jabjoe @ jabjoe @feddit.uk

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Manipulating currency is a useful tool. If you don't think so, that makes you more liberian than me.

Like many here, I'm big into open source, and card payment systems are an issue. Crypto is one solution to that. Crypto has advantages, but it falls down as a currency because of blind faith in the invisble hand.

IP on crops is a legitimate problem. I didn't see anything about terminator seeds, but honestly wouldn't surprise me. Saving lives can all to be often at odds with making money. Plan probably is to take over the market and then ratchet up the price...

Ah yes, that will make new Torys. Boot camp. Break their will to make them into good/conservative citizens. Don't see that working.... though I can see old voters (who didn't actually do it either) might think that.

So Tree Tabs built in? I've used them for so long, I don't know how other manage without them. Yet I know no one else who uses them, even after I show them. Be interesting see how well the new built in ones work.

Everyone has hardware enough already. Your phone is perfectly good enough. For tills it will be easier to implement. No nonsense with a card machine and things like WorldPay and whole locked down PC. The hardware and platform wouldn't matter.

From what I found, and varies due to values/date, looks like a PoW transaction is about 2+ million times more energy than traditional banking. PoS is over 1000 times less than PoW, so about 2+ thousands times traditional banking. But transitional banking has other problems. For one, the market of payment is stitched up. Not like openness of a crypto currency.

Advantages of cash and digital, without the swings of raw crypto. Also leaving the ability to usefully manipulate your country's currency.

Crypto means easy, open payment systems. No gatekeepers like WorldPay.

Proof of stake uses a load less than proof of work.

Be really good if currencies could go in and out of crypto. Could cut out a lot of middle men.

They think they have a captured market. They aren't completely wrong. Normies don't know how to sail the high seas.

It literally calls itself the leader of the free world.

Yes it jails waaaayyyy too many of its own people, but voting and the rule of law still mostly work. Unlike countries like China and Russia.

That is exactly how it self identifies. There is a lot to be questioned it that though. But it's a lot freer than China or Russia or many others.

To be honest, we'll see about the US. With a Trump present who doesn't like democracy and rule of law, but does like Putin, not sure how much the US can be counted on. Or how long it will stay a free country.

The problem is power dynamic. It is a DRM service built round closed apps. You will take what you are given and like it. You can not view their cultural work without agreeing to these terms (Legally). The deal will keep getting worse until it starts losing money.

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Come on, you know. EU, UK, US, etc. The old allies.

The free countries.

Be more expensive later if Putin wins, because he won't stop at Ukraine.

Putin will want it over. It's an embarrassment to him that Ukrainians don't want him and have resisted him so effectively.

Also depends on the country. It isn't everywhere. Non-commercial file-sharing is legal in a number of European countries and I'm sure elsewhere.

It could be taken as a sign of the health of the democracy's function and technically literacy of the population. In a society of tech heads with a highly functional democracy, it would be DRM measures that would be illegal.....

Yet the UK's popular vote give Israel 12. The song wasn't strong and I did think Israel wasn't popular here right now.

Until get externalities of plastic on to the up front cost. We kind of did it on plastic bags in the UK.