BlogHide Resteemseriksank (27)in life • 6 years agoWhat is the effect of democracy on women?In a democracy, women will increasingly say that they do not need men. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. This is actually quite true, because they can usually get the government to…eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoTrading in cryptocurrencies and the requirements of religious lawI have had a long conversation yesterday with someone about trading in cryptocurrencies and the requirements of religious law. The person is generally a keeper of religious law, but he was still…eriksank (27)in christianity • 7 years agoMy negative answer to the Papacy, because he is only making the problem worseThe economy - the Pope warned - cannot attempt only to increase profits by reducing the work force and thereby adding to the ranks of the excluded. It must follow the path marked out by business…eriksank (27)in technology • 7 years agoThe schools are indeed sending the kids straight to the unemployment queue but that is not even the worst problemTechnology has primarily, and still displaces, assembly-line workers and paper pushers. Anybody repeating the same operation all over again, especially within the same workday, will eventually…eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoHow to provide liquidity on the bitcoin lightning network for incoming paymentsIf you intend to spend 1 BTC from a lightning payment channel, you can just fund it with 1 BTC. The counter-party would have to fund his own outgoing channel with his counter-party, but that is…eriksank (27)in technology • 7 years agoDDOS attack on github mostly documentation bug or result of botched cloud migrationsIn my opinion, the number one reason why the DDOS attack on github.com was possible, is because of a documentation bug. The Memcached documentation discourages restricting Memcached to listening…eriksank (27)in cryptocurrency • 7 years agoThe Statists are breaking ranks. Presale of Venezuela Petro (PTR) cryptocoin started on 20 Feb 2018!According to the Venezuelan Petro whitepaper , the Petro (PTR) will be freely tradable. 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Therefore, every breakthrough in technology invalidates entire textbooks. The machine…eriksank (27)in christianity • 7 years agoFor heaven's sake, what is there so good about lawlessness?Christianity is a rich cultural background, but it has no law. Therefore, you can dress like a total slut because we all know that Jesus still loves you. How are we supposed to manage without a…eriksank (27)in funny • 7 years agoProgress in technology and non-progress in education are causing the largest unemployment wave in historySo, the child is busy memorizing what it is reading in order to sit a test tomorrow where it will write answers from memory. Oh my God, a photocopy machine can do that too. At that point, Erik's…eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoThe lightning network works almost the same as the banking systemImagine you have person who says: "I will be a bitcoin bank. Deposit your coins with me, and I will make sure to transfer your payments to other banks who service other users." You probably…eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoVenezuela is going crypto!Venezuela's trade buffers for their oil trade are controlled by New York, where the fiat banksters first extract usurious interest and loan installments for real and imaginary debt before leaving…eriksank (27)in christianity • 7 years agoMy Christian/Islamic religious viewsI was born into Catholicism. There is no papal decree excommunicating me there. "Extra ecclesiam nulla salus", meaning, there is not much fun to be had in criticizing anything else but the papacy.…eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoThe ongoing cryptocurrency warsThe cryptorevolutionary vanguard! The bitcoin political hardcore!eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoConcerning these detestable individuals, the lapsiThere are so many people in Western Europe, North America, and elsewhere who are "lapsi": sacrificati: who save fiat money in savings accounts thurificati: who take out interest-carrying…eriksank (27)in bitcoin • 7 years agoThe complexity of bitcoin is not a hopeless problemWhen you use the electricity grid, you take a plug and shove it into the outlet and expect everything to work. If we ever showed to the masses the complexity behind the outlet, i.e. how electricity…eriksank (27)in health • 7 years agoThis is my 8th day of fasting and I have never felt as good as todayI am directly at war with myself now. Every other war is obviously, indirectly also a war against myself, but now it is truly a concentrated assault on the enemy. The idea was to do it for 14 days…
