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Greece actually is a country. A state. Whether it is part of the Eurozone or not doesn't change this.

Money is not magic. The value of money represents the value of the goods and services produced by the entity that issues it. Every dollar spent by government takes a dollar (of value) from its citizens, sometimes even more.

Government takes money from its citizens in two ways–

1. Taxation- front door theft en masse that is moralized by those who control the spending. A slight bit might be moral, e.g. to keep people from starving to death, but no where near what is commonly taken. "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." –The Matrix

2. Inflation– back door theft en masse that is never moral except perhaps to blunt mass murder through a war of aggression against the nation. e.g. Real national security where many millions would die otherwise, not fake national security where the government says that if you share a fact they don't want you to, you go to jail for life. It happens any time government spends money it hasn't raised through taxation. "Inflation is taxation without legislation." –Milton Friedman


This could easily have been a test value.


This might have been a test case.


Actually, no, cryptocurrencies offer a way to monetize inexpensive energy production in places with energy surpluses that can't easily move energy to places that need it.


This is actually not the case.

Because someone supports creating new laws for other kinds of marriage than traditional doesn't mean that they hate or want to limit the rights of some groups.

Eich donated significant sums of money to LGBT organizations both before and after the voter referendum.


The Firefox engine sucks. It's resource intensive, buggy, and doesn't play nice with other technologies... think Flash.

Even the former CEO of Mozilla who left and created the Brave browser decided to go with Chromium.

Right now- the only browser engines seeing a lot of action are Chromium and WebKit. Every browser is being built on one of these two engines.

I suspect even Firefox will switch over to gain the benefits of one of those engines and the number of people working on them.


KN95 masks are just rebranded PM2.5 masks that Asians wore mostly to avoid pollution particulates.


I guess the young ones here don't know how many times the news media has published stories that predicted that we were near the end of the world.


One of the greatest utilities of cryptocurrency is the ability to monetize energy where it's cheap and expensive to ship it out of country.

It effectively monetizes the inefficiencies of the energy markets.


"Ship it out of country" in what sense?

It burns the energy, providing no real value except that the coin 'exists' on the ledger. You can't use the coin for any real purpose.

Crypto finds where energy is cheapest and then ensures that it isn't cheap anymore.


> "monetize energy where it's cheap"

This is also directly responsible for increasing levels of fuels poverty and inequality. Driving up the cost of energy forces people into making decisions on whether to heat their home, cook their food, and how they live.

The direct human impact of this is really hard to justify because some capitalists in the western world want to make a few bucks.


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