Moodles

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by Moodles 8y ago
I conjecture that blockchain only solves peer-to-Peter digital currency, I.e Bitcoin. I conjecture it has no business solution about supply chains or tracking bananas or weed or porn any other nonsense. Almost invariably, a central authorit
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How can a blockchain be more efficient than centralisation? I once worked at a company obsessed with blockchain and asked the business person who never worked on anything technical in his life this same question, and he mumbled something ab
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by Moodles 8y ago
> Richard Kuklinski was a fulltime hitman The wikipedia page you linked says: > Throughout his criminal life, Kuklinski was involved in narcotics, pornography, arms dealing, money laundering, collecting debts for loan sharking, hijack
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by Moodles 8y ago
Indeed, I would suspect that real hitmen usually aren’t full time hitmen as an occupation. In the case of the highend examples you mention, they’re probably ex special forces or spies for that country that usually don’t get asked to do that
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SpaceX launches military satellite after four attempts(bbc.co.uk)
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How Checkers Was Solved(theatlantic.com)
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Arrests over Gatwick airport drones distruption(bbc.co.uk)
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It is quite hard to put this in context without the general Apple usage and crime rate in these countries.
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> I'm not particularly convinced by the risks stated here. Both of your points are made in the article?
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Democratic elections don't need a blockchain and a coin.
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A blockchain and a coin doesn't make any sense there.
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Haha personally I am a little baffled that my one small comment on gold sparked such a big thread. Yeah, gold is kinda similar to bitcoin, kinda different. I don't think much of what has been said is particularly new to most people.
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Can you provide any examples? I literally cannot think of a single company that needed to do an ICO for reasons other than to make quick money. I’m actually far more skeptical orf ICOs and adding blockchains to a company for no reason than
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by Moodles 8y ago
Of course, although probably most people investing in gold are using it as a store of value rather than to create jewelry.
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Indeed Warren Buffet made a similar point: if you buy a farm, you're buying the land, the potential to grow crops that people actually consume, etc. whereas cryptocurrency doesn't really have a purpose except as a store of value.
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Compulsory xkdc on the concept of jouvenoya: https://xkcd.com/1227/
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Vanguard Ratchets Up Index-Fund Price Battle(wsj.com)
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by Moodles 8y ago
I disagree. Smart watches like FitBit or Apple actually do stuff, self driving cars do actually drive, Elon Musk's submarine hyped as much as blockchain, seriously? Blockchain businesses have achieved practically nothing.
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Has any technology got a worse hype to practical use ratio than blockchain though?
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Why is Git with signed commits so uninteresting yet a "private blockchain" is?
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You mean a merkle tree
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I had a job in a company obsessed with DLT. I didn’t see anything useful. In fact I’d go as far to suggest that the only use of a blockchain is in cryptocurrency. What have you seen which suggests otherwise?
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People also call garbage garbage. Sometimes they're right.
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I prefer my version :-)
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In order words, Bulbasaur > Squirtle > Charmander > Bulbasaur
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Just words that make no sense.
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Probably a pointless question but why is there a blockchain here?
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not to mention a ridiculously high percentage of humanities papers are never cited once. Never. Cited. Once. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/23/aca... Who can see this and not admit
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by Moodles 8y ago
I’m talking about a Nash equilibrium for the investor who decides to invest in an index fund or an active fund for their own profit. So management fees are subtracted from either choice. Intuitively what I’m saying is pretty trivial: if one
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Yes, I think a more accurate statement is: “you’re unlikely to consistently beat the market (i.e. do better than index funds) assuming not too many people are using index funds ”. Also, given the Nash equilibrium above, it follows that

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