People were classier back then. I don't think first class men would sacrifice themselves on behalf of second class women and children anymore these days.

I've heard that hiring a staging company is worth it too. It helps the buyer visualize the potential of the house and can increase the chance of a bidding war.

Is this why 50% of residences in European capital cities are Airbnbs?

hup hup

I was just in Madrid and there was a Burger King on every corner

yes, I suppose that could be a possibility. The most unrealistic thing about Star Trek was that humans learned to stop fighting and swindling each other and instead work together to explore the stars

done, lmk if received!

Looks like you sent actual sats though. Do you want a full refund? (It'd be 280 after the 30% SN sybil fee)

Care to share the code for this dashboard?

I'm open to that.

the problem is that in our current setup, opting out of high school usually means dicking around. But if the counterfactual is that you'd enter the workforce with a full time job, that might actually turn out better for some people

Interesting, never thought of it that way. I assume he doesn't mean just bullying, but also involuntary confinement?

I wonder what society would look like if public schooling were still made available free of charge, but it was voluntary and not mandatory.

Ehhh... I kinda just think it'll be like Star Trek's computer. We'll just go "Computer, do this" and "Computer, do that", and in the end we humans are still the main characters driving the technology towards our objectives.

That's the problem. There is no such thing as "what we collectively want". It's mathematically provable that there's no such thing: #849906

Yes I'd agree with that

I guess the part I don't understand is this:

Nodes don't technically contain any bitcoin nor are the responsible for any economic activity. They merely relay transaction and chainstate information. So I don't understand how a node can be "big" or "small".

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that your rules' influence on the network is proportional to your economic activity? (Replace the word node with the word rules)

And, in that sense, my argument was that a set of rules with worse properties is going to lose to a set of rules with better properties, even if the economic activity on worse rules was higher

Not sure I 100% followed the logic. Is he trying to say that decentralized node-running is useless if economic activity is centralized? That's probably true... (?)

But I'm not really sure, because I'm not entirely convinced that Bitcoin's value is tied to the amount of economic activity it's being used for.

Bitcoin right now is seen as an attractive store of value because of its hard money characteristics. Even if big players like Coinbase create a fork, if that fork softens the hard money properties of Bitcoin, I don't think that fork would retain the same value. It has everything to do with Bitcoin's properties and not the amount of economic activity it's used for.

Indeed. And I'm disturbed by my own emotions over this. Philosophically, I'm opposed to an overly strong government and a police state. But emotionally I find myself siding with the force of law against the protesters. And if I feel this way, imagine how many more must feel similarly, or even more strongly. It seems this is how brutal dictators can get into power on a popular mandate. Scary to think about.

I guess I find myself aligned with Matthew Hennessey. If it's worth saving, surely some money can come out of its own endowment fund for doing so?

what's the issue?