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Yes and no. Once the blockchain forks, the distinction between all those coins is very technical. Coins from one ledger cannot be spent on another ledger.

You're right though, cultural convention decides which blockchain is the "real" Bitcoin. Most people are using BTC at the moment, but Bitmain takes payment exclusively in BCH.

This might seem like a semantic quibble, but I think it's important. There will only ever be 21 million BTC, and only ever 21 million BCH. If Bitmain decided to charge 22 million BCH for their latest ASIC miner, nobody would ever be able to pay that bill regardless of how many forks there are.

For a blockchain fork to have any value whatsoever, people need to want to own it. Bitmain ASIC sales are driving demand for BCH. Every other Bitcoin fork is doing rather poorly.

Forks aren't diluting the value of BTC, because people know that BTC is the real asset. Everything else is like fool's gold.

If your payment is denominated in BTC, you can't pay it with BCH even though they're a fork of the same blockchain.

BTC proper is scarce, regardless of how many times the chain is forked.

They're building domestic datacenters, not iPhone factories.

See this mailing list post https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2

> Any interest in bitcoin cash changing it's algorithm?

I doubt it. One of the reasons BCH hardforked was so large mining pools could continue to take advantage of Asicboost, a patented approach to Bitcoin hashing that provides a 20-30% speedup.

Asicboost is essentially taking advantage of a flaw in the original Bitcoin algorithm which leads to slightly predictable hashes. Segwit fixed this problem, nullifying their patented advantage.

All of the vocal BCH supporters are involved with large sha256 mining pools. I think it's very unlikely that they'll elect to change algorthms.

> Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other.

There is 80% more gold aboveground today than there was in 1980.

M-DISC is even better. Burnable discs use an organic dye which oxidizes over time. M-DISC uses a "glassy carbon" layer that is inert to oxidation.

They adhere to DVD-R, BD-R, and BD-XL standards so it's readable in standard disc drives. You need a special drive to burn them, however (requires a high-power laser).

Check out M-DISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

"The swamp" is a metaphor for DC politics. Unpleasant to navigate and very slow moving.

I'd never heard of a giro transfer. In the states we use ACH and it takes 2-5 days to clear. The ACH numbers are also reusable - your numbers never change, and they can be used for withdrawal as well as deposit.

You might be interested in the free decompiler Radare2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radare2

There are some MLM scams in crypto. Bitconnect, for instance.

Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million BTC. Fiat can be printed.

The Education edition of Windows lacks Cortana.

It absolutely is going away. The courts ruled that those stipulations aren't enforceable unless ISPs are Title II common carriers.

> I was running under Cygwin and the issue was something about the Java-based readline library.

Apparently the problem is that the '+' character was being thrown out, so Scala only saw '12'.

I bought a preflashed phone direct from them and didn't have to follow those steps.

Even so, it's probably not for everyone but I think it deserves a shout-out.

I use the Copperhead ROM with F-Droid apps, and it addresses nearly all your bullet points. Excellent battery life, surprisingly high quality (and FOSS!) apps, and zero bloatware whatsoever.

It enables DRM technologies, too.

Some of them have ARM TrustZone.

I'm pretty sure that i.MX6 chips are relatively clean. Modern chips are becoming less so.

There's a whole subreddit dedicated to this https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/

You can use me_cleaner, and it's better than nothing, but the ME is still required for booting the motherboard.

> No one is doubting that we are doing this overseas

The 2nd highest comment is "honestly curious" whether the US participates in propaganda campaigns.

That's a good point, which potentially leads to Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

> Georgism, also called geoism and single tax, is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own the value they produce themselves, economic value derived from land (including natural resources and natural opportunities) should belong equally to all members of society.

> Any natural resource which is inherently limited in supply can generate economic rent, but the classical and most significant example of 'land monopoly' involves the extraction of common ground rent from valuable urban locations. Georgists argue that taxing economic rent is efficient, fair, and equitable. The main Georgist policy recommendation is a tax assessed on land value. Georgists argue that revenues from a land value tax (LVT) can be used to reduce or eliminate existing taxes (for example, on income, trade, or purchases) that are unfair and inefficient. Some Georgists also advocate for the return of surplus public revenue back to the people by means of a basic income or citizen's dividend.

Nintendo is finally switching to Nvidia.

The Kelly Criterion is a betting strategy that, given the probability and payoff of different outcomes, tells you what percentage of your bankroll to bet.

> they would be extremely likely to invest that money in a variety of financial instruments, making that capital available in the market so it can be put to good use

This improves the supply-side of the economy, but doesn't do anything to stimulate demand for products. Today, lack of demand is a larger problem than increased output. The labor share of GDP has been decreasing since the 70s, and its starting to hit levels where people are having trouble affording as many goods. Although investing is a good use of funds, arguably redistribution (a type of demand-side stimulus) would be more helpful today.

Gargoyle is responding to "No word on if they are allowed to use Equifax, etc to pull salary data from?"

Reinstalling the OS may be good enough for most people, but you also have to be aware of firmware.

In this sort of context I feel like "robots" is a euphemism for "automation". Software has the lowest marginal cost out of all forms of automation.

Consider robo-advisors [0], automated financial advisors written in software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robo-advisor