Response from my Congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky (9th District, Illinois): Thank you for contacting me to express your concerns about police violence, brutality, and lack of accountability. I appreciate

Response letter from US Senator from Illinois Tammy Duckworth: Thank you for contacting me about the horrific murder of George Floyd and the urgent need for comprehensive police reform. As an original

Response letter from my state senator, Laura Fine: Thank you for contacting me about this important issue. We are suffering from two pandemics in our country: Racism and COVID-19. Both require our attention,

We finally want decentralization and a free market economy! Then you don't want anything even slightly resembling the current kleptocracy and corporate centralization regime the US pretends is capitalism.

I honestly have no clue where your first interpretation comes from. After reading it again multiple times, I think you're responding to the point that if someone has more they owe more, just badly. :-)

I'm not sure I share your perspective that if a person makes $1 selling something valuable to 1 person, they are moral but if they make $1 selling to 10m people they are now immoral unless they give that

The problem is the definition of "first," and keeping it from becoming "only." Phrasing it at an either/or (as often happens even inadvertently) is the problem. You need to achieve

That's where proper institutions and planning come into play. Yes, one human Great Leader doesn't scale. However, an institution that plans ahead and inter-disciplinary teams and honest planning for the

Because state governments started reacting and ordering social distancing, shelter-in-place, etc. We've been flattening the curve... later than we should have. The federal government mostly just got in

Luke, I can barely handle the bitcoin/anarchy stuff. :-P The solution to your question is what I already stated: The scientific method. Science regularly said "well, that was wrong, gotta rethink

I agree up to a point. You cannot make progress with someone without acknowledging their humanity and perspective as valid. But... that presume their perspective is valid. Which is true more often than

So in practice, it is just taking the existing code, changing the chain ID marker, and spinning up a bunch of witnesses? That's easier than forking the existing chain?

Can someone who understands the implementation details better than little ol' me explain how a new coin and a swap thingie would be different/better than simply hard-forking the chain as is with new witnesses?

Hm. Can I post a bug report? :-) It seems the description and rules fields for a community do not support line breaks. They say you should post one rule per line, but hitting Enter does nothing; even pasting

Oh! That's an entirely different animal. I wouldn't trust any cryptocurrency that isn't 100% Free Software, frankly. I barely trust cryptocurrency at all. :-) And IMO government should be required to use

free software should not be used for political purposes Um. Did you read anything I wrote at all? Or maybe Freedom 0, as defined by the Free Software Foundation: The freedom to run the program as you wish,

This is rather older, but here's a post from Nikita Popov explaining the difference in storage in PHP 5.4: The structs have changed dramatically in PHP 7, but the basic optimization he describes is still

In brief: "A content micro-payment system that actually works and people will actually use." Really, at the end of the day that's where I see value for me. The social upheaval crypto libertarian

Ha! Yeah, the DB portability argument has been around forever and it's still not really a thing. Another one I forgot: It was considered good practice to tweak your Apache config so that all .html files

Ahso, thanks. The tutorials look useful. Bookmarked. (Meaning, will leave the tab open for the next 2 months.) The Engrave site looks like... a clone of SteemIt? It looks more like a more brand-able SteemIt