Yup, they're just domain squatters.

This is one of the reasons to like keys as identity, things like .onion, there's really no avenue to rent seek like that.

Here's an observation: there are particular tribes who's ideology prevents them from doing this. The rest of us don't really care and just like creativity and art for what it is. This constant demand from those tribes to adhere to this is exhausting and will hollow out their ranks over time. Any political ideology that doesn't allow it's adherents to have carefree fun will die out. There will always be more of us than there are of them because a lot of them will get tired of sitting inside seething while seeing us outside partying.

Why does the chart cut off in late 2016?

All this is is reading handwriting, something we have had for years. And it's easier to type than write. I have a calculator on my computer that can do all the math and graphing this can do, and I don't need a stylus. This isn't impressive at all.

This isn't money laundering, this is something called "hawala", it's a way of moving capital using existing import/export markets. It just so happens that that market in this case is fentanyl precursors. Hawala is really cool actually, it's not that complicated (but still worth learning about), it basically boils down to "give that dude some money and take it out of what you owe me."

The money laundering that the drug cartels and Chinese are doing is completely different, and it's the acute reason that housing markets in London, Vancouver, Sydney and most big cities in the anglosphere are fucked to hell. The chronic reason, is, of course, the cantillion effect, but right now there's a shit ton of Chinese and organized crime money going into real estate, and for the Chinese part, the Chinese government has their capital controls but they allow it to happen because they exercise extraterritorial sovereignty over their citizens and know that the process gives them some sovereignty over assets in the west because their people own it. It also doesn't hurt that their rivals' populations becoming addicted to drugs elevates their relative position geostrategically.

That's something like what I think is going on.

What is observation? What is information? What is computation? What is a mind?

I think obviously minds naturally emerge, and observation by them does something to quantum systems, so something about what a mind is interacts in some way on a quantum level with everything around it. How it all ties together I don't know, but I think it's something about "when you observe a quantum system you get entangled with it in some way" and everything is a quantum system. I think we can describe the structure of the universe, including consciousness, when we understand all the different types of entanglement and how the nest within each other, and I think there's probably an interesting temporal aspect to it that we don't even know about yet.

Debt... If you're not using it to turn cash flow into capital assets you're fucking yourself over. If the asset you buy on debt doesn't generate a larger return than your interest rate, you're fucking yourself over. You're borrowing from your future, and at an added cost. If taking on the debt doesn't make that future better, you're fucking yourself over.

Well, you probably know my general view on that, which is that you don't need to use a blockchain for chat or most things really. Chat doesn't require incentivization or global state consensus. Grin is fantastic and can be used for so much, world changing stuff, but I think chat is mostly a solved thing. SimpleX is working on ways to make it unbreakable, I hope they succeed.

This is senseless. There's no correlation between size and anonymity set. Anyone can track everything all the time.

It was done this way due to technical limitations, ones which no longer exist.

Thankfully, lots of people archived that trove.

I wonder if there will ever be another organization like wikileaks, this time of course with anonymous participants.

No shit, you leave a huge mess for the people you love the most to clean up. And it's worse than that, because it's very emotional for them to handle. There's a strong drive to become a hoarder when you're looking at things that someone you lobed dearly valued highly and your option are to toss it or keep it forever.

Don't collect things that don't make your family wealthier, and if you must, try to teach at least one of your children to enjoy your collection so that at least someone is keeping it because they want to have it.

Seeking power over others is a character flaw, and indicator that a person is subhuman. People like this need to dangle from a rope.

Because by and large countries there are dominated by one tin horn dictatorship after another and the continent has been, by and large, a social and economic failure.

Is the panama canal zone considered a part of "the west"?

I personally do consider all of Latin America to be "the west". And I think the term as it was applied in the postwar period carries little meaning today. I think people are coming around to that, and realignment is really kicking into gear right now. I hope to see and believe I will see a mostly prosperous Latin America within my lifetime.

That's a much better metric, but there's still a lot missing from it. That's only publicly traded companies, that doesn't account for all assets, both privately and publicly owned. Alaska's oil reserves, farmland, mineral deposits, existing factories, highway infrastructure. These are all examples of valuable assets that, while much of it is in the hands of publicly traded companies, most of it is not. Total valuation for a country is a hell of a lot more than just the valuation of it's stock market.

OK so that's the market cap of companies registered in each country that the site itself tracks, and I highly doubt all of them. The site lists 8545 companies worldwide which ie extremely low, and lists 3696 for the US and 17 in Russia. There are more than 17 companies in Russia. Russia has more than 1.2 billion USD worth of assets within it's jurisdiction.

Yeah, IPFS is supposed to work like that, it appears like a native local filesystem on a *nix system.

You mean countries' currencies? Or their total asset worth?

What's the measure that brought you to that conclusion?

It's refreshing to see your vegan bullshit again lol. Nostalgic even.

What if I use a spear?

Dude I read the book about him and medallion and I had no idea what he would look like or sound like. I watched this maybe 3 months before he died and I really liked the guy. Most people will never know the scope of his impact on the world.