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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @MarsIronPI 24 Jul \ parent \ on: Can Solar Rooftops Power the World? econ
AFAICT there’d be a huge profit margin. Imagine how much the electricity generated by all those solar panels would be worth. It’d probably be enough to pay for road maintenance all by itself.
Me sitting here waiting for the nanotechnology to create roads that are also solar panels
Seriously people, Eric Drexler proposed this idea in 1991. Why are we not focusing our efforts in those directions?
Going back to a model like the gold standard but with Bitcoin, it has been hinted already and proposed by many, one of the presidential candidates seems to be considering it, a light at the end of the tunnel.
Uh, how would this solve the debt that we have now? IMO the current U.S. debt will never be paid off. At this point the only reason that I can think of to loan to the U.S. is to claim a casus belli when it’s not paid back.
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?”, said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
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Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss — the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery — that you must offer them values, not wounds — that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade — with reason, not force, as their final arbiter — it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability — and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?
— Francisco Danconia, Atlas Shrugged
I agree that our national debt is ridiculous, but money is not the problem here.
I'm not sure about the best, since I never distro-hopped on it, but I've had good experiences with both Mobian and PostmarketOS. I have yet to try Gentoo, but if I can get it to work then I'd go Gentoo all the way.
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @MarsIronPI OP 29 Jun \ parent \ on: Unofficial Stacker News Go Tournament gaming
As soon as you two join the tournament. :)
I figured you’d check OGS, my bad.
Problem with these is that they can be redeemed at the mint and then passed to another person without him knowing.
No, I think you scan it with your Cashu wallet before you accept it. Or something like that.
You’re right that it’s not the kind of paper money you're talking about, though.
20 sats \ 3 replies \ @MarsIronPI OP 29 Jun \ parent \ on: Unofficial Stacker News Go Tournament gaming
BTW, I did create the tournament.
OK. I did miss the fact that it was a joke. Would you consider adding “/s” to such posts so that those of us who miss it don’t get confused?
Sorry for the confusion.
Fuck you.
You could have done without the rudeness though.
What we saw last night was not a debate, it was each man telling his own side without really arguing against the other side. It was kind of like third-graders in an argument: “He said this!” “No I didn’t!” or “You did the worst job as president!” “No you did!”. Couldn’t really call it a debate.
Please actually have a debate, rather than just shrugging the other person off with an emoji.
edit: Or don’t, but then you don’t actually contribute anything to the conversation.
How is Japan when it comes to freedom? From what I understand, the Japanese (and by extension the Japanese government) doesn’t have the sense that the people have a revolutionary right to overthrow a government they dislike, so the people are denied the means (i.e. firearms) to exercise this right.
20 sats \ 4 replies \ @MarsIronPI OP 23 Jun \ parent \ on: Unofficial Stacker News Go Tournament gaming
Woops, I got busy yesterday and forgot. I'm starting now.
I cringe a little every time I see a project like this that (at least primarily) uses Github.
I’m sure that the article is well done (though I haven’t read it yet), but it seems silly to use Github for a project about pseudonymity.
There’s
- Fischer (Fixed amount of time, you get some time back when you make your move)
- Byo-yomi (Fixed amount of time, after which you have a fixed amount of time to make a move)
- Simple (Fixed amount of time per move)
- Absolute (Fixed amount of time for the whole game)
I prefer byo-yomi myself.
In a simultaneous round-robin, everyone plays everybody else at the same time. Since it’s a correspondence tournament, the simultaneous part is nicer IMO.
Also, what time controls would you (and also you, @freebookspls) like? Also, auto handicap or no handicap?