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IPFS

Easy: because using a webapp to track issues sucks donkey balls, and matrix still has no threading and good terminal client.

A bicycle is by far the best post apocalyptic transport. Electric is worse than gas; at least the gas powered vehicle is lighter when its empty.

> “You’re broke even if you have money,” Mr. Jimenez, 40, said.

There are still gullible people who believe those so-called 'banks' actually have their government paper bonds. Yes I purposefully used this term to emphasize that those notes are not cash or money. Money is a commodity, and the paper credit is (should be) a receipt for it. A dollar is 1.505g of gold.

Why only the US?

The state does not defend us; rather, the state aggresses against us and it uses our confiscated property to defend itself. The standard definition of the state is this: The state is an agency characterized by two unique, logically connected features. First, the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision making. That is, the state is the ultimate arbiter and judge in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving itself and its agents. There is no appeal above and beyond the state. Second, the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of taxation. That is, it is an agency that can unilaterally fix the price that its subjects must pay for the state's service as ultimate judge.

Based on this institutional setup you can safely predict the consequences: First, instead of preventing and resolving conflict, a monopolist of ultimate decision making will cause and provoke conflict in order to settle it to its own advantage. That is, the state does not recognize and protect existing law, but it perverts law through legislation. Contradiction number one: the state is a lawbreaking law protector. Second, instead of defending and protecting anyone or anything, a monopolist of taxation will invariably strive to maximize his expenditureson protection and at the same time minimize the actual production of protection. The more money the state can spend and the less it must work for this money, the better off it is. Contradiction number two: the state is an expropriating property protector

~ HH Hoppe

It isn't a crime; it is punished by the ruling warlords. And it isn't the buying/possession of narcotics which is forbidden. What they forbid is to buy narcotics which have been grown/made by the warlords enemies (free independent people)

Good! Let them do that, and let us keep working on things like ipfs, blockchain naming systems, matrix and host identity protocols. The more they try to corrupt the web, the more energy goes into fixing the broken architectures. Then one day, nobody will use the broken DRM net. Politics is a programmer's most wasteful use of his time. Code them out of business.

> Its government is developing a plan to phase out vehicles powered by fossil fuels

Simply not true. It didn't say anything about banning fossil fuels for the power generation. EVs are still an absurdity; we wouldnt be able to power them if we only used wind/hydro. The electric motor doesn't make any sense. A bicycle make an electric scooter look like an energy pounding monster, especially if the person on the bicycle grows/buys their food locally. We all better start planting a lot of green things, if we want to survive. Forget what the criminals on the podium are saying; your neighbor simply doesn't have the right to make you breathe his car/coal(nuclear)PowerPlant/batteryManufacturing/solarPanelManufacturing toxic emissions without your permission.

Hanzi is a better interface between man and computers than phonetic systems, which add an additions compilation step (from phonetic to logic). The keyboard was the problem for hanzi, but now with motion, touch, speech interfaces boosted in their accuracy by ML, hanzi will dethrone Latin as the no1 man-computer interface.

Interpersonal valuation is a logical impossibility. Those guys are selling snake oil. I could easily make the point that 'standards of living' (interpersonal valuation assumption) have gone down. We have less clean air, less clean water, less forest, less cultivable land, less sea-life, etc, than ever in our history. Does anyone really think the Nile delta is now more beautiful than 100 yrs ago? Big-mouthed delusional priests, all of them.

Crying for those poor people who bought into a racket? They lost a bunch of money dealing with criminals. Not sure how it's heartbreaking. Ppl using even slightly dirty combustion engines are committing a crime against everyone else. So they're double criminals. Still heart broken? Iv got a license to kill anyone, emitted by our committee for world order. It's a safe investment. Want in?

You're absolutely right. This is a great experience for him, as he now should clearly see what the problem is. Our digital identities are not ours. The OP can make more, a lot more money developing and servicing decentralized identity/related-services than writing 'apps' for 'google play'. Google will be bankrupt within 3 years.

It's already there. IPFS. Just need a way to index it. There's Ethereum. Tezos could potentially do it cheaper.

Russians are more free than Americans.

Cmon everyone! Matrix has a good data structure and working clients, including e2e. Can't see anything that far ahead. matrix.org

Here's the best advice you'll ever hear. Money is the be-all and end-all of our existence. Make it, honestly, and be very careful who you trust with it. No money, no honey. Only listen to one who speaks with his money. A USD is not money.

13 yr olds don't eat?

Dictators are proposing more dictatorship.

They cut the research. So what? People are free to end their own robbery (paying taxes) to fund the research themselves. The taxes of five working people can finance a PhD.

Just bring back the rule of law. Tort law would mean that coal burning would be sued to extinction. Accepting the death of all tomorrow so that some may survive today is absurd. The church of pseudo-finance tells us that burning our forests down and poisoning all our rivers is 'growth'. Any child would laugh this away as insanity.

Well said. It also makes computing much more expensive and slow to progress. But those fraudsters love their violence-backed monopoly. Image if a few vital manufacturing plants were destroyed, we would have silicone shortages. We have made ourselves fragile, backwards and weak.

Nuclear power is the root cause of nuclear weapons.

An all out thermonuclear war would be the end of the human race. Thankfully, it won't happen simply because thermonuclear warfare is now obsolete. An all-out electromagnetic nuclear war is its successor, which would only spell the end of our civilization. But chances are we just devolve into civil wars breaking out and a few viruses. Our base case is a 25-33% fall in population in one generation. Bottled water won't help. Large rain water collection systems are a lot more likely to give a survival chance.

On the flip side, ZFS on linux now has native encryption.

I have a better idea: horsecarts and sailships.

Over 60 francs. Comparable to the yearly salary of a legionnaire of Rome (When they were well paid).

Mining is an expense. Reducing expenses is good.

ETH is not money.

Solar is an extremely specialized tech that will not provide even a small fraction of our electricity. Refrigeration is insane. 1kwh would take a man about two to three days of pedalling to produce. There will be practically no electric motors post-petroleum-glut. How many people know the amount of energy they use? Our society is energy-oblivious. The average post-petroleum-glut person will afford no more than 50-100kwh per year. That's the optimistic scenario. Lights and communication. No motorised transport, no motorised washer, no motorised refrigeration, no motorised water utility. 95% (plus) decrease of our society's energy input in two generations. And don't forget that nuclear power = nuclear disaster/war on a long enough timeline. Nuclear power is mankind's surest suicide path.