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CanofWorms
5m ago
I finished *The Poisonwood Bible and while I thought the first 2/3's and the lead up to
I'm on to To Kill a Mockingbird. I haven't read this book since I was probably 14 and want to revisit it. I'm surprised at how much of the story I don't remember.
Out of curiosity have you read To The Stars? It explores a kind of similar idea.
Mild spoilers (worldbuilding elements): ||Eventually they interact with an alien society structured around the idea that individuals have a prefspec (preference specification) that they can modify at will which determines their compulsions and interests. An individual can decide to modify their own prefspec to better match their desired goals. For example someone planning to be a parent could self-adjust to enjoy the nurturing and caring components more than they otherwise would.
This also allows for prefspec negotiation, where individuals or groups can negotiate mutual modifications to each others' prefspecs to reach compromises between what would have been mutually incompatible values. Factions end up trading prefspec modifications between each other, sometimes for material compensation or sometimes for prefspec modifications in other areas.||
It's a pretty neat exploration of the concept, but it does start pretty deep into the story.
JarJarJedi
27m ago
It's an interesting question whether Coinbase is already qualifying as "too big to fail". I'd say probably not yet, but could become before this decade is over. Of course, massive regulatory interventions would accompany that.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
30m ago
Having asked my wife to please move out, I now wait for our daughter to wake up. All I want to do at present is make sure the little one has a nice day.
These are very long minutes. Hence, pointless posting.
JarJarJedi
47m ago
My theory of crypto value is that most of the coin gets stolen every few years.
If by "the coin" you mean bitcoin, it's not true. Currently, about 20 mln bitcoin is outstanding. Known bitcoin thefts, as far as can see, over all history, amount to under 1.5 million, and significant part of it has been recovered. Of course, some thefts may not be discovered until the funds are moved - if somebody knows your keys, you wont know it until they move the coins. But then it doesn't make any difference on the pricing. As I see from reports, e.g. https://river.com/learn/who-owns-the-most-bitcoin/ most bitcoin is owned by individuals, and the largest custodian of bitcoin is Coinbase, which holds around 10% of the supply. Which puts it in roughly the same position as Chase bank (the largest US bank) has in dollar economy.
If you talk about shitcoins, anything is possible, it's a wild chaos and pretty much any wild claim could be true for some subsets of them.
There‘s only like 6 bitcoin left in circulation, that‘s why they are getting bid so strongly.
That's hilariously far from truth, Coinbase alone has over 2 millions, and since it holds the keys for every single one of those, it can trivially recover coins that are known to be stolen. And if they are not known to be stolen, again, there's no difference in economic effects - if the original owner did not intend to move them and also the thief doesn't move them, there's zero effect. One can only wonder - why would anybody bother to steal anything in order to never ever use it?
Tree
1hr ago
My theory of crypto value is that most of the coin gets stolen every few years. The thieves, fearing being connected to the crime through the ledger, never dare to touch their ill-gotten gains. One day, as we all must, they die, rich in spirit, and their cursed coins follow them into the grave.
Destroying money is strongly deflationary. There‘s only like 6 bitcoin left in circulation, that‘s why they are getting bid so strongly.
jkf
1hr ago
If your parents are over 60, they are presumably no longer expected to be taking a hand in managing your online activities? (if not, better not tell them about The Motte!)
I'd think that this level of technical incompetence would be a pretty big outlier for anyone much younger than that (ie. current parents of young children) -- anyone I know born after 1970ish can certainly find and navigate parental controls if they have to.
jkf
2hr ago
Bunker fuel seems to be something like $500/MT -- so 6 tonnes saved per day is ~$3k I guess?
Not nothing, but the NPV might be a bit tough; not sure how much these sails cost?
magic9mushroom
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2hr ago
My point is that uncritically quoting propaganda like this might mislead people.
hanikrummihundursvin
4hr ago
Considering what's on display, it doesn't seem very complicated to boss them around. As they look to be captive by the same process that most others are captive by. The belief is that the ingroup needs to sacrifice to make amends with the outgroup.
People who hold this belief feel it is their moral right to sacrifice other peoples children to make the bigger picture come together. And considering it has been decided as an economic policy to move vast amounts of third world browns around, and Europe has built a justice system based on European peoples and their comparatively more peaceful and redeemable criminals, what else is there for these judges to do? Just like the government and journalists in Sweden who hide the knowledge of race based crime statistics from the public in the name of solidarity and progress. It's literally the only play that makes sense when holding oneself to egalitarian priors.
Judges being people doesn't seem to be a problem at all. It actually looks like a perfectly functioning limb of an unassailable system that one can't be against without being literally Hitler.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Uh, not to be too indecorous but what was the typical BMI of a member? I suspect that most of these single women were not very appealing to men.
Quantumfreakonomics
4hr ago
Not that the Catholic Church cares much about doctrinal integrity these days, but there are at least two major heresies in this interpretation, the heresy of monothelitism and the heresy of adoptionism.
odd_primes
4hr ago
Washington DC will go into a near full death spiral as a city over the next decade-plus. It will be 2040 before anyone considers living there again.
This seems unlikely to me, the DC area has gentrified a lot and they are one of the main beneficiaries of the federal government money printer. A serious effort to relocate core government functions to other parts of the country would kneecap the city, but look how DOGE turned out...
Yes, you are probably thinking of Twin Flames Universe. Leadership encouraged several cisgender women, who had no prior indication of being trans, to transition to men.
ETA: I did some brief searching on Twin Flames Universe to determine why members are mostly women. It seems like the marketing and messaging about spiritual counterparts, inner healing, emotional transformation, etc. appeal to women more than men.
It seems like there is an opportunity to improve upon this model. Once you have a lot of lonely single females in your cult it seems like you could pivot the marketing/messaging to attract lonely single men to keep the gender ratio in balance. You need to have different roles for the men that are more appealing, instead of trying to force all members into a model that appeals mostly to females.
JarJarJedi
4hr ago
I still don't understand the economy. The volume of this can't be large - I never actually witnessed anybody buying anything, I assume that somebody does, but not that frequently. The clothes themselves seem to be pretty standard ones, similar to what I see in every store, not some junk or second hand ones, so they must cost something? How these costs are covered? How are they ensured against loss or theft? How much can they be sold for to make it viable - I mean, I can just go to the store and buy the same, so it has to be significantly cheaper than in the store, but it's not that expensive in the store already. I mean, I can buy a shirt at Costco for something like 10 bucks or less, if price is what I'm after, how much lower can they go and still be profitable on low volumes?
quiet_NaN
4hr ago
Well, he was trying to hire what he believed to be a 15yo sex worker, not luring 8yo's into his van.
While I think that putting him in a person with authority over minors (e.g. teacher, youth pastor, pediatrician) would be a bad idea, I also think that jobs where he just might have occasional contact with minors seem non-problematic. Car mechanics typically do not spend a lot of time alone with kids, for example. Nor do construction workers.
In most jobs, you have fewer opportunities to groom minors during working hours than you have once your shift is over. Even working in a supermarket would be fine. Sure, there is some chance that he ends up with another 15yo alone in the market, but "trying to get random 15yo girls to do sex work" is much stupider than "trying to hire a 15yo sex worker".
JarJarJedi
5hr ago
That's exactly why I said "not your keys, not your coins". If you keep the keys, none of the blowups can hurt you, ever (well, if you keep away from shitcoins and NTFs, of course) - whatever happens, if you owned 1 BTC, you'll still own it as long as you have the key (and nobody else does). If you play speculative games (like, trade shitcoins, etc.) then well, it gambling, and you may lose all your money at any moment. So coming at it, decide if you're there to invest or to gamble. Both can be done, but the way they are done are very different.
Ah I liked it better before the edit. Alas.
What a touching read.
If nothing else I hope the readers get a sense of the very sincere courtesy which I am attempting to extend.
Anyway thanks. I don't think I'm actually saying anything our forefathers didn't already know; only, they seem to have dropped the ball on actually saying it and people have clearly forgotten.
The question of why this should be is a really good one. Next week's chapter sheds a bit of light, and we get to the next proximal answer in about a month or so, but the true answer doesn't come until... I'm not even sure if it's book two or three, yet.
You had asked before how I managed to come by this perspective without apparently relying upon the same literature with which you're familiar. Perhaps you withdrew the question because you sensed, correctly, that the less I say about myself the better. There's a reason people don't talk about these things, and it's a compelling one.
JarJarJedi
5hr ago
What do you think of "gym muscles"? Referring here to the idea that musculature bought in the gym is less effective than muscles bought by manual labor.
Less effective doing what? Manual labor? Well, yes, you'd do best what you do a lot. And yes, the guy who spent years hitting, would hit better than the guy who spent years lifting metal things, but never actually hit anything. But yeah as others noted, if you work out, you'd get stronger and better in other things where strength matters, even if training for those things specifically would have made you even better.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
USA actually uses way more freight rail than comparable countries. It's just mostly a different basket of goods getting hauled that way- and partly to different places, the rail system was built when population distribution was way different.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
5hr ago
I know on repositioning cruises (where the goal is to keep costs low) they travel at about 16 to 18 knots so 13 under sail power would be a pretty substantial portion of the propulsion fuel needs.
Similar to this, I'm always surprised more US goods aren't long hauled by trains, too. It seems crazy that it's worth 50 people to haul two containers each rather than one train to hail 100 cars but the busy interstates suggest I must be missing something.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Wasn't there a matchmaking cult which forced a bunch of members to gender transition because the gender balance was off?
Ireland and the vast majority of the British empire, including Western countries like Canada, Australia...
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