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2024-12-22 21:00:42

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Saying 100% of your stash should be self custodied is like saying this:
You should have no home fire insurance. Because that insurance company may go bust. Instead, you should be competent enough to ensure no fire ever starts in your house.

2024-10-10 21:16:29

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I don't know much about The Internet Archive, but...
The world doesn't 'owe' us a record of everything that was ever written/recorded, let alone the ability to access it immediatley and for zero cost.
If you are the author of something that you want preserved for decades, then you have to make the effort to host / torrent it.

2024-10-02 20:18:42

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Sure, there are some spoils of war. And some leaders will brag about victories and gains to appeal to their citizens self interests. And attempt to humiliate and demoralise the enemy.
But that doesn't make theft the motive for the war.

2024-10-02 19:37:12

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"Resources" don't magically spring to the surface in a nice tidy processed pile just because you sucessfully invaded someone.
Pretty sure even the Russian govt knows that.

2024-10-02 07:49:28

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Debating is a 'skillset' with questionable real world utility anyway. For example, successful enteprenuers don't utilise debate to achieve their success/customers.
It can be seen as the antithesis of negotiating - which is the real world skill of generating value for value (win-win) outcomes.
Debate can also be viewed as the antithesis of self-guided study and self-guided critical thinking.

2024-09-26 15:47:38

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There is no such thing in objective reality as 'nature'. Each organism does whatever it needs to do in order to preserve (i.e. replicate) its DNA.
And just because one organism becomes largely dependant upon another, that doesn't mean there's some Gaia fostering some sort of balance / harmony.

2024-09-10 21:53:07

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Just finished reading The Hobbit to my son.
A thought: Science fantasy connects us to the lives of our ancestors.
There's the quest - suffering cold, thirst, hunger and wounds. Crossing rivers and mountains. The misery of rain & nightfall. Traversing harsh environments, and encountering creatures that you never knew existed.
And then juxtaposition this with, say the destination - a magnificent walled city, collosal statues, majestic palace, etc.
How our ancestors managed to survive and thrive, despite all the dangers and evils of the world, provides a underlying sense of wonderment.

2024-09-06 21:15:53

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Zap-a-stack!

2024-08-22 07:46:16

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Peter Schiff's podcast introduced me to libertariniam and the concept of hard money around 2012.
As he'd often be on vacation, his stand in host was Stefan Molyneux who introduced me to philosophy and anarcho-capitalism.
Not to mention Schiff would regularly guest on Max Keiser's show.
Thanks to Schiff, I was skeptically buying my first Bitcoin in 2014 (even despite being a gold bug back then!)

2024-08-20 17:51:00

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Musk choosing to buy Twitter while Jack Dorsey was already singing the praises of Nostr always seemed a strange move to me.
I've never understood how Twitter / X - being a centralized platform in the govt crosshairs - would survive a co-ordinated takedown.
Especially, say if the Govt leans on the tech giants (Apple, Google, Microsoft) to deny access to it.