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63 sats \ 1 reply \ @oklar 5 May \ on: Quick questions about OP_RETURN? Quick answers here. bitcoin
If you feel happy from your own viewpoint of the consensus and mempool rules, does not upgrading Bitcoin Core until the time you feel like it makes sense to yourself a valid action to take at present?
I think it's hard to gauge from a location perspective and economic development cycles. The spoiled brat and lazy generation is a cyclical affair depending on the values of the generation instilled, and the generation that instilled values on the parents. I think it is said that it takes two generations and every third generation is wasteful.
I've never even heard of generation alpha. These terms seem unhelpful to me. It seems to ignore much of the familial and societial conditioning. But I do think you have a point in terms of rethinking the comparitive difficulties that todays younger generations face and have faced.
Or do they say, alright boomer
I walked into a bar during 2020, lucky enough that we could go to bars, and I drunkenly said "I'm going to stand over here next to the boomers" I don't remember why, maybeI just wanted to see the reaction I got. The response was "What did you just say?" realizing I was 40y/o myself, he figured it was a joke.
I'm actually not quite a boomer. I think the clubs and bars thing has been a steady decline as the plebs are left to play with their devices ..;-)
A shame.
After thought, maybe bread and circuses has been replaces with bread and internet.
When desalination is described as both energy-intensive and a carbon-intensive process, does this not put pretty stiff caps on the idea of migrating desalination from current energy types to solar? What energy sources are being used in the design of solar or the nacent desalination technology, the sourcing of materials, the manufacturing, transportation and installation of hardware and all the related industries, and isn't it more about economic growth?
Energy constraints are caused by growth objectives, population growth (and the potential problems caused by climatic variation.) Would arid, energy rich regions not develop a vulnerability through increasing capacity through increasing infrastructure. Not to say that diversification isn't a good idea, just that redunancy and optionality would benefit more with less growth.
I wonder whether much of the renewable industry's projections actually come close to meeting their stated goals. Net-zero is being prioritized without the rationale required to develop the technology and impliement it on these grand scales, without the input energy costs and long-term energy reductions being well thought out. Net-net more energy is going to be utilized, unless it is done very, very well of couse.
I could be wrong. But some of these ideas of urbanization in deserts seem less sustainable.
Thanks for sharing the link, some interesting links to follow through to in the article.
I don't see this as weak, or asking for permission. Isn't it just pointing tothe fact that, not just Bitcoin (or cryptocurrency) the whole idea and point of money is to be transmited (and in the not so distant past, saved.)
Using software to manage zeros and ones, to create, edit , read, send or receive files is the same no matter what the purpose, like writing words, censerous states are not free in any sense. We look to the US, to defend what made it fucking awesome (my personal feelings as a non-US citizen.)
The overreach is when laws are applied before a crime has been commited, or through association, which is obviously bullshit and needs to stop, or we all go to communism.
Cops need to do there (difficult) jobs, catching criminals. Innovators and inventors need to be left to do the (difficult) job of helping to bring us out of the darkness of pre-enlightenment society, as apes once were, weilding bones as tools.
The outcome of the case would define whether humanity is to be a perpetual gulag with sniviling, bureacrats, or whether the US takes this opportunity boldly, to become the most innovative culture and talented economy, setting the bar once again.
If the outcome is gulag, well, we all get to be spied on remotely, some of us get to spy on each other as a job, and we all go back hundred years or more.
Kind of misleading to say P2P has any shadowy. or communist origins
This was a reaction to shady communist policies, no?
Love the photos, thanks for sharing the documents to non-twitter-aligned comrades.
Would this not create a more robust system?
I have zero expertise, just interested to know the answer. I assumed taking an average from peers would make it more difficult to propagate faked / invalid timestamps.
- Low-cut tops are seriously dangerous to the eyes of children.
- You will not have any fun, North Korea is the model.
Where do I sign up?
I'm especially under-read on the topic. Some questions.
Is part of the problem of answering 'when' to do with definitions?
(I see that LOLR and central bank are almost used interchangably.)
Related, if we quibble ovee many such terms, would it not be possible to think of a modern definition of a central bank one that moves from the traditional, staid roles of banking, to a wider role, for example the general influence on market dynamics within the economy concerned or on a global stage?
I found how the BoE started life interesting:
"for all intents and purposes, it was just another company — albeit with certain government privileges."
Government privleges you say?
o.O
Well, that's interesting. Where non-financial policy and financial policy meet.
What happened to City of Glasgow Bank , I wonder!
I remember there be some tangentially related post about plastics and materials used in food packaging. My feeling was that I would opt for non-plastics everytime. Plastics were still not popularized when I was growing up. There was an argument that lighter and cheaper design were better to carry. Well, IMO, this is how we got here. Sloppy thinking and greed.
An advanced civilizations would discern the benefits of producing different things for the reason that they are cheaper to produce, portibility and disposibility and the dangers of engineering products that cause harm to organic organisms (but not attempt to fix the problem by printing money to research the problem.) If there's cumulative evidence that we've done something harmful to ourselves which can't be attributed to other factors (unlike climate propaganda) you would not fund mitigating the problem by treating the ailment.
If cancer (mutation of cells) is happening and attributed to a number of less-well understood reasons, throwing bad money after good on researching it's treatment is not money well spent. You might want to look at the money incentives more closely and try to stem the root causes.
oh dear.
fortunately, I opted out of buying apple ios devices and taking, receiving, sharing photos with apple products. I wonder whether google does the same.
I think there's a clear two sides to how I read the effectualness.
In terms of economic and personal freedom, time will tell, and I guess it depends on things like the IMF leaning on nations to make changes which may or may not benefit national interests. Often not. Alternatives are that other power blocks lean on Argentina and exploit. I hope they find a way. It's hard to stay independent but a worthwhile endeavor. I've no idea whether the collective will can do it in Argentina, I hope there is.
From the thread, the facts are:
- A sharp increase on M0 money supply and M1, M2, M3 all continued to incease
- As of recent years, Argentina has a government spending deficit, but nowhere near as extreme as previous years
- Peso/USD exchange rate has declined (this is inline with most economies) apart from those that artificially peg their currencies to the Dollar
- Real market rates have seen a meaningful increase in exchange rate (BIS figures)
@DarthCoin What did Argentina do with it's gold holdings exactly? Did it lease it out or sell it off?
"Today everyone went to work as they should and continued to survive."
Some life affirming governance right there.
Where I live, when I last went to my local library, there were 75-85% the same contents as over a decade ago. New editions included a Ukrainian language section and a few other minority languages, and a few new titles that you might find in an airport in English. This was in England, in the UK.
As we are now actively conditioned to be using devices, applications and submit biometric data without a thought, the importance of physical reading media has lost its position of prominence within library funding, as the availability and diversity of reading materia declines, so does the appetite for using the space for anything but a power bank. As the ranking of libraries within local council services declines, more close, and coupled with the economic mismanagement, support services such as food banks, warm places or unofficial power banks and shelter become prioritized.
I'd love to think that we could regain some emphasis on cultural preservation, but due to the general lack of competent governance of late, arts or cultural funding cuts are the canary in the coal mine, and people will respnd accordingly.