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chris123

429 karma · joined May 14, 2008

Born left-handed and with a tinge of dyslexia in Washington, DC. Have lived in DC, Maryland, Florida, Colorado, and Sweden (I now have dual US/Swedish citizenship). Contact me on www.linkedin.com/in/comella or www.twitter.com/chrisco
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chris123··on Bill Aims to Stop Cryptocurrency from Being Used to Evade Sanctions
Humanity needs the separation of money and state. It's already been born, the question is how long it will take to pass the tipping point.
chris123··on Alexandria Search
I'd love to be able to add a tag to a search to have it exclude sites with any kind of monetization, I know that's not realistic cuz that's where Google makes most of its money (or do they make most of their money somewhere other than advertising these days?). Anyways, yeah, I'm sick of SEO optimized, click optimized, advertising optimized, affiliate link optimized crap.
chris123··on Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions
This is what the Fiat system do: war, censorship, cancellation, did, education, more destruction and collateral damage. A great book on the topic is called The Fiat Standard, highly recommended.
chris123··on Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020)
They're not cheap. They're just look cheap, or they used to.
chris123··on Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
The good old days, most fantastic. Now it's to degenerated into some combination of echo chamber and safe place, with no lively debate, certainly not about anything controversial. Very sad.
chris123··on “You Don't Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail
That's what you get for investing in alt coins, their garbage.
chris123··on Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?
Because of Fiat money, in a nutshell. Bad fiscal and monetary policy. This is what you get. Inflation in shortages.
chris123··on The question we’ve stopped asking about teenagers and social media
Wow, what a dystopian nightmare of a world you're suggesting.
chris123··on Don't give up on having kids because of climate change
Exactly, fear mongering and money printing. Bitcoin fixes this
chris123··on Supporting Bitcoin == Supporting Global Warming
Same old recycled FUD, mainstream narrative.
chris123··on Modular Homes for Under $50k
People should be free to buy the land they want with the money that they've earned or otherwise legally acquired. It's just a basic principle. The principal below that principle, is that you have autonomy over your own body, and your own labor, and you have a choice as to how you apply. And you have a right to the fruits of your labor and creativity and entrepreneurship. And you can spend those fruits, and all the ways that are legal, including buying land, including buying expensive land in desirable places. And that kind of land is expensive. Not everybody can buy it.
chris123··on El Salvador Congress Approves Bitcoin As Legal Currency
Pioneers are often mocked like this, I salute El Salvador ♥
chris123··on Azar, a Korean Chatroulette-style dating app quietly taking over the world
Me too
chris123··on Rent controls have split housing in Berlin into two distinct markets
Socialism destroys everything it touches, eventually.
chris123··on Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy
That's what you voted for.
chris123··on Auto-Redistrict – automatically creates electoral districts
Pretty sure the politicians don't want it fair. Politicians don't do fair. It's the worst of humans that are attracted to politics and surviving politics, after all.
chris123··on Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco
Quite a Utopia
chris123··on Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
It accelerates for some. "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." -AE
chris123··on Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
Next they'll be saying, Bitcoin will be the interplanetary reserve asset. Then the interstellar. Intergalactic. Universal. Not in our lifetimes, is course. But it's coming.
chris123··on Mass Exodus of SF
Bad news
chris123··on Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
Only tax the biggest players?
chris123··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
The mass media could use some de-escalation skills, too. Of course, their specialty is escalation, not de-escalation.
chris123··on With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage
Locality Pay if standard. The federal government had been doing it for decades. Base pay plus locality adjustment based on where you live.
chris123··on Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
Exactly. You can probably find pots pushing it just about anything. Wire articles about and takedown the ones that question mainstream opinions. Leave the rest. They did the world we live in right now. Extreme, forced conformity.
chris123··on Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy
They're means to transfer wealth to the executives and risk too everyone else. Simple as that.
chris123··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
Spotify kinda sucks. And has since they got their first taste of success. I was living in Sweden when they launched and signed up. It was great then. And for a couple of years. Then some new investors came in and it went this direction, just extract value by all means possible, winner take all, destroy, destroy, destroy. Except for themselves. Thanks Silicon Valley vampires, you ruin pretty much everything you touch
chris123··on The booming stock market shows America is diseased
The problem is the federal reserve and fiat money system.
chris123··on The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
Bitcoin don't need no stinkin" bigger blocks. Second layer FTW.
chris123··on The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
No, the block size must remain small. I just don't transactions and speed won't be handled on a second layer solution. people who think they want a bigger block size can go with Bitcoin cash or Gavin or whatever consortium was the fork and go with that. Good luck.
chris123··on Too Much Crypto [pdf]
FUD. Bitcoin will continue to evolve, it is not static.
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