Voting is deliberate consent to the outcome, explicitly granting your sanction to the status quo and the system of threats and force against you and others that back it up.
It is difficult to argue against the injustices stemming from the people ruling over you when you have participated in and perpetuated the very thing that gives them oxygen.
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Why Bitcoin works:
The laws of physics and mathematics don't care one whit about the laws of kings, politicians, or bureaucrats.
"How can my Linux server and bitcoind compete against the Federal Reserve?"
If you're not familiar with ZFS, it has a variety of disk redundancy options, equivalent to the traditional RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, and 7, but done in software and integrated into the filesystem instead of using a hardware controller. It basically boils down to a tradeoff between how much storage space you want to sacrifice to redundancy and how many drives can fail simultaneously.
RAIDZ2, for example, allows two drives to fail without data loss (while you go replace those drives!)
Same here--it's all WD Red Pro drives.
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Bitcoin is a doocracy--only those who collaborate and contribute shape its future. Anyone else can only vote with their feet.
It's an iXsystems Mini R box, 160TB of raw storage, ZFS raided to 100TB. That's actually not much these days, you can buy 30TB individual hard drives now, 20TB ones are cheap.
TrueNAS has been pretty good, though I only use a fraction of its features.
Fully loaded network attached storage server running TrueNAS Scale.
So much space, so little time 🙂
The privacy of of "only the sender and receiver can verify the zap" seems to be a feature, not a bug to fix.
As long as you think it is Democrats vs. Republicans and not us vs. them, a politician wins.
And the wheel goes round and round.
Not a book, but Veritasium has a good youtube video on the subject. (Though I hesitate to recommend him now as he's gotten a bit cringe lately.)
Smokin' those brakes is always fun...
"chancellor on the brink of a second bailout"
Is the #nos2x extension for Firefox browser legit? I use it on Chrome browser but the Firefox one looks like a different developer and extension with the same name.
GM ☕
Now that it's nearly summer, I've finally started spring cleaning. My garage (of 23 years) looks like an archaeological dig site.
GM ☕
Thought for the day:
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No, his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is
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