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by adjkant 9y ago
Scaling means very different things for Uber and Coinbase. This is not to make excuses, but handling so much instantaneous trading is a lot harder than a server responding to a ride requests and searching for the closest driver. By multiple
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by adjkant 9y ago
That has to be the second one actually. "The cat in the hat puts his hat on the blockchain"
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by adjkant 9y ago
Generating their own content and being fully self-sufficient are two different things. It's not like Amazon can claim all of the Netflix Original Series as theirs. I think you're trying to die on a technical hill in opposition to
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by adjkant 9y ago
This happened to me twice on GDAX, had them clear it out for me within 24 hours via support. No explanation given.
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by adjkant 9y ago
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails It's an amazing book on philosophy, history, and much more. It felt very relevant to current times. The philosophers in question lived around and through WWII and it exa
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by adjkant 9y ago
Do you have anything to back up that belief? That's an incredibly strong unsubstantiated belief as presented.
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by adjkant 9y ago
> Is a person's personality ultimately what we think of as "them"? I would pull up a huge debate right here. Who's perspective are we using? What if people have different perspectives even after knowing the person in
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by adjkant 9y ago
But that doesn't change your tendencies and dispositions necessarily, as I'm sure this paper is examing. I think there's a bit of fudging often when discussing personality on exactly what personality is.
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by adjkant 9y ago
A hard second to this. I would make a clear distinction between personality traits and actions. This will mix subjects and I don't know enough to plant a flag on this hill let alone die on it, but imagine the moral serial killer who ha
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by adjkant 9y ago
Readability and censorship are two very different things. At its surface, using plain language should not hinder any communication of ideas and would generally have benefits to achieving goals. Unless the standard prevents communication of
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by adjkant 9y ago
* transgender > "Are some diseases suddenly targeting people based on their identified sex? If no, the CDC has no business discussing this anyways." One study the CDC works on is HIV within transgender communities. Tell me how
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by adjkant 9y ago
You're right. This makes me really sad that this is the goal of Facebook, who will then serve only the goal of capitalizing on the latest and greatest type of platform format (by acquisition or copying) for social media while systemati
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by adjkant 9y ago
Corporate brainwashing by Verizon? I'm not fully serious, but at the same time you've gotta wonder...
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by adjkant 9y ago
What I would be worried about is that the same practices of monetization that killed Facebook are seeping into Instagram. At what point are they just a poison that slowly kills anything it touches? I think they already are but the deaths ar
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by adjkant 9y ago
Yeah, I think it's just a matter of social circles. For me, events exist on Facebook, but plenty of people get invited off of Facebook, and the events are private so there's no discovery aspect you'd get in your news feed. I
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by adjkant 9y ago
Anecdotal, but the only time I've ever hear that phrase in the past 3 years is for my college meme group (one of the few reasons I am still on Facebook). As far as I know, nothing happens on Facebook for anyone under 25. As you get old
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by adjkant 9y ago
For anyone using Facebook as a messaging/group/event service, I cannot recommend the Facebook News Feed Eridactor more. It literally just blocks it all. Not perfect for all users, but it has really helped me spend less time wastin
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by adjkant 9y ago
There's many flaws with that scenario: 1. A centralized trust/identity system (as I have said is need with this) means that there could be no such thing as PoorCoin as defined here. The idea is that because it was an XCoin, create
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by adjkant 9y ago
You have an incentive for 1 to many trades makes sense. What possible incentive does someone have for making that trade with you though when they can go anywhere else and get 1 to 1. This only becomes a problem if everyone ignores 1 to 1 en
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by adjkant 9y ago
The transition does indeed matter a lot. I think there are other transition methods you are missing though. Look at how the US switched quite quickly to chip readers. I could also imagine a system where US dollars (or insert currency here)
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by adjkant 9y ago
How so?
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by adjkant 9y ago
I completely agree it's non-trivial to convince people to adopt this system. However, once adopted, I don't think the 1 to 1 problem highlighted in this chain exists. If I had to give a very simple argument for why adopt, I think
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by adjkant 9y ago
I see what you're saying, but you haven't convinced me of this disbalance. What incentive do sellers have to accept AliceCoin over HomelessCoin if everyone adheres to this 1 to 1, even though de facto this is not the case if you c
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by adjkant 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for the substantive reply. I'm not convinced fully but I think you've highlighted a problem area. The thing I see is that the coins the rich community got for the food still have value. They can trade them for
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by adjkant 9y ago
Agreed. However, I think that a centralized identity system could solve this if crafted properly.
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by adjkant 9y ago
Perhaps you should look at this implementation of UBI. While there is more or less practical redistribution through inflation, no money will be taken from you via taxes and the like. One could even conceive of writing incentives against &qu
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by adjkant 9y ago
In this case, opt-in is playing double meaning. But you're right, in order to work, a significant number of people and business must opt-in and treat it like a currency to be spent. I don't think that's a prohibitive problem
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by adjkant 9y ago
Yes, the identity issue is still there. Solving that doesn't make Bitcoin a viable option for this idea though. This whole comment thread is discussing why this coin is needed over any other, not the identity issue. I think that need i
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by adjkant 9y ago
> Some people will want to buy food with these coins, but they have no goods or services to ever offer in return (that's the whole point of UBI). Is that true? The whole point is that these coins themselves will have value. There wi
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by adjkant 9y ago
See above, but I don't know of any other coin that can do the job that this one is attempting to do.

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