akimball

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by akimball 5y ago
It’s not protection FROM your customers. It is protection FOR your customers. Most customers are not technically astute
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by akimball 5y ago
How do they avoid liability for erasing my only copy of something I licensed?
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by akimball 5y ago
Price fixes that
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by akimball 5y ago
Yet if I want to read the journalistic content of the Wall Street Journal, I have to pay them to put out noxious seditious propaganda and disinformation. No can do.
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by akimball 5y ago
In many places the only source of organic produce (or the cheapest source) is walmart
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by akimball 5y ago
Think more like Mussolini than Mao. China is more like a fascist state than a communist one
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by akimball 5y ago
It would take a very strange thesis indeed to persuade someone to pay a variable rate these days. I doubt that it happens
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by akimball 5y ago
Quidquid cognoscitur cogniscitur per modem cognoscenti. But mass witness events with physical traces are quite another matter, epistemologically
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by akimball 5y ago
Given the dose response, it seems trials should be done on nebulized ivermectin for serious cases. But who would pay for them?
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by akimball 5y ago
Same thing I did last time: buy Bitcoin & Monero
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by akimball 5y ago
My understanding is that cryptographic token systems are properly taken to be lindy on priors, just like central bank currencies, universes, or any finite span process absent model and evidence. It is only on model and evidence that the li
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by akimball 5y ago
It certainly does have unique characteristics. The question for speculators is whether those characteristics imply a high future price, and on what time scale. There is ample data to make many principled inferences on these points. The q
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by akimball 5y ago
Yes, but it's the worlds leading openly accessible settlements network.
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by akimball 6y ago
Re (1): True, in that the committed transactions would not be fake. But calling eth “money” is...not accurate. It has value but lacks moneyness.
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by akimball 6y ago
The only thing eth buyers (and sellers) are deciding is price. The connections between price and protocol are indirect and often complex, tenuous.
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by akimball 6y ago
There aren’t “merchants” in eth, really, there are dapps. Exchanges don’t care about protocols beyond send and receive. Still, I agree with your larger point: The value goes where the dapps go, and many will go to eth2. (But some will move
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by akimball 6y ago
It creates “opportunity”. Feed enough oats to the horse, and some comes out for the sparrow. Tourism and gentrification both embody “horse and sparrow” economics, i.e. the opportunity to eat effluent, which may or may not be better than s
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by akimball 6y ago
Paywalled content is effectively marketing spam, is it not?
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by akimball 6y ago
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by akimball 6y ago
The US government was found guilty at trial of conspiring to assassinate King. They paid an award to the estate.
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by akimball 6y ago
The differential equations are themselves in many cases an abstraction over statistical numbers of discrete events. Arguably, in those cases, they are the wrong abstraction - a thesis which can only be proven by demonstrating the superiori
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by akimball 6y ago
Commercial product links would be nice
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by akimball 6y ago
Twice the flops/$ over the competition is enough to attract a lot of software development. It seems reasonable to say that the introduction of optimized tensor ops is a tipping point. The nvidia monopoly is definitely at risk now.
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by akimball 6y ago
It is methodologically unsound. The airframe is unstable. The fixes are software and training, human factors engineering, and hence don't address the underlying problem which is one of physics. I am sure that the measures taken will
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by akimball 6y ago
Like avoiding extortion, kidnapping, robbery.
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by akimball 6y ago
On-chain atomic swaps with Bitcoin reduces fiat exchange to btcusd exchange.
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by akimball 6y ago
Actually, use it to reduce risk. If you have no visible wealth you are largely immune to extortion, kidnapping, fraud, and robbery.
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by akimball 6y ago
Monero is inalienable.
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by akimball 6y ago
Find someone to sell you Monero. Give them $1mm and your address. Receive Monero. Alternatively, buy bitcoin through your bank. Use it to buy monero on an exchange. Alternatively, wait 6-9 months and exchange your btc with xmr using an a
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by akimball 6y ago
Gemini exchange seems to have no difficulty with banking. Coinbase seems to have no difficulty with banking.

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