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[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@robinhanson The kama sutra (~2400yo) says prostitution should be honored for its function in a healthy society. Without, an increase in rape & lower character. I.e., in most states it's legal for police to have sex with detainees, leading to frequently reported (& ignored) rape and release.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@cz_binance Yeah *in btc terms*

Once gov't debt defaults worldwide, real wealth figures will skyrocket, even relative to current purchasing power. You'll need something like >$20 billion at today's purchasing power to be in top 0.3%.

[Come-from-Beyond @c___f___b]

https://t.co/gQ6MOlHucM

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Maximalists disparaging all other cryptos sound an awful lot like nocoiners disparaging Bitcoin. Scam. Ponzy. Bagholders. It’ll never work. Whats the use? We already have X, why do we need Y? Blah blah blah. Embrace the diversity, this is what an open market in finance looks like

[Bram Cohen🌱 @bramcohen]

Bitcoin isn't outperforming altcoins because of 'sound money' or 'network effects'. It's outperforming because it has a core development group who are out-executing the competition. Please thank them.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@robinhanson Traffic lights cause traffic jams which collectively costs people millions of full lifetimes worth of delays every year.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@CharlieShrem @texasroadhouse Try going to 10 random steakhouses around Tokyo

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@bramcohen Tether could quadruple in nominal units because of the inevitable hyper inflation of the dollar that's on the horizon but crypto prices will go up in greater proportion.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@robinhanson Insurance dosn't work. It's not qualitatively different than a Ponzi scheme or fractional reserve banking.

Requiring it is worse. Prices skyrocket and value is destroyed. Do you know how much waste is caused by auto insurance? I.e., most totaled cars aren't except "legally" are.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@LinaSeiche you can use git without github. it's not centralized.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@cryptomanran @justinsuntron "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@jimmysong ECDSA (anything dependent upon the discrete log assumption, really) is vulnerable and we really don't know if SHA256 is breakable (even without a quantum computer). There is no formal proof that SHA256 is even secure and it was produced by the NSA (who tend to bug everything).

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@shadders333 if addresses are single use it makes no difference

[Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz]

Wow.
Apparently Acosta claimed Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and was told to back off.
It's all making sense now.
https://t.co/rXnZZwZCCC

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

Facebook has horrendous engineers and is perhaps the least trustworthy company in the world. Their own "privacy" app WhatsApp is continuously bugged (probably deliberately).

[Slashdot @slashdot]

Google Maintains a List of Everything You Ever Bought Using Gmail, Even if You Delete All Your Emails https://t.co/HOdwPlzgg9

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@slashdot CloudFlare can read all traffic routed through it in plaintext even if that traffic appears to be using SSL/TLS in your browser. The service is perhaps the most vulnerable to hacking on the internet today. Petabytes of data and tens of billions on crypto sites at risk.

[Lior Yaffe @lioryaffe]

(3) With the existing attitude, by the time regulators will stop grilling #facebook #libra in 3-4 years the resulting system will be more difficult and expensive to use than the current banking system.

[somebody3830 @somebody3830_2]

@Ragnarly Gemini and Libra are both astrological signs