“…the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.”

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has onion routing for privacy, like Tor.

When Bitcoin had a bug that allowed some guy to give himself a bazillion bitcoin, it was detected and patched before he was able to sell them. When Monero encounters a similar bug, it will only be detectable by the price going down.

Money in the bank can be seized and frozen for all sorts of reasons. If you’re in the USA, then police can charge your money with a crime even if you haven’t broken any laws. It’s safe until it’s not.

In both cases, only a minority of us got to enjoy those benefits.

It can’t sneeze

Back in my day all the social engineering was done to humans.

That’s when someone just quotes one sentence out of context and I am heartbroken.

Signal used to work this way and I’m still mad they dropped SMS.

In this context I think “crypto” means your message is encrypted across hops, not that you have to pay to send/receive messages.

That coward’s name? Albert Einstein.

They’re are a million wrong ways to come at the wrong conclusion. So why then would we be surprised when many of the people who come to the right conclusion still do it for a variety of reasons? Perhaps the initial premise of why copyright should exist is conceptually riddled with holes.

Owning an idea is inherently capitalist, but the average person who encounters a problem won’t spontaneously become anti-capitalist. They just know something seems wrong about this, but don’t understand why. So they make up a story to address their cognitive dissonance, like nihilism.

Name a crime

A every time. They’ve volunteered to hear my complaints.

This unraveling has been going on a lot longer than just six months. It’s been accelerating hard since the Patriot Act after 9/11. And even before that, Republicans had been lying about their support of free markets for generations.

I wish people had this

Since they’re typically masked, I’d like to see gait recognition serve the working class for once.

What did we even do all those ReCAPTCHAs for

I’ll just fork it; we can do better than this.

Simply sit down and talk to one person for an entire hour with no interruptions or change of pace whatsoever. Easy! /s

Long story short:

• Keynes wrote a fairy tale about inflation raising wages and shortening the work week
• Richard Nixon started inflation as we know it
• Economists worldwide fell into line
• Shockingly, wages didn’t go up, the work week didn’t shorten, and we now have record-breaking inequality (due to the Cantillon effect).

To this day, people who paid to “learn” the fairy tale insist that inflation is good.