Back then, conquering other countries was a fair business venture, supported by the king.

I'm not sure if grabbing what they can was necessarily low time preference. Maybe it was just so in bed with the crown that competition just wasn't allowed until the "company" itself was obsoleted by the crown?

I'm curious to watch some documentary on that ...

#TIL: The East India Company

* was functional from 1600 to 1874 - for 274 years.

* had its own armed forces, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British army at the time.

* ruled India from 1757 to 1858.

best midnight snack ever?

good morning, April First is the worst day on the internet

bitcoin chinese?

who will make you think about the next generation other than bitcoin?

Who will help preserve the thread of the universe that we live for? It's not about money...

I realized this when I was 7 years old...

save bitcoin for future generations. everyone else will be in danger of not understanding what is happening now!

but just one question for them, who will take care of those who do not understand what is happening.

a new time has come, for new discoveries.... the old laws don't work... good-bye,everyone...

Really depends what you after.

Standing desks are great

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked, with what sounded good."

— Thomas Sowell

Placing groups & labels (both abstractions) above individuals, naturally sets evil in motion.

If groups & "the greater good" are prioritized, people will be killed to protect ideas.

The more horrible things are done in the name of maintaining these delusions, the more invested many will be. And eventually they'll want to kill everything... people, truth, God, whatever... rather than face the pain of seeing reality.

If you're not registered to vote when you die, then you're less likely to vote democrat after you're gone.

I heard smart people have questions:

> Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?

There is nothing we can do to stop it, so... yes.

> Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?

Yes. Our goal, as humanity, is to not *have* to work at all anymore. You can always work if you want to. But you shouldn't need to.

> Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?

Yes, please. Maybe they can draft better letters.

> Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?

Yes. Humans are just an intermediary species in the long history of the universe. We don't have the power to stop evolution. Don't think our "control" is designed to last. In the same way our bodies are too weak for today's world (we need tools for everything), our brains will be too dumb for future worlds. Let's just hope we make good pets.

#Bitcoin was invented to break with fiat's paradigm that somebody's assets have to be somebody else's liabilities.

All these "crypto tokens" bring back exactly that!

If a company promises that their token will be worth trillions in a few years, they hope for you to give them now to make that happen later.

By pumping their token's cap to a billion $$, they owe holders to build a billion $$ company but pretend to be already there!

These tokens are the company's liability but we all know what happens when small teams get bathed in money without consequences for not delivering on the promises the founders made early on.