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You know capital gains tax already applies to all crypto transactions, right?

Surely you understand how "with none of the advantages associated with a cryptocurrency" could make it seem like you were referring to Coinbase batching (since that's centralized). How exactly does Lightning negate any of bitcoins advantages?

But of course you understand Bitcoin can be transacted in off-chain, yes?

Correct! Relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690941

It's too bad Mozilla supports internet censorship... Some good alternatives if there stance on deplatforming is unacceptable to you: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ https://brave.com/

> Yeah, one of the problems with the BTC model. You either get convenience or security but not both.

No, it's not what OP says... He's saying security and convenience are mutually exclusive in BTC. I'm saying that is not the case... You can use an exchange and transfer or use a hardware wallet with built in exchange capabilities. Making it seem like there is some inherent issue with the design/architecture that makes this impossible is extremely misleading.

That's nonsense. It's incredibly easy and convenient to move BTC out of an exchange account to something you control (hardware or software wallet). Hell, some hardware wallet GUIs even have the ability to buy crypto baked right into the app (trezor suite for example).

I wonder if gold being useful in semiconductor design influenced the Greeks in adopting it as a currency. Maybe they just used it because it was portable, fungible, and scarce?

Just in, gold also worthless https://www.brilliantearth.com/gold-mining-environment/

What an unbelievably condescending blog post... "Play by our rules and educate yourselves, you plebeians!" - Robinhood

It's always so striking to me each party's ability to hold the constitution on a holy pedestal when it suits their needs and to utterly disregard it when it does not... Here's to democrats bucking that trend over the next 4 years! (off to a terrible start though)

Didn't the HK protestors win the online poll? Was that not legitimate?

@Austin Mann, https://letsencrypt.org/

Wooosh. Yes, I am specifically speaking to the fact that declaring an arbitrary "minimum wage" does not effect the true minimum wage which is $0. By enforcing an arbitrary floor all you're doing is making it illegal for someone to work unless their output is more valuable than the floor. Good intentions, completely illogical.

Eh I'm not positive it should even be able to support a single person... Why do we insist on raising the bar for employment so high? If a 16 year old wants to get their first job, they shouldn't be required right of the bat have a productive output sufficient to support themselves. That's not the point of minimum wage jobs - or at least it never was until we started arbitrarily setting a minimum value.

You want congress to decide how much privacy you deserve? Yikes...

the video player stays legal no matter where the files it plays came from...

"My life was like this, therefore everyone's was." - Jen Doll

Drastically simplify the tax code. Boom. Done.

fair point... but I can attest to the fact that the s2000 GUZZLES gas if you're driving it spiritedly (the only way to drive it).

They're amazing little cars. Mines 14 years old and I'm still hard pressed to find a car that makes me feel the same way while driving it. Was the first car I purchased entirely on my own (thanks, Dad!) and I can't imagine ever selling it.

Love it because my beloved Honda S2000 is one of the 4 examples under "sports car" :) Very neat project!

Our political system caused (or at the very least was complicit in causing) the problem.

"Oh I absolutely did not read the book and have no intention to do so. I find hate-reading to be a waste of my time." - your Expert

So, she is drastically misrepresenting and misunderstanding ONE point he made in ONE chapter of his book (hardly a foundation of his philosophy), and she openly admits to having never read his book, and that's the example you want to give? Interesting...

Can someone mansplain "hate-reading" to a layman?

I think it's because he's not a leftwing nutjob ;)

Who are the rightwing nutjobs? Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin?

Better title: Corporatism was never competitive

Are you suggesting that a state law (as opposed to a federal) is never aligned with modern liberal ideology because it's happening at the state level?

It's an (albeit sarcastic) remark about the very decision-making body talked about in the article. Furthermore, it's in direct response to still active comment:

> I am also not too hopeful about US changing considering its federal-state model. In EU, multiple countries can agree on a decision, but US states are adept at bikeshedding and not getting anything done :(

Detaching mine, while leaving the parent (which created the political tangent in the first place), is an obvious example of moderation from bias.