MarkPNeyer

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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
What you are drafting is the difference between private ownership (ie the company is owned by current a former employees who have an incentive to keep a watchful eye for long term risks) and public ownership (ie the company is owned by anyo
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
That someone is you, you are the one to mention it. If you think racism can’t be applied to some people because they have magical immunity due to their skin color, you’re a racist.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Do you think it’s OK for the FBI to go work with massive corporations to try and “manage” a public conversation?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Completely agree! A world with lots of private property that people can enter and exit freely is one compatible with liberalism. A giant privately owned public square is a terrible idea.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
The “moderate politics” community has has to stop debating certain contentious topics because the Reddit rules don’t allow one side, held by the majority of Americans, to express their view. https://www.npr.org/2022/06&
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
If you like the idea of a decnrelized network but think mastodon has problems (ie attaching your identity and friend graph to a single server) Check out nostr: https://github.com/nostr-protocol
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
This is the entire concept behind private property. Mastodon instances are all private property. They are clubs that can be run according to the wishes of the owners.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Twitter had said the exact same thing. Would you be OK if Twitter just said, “all legal speech can be up, even doxxing since that’s not illegal?”
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Note that FTX didn’t own a single bitcoin. They had lots of knockoffs, but no bitcoin.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Lots of people i think would happily accept a global authoritarian regime as long as it told the right stories about how it was Making The World Better For Everyone <3
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
What are the things that “break” if the axiom of choice is false? I’ve been wondering if the axiom of choice has some relationship to an argument for the existence of free will. Not just because they share a name, but because you can think
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Long term price stability.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
I'm a bitcoin maxi. > there is nothing “good” about this. There totally is, but the good is only apparent to people with the perspective of most of our ancestors. Nixon took us off the gold standard in 71', and yet he lied at
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Nothing in life is risk free. The phrase "land of the free, home of the brave" has to be read as "land of the free, because we are brave enough to take personal responsibility for our freedoms, rather than entrusting powerful
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
2) You can't have power without responsibility. If you want money that can be 'fixed' for you by the authorities, well, that's what you'll get. They'll fix it for you real good.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
I would be much more worried about the future if not for bitcoin. It’s the “distributed remainder” you are taking about, and what we are betting one is for the governments of the world to print so much money that everyone loses faith in the
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
People have been doing cancel culture from time immemorial. It seems to be a default in human behavior unless there are ideas specially saying, “don’t do this.” These ideas used to be called “liberalism.” What seems to have changed, from my
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
This is the best argument for bitcoin. Even Democratic “rule of law” places like Canada can seize your funds for engaging in “politically incorrect” behavior.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
I recently read and have very much enjoyed a book called “stop fixing yourself.” It pointed out that the best way to improve yourself is to learn to understand yourself better. When I stop judging myself, it’s easier to understand the cause
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Can you name some notion of “good” that doesn’t run the risk of going into “ends justify the means” territory?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
This is a first world perspective. You clearly live with a political stable government you can trust not to steal from you or imprison you for engaging in political protests. People in such places are using decentralized assets to protect t
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
On the contrary, they were being touted as a shining example of responsible crypto. They paid for a good reputation by donating to the “correct” causes and politicians.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
This quote is very interesting because he seems to try and argue for its legitimacy at the end. “Is that even wrong,” he asks. You get the impression that he believes in something like a postmodern theory of value that says, you need nothin
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
What percentage of the internet consists of pornography and scams? I’m sure the AOL walled garden had much higher quality content than the internet at large.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Why would you use anything but a logarithmic scale to understand an asset over long periods of time?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
When money can be printed, you should expect most wealth to flow to people who get closer to the money printer. When money can’t be stolen and can only be created by means of enormous effort, money should flow to those capable of maximally
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Here’s SBF describing that he totally understood the ponzi nature of these coins but that he basically didn’t expect there to be “people calling bullshit in a coordinated manner.” https://nitter.it/coryklippsten/status&
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
My own experience as an amateur writer is that my writing is now far better because I can add relevant images much more easily.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
The author doesn’t understand bitcoin; The pie chart is misleading. All you have to do to see that it is wrong is see how the chart has changed over time. Why isn’t one big mining pool taking all the others? Why did the miners lose the bloc
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Substack has been great for this. Lots of long-form blogs, some of which readers pay directly. Journalists like Matt Taibbi and Matt Yglesias are there.

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