Imo it has nothing to do with head of state, no one living abroad permanently should vote in their home country. I get the reason, they’re citizens and one of the fundamental right that comes with that is the right to vote, but it makes no sense. People should vote where they live and where their vote directly affects their them.
No it doesn’t. The government has nothing to do with the money supply (as long as the CB is independent). Central banks create currency, commercial banks borrow from the central bank and create by far the largest part of money supply by giving loans.
You’re clearly still in the honeymoon phase, so I won’t argue further. I know how Bitcoin works and all my points stand. In any case, this thread isn’t about crypto, but about banking. As the other person noted, having credit cards in your home is obviously not the same as BTC keys…
I’m a bit torn on Bitcoin. I used to think the same as you, but now it seems to me that Bitcoin is way too easy to control. State actors could quite easily acquire enough hash power to take over the network, mining is too concentrated already. I think Monero is much more true to the original idea of Bitcoin, probably also one of the reasons it’s always branded as a coin for criminals, to prevent people from looking into it.
It’s also, unfortunately, just not that practical. Most people don’t want to be their own bank. Your “unless you fuck up” is not quite true, what do you do if someone breaks into your house and threatens to shoot you if you don’t hand over your keys? That’s the true purpose of a bank, outsourced security.
While crypto is cool, it’s not required to solve this, full-reserve banking would be sufficient.
Banks are the largest mafia on the planet. They literally have a license to print money. Not even the government can do this. When things go south, they are bailed out with our money. Even after the worst crisis, they have a ridiculously low capital requirement of 2.5%.
Never expect criminal scum to just accept one of their sources of income being taken away.
Wasn’t Tor a government project?
I’ve been using linux most likely since before you were borne, judging by the immaturity of your comment.
What does his comment have to do with mine or anyone’s ego? How would forking Linux make his statement less political?
Yes, it does make sense to have them connected, but not to the internet. They should use a company intranet.
Not that hard… why was this connected to internet at all? To be able to manage it remotely is a dumb excuse.
I agree with you. The post is a bit lengthy and baselessly suggesting that Linus was bribed to say or not say certain things was not necessary, the premise is correct though.
Humans a re political animals, claiming to be neutral is political. The choice of the social warrior term is also clearly political, whether he realises it or not.
Well said
How about
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