We will never know where would have been if it wasn’t for the iron grip of the Christian church on western civilization for 1200+ years, but the secularization of society in the last 200 does indicate that we made rapid progress in medicine, human rights and science/technology when no longer were bound by the control structures of the church.
Absolute truth. Lol. Buddy. God doesn’t exist, you have been lied to all your life by controlling beings who wish to fill you mind with ancient fairy tales to keep you in submission. Religion is a refuge for the ignorant.
Hacker news is not the place to be spreading fear, it is a house of science and engineering. We like logic, and freedom. You are advocating for ignorance and superstition.
It’s a is ref to https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi... however I don’t think that’s really in the same class to the Eth chain split. It was a db bug, it got fixed, “infra” bugs. Eth was a forced onchain state fix. “Business logic bugs”.
It is disingenuous to point to the 2013 incident and say this proves a lack-of-decentralization myth.
Please go back to 1400 in your time machine. Those of us who live in the 21st century have no interest in your medieval fantasies.
The only controversy is that your parents, your peers have totally warped your world view to remove compassion, logic and reason. If it wasn’t so such a deadly result for the rest of us, I would say it was sad. But we must not be sad, me must call out a destructive though process that actively regresses humanity and ensure that it cannot harm others.
And Usury was well known to the ancients as one way to destroy a society.
Rent is not the basis of savings through investment, yield is; of which rent is one kind. Renting a movie at blockbuster made sense in the 90s as plastic shells of magstripe were a scarce good. Today, literally millions of devices could stream their entire lib for free via ad supported streaming apps.
We live in different times. Holding on to artificial constraints for old-times business model nostalgia will look so quaint in a few decades.
Uber and AirBnB didn’t get to where they are today without breaking a few laws and regulations. Archiving the digital legacy of our planet is far more important than imaginary property fantasies.
No not really. And I am childfree forever so I don’t have to put up with the little pestilence beasts and their Petri dish school crud. Very lucky!
Some occasional subway crud but when you catch COVID over and over again you lose weeks of your life. Also Because colds don’t cause long term damage, blood clots, etc.
This isn’t another cold. It could be mild, or you could wind up with complications from blood clots and inflammation for the next year, more…
That losing your taste? That’s brain damage, buster. Yeah just a cold…
Years ago I saw a NZ comedian called “boy with the tape on his face” with some Spanish speakers. They LOVED it, as did I. This is a wordless comedy show that also transcends language. He is known as “tape face” today with residency in Vegas.
There is something special and innately human about visual and physical comedy transcending language. Strongly recommended.
It’s just the clarity of thought that our lives will be in a cycle of pestilence and sickness until we die. Every 2020 fear of end of society will manifest in the next 6 months.
This is manifesting now with fiat vs Bitcoin. Fiat has a negative real interest rate. Bitcoin is for saving, and has a floating rate for exchange.
We don’t need the control of a CBDC. Bitcoin cannot be inflated or controlled by a State. The hardest money is one that cannot manipulated at a whim by elected or unelected humans.