pinephoneguy

Yes, note how the immigration diverges from the domestic population growth in the late 60s, the same time house price growth diverges from wage growth.

>What are you talking about 'flood gates' ?

You tell me, I didn't write that.

Housing and pay diverged because we opened the border in the middle of the last century: supply for labor went way up along with demand for housing and other essential services. Combine that with some poor decisions by the Fed and you have high inflation with low wages. I don't know why you think immigration would have any other effect, the results have been extremely clear if you look at historical data.

The US is dead; she was dealt a mortal blow in the late 60s and succumbed to her injuries around 2004. What's left is the slow decay that will take many decades. That people continue to volunteer and fight for the country surprises me but I guess not everyone has noticed yet.

Don't forget that traditional banks consume lots of energy as well. Their armies of employees and tellers are required to drive an hour or so every day, they maintain tons of physical buildings, truck around piles of physical currency etc. Traditional fiat is given legitimacy based on government's monopoly on violence inside their borders which often result in wars. Nothing is free and I'm fairly certain that crypto will end in less energy consumption, not more.

Western media has burned a lot of credibility in the West as well.

I said no hassle, that was a lot of hassle last time I tried it.

Last time I sent money to someone internationally Etherium really was pretty convenient. The Coinbase fees were a little high but otherwise it was near instantaneous, I already had some anyway, and I didn't have to deal with any real hassle.

On rethinking my statement I've realized I should encourage the Californians to stay in California and not spread communism to the rest of the country. So yeah, you can't escape the bad things by moving, stay there.

Housing in SF is crazy expensive, commuting takes ages (and we've shown it's a complete waste) and a lot of people probably don't even want to live in California.

Forget snacks, the amount of money you save by not living there and not commuting could pay for an in house chef.

I think it's not only possible, but that the US government has been infiltrated by people who want it to happen and are doing their best to push Russia into a nuclear war.

How do you do shared secret authentication in this model? I know cert based auth is far better but today many apps rely on some kind of shared secret auth. Don't you by definition trust eg LDAP/IPA servers then?

EDIT: In case it's not clear: I'm talking about employee facing software inside an organization where you might have some kind of single sign on system or a distributed account system (like IPA or LDAP.)

At the end of the day the Russians can even run their own exchanges. They have fuel and food, they're self sustaining.