Does creating criminals mean giving a criminal record to ordinary peaceful people, or causing ordinary peaceful people to turn to a life of real crime?
What’s a “pleb?” I know it’s short for “plebeian,” but what’s in that identity?
I’ve owned Bitcoin for years, but Nostr makes me realize I haven’t been part of the Internet subculture.
More paid relays listed here, if you’re interested:
Paid relays make a huge difference. Sign up for nostr.vine, and turn off other relays in your global feed. nostr.vine aggregates events from popular public relays, but filters out spam. The one-time cost amounts to about $4.50.
The SEC sued LBRY because they considered LBRY Credits (LBC) to be an unregistered security, and they won. The last I heard, LBRY was still working out a resolution with the SEC and the judge. LBRY’s plan was to dissolve the company and replace it with a foundation to maintain the LBC specification. Meanwhile, the lights are still on.
Technically, no one can sell #marijuana in Washington, #DC outside of the regulated dispensary system. But you can give it away! As a result, customers pretend to buy exorbitantly priced stickers, cards, etc., and shops throw in free marijuana “gifts.” It’s a surprisingly unburdened market, so naturally politicians are constantly trying to ruin it.
I think I’m going to pay for one or two other relays for redundancy and comprehensiveness.
Switching to a paid #nostr relay has greatly improved the quality of my global feed. nostr.vine aggregates a dozen widely-used relays and effectively filters out their spam.
I see one image. All of your text is above it.
What sort of thing do you want to code?
New England: It’s winter and the #JonesAct prevents us from importing cheap natural gas. 🥶
American Maritime Partnership spokeswoman: “A Jones Act waiver is not a way to address poor planning.”
#government #regulation #stossel
https://open.lbry.com/@johnstossel:7/the-jones-act-makes-shipping-more:0
“Government is simply the name we give to the things we do together.” — Barney Frank (allegedly)
New England: It’s winter and the #JonesAct prevents us from importing cheap natural gas. 🥶
American Maritime Partnership spokeswoman: “A Jones Act waiver is not a way to address poor planning.”
#government #regulation #stossel
https://open.lbry.com/@johnstossel:7/the-jones-act-makes-shipping-more:0
The most common reason government agencies contract out work to private firms is to reduce costs.
Profits serve a function; they’re not dispensable costs. How are capitalists supposed to know what to produce to satisfy consumers, or what resources to use? How would they be incentivized to delay their own gratification to take a risk and invest in production? If we can save money by doing away with profits, can we also save money by doing away with wages paid to laborers? Can you give me an example of an economy that succeeded without profits?
Manufacturing is shrinking as a percentage of US GDP, but total production is near an all-time high:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/manufacturing-output
And financial services are not even close to half of US GDP. See table 3:
https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/gdp3q22_3rd.xlsx
I still have mine, but I needed to upgrade to a Model T for Monero support.
When the government does something, that doesn’t make it free. It’s usually more expensive because they’re spending other people’s money, and therefore have less incentive to economize, innovate, or produce what consumers want most.