Cederfjard

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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Such as?
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Exactly. It’s not as simple as them just serving an already existing demand. They use their very considerable resources to create and maintain that demand, to the furthest extent and for as long as possible.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
What jasonkester might have been thinking of is that peers are eligible to sit in the House of Lords.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
As we figure out how to live sustainably with ten billion people (or wherever the population will cap out) with higher and higher standards, perhaps certain people’s preferences isn’t what we should optimize for. Maybe if you want to live f
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1375214071809642496 https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/i-talked-to-elon-mus... This is what I could find with a quick search regarding what Elon himse
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came... TL;DR: In the 80s, Elon’s father sold a plane for $80k, half in cash, and the rest for 50% of a Zambian emerald mine. He had it for six years and made some goo
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
What do you use the USDT for? Any type of spending?
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
You probably mean secede, but it’s nice of you to wish them well!
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
This is not the same thing that the person you were responding to was talking about. Swedish civil servants do not lead extravagant lifestyles, even at the highest levels, nor do politicians (not directly by virtue of being in politics, at
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Because bribery and ”persuasion”, as you call it, is illegal and thus carries a lot of risk? Not to mention what a PR catastrophe were it to be uncovered. Not saying that it’s impossible, but the certainty you’re expressing this theory with
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> > Lacking viable uses outside of the criminal underworld and speculation You gave numbers for criminal activity, but the original claim also included speculation. If you take that into account as well, how much do you have left then
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
This was the case in Sweden as well (probably the rest of Scandinavia too, but I don’t know for certain off the top of my head).
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
> Financially that reasoning makes sense but economically it’s stupid What’s the distinction you’re making here? To me it looks like you’re contradicting yourself, but I’m happy to admit I might be ignorant.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Do those things have no impact on revenue (or costs)?
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Yes, you’re correct.
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
To be fair, do you really expect a community as nerdy as this not to engage in pedantry about semantics? I would anticipate that in every discussion, inflammatory or not (I might even participate).
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Assertiveness and being sure of yourself can almost be considered prerequisites to becoming that successful, sure I can buy that. Doing things like constantly posting juvenile and inflammatory stuff on Twitter (such as baselessly accusing p
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
To be clear, anyone can own the freehold that you’re leasing the property from. The mention of ”Lord Such-and-Such” could give you the idea that this is some antiquated construct where all lands are somehow truly owned by the nobility, but
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
What would you have suggested instead? Adding a caveat doubling the length of the title? It’s the name of the linked post, all in line with the HN guidelines. Calling it ”clickbait” when it is exactly what it says on the tin with no decepti
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
You seem confident in this, so I assume you have run the numbers. How many support agents do you need to moderate 3bn monthly active accounts?
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
I don’t think that reasoning is necessarily unsound. For there to be regulatory capture, there needs to be regulation. The legislation proposed could be to remove or minimize that regulation, and thus limit the ”hooks” whereby to capture it
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Thanks!
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
What do I search for if I want to read up on that research?
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by Cederfjard 4y ago
Aren’t you basically repeating the same thing as the person you’re replying to? If the nation with a Bitcoin economy is threatened by the nation with a fiat economy and in the process of armament, what should they do?
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by Cederfjard 5y ago
PSA, because I’m seeing a lot of JIRA in this thread: Since the 2017 rebranding, Jira is no longer officially written in all caps: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/A... (You can argue how
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by Cederfjard 5y ago
Systems similar to this exist. They’re not (all?) anonymous, however. Every Swedish citizen and resident has a unique and dedicated number (date of birth followed by four digits), and you can use it in tandem with for example BankID ( https
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by Cederfjard 5y ago
Do you agree that without proper research backing it up, you can’t say for sure that this discrepancy is due to selection bias, even if on the surface it looks like a nice fit? If you had said that you’re looking for candidates to raise it
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by Cederfjard 5y ago
This is not backed up by any data, so I welcome being rebuked, but my gut feeling is that those people were worse off than the ones who are unionized today, so the risks were worth it. Perhaps today the calculus yields a different outcome.
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by Cederfjard 5y ago
So you're planning on paying for all of your health care out of pocket, then, since an insurance plan is right out if you don't want to help collectively shoulder the risk? I hope you've done extraordinarily well for yourself
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by Cederfjard 5y ago
Is Etsy, a public company with a valuation in the tens of billions, still a ”small business”?

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