MarkPNeyer

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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
This trend has been changing over time, though. Democrats are losing poorer voters and gaining among highly educated, and higher earning voters.
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
This framing carries the kind of contempt that propels poorer people to vote Republican. They consistently feel contempt from democrats. Should it be surprising why?
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
Would you say you're at all surprised at how long bitcoin has lasted, or how high the price is now? What kind of data would change your mind?
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
> the tech is fundamentally inferior to status quo for the things they propose it solves, and at this point I think it's been long enough to judge. What do you know about bitcoin's lightning network? How would you respond to p
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
> I’ve often wished there were a way to organize against crypto, From my perspective, it's a peaceful revolution against a corrupt global status quo. The only people hurt by this false perception (bitcoin makes renewables more profi
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
This isn’t true at all. Mining involves guessing a salt which, when added to data for a single block’s with of transactions, makes the hash have a certain sum of zeros. They are only the same in that they are using randomness to search for
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
All of this makes sense if you assume people won’t build new power plants for bitcoin. But they already are. They are renewable plants because these are now much cheaper. Bitcoin acts as a subsidy for the construction of new green power pla
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
Who is doing the selling? Since nobody is in charge you should expect most sellers to be full of nonsense and misinformed. That’s the nature of any decentralized movement - especially one as directly antagonistic to the status quo.
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
This article fits perfectly with something Orwell wrote, about how the use of complex language gives bad ideas an heir of authority. The example of the chair, where the author asserts that “functional definitions are wrong, only ‘structural
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
> . Speculation doesn't add to the conversation. In the absence of evidence This is an interesting claim. Do you have evidence for it?
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
I agree with your analysis here, although from what I understand he argues that these phenomena have to do with working for big companies. The book “developer hegemony” makes a similar argument and argues that the “way out is to have lots o
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
I agree with you. There are literally dozens of us!
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
Here’s what I am told to believe by everyone at these big tech companies: > bias is inescapable, you can’t stop doing it even if you don’t want to be biased, it’s impossible not to have an implicit preference for your race or identify gr
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
The role of the church 400 years ago is now similar to that played by the technocracy today.
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
Or if you have totally unshakeable faith in it, because you see us heading towards a game-theoretic attractor where bitcoin is the primary global store of value. That's worked for me :)
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
https://reason.com/video/2021/02/05/bitcoin-is-protecting-hu... Bitcoin is used by people under authoritarian regimes around the world. IF nothing else, i'm happy to support people protesting in bel
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
> but no real valid reason to do so yet (that I’ve heard). I hold because i expect us to continue approaching the game-theoretic attractor. I've held for years and will keep holding. Every year, i see more and more people coming ar
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
The tulip derivative bubble lasted for a few months; beanie babies were a year or two at most. Bitcoin is over ten years old. Do you have any examples of a bubble which - lasted more than 5 years - recovered from previous drops in value of
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by MarkPNeyer 6y ago
This sounds like a possible analog to someone who is intelligent but doesn't really understand math or science. This person might be able to BS their way through certain fields, but could never pass a calculus exam.
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by MarkPNeyer 7y ago
This is great for bitcoin.
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by MarkPNeyer 7y ago
> If you're wrong and earnings are less than the interest rate, it's reflected in net income, the stock drops, and you (and the rest of the shareholders) eat the difference, often in a dramatic fashion. Or you’ve already moved
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
Actual journalism often means pissing off wealthy or powerful people. This suggests that the more powerful and wealthy a journalistic outlet gets, the less interested it is in actual journalism.
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
Over long time periods, you're right that lending and borrowing don't make sense. People borrow bitcoin over very short time periods to do leveraged trades. > As a store of value BTC is highly uncertain. It will multiply or dec
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
Choosing means: a) evaluating multiple possible outcomes b) selecting from those the outcome with the highest desired value c) taking the action with increases the likelihood of the desired outcome That's it, end of story. No "s
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
All of the problems with fake profiles are fixable if we just use the social graph. It drives me nuts that this a problem. I have a solution, which i'll share here. I'm sharing it because i hope SOMEONE can build this or share it
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
Which humans? And which other life forms? Plenty of humans treat animals with respect. I see people like spiritual leaders as being far more conscious than political leaders or sociopath CEO’s. I don’t think this increased ethics is some we
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
Unpacking this for others who scratched their heads like I did: There are 1 billion possible social security numbers. There are roughly 300 million people in the USA. So roughly 1/3 possible SSN’s is currently in use.
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
People didn’t just use computers to speed up existing processes. They also started doing brand new things that were infeasible without computers.
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by MarkPNeyer 9y ago
You don't need to attach names - just job titles should be sufficient to dramatically reduce the information asymmetry.

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