Never fight an Aussie. It ainât gonna go well.
Damus doesnât always show contextâŚI presume this is in reply to something else but it reads like a fortune cookie đĽ :)
Nice. Iâm on call this weekend and have to be 4 hrs away Monday AM for a week stint at a hospital in needâŚughâŚbut then I have 7 days off in a row :)
I donât have a life and I generally donât stop talking about BitcoinâŚsince July 2010 baby!
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Good. Because Iâm still alive and that would mean we live on different planets and that wouldnât be cool.
The deplorable word?
Shop around. In USA, the farther you get from population centers, the more expensive health care isâŚat least when it comes to high level medical care. Equipment used frequently in competitive markets tends to be far far cheaper than less used equipment in the middle of nowhere.
In two years, heâll be 42 ft tall!
All that said, the larger the fraction of society that can custody their own bitcoin (and transact affordably), the harder it will be to avoid conflict between bitcoin and the conventional financial system.
The pre-fiat banking system was full of fraud and undisclosed risks tooâŚcertainly going back to that isnât kosher.
I donât think we can ever go back to a non-fiat system. Psychopaths wonât allow it.
I view the long arc of history as one of progressing from murdering rivals en masse to conventional slavery to fake money slavery. The whole story is one of preservation of ever less oppressive slavery.
Plus, you never pay taxes on appreciated assets if you cash out via loans using the asset as collateral. Rich people wonât let that go.
Itâs not clear to me that raising interest rates actually decreases inflationâŚthink about it. High rates causes people to deposit money to get paid more money to spend later. Sure they spend less at the moment, but eventually all the interest enters circulation and, in the end, all we have is more money chasing goods and services.
Yup. Kills fewer per centuryâŚthe war profiteering of the USA has killed millions. But this pales to the roughly 100 million people communist/socialist countries killed in the 1900âs.
Capitalism and communism are both idealsâŚthey donât really exist. Capitalism is corrupted by those that break the rules of the game and the same is true for communism. It turns out rule breakers are easier to find and punish in capitalism than in communismâŚbut that doesnât mean any system is ever âgood.â All we can do is get âbetter.â
This is where having an Amex card comes in handy. They wonât pay the seller if you call them, so you wonât be out any $.
Coldcard isnât so hard to use once you understand the threats against which the device protects youâŚincluding evil maid attacks.
Maybe we should handle national defense like we do school defense: put up âNo Missilesâ signs at the border.
The only real risk with Bitcoin is that you _might_ be able to buy it at a discount in the near future.
Because they are unusual, it is lawful for the government to ban them. This is true of all dangerous and unusual weapons.
But the government has been explicitly forbade the ability to ban dangerous weapons that are commonly used for lawful purposes.