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Is there a reason why you might want to mix endianness within a file format? Wouldn't it just be extremely error prone as demonstrated in the article?

Suggesting it was a lab leak is not the same as saying it was genetically engineered. I can’t tell anymore if the people conflating the two are either stupid or malicious.

> lots of humans that have any political pull at all tend to be authoritarian

I think it's probably more like a survivorship bias than an innate quality. The only people who are capable of surviving in politics long enough to the point where they have any meaningful influence are the ones who know how to use the systems under their control to protect themselves while tearing down their opponents. Usually this means attempting to consolidate power in themselves, ie. authoritarianism.

The issue with that is the instant those coins move to a new address people will notice and probably panic.

The distinction here is that the iPod/iPhone is the product, while iMessage is merely a feature.

By creating iTunes for Windows they were expanding the potential customer base for iPods. By supporting iMessage on Android they would not be expanding the potential customer base for iPhone. If anything they would be shrinking it if they think iMessage is a compelling enough feature for people to switch from Android to iMessage.

Unfortunately Matrix still has the issue of key sharing between clients. If you want to read previously sent messages when you log into a new client for the first time you have to do the key sharing dance with one of your existing clients.

For me it's a little annoying, but I find it an acceptable tradeoff. However I could easily see how for many people this would be a dealbreaker.

I genuinely thought this was parody until I came to the comments.

Glad to see someone made this. I've long thought about creating a podcast app which does the same, but never got around to actually building it.

So what? The parent comment is about payment processors blocking transactions to SciHub.

Is LBRY a registered business?

I don't see how SEC could regulate cryptos much more than they already do. I suppose the could force US exchanges to disable withdrawals like the Chinese government did a while ago for Chinese exchanges. Other than that there's nothing they can do regulation wise.

Ironically I might be inclined to believe someone with too high a trust score is actually less trustworthy because they tried too hard to optimise for it.

1. Trivial to bypass: Check

2. Further degrades the privacy of the general public: Check

Just another day in internet legislation.

Here's a list of all the times the people banning books have been on the right side of history:

Could you explain a bit more how negative sales tax is unrealistic? We already subsidize things we want to encourage.

> A system that only taxes spending fundamentally has problems in that the richer people can afford to save and invest.

That is an existing problem inherent to any tax system. It's just saying "Rich people can afford to not spend all of their money". I don't see how that's fundamental to taxing only spending.

I agree, a vastly simplified tax code is needed.

Here's my dream for a simpler tax code: The only tax is a Sales tax/VAT/GST.

Pros:

- Individuals never have to think about tax. It would completely eliminate tax returns. That alone is worth it's weight in gold since tax returns are such a time and money burden.

- It would close all the loopholes megacorps/wealthy individuals use to pay less tax. You cannot avoid spending money in the place where you operate.

- To add to that, if every country implemented this system we would be able to move freely between countries, spending as much time as we desired, without having to worry about tax implications. Obviously that's a much much longer term vision.

Cons:

- Won't this disproportionately tax the poor?

    - Firstly, the existing tax code already does. Poor people don't have the time to understand the tax code enough to get everything they can out of their tax return. The also don't have the money to hire an accountant to do it for them. They also don't have the tax avoidance opportunities available to them that come with the scale of being a wealthy individual.

    - Secondly, many countries already discount or eliminate the ST/VAT/GST on essential items. You could even have a higher tax on luxury goods. You could even have a negative tax (subsidy) on essential items if you desired. The point is it changes the framing of tax discussions to "where does this good/service fall in the scale of essential item to luxury item" which is much much simpler for people to understand.

- Won't prices have to rise for the same tax revenue to be collected? - Yes, but now you have all this leftover money that used to just go to income taxes which you can use. Plus prices might not rise as much as you think now that the tax loopholes used by megacorps are closed.

Look, I know it's pretty radical, but I think this is the only sensible taxation in the future.

I tried the impossible whopper too and I could certainly tell the difference. It was very close, and if I wasn't paying attention I might not have noticed, but it does taste distinctly different.

Not trying to say you're wrong, just want to provide another datapoint. I tried it about a year ago, so maybe they've updated their recipe since then. I would encourage anyone reading to give it a try see what they think.

How is this different from Colored Coins? Or CryptoKitties?

I'm pretty bullish on cryptos in general, but I just don't 'get' this. Maybe it will take some time to sink in with me, but at the moment it just seems like the latest crypto pump-and-dump. Especially with the number of people on Clubhouse shilling them.

Actually I would say yes, they are. Once you have a reasonable cash buffer and are out of the danger-zone for random financial ruin most people should invest all excess rather than be paid a pittance for their bank to do it for them.

How can you say "if you scaled up the bitcoin system" and "this is not how bitcoin scales" in the same argument?

Bitcoin could handle arbitrary scaling with little power-usage increase had it not been intentionally hamstrung by (for lack of a better term) "small-blockers". This is because the primary power usage of bitcoin (mining) does not scale linearly with transactions/block. The transactions to include are usually considered once by the miners who then make iterated attempts at solving by modifying the block nonce, not the included transactions.

Hopefully this serves as a wake up call to all those people who previously supported censorship. Up until now it has mostly been groups that are extremely difficult to defend because discussions around them always got mired in politics. Finally a relatively popular, apolitical community has been targeted.

Ok you're right. We would need more data points to determine whether the enforcement was selective or not.

While the underlying issue is legitimate (whether or not DDoS-Guard has enough physical presence in Belize), this is undeniably targeted selective enforcement with the intent to deplatform.

Not true at all. Censorship is any type of redaction or restriction, no matter who performs it.

You are confusing censorship with a breach of the first amendment.

I will not deny the atrocities the US has committed and will undoubtedly continue to commit. Any nation with that level of power will end up doing the exact same thing in order to maintain that power. It’s no secret that China wants that power. However I’d much rather live in a world where the US has that power than China. I’m sure my personal bias play into it, being from a western (though not American) nation, but I’ll try to remain objective.

- The US has at least a two party system. It’s not much, and is deeply flawed, but at least the governmental power is not completely unchecked. That and the government is ostensibly at the mercy of the people. Propaganda, disinformation, and manipulation aside, if a government does something egregious enough the people of the US still have the power to vote them out. The Chinese people do not have that power. Their government is much more top down and prescriptive. The only checking of power is the willingness of lower level people to enforce rules.

- Freedom of Speech. Nobody is above criticism. Simple as that. Not being able to question the government is an awful situation to be in. Imagine a world where you could get extradited to China for saying something critical of the CCP online. I’ll remind you that the CCP jailed 8 doctors in Wuhan last year for raising the alarm about the coronavirus, saying they were spreading false rumours online. No thanks.

- From an ideological standpoint the CCP seems to be be hellbent on reclaiming lost territory and retaliating against the evil west who have wronged them for so long. The US has no such motivation, being relatively young.

Please don’t get me wrong. I think China is a beautiful country, having visited several times, and the Chinese people and culture are both wonderful. I just do not want to live in a CCP-centric world.

Are the supply and demand curves supposed to be reversed?

As much as I think Ross's sentence is too severe, I wish he would pardon Snowden or Assange instead. You know, people that actually did good for the world and are being punished for it.

This is an extremely weak argument. At a certain scale, policy becomes about statistics rather than absolutes. This applies to absolutely everything, including the laws themselves. Companies in all industries have to occasionally issue recalls on dangerous or faulty products, just like PornHub or Reddit have to occasionally delete stolen or illegal content.

And you are conflating the principle of freedom of speech with the implementation (the 1st Amendment). Many believe that people do indeed have an inherent, natural right to not be censored, while also acknowledging that 1A is only partial protection and that companies are free to choose what content they host.

As someone who just set up a matrix server for my friends last month, I'm very pleased to hear this optimism!

> offline rendering is where realtime is headed

Curious what you mean by this. Just that realtime will start using more and more offline techniques as hardware speeds up? Or are you talking about pre-rendered scenes?