Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If it goes long enough for new production to matter, the EU is actually better equipped for a war of attrition, being bigger and having some kind of unity. Would it actually be a drawn-out war of attrition, or something else? Hard to say, because like you’ve pointed out the whole thing is so dumb.

    Again, carriers aren’t the only variable in play, even if they are very good at creating a zone of air superiority. Greenland isn’t the only theater here, it’s not a single point you can sit on top of, and it’s not even mostly inhabited. I’ll try not to repeat myself about the other factors I’ve mentioned.



  • smarter, richer, more connected

    There is no free lunch. There’s tons and tons of people who will claim to be smart, rich and connected but that actually are just grifters, and if they can prove otherwise they’re absolutely going to bill for their time. And then there’s also grifters who will bill for their time, some of whom are one or more of those things.

    I should also point out that smarter is largely independent of the other two. And that trading on non-public information can be illegal, especially in developed countries.

    Basically, if you’re speculating on land somewhere you need to do your own homework or you’ll definitely get gotten.






  • Aren’t they still using centrally assigned Validators?

    On a bit of investigation, they run a small number and have endorsed some, but there’s many more that you could tell your own node or validator to trust. What the exact interconnection is it’s hard to say from just some searching.

    The lower computing requirements come from no mining, and no by-default storage of irrelevant historical data. A bank account with only one “node” and no internal network communications going back and forth would be a lot leaner yet, though, so it’s not the exact same thing.

    For your network traffic, are you bouncing it through an onion route for which the peers aren’t required to save records - like Tor?

    Yep, exactly. There’s no real substitute for it if you want to use the same internet as everyone else.

    It’s cool that my instance let me sign up with just an essay instead of going through all the hoops you usually have to, although we’re unsurprisingly having the start of a spam problem.

    Honestly I don’t recognize your username, but since you’re privacy focused I assume you just change it. It’s been a long time. ❤️

    I do, and it has, but I hate to say I can’t be sure we met. When I started out it was small and obscure but not name-basis small.








  • A “handmade, museum-quality reproduction” painting sounds a little bit too good to be true

    Wait which part? It’s a thing, there is or was a city in China where making hand reproductions is their main industry, but it sounds like you specifically went looking so that’s not a surprise.

    If you’re sus because of the price: Cheap third-world labour. Actually, you could probably find even cheaper, since $335 is still a bit. If you’re wondering if it will actually be “museum quality”, well, that’s an advertising term and not a meaningful thing in the first place. It’s all down to how experienced the particular artist is, and there’s of course a risk that they won’t ship you the thing described at all.