The state is inherently based on power over people. If Bitcoin continues regardless of what the state does it challenges the primary distinguishing feature of the state and thus it's inherently anti-state.

LOL. It is not. It was designed as anti-state tool and the design still holds.

Hey Louis can’t see the note you’re replying to but guessing around Bitcoin annuities? Personally I think it’s a slight red herring - sometimes centralised parties are inevitable and it’s probably the case they need to be for pooling life expectancy. Insurers have played this role pretty well for both annuities and life insurance for years- I don’t think it’s the main issue out there.

How could such a product be done without trusting a central party like an insurer? That works be a true innovation.

🎡🎠 and I’m not going to lie I ate a corn dog too. Summer has been fun so far.

Ha, if this is true another Trump administration will be worse for Bitcoin than the current Biden one 🤦‍♂️

View of Toronto from Toronto Island.

#toronto #canada

I mean, did you thoroughly read the article you just linked? It proves MY point about duplicate entries.

“The data provided to AP was imperfect in other ways. Among those people fully identified, some were listed twice by the ministry.“ Over 500 people in March, alone.

Okay, let’s try it another way. If I provide a number to the media and then later say that 50% of those records are, well, incomplete, you’re saying that’s not the same as revising the number down by half. You saying it’s okay to provide incomplete data because of the fog of war.

That’s NOT how fatality reporting works.

I’ve already shown you the implausibility of their figures, the impossibility of arriving at accurate numbers so quickly, and at least one actual example of a number (500 in a hospital) that was blamed on Israel, which was revised down (to 100-300), and later found to be the responsibility of Hamas’ own rockets hitting it’s own armaments depot in the parking lot of said hospital. And yet you continue to swallow their numbers as gospel?

I shudder to imagine the double standards that would be applied to Israel if they claimed a higher number of casualties and then said their records were “incomplete” when examined.

To wit, Hamas sympathizers deny the *actual* atrocities committed on 10/7 (murders, rapes, beheadings, and immolations) even as they were live streaming and celebrating them.

This whole this is just so twisted.

I mean, did you thoroughly read the article you just linked? It proves MY point about duplicate entries.

“The data provided to AP was imperfect in other ways. Among those people fully identified, some were listed twice by the ministry.“ Over 500 people in March, alone.

Okay, let’s try it another way. If I provide a number to the media and then later say that 50% of those records are, well, incomplete, you’re saying that’s not the same as revising the number down by half. You saying it’s okay to provide incomplete data because of the fog of war.

That’s NOT how fatality reporting works.

I’ve already shown you the implausibility of their figures, the impossibility of arriving at accurate numbers so quickly, and at least one actual example of a number (500 in a hospital) that was blamed on Israel, which was revised down (to 100-300), and later found to be the responsibility of Hamas’ own rockets hitting it’s own armaments depot in the parking lot of said hospital. And yet you continue to swallow their numbers as gospel?

I shudder to imagine the double standards that would be applied to Israel if they claimed a higher number of casualties and then said their records were “incomplete” when examined.

To wit, Hamas sympathizers deny the *actual* atrocities committed on 10/7 (murders, rapes, beheadings, and immolations) even as they were live streaming and celebrating them.

This whole this is just so twisted.

I’m not changing the argument. I’m enhancing it for you. You think you have me in some gotcha because I made a claim that I can’t back up. I’m explaining what I mean by “Hamas revised their numbers down by half” by showing HOW they admitted half their data is incomplete, often using duplicate entries, and WHY they have motivation to do so including providing one incident where they inflated the numbers by far more than half — an incident it later turned out was perpetrated by Hamas’ own fighters which they blamed on Israel. You know it took Israel MONTHS to confirm the number of dead from 10/7? Hamas frequently claims hundreds of people died within minutes/hours?

If you can’t see this, I don’t know what to tell you.