What if the reason he has a crypto fund in the first place is because he genuinely believes it's the future? That seems to be the case with everything he's said for years and how he makes investment decisions.