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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Let's say that a warmer earth actually is good for the human race. How will CO2…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 28, 2011, 07:37:26 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I'm guessing that in libertarian utopia, everyone would be equal in the eyes of…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 21, 2011, 10:15:14 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Global Warming and air pollution is a stickier problem because nobody owns the c…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 20, 2011, 10:35:47 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I'm just questioning the opposite extreme because I like questioning Then the sh…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 20, 2011, 06:03:25 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
You know what? Screw global warming for now. How would a libertarian society han…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 20, 2011, 02:09:04 PM |
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Margin Trading and Options Soon on MTGox Speculation
On a different tangent, Joel, do you remember the guy who mentioned that 'merged…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 09:46:07 PM |
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Margin Trading and Options Soon on MTGox Speculation
Jered mentioned that TradeHill had this in the works at Google last week.Jered w…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 09:43:28 PM |
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Margin Trading and Options Soon on MTGox Speculation
Jered mentioned that TradeHill had this in the works at Google last week.
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 07:30:59 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Interesting that you think that. That's not my experience. You charge what your…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 11:57:04 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
QuoteDo you still live under the delusion that what you pay and what cost the co…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 10:08:04 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
QuoteDo you still live under the delusion that what you pay and what cost the co…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 06:17:23 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
A libertarian/Ron Paul society should support a gas tax. If there is a specfic…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 19, 2011, 02:34:52 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Have a look at how the power is being sold back to the grid. Especially the pric…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 18, 2011, 12:33:45 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
So if you design a new car, and you find a flaw in the design, would it be cheap…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 16, 2011, 01:51:46 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
There's an old truth saying that the longer you wait the more expensive and hard…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 15, 2011, 06:24:58 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Does it really matter if it takes a century to materialize?Yes, it really does m…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 13, 2011, 05:55:30 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
That's an interesting graph, but there are no scales to make comparisons.Sorry.…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 06, 2011, 11:33:27 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
It's not an example of an environment we can survive because nothing remotely cl…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 06, 2011, 01:36:26 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
"how could a closed carbon cycle with a finite amount of carbon in it possibly c…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 05, 2011, 02:09:34 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I don't know what climate engineering you're talking about so I can't really com…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 02, 2011, 05:22:26 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I'd say it can work both ways. Currently virtually everyone who knows anything a…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 01, 2011, 04:59:29 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
The argument that you have to go with what you know? Sounds strange because what…
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n/a | JoelKatz | December 01, 2011, 02:56:33 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say with this? I'm saying that that ar…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 30, 2011, 10:50:17 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
To be fair though, we don't have all the facts and things could change in the fu…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 29, 2011, 08:04:52 PM |
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Disappearing Bitcoins Bitcoin Technical Support
I'm missing something here. Doesn't the wallet key pool prevent this from happe…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 28, 2011, 01:13:45 AM |
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Disappearing Bitcoins Bitcoin Technical Support
Unless you know exactly what you're doing (or are using a deterministic wallet),…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 26, 2011, 07:07:04 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
Hi David,What are your thoughts on the final 0.5.0 release?Unfortunately, I've b…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 25, 2011, 04:17:33 PM |
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Blockchain weaknesses, how does bitcoin solve/protect against it ? Beginners & Help
So perhaps the blockchain itself is never pruned ?!? The tail is never cut off !…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 23, 2011, 01:19:29 PM |
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Blockchain weaknesses, how does bitcoin solve/protect against it ? Beginners & Help
Let's see if I understand correctly, and then examine a possible way of totally…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 23, 2011, 01:17:06 PM |
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Blockchain weaknesses, how does bitcoin solve/protect against it ? Beginners & Help
However this does present a problem for the future: the idea was to "cut away th…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 22, 2011, 12:15:15 PM |
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What if a Country were to start its own Cryptocurrency Altcoin Discussion
I don't think it would be rational for a country to start a cryptocurrency based…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 21, 2011, 06:29:02 PM |
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[PATCH] getblockbycount, getblockbyhash RPCs Development & Technical Discussion
Doesn't this code access mapBlockIndex without holding the cs_main lock? If that…
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n/a | JoelKatz | November 02, 2011, 06:07:36 PM |
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How is done GPU hostility ? Development & Technical Discussion
i think its memory(cache) intensive code, instead of computation intensive code.…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 27, 2011, 10:40:22 PM |
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The Dangerous State of Bitcoin (.com) Bitcoin Discussion
Only because the government will happily bail them out in the end. That's the on…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 27, 2011, 10:02:58 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
http://davids.webmaster.com/~davids/bitcoin-4diff-5beta.txtThis is a "first work…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 27, 2011, 09:56:52 PM |
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The Dangerous State of Bitcoin (.com) Bitcoin Discussion
If Bitcoin dies out, we will learn from the experience and replace it with somet…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 27, 2011, 06:09:21 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
Since there can be no FDIC in bitcoin, people will probably not want to bank wit…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 27, 2011, 04:50:37 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
Banks use fractional reserve banking to increase or decrease the money supply an…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 26, 2011, 11:54:17 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
While you can barter with debt it isn't money and thus isn't part of the money s…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 26, 2011, 08:38:21 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
I hate to quote wikipedia but:QuoteIn economics, the money supply or money stock…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 26, 2011, 05:57:24 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, you can say that the 5,000 IOU adds additional 5,000 bitcoins into the econ…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 26, 2011, 03:39:29 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
I still think you're wrong about this. Imagine Alice, Bob, and Charlie make up t…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 26, 2011, 03:35:02 PM |
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The Bitcoin deflation annoyance Bitcoin Discussion
Despite the current trend of Bitcoins losing value against the dollar I think lo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 25, 2011, 03:41:23 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
Quote from: JoelKatzawesomenessIs there one in the pipeline for 0.5? The RPC cha…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 25, 2011, 03:34:47 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
Have anyone tested out the 0.4 beta patch successfully?Any comparison with the 0…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 23, 2011, 06:41:12 PM |
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Problems compiling Bitcoin 0.4.0 in Windows 7 x64 (MinGW Environment) Bitcoin Technical Support
Well, you can use quick hacks to solve these specific issues. Remove the definit…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 22, 2011, 03:37:46 PM |
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Problems compiling Bitcoin 0.4.0 in Windows 7 x64 (MinGW Environment) Bitcoin Technical Support
I don't believe you can compile the Windows GUI version under MinGW. You should…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 22, 2011, 01:43:33 PM |
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Computers and steps Off-topic
I believe using search engines leads to memory loss. There are studies. Is this…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 21, 2011, 03:57:44 PM |
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I am very confused. Off-topic
If you take all the 20 something men over the last decade, tally up every penny…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 20, 2011, 07:09:35 PM |
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Is there a difficulty adjustment limit? Bitcoin Discussion
I see.The reason I asked was because I though this might be exploitable in some…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 20, 2011, 04:32:59 PM |
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I am very confused. Off-topic
Though, when I was selling life insurance, our recommendation was to buy declini…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 20, 2011, 04:29:41 PM |
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I am very confused. Off-topic
Over their lifetimes, the vast majority of people will pay significantly MORE fo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 20, 2011, 12:56:03 PM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
This sounds like a great implementation strategy to me. "Greenifying" a transact…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 19, 2011, 01:12:58 PM |
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Crazyness Build Time CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Ok, well I have 4 pcmcia connectors so Im going to try it out on them when they…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 18, 2011, 08:54:11 PM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
they just have to trust it on a scale from 1 to 6, and knock off some required c…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 18, 2011, 05:44:03 PM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
Rather than two transactions, if MtGox were willing to keep a small amount like…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 18, 2011, 04:45:03 PM |
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Crazyness Build Time CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
How do you connect a graphics card to a USB port?!Well, it looks like you can ta…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 18, 2011, 01:37:26 PM |
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Any way to get client startup faster? Development & Technical Discussion
I did some benchmarking of client startup.Did your profiling tool allocated some…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 18, 2011, 01:32:42 PM |
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Crazyness Build Time CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
How do you connect a graphics card to a USB port?!
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 17, 2011, 07:25:03 PM |
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I am very confused. Bitcoin Discussion
What is confusing is that people are declaring it dead because it can't maintain…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 17, 2011, 07:22:58 PM |
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Any way to get client startup faster? Development & Technical Discussion
I did some benchmarking of client startup. About 75% of it is validating the blo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 17, 2011, 07:19:29 PM |
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[20 BTC] Multithreaded Keep-alive Implementation in Bitcoind Project Development
...Hi. Do you have plans for bitcoin v0.4? Current patches are incompatible wit…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 17, 2011, 01:50:49 PM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
Re: key rotation, ssl listHowever, it does suggest a superior scheme.I haven't y…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 16, 2011, 01:43:50 PM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
mtgox.com could just expose a list of recent transaction hashes that it has gene…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 16, 2011, 12:07:43 AM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
It is usually seen as a good thing to not use the same public/private key pair f…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 16, 2011, 12:04:19 AM |
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Problems with Bitcoin 0.4 and truecrypt Beginners & Help
i don't know if this is the issue or not, but i seem to recall not being able to…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 15, 2011, 04:07:41 AM |
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MtGox: Green address option Bitcoin Discussion
why? its not sub-optimal...It's sub-optimal because it at least doubles the numb…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 15, 2011, 04:01:32 AM |
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The Fallacy of Having to "Absorb Bitcoins" Speculation
The current market price already takes into account the fact that there will be…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 13, 2011, 01:07:06 PM |
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New Ixcoin fork -> I0coin Altcoin Discussion
I have not asked or imposed on anyone to cover my losses.I agree. But you could…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 03, 2011, 11:24:19 PM |
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New Ixcoin fork -> I0coin Altcoin Discussion
He's lost ~200 btc already trying to do this community a favor. Please give him…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 03, 2011, 09:18:13 PM |
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New Ixcoin fork -> I0coin Altcoin Discussion
The withdraw function for IOC is locked up incidentally. And it might be nice to…
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n/a | JoelKatz | October 03, 2011, 08:38:32 AM |
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IDEA: Anonymous, revocable transactions Development & Technical Discussion
The standard script doesn't actually contain an opcode to encrypt/decrypt anythi…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 30, 2011, 11:10:13 PM |
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The Myth of Government Debt Economics
I'm not sure I follow, but yes even for TIPS. Well then could you answer the imp…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 30, 2011, 09:04:50 AM |
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The Myth of Government Debt Economics
Well I'm sorry to inform you, but you have been the victim of a very effective p…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 30, 2011, 07:13:46 AM |
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Hold your horses. Speculation
No, they are not accountable. What you describe is simply good customer service…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 30, 2011, 05:21:50 AM |
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A case AGAINST merging Namecoin and Bitcoin mining [Converted to SUPPORT!] Bitcoin Discussion
Namecoin data (unrelated to bitcoin) is added to the bitcoin block chain, thus m…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 25, 2011, 11:07:36 PM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
Sure, CPUs do all sorts of things better than GPUs. CPUs are great at managing i…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 24, 2011, 07:08:57 PM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
If they had an FPGA already it wouldn't be a waste of money and 100 megahash wou…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 23, 2011, 06:05:23 PM |
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Proposed solution for incorrectly entered BitCoin addresses Beginners & Help
I actually did send bitcoins (with no fee) to another wallet on a smartphone, bu…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 23, 2011, 08:57:07 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
I predict it'll take... mmm... 3 weeks after source code is released for the fir…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 22, 2011, 10:05:53 PM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
By the way, if you want a good argument to use, it's this: Mining algorithms tha…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 20, 2011, 04:40:14 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
Well you may be able to do a single hash in a 'split second' but the point is to…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 20, 2011, 04:37:36 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
And yes your excess memory use ideas are still silly in that regard How so?Quote…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 20, 2011, 02:09:54 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
I just realised that + was defined as concatenation. Can't think of an attack on…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 17, 2011, 10:02:54 PM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
LOL - OK I understand now - your messing with him so that he does this stupid id…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 17, 2011, 11:55:36 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
QuoteAs I said, it is not difficult to design a hash function that runs very, ve…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 17, 2011, 10:16:13 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
Not sure why I need to explain this but anyway ...I will add the obvious in cont…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 17, 2011, 09:23:57 AM |
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SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs Altcoin Discussion
If GPUs were better than CPUs at every possible algorithm, why would we have CPU…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 17, 2011, 07:29:34 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I'm not clear how suggesting that exerting downward pressure on automobile accid…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 07:18:26 PM |
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Is something wrong with the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
There is a hardcoded limit implemented right now, 2 hours. So what would be the…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 07:12:47 PM |
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Question about move() command Development & Technical Discussion
Figured that accounts are only used for some sort of summaries.Let's say I have…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 07:08:21 PM |
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Is something wrong with the blockchain Development & Technical Discussion
If the protocol demanded strictly-increasing timestamps, what should you do if a…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 06:10:54 AM |
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Question about move() command Development & Technical Discussion
Addresses are assigned to accounts only to determine which account's balance to…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 06:09:24 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
The optimum amount of pollution is not zero. (If it was, we couldn't cook food o…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 06:07:51 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Tax what we want less of. Apply a zero tax, or even a negative tax to what is be…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 15, 2011, 01:28:50 AM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
I said in theory. Until I see an actual working free market solution I'm certain…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 14, 2011, 02:09:30 AM |
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hasherspersec = 0? Beginners & Help
The 'bitcoind' program itself is doing zero hashes per second. The 'accepted 16'…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 07, 2011, 01:31:52 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
There is a huge incentive for those who have invested massive emotional capital…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 06, 2011, 05:45:27 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
There's a huge incentive to distort the science when universal acceptance of glo…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 06, 2011, 05:43:58 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
Thanks for your completely theoretical speculation.If you think there's somethin…
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n/a | JoelKatz | September 06, 2011, 04:31:06 PM |
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