Bitcoin is pretty fast. You get 5 confirmations in about an hour. If you compare it to credit cards, the equivalent thing (clearing and settlement) happens in about 2-7 days.

Thing that matters to the merchant is a bit different than the thing that happens with the customer. You can build similar layers in front of the customer for crypto payments that make it look like the payment went through in a second.

Org-mode is like the SAP of personal knowledge management tools.

Perhaps move to Iran first, then you can really appreciate the greatness of that society and their great struggle against evil.

Perhaps people confuse/conflate it with a more broader category, like https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nearly-1-5-young-adults-say-they-re-not-straight-n1270003

I mean I guess you’re joking, but nevertheless I think it’s a bad thing to hope that every fifth person gets born into a body their mind doesn’t agree with.

This is so absolutely adorable.

I live in country that has plateaued financially for the last 2 decades.

You’ll be fine. Really. In opposite to what you might have heard, free market capitalism in no way requires constant growth. It can adapt to plateaus or degrowth just fine.

Credit where credit is due. I like this Trump dude at this exact moment.

This is a bad punishment, because it implies that you as a parent made the mistake of giving your child a personal computer.

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I once was in a lunch group where one of the people honestly asked the restaurant staff about wifi, standing almost next to this sign. The guy smugly pointed at the sign and said nothing.

It was cringy for everyone involved.

Where are these phantom lefties that think of Jewish = Zionist. Stop making shit up.

You might be having in-group bias if you cannot see this happening.

I have never, ever heard of someone calling for the deportation of Israelis.

Calling for their in-place deaths is not a lot better. You have heard that one several times, right?

There probably should be an international wealth tax that’s completely unavoidable. Perhaps. Economists seem to disagree on this, but to me it would feel like a correct thing to do.

But saying that Bezos’s “real tax rate” is 1% is just manipulative lying.

Yeah, these figures are bullshit manipulation. The 1% “real tax rate” figure specifically comes from a fantasy where we imagine that Jeff Bezos’s net worth is his income.

I still hope Bernie Sanders is better than this, but it doesn’t look good.

As a concrete example of why this is wrong thinking, let’s consider that you buy a very nice house with a lake from a small secluded neighborhood that seems to be dying for $500K. Then let’s further imagine that you got so lucky that the house you bought was in the center of a new town that for some reason grows magnificently over the next ten years. Things like that happened all the time in the 1900s.

Your house now in worth $20M. Should you pay income tax for $19.5M even if you don’t sell the house?

It’s actually China and Russia who’s funding them currently.

If we consider UN as being the main arbitrator on who gets to launch a war, then to mention a few instances…

1950: North Korea illegally attacks South Korea.

1956: Soviet Union illegally invades Hungary.

1956: Israel / France / UK illegally invade Egypt. All invaders withdraw after UN condemnation and international pressure.

1964: USA illegally escalates Vietnam War.

1967: Israel launches the Six-Day War, illegality debated.

1968: Soviet Union illegally invades Czechoslovakia.

1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel.

1974: Turkey illegally invades Cyprus.

1978: Vietnam illegally invades Cambodia.

1979: Soviet Union illegally invades Afghanistan.

1982: Israel illegally invades Libanon.

1983: USA illegally invades Grenada.

1989: USA illegally invades Panama.

1990: Iraq illegally invades Kuwait. Got their ass kicked by UN-sanctioned forces though so that worked out fine.

1999: NATO illegally bombs Yugoslavia.

2003: US and UK illegally invade Iraq.

2008: Russia illegally invades Georgia.

2014: Russia illegally invades and annexes Crimea.

2015: Saudi-Arabia illegally invades Yemen.

2022: Russia illegally invades Ukraine.

I probably forgot a few. No ill meaning meant, just missing knowledge.

LP went full-on Trump on the last elections though. Also, they’re pro-Russia but then again so is probably America Party.

What, Yang is on board? That… suddenly changes entirely how I think about this.

South American?

If this works, it’s game over for the Republican Party.