Right now it’s mostly unidirectional. There’s a satellite constantly broadcasting the blockchain, and if you want to publish a transaction you need to get it back to civilization somehow. So isolated communities would need payment channels with really slow (weeks) settlements.

You can use Starlink too but yeah like you said that’s not cheap or easy.

That’s a little bit easier because they’d “only” need a satellite dish and battery backup. It’s less dependent on local infrastructure.

No one forces a company to take VC money.

Landlords

Don’t forget monopolists like Bill Gates, who destroy more with deadweight loss than they even can give back.

Do either of them talk about it at all? I only see it discussed here. Most Americans don’t mind genocide at all anyways.

Consider hosting it over Tor

Does he have any useful skills? Or interests he didn’t make enough time for when he was younger?

I recently thanked my dad for not going all crazy. He fixes up old cars and takes pictures of birds.

“Get a different job” doesn’t apply when it’s stuff that everyone would want, like being able to call their family. The next person will just ask for the same thing.

Imagine installing your own satellite dish at work.

Hitler is in human heaven for the same reason some humans are in tiger heaven.

The correlation is weak and there’s no causation. If anyone reading this is depressed, please talk to someone! Feeling better won’t mean you’re dumber.

The good news: if we heard tomorrow that astronomers had discovered an exoplanet with life, it would now sound plausible.

Assuming you don’t just starve as a toddler.

Every time someone calls himself an “alpha”, I think of Brave New World, in which the speaker would not be an alpha at all.

Ackchually it’s Heimskr and GNU/Linux

I’m not going to stop figuring out if things are true just because the Nazis aren’t doing it. You’re an emu!

I think there are differences in the interests of both. Can you explain your argument here, without super obscure references?

Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don’t.

They’re infamously difficult to fight.

It does. Here’s my fav concise critique of capitalism:

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

— Muammar Gaddafi