LemoineFairclough

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[–] LemoineFairclough 1 points 1 year ago

Essentially nobody under the age of 50 dies, especially in the western world: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-by-age-group?stackMode=relative&country=OWID_WRL~European+Region+%28WHO%29

Having learned this lets me quickly resolve thoughts of "what if I die" or "what if this person who is important to me dies" because I can reasonably predict whether that death will happen soon.

[–] LemoineFairclough 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the best recommendation for you is influenced by what you like and dislike about Ledger.

Perhaps you should peruse wallet lists like https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/ https://z.cash/ecosystem/?wallets=#tag-wallets https://firo.org/get-firo/download/ or look at the project page for a cryptocurrency you're interested in as linked from https://coinmarketcap.com/ or https://www.coingecko.com/

[–] LemoineFairclough 6 points 1 year ago

This is convenient when you're sleepy but your neck may suffer for it

[–] LemoineFairclough 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To represent a number using Babylonian Cuneiform Numbers, you choose a symbol to represent 10 ((2*2*2)+2) and a symbol to represent 1, and you create them combined in groups that are summed together to represent numbers up to 59 (10+10+10+10+10+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1). When one group is to the left of another, the group to the left represents a number that is 60 times greater than it would if the group to its right hadn't been created. A symbol representing a group that sums to 0 was sometimes used.

The Numberphile channel created videos on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR3zzQP3bII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9m2jck1f90

[–] LemoineFairclough 3 points 1 year ago

Basically any competent person able to visit a library has been able to design nuclear weapons since the 1960s

People were executed for sharing information that seems to be readily available on wikipedia today. However, it seems every well-funded group has and always will take equally long to produce nuclear weapons, even if they're in iran:

the pace of the Soviet program was set primarily by the amount of uranium that it could procure

[–] LemoineFairclough 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't say how useful the sorting is!

[–] LemoineFairclough 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure why this person talks about cash so much while also claiming that "Chivo Wallet" is used by some people. I use cash to pay for goods and services like electricity and running water, as well as to avoid having my property or wages seized for failing to pay taxes. Is purchasing those things with Chivo Wallet significantly more difficult than purchasing them with cash?

It's clear to me that exchanging physical cash is the most anonymous way to move assets, and that paying to keep IRS agents away from my house is the best use of cash (with purchasing stamps from the USPS coming in a distant second). However, that did not seem to be the post's main point.

I do wish this person used a federated service instead of reddit so I could more easily discuss these things.

[–] LemoineFairclough 1 points 1 year ago

Following someone else's instructions can save time and effort, but this is only beneficial if the "followers" are also actively investing time and effort in something worthwhile.

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