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if that's your goal, then we should be investing in nuclear energy

and putting more pressure on countries like China and India

Not really, it's secured by Proof of Violence/Imprisonment in partnership with the country's government. And the government spends a lot more energy doing that than bitcoin does

HN people feel the most normal to me of any online group.

All other social media sites feel extremely progressive with no room for nuance.

Splitting your customer base on a political decision is an interesting business choice.

I won't be doing business with Namecheap in the future

What misinformation has he spread?

All I see is an expert in a field, who I can't tell if they are right or not, disagreeing with other experts in the same field, who I also can't tell if they are right or not.

Now i'm just imagining flight crew yeeting unmasked people off of planes in mid-air

*with COVID average number of co-morbidities: 4.5 what really killed them?

On a philosophical level, I think the flawed premise you’re presenting here is that inflation is a problem that needs to be solved. Inflation is unpopular because it’s effectively a tax on unproductive wealth. Inflation incentivizes investment because idle wealth will lose it’s value at the rate of inflation.

Inflation is a tax on those without assets or the available capital to invest in assets. It's a form of wealth transfer to those with assets. Increasing economic inequality is not good for anyone, and some would say the US is already close to a breaking point.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/219643/gini-coefficient-... https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/11/when-inequality-is-high-pan...

if it's the same shot as the originals, which is my understanding, then it's reasonable to assume a similar expiry

I wish I could. If I knew how, I would be implementing this as fast as humanly possible. The first person to fix this problem will make $1 billion, easy

Even within crypto/defi, it's still people making the decisions. People wrote the algorithms. The only advantage I see there is that, in theory, you should be able to see what rules are encoded in that algorithm, so it's slightly more transparent in that sense.

Agreed. People still create the system, but they have zero to little sway in each individual transaction. So, the system can be biased, but with increased transparency, that should become apparent.

On the negative side, though, there's essentially no rule of law to prevent the people making the decisions in DeFi from doing things that are bad/illegal/invalid.

Very true, there's a lot of scamming going on. It's still very bleeding edge and not ready for mainstream adoption.

In the regulated finance world, these sorts of restrictions would be disallowed by the rule of law. You can sue them if they try to enforce those rules, and depending on your jurisdiction, you may win and indeed win damages. What's the equivalent in DeFi? Who do I sue? What court do I ask for relief?

At least in the US, this is not the case for payment processors. Banks may be under more strict regulation. Visa/Mastercard can revoke the ability for anyone to process transactions on their network, even if the activity is completely legal. E.G. OnlyFans/Pornhub recently.

I think that's a totally valid opinion.

The advantage to people is that they can more flexible.

The disadvantage to people is that they can be more irrational.

Totally agree, as long as the reasons the banks have are valid.

The problem is that that decision is made by people. Standards of conduct are not universal. What if political affiliation or COVID vaccination status affects your ability to transact with a bank, even though those things have nothing to do with buying or selling real estate

I'm glad it went well for you :)

All of those guarantees are under threat of legal punishment enforced through court systems.

All of those guarantees are given to you based on good standing with various institutions. The bank, the intermediary, the seller.

If you were a person who was not in good standing with a bank, but you still had the money, could you have completed the transaction?

Technology has a trend of destroying middleman industries, as they don't provide value and take a portion of the proceeds for themselves.

DeFi, in this case, is targeting the financial institutions because we now have technological means to replace banks and lenders. Does that mean this process is smooth? or ready for mass adoption? Not necessarily, but the destruction of banks by technology is inevitable. It's just a matter of when

Code doesn't actively resist your attempts to improve it. Our broken institutions are fighting to protect their kingdom

maybe i'm alone here, but the lack of formatting made this difficult to read

Good, now let's do this for everything

This argument doesn't hold if he's already had covid. you don't put your seatbelt on after the car crash

If zero-covid doesn't work, then necessary immunization levels can't be reached. It's endemic. Everyone will get it at one point or another.

It's now just a risk management question for individuals

Because obesity will kill them. That's the message that's not being said in a COVID context. Healthy at every size is one of the biggest health lies in America

The number of comments here that fall back on some sort of a slippery slope argument, based in a worry about government overreach, is really disheartening. If COVID has proven anything in the US, it's how little control the federal government actually has. They've barely been able to enforce mask mandates.

This is by design. We don't want a strong federal government.

The slippery slope argument doesn't hold water here. I think we can look at the facts - 700,000 people dead, hospitals overwhelmed, countless people injured or disabled from COVID, and no end in sight - and decide that a strong mandate makes sense here, and that a mandate won't make sense in future cases.

here's some more facts that change the landscape significantly. 5% of COVID deaths were without co-morbidities. On average, a person who died of COVID had 4.0 co-morbidities. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Co...) The vast majority of those dying are 65+. We don't have a COVID problem, we have a health problem. Has the government been encouraging people to take vitamin D, get fresh air, exercise, and get to a healthy weight? The rhetoric has been sit down and get the jab.

The "government is always bad, personal choice should always win" mindset runs deep in this country unfortunately, and from what I can see, it's often based in nothing other than veiled conservatism and a preference for division and anti-cooperativeness.

The government polices are extreme overreactions by any measure of the data, and government doesn't give power back once it has it.

Above all else, this sentiment holds very little water when it's coming from people who speak out against a vaccine mandate but choose to stay quiet on things like abortion rights.

I can almost agree here, except the pro-choice people seem to overlap heavily with the pro-mandate people. I don't think you can logically hold both of those positions

that's what some people are saying yes. other possibly reasons include obesity, smoking habits, alcoholism, vaccine mandates on hospital staff, poor budgeting and planning by the hospital administrators on predicting ICU capacity.

It's so easy to reduce this one variable thinking. But the oversimplification is what is dividing us

There's no way to split geographically, and it won't be clean.

We aren't ever going back to normal at this point.

Once government gets power, it doesn't give it back.

We're pushing closer to 2 Americas, one with freedom and one with vaccine mandates

We're getting closer to two Americas. Policies like these will only exacerbate the transition. Expect to mass over non-compliance from conservative states and businesses

don't we need a working mRNA therapeutic first?

I suspect we'll see the same thing happen in 4-5 years with COVID vaccine manufacturers

this comment will age well

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One of the biggest issues with this discussion is that we call these current round of therapeutics, "vaccines". They aren't. They don't prevent infection. They don't prevent transmission. At best, they reduce symptoms.

don't your links directly contradict the article that was posted? The article states infection from COVID seems to produce better immunity than the vaccines.