@cryptokhi@TheBitcoinConf @_Tradinator @RealRossU@BitcoinMagazine Made the site. Silk Road was essentially Amazon but you paid with btc and you got to put up whatever you wanted(long as it didn’t cause direct harm)
@Bigcrypt0z @TheBitcoinConf@RealRossU@BitcoinMagazine And he certainly was charged for it, even though it. Whether or not the state has the right to decide what you are allowed to do with yourself is an encroachment of freedom, in a sense, so is putting limitations on what people are able to buy and sell from each other
@Bigcrypt0z @TheBitcoinConf@RealRossU@BitcoinMagazine That’s the thing about freedom, it’s great until you do something the law doesn’t like then you’re punished. Whether or not people buy drugs should be up to the involved parties. Take marijuana, despite it’s use for anxiety relief plenty were arrested for possession (1/2)
@TagachiStudio@TheBitcoinConf@RealRossU@BitcoinMagazine@SociableBarely It was an everything market, you technically could put anything up for sale. A lot of the activity was illegal goods however. It’s one of those, how is he held responsible for how others used his product issues.
7 productivity recommendations by @elonmusk:
1) Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience in which case keep them very short.
@MBrokenmind@austinbarnard45@elonmusk I’d like a planet b, no harm in a planet b. But climate change is a rolling ball, you’d need to bankrupt a lot of business, thus unemploy and starve a lot of families to stop climate change immediately. Plus I doubt other countries would look at that plan and say “sure why not”
@realtrashbird @shollins271 @Mmarcoooo @austinbarnard45@elonmusk Even from the perspective of money grubbers, it’d make sense of billionaires to charge people for transport to Mars. It would be a question of if you can afford it then. But still there’d be smart people needed to make a habitable Mars. They get free transport:)
@CapitaineRenau1@shollins271 @realtrashbird @Mmarcoooo @austinbarnard45@elonmusk We’re fucked but it’s more likely one comes and either hits earth or Mars. No matter which it hits if we’re interplanetary lots will die but humanity and the species we choose to preserve will live on
@RamRodington @cryptogosu@Bitcoin@PayPal@peterthiel The government has the most to lose. The citizens are still free to buy and sell as much as they wish. The dollar will take a hit, but would that matter if we already all use Bitcoin. It’s like saying the horse carriage industry taking a hit is bad cause we have cars.
@Blacksquirreltr@Bitcoin@PayPal@peterthiel Due to the fact both economies are open, innovation is welcome and in competition it is forced, the US will either be forced, but this’ll only be the case if the US tries to be better than China, instead of engaging in trade wars. Or god forbid an actual one.
@Blacksquirreltr@Bitcoin@PayPal@peterthiel China has questionable policies and they are a US rival due to their advances in economics and technology. The US sees them as a threat and because of this China sees the US as a threat. A self fulfilling prophecy. But as long as no war is waged ...
@Blacksquirreltr@Bitcoin@PayPal@peterthiel How is the question. The US is a consumer based economy, barely any production get done here. But China also need us because we’re their top consumers. I’d say China is actually trying to diversify to other countries to reduce dependence but there is no real threat.
@fairyqu84783110@BlindNotDeaf08 @JabeurManal @Bitcoin@PayPal@peterthiel It’s kind of a comforting idea because Facebook is predictable, they’re capitalist and that’s great. Better they focus on money than power. Sides I can always leave Facebook stuff to something else, there’s always a substitute. It may not be what we’re used to but it exists.
@fairyqu84783110@BlindNotDeaf08 @JabeurManal @Bitcoin@PayPal@peterthiel Information is power is a common trope. But if we believe it true the Chinese government has a lot of power over it’s citizens. Unlike tech companies, while they do have our data, what they’re after is our money, not control over our lives.