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by beefield 6y ago
Even if we think gold is finite (doubtful in any meaningful sense), it does not follow that the amount of money (in the modern sense) would be finite in gold standard. Gold standard means that the value of an unit of currency is tied to a s
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by beefield 6y ago
Does onedrive/sharepoint or some other offboard solution show diffs between versions and have merge capabilities? (I have not been using excel as anything but a scratchpad in years, so I may have missed some cool new features)
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by beefield 6y ago
I was thinking that there were two types of worksheets. the current, freeform sheets, and in addition to that a new type that would enforce data integrity over columns. That would make it much safer to have worksheets for structured data
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by beefield 6y ago
I'd have a couple of development proposals for excel: 1. Remove the ability to save workbooks. This would keep the excel in organisations where it excels (pun intended), namely quick & dirty sketches and visualizations. If you need
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by beefield 6y ago
> Because of this I often make explicit when I converse that I'm engaging in a "collaborative exploration" and not an fight about who is right. Have you found that successful? One of my big struggles in my social life is
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by beefield 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply even if my original comment may have been a bit snarky. Let me start by saying that I kind of admire the logical coherence and beauty of the framework built from the basic building blocks of utility maximizin
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by beefield 6y ago
> when seeing centrally planned economies as a moral evil...For this reason, central bank money, with planned (not natural) supply, are not good. What would it take you to change your mind on this? To be frank and brutal, is this a relig
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by beefield 6y ago
You miss the fact that what bitcoin does is a tiny fraction of what banks do. I mean, how do you do for example mortgages or corporate finance with bitcoin - without hiring all the people and using all the resources current financial system
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by beefield 6y ago
Are you sure? E.g. AT&T in the list seems to accept via bitpay, does that really mean that AT&T has it's own bitcoin wallet where they receive the btc? (I do not know, but I just have some doubts) Further, what percentage of th
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by beefield 6y ago
How? I mean, what non-crypto not illegal thing you actually can currently purchase without going via fiat?
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by beefield 6y ago
> they don't want you to be able to effectively search their image system that way) Why?
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by beefield 6y ago
You do understand that clearing and central banking are a tiny, tiny fraction of the financial system, far from "full stack"? And even further, a fraction that contributes surprisingly little to money supply, the said main benefit
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by beefield 6y ago
Sorry for laughing and shaking my head, but the bitcoiners really do not seem to grasp how minuscule (if important core, I agree!) part of the financial system the settlement of the payments is. And that is the only part bitcoin does. Bit
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by beefield 6y ago
> there are a number of problems with our current financial systems which are very hard to electrify as easily, whereas BTC is electricity-native Any examples? To me, current financial systems are very much information management systems
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by beefield 6y ago
I am not sure I follow the logic. Bitcoin becomes "bigger" when there are more big actors not using it but just hoarding it? And thus less volatile - until one of these big actors decide to dump their holdings to the thin market
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by beefield 6y ago
Trading volume. It was taught to me so long time ago and I have thought it so obviously true that I haven't questioned it ever. If you want sources, here is one example (TBH, I only read abstract) I quickly googled. To me, number of t
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by beefield 6y ago
> The bigger it gets, the more stable it becomes. To be clear, there is no mechanism, logic or reason (at least revealed to me) why this would be true. Vice versa, increased amount of trading typically increases volatility.
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by beefield 6y ago
Note that the quote originates from the 90's, way before ad tech as it is currently known. Advertising is a bit like finance. There exists an important, tiny core that is surrounded by a massive amount of activity whose societal benefi
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by beefield 6y ago
Thanks, I edited my post to include credits to Tejaratchi. Not sure how this should be done properly, as that specific quote is from Banksy, so I just left credits for both.
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by beefield 6y ago
It may be "many" but it does not mean that the defining nature of advertising is ethically neutral. I think I just quote Banksy/Tejaratchi: "People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take
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by beefield 6y ago
I am quite confident that whoever wants to live forever, has not spent too much time thinking how long time forever actually is. I mean, it is damn long time.
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by beefield 6y ago
I think there would be a compromise in making if US gave up imperial units and Europe would give up the decimal comma. Or at least I would like that kind of compromise. The next hurdle would be to all agree to use ISO date format...
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by beefield 6y ago
Depends on the wealth of the friends you have who trust you. I can pay occasionally my lunch by crediting my assets with $10 plus creating an interest-free liability for $10. Yes, and that is what the banks in effect do. And no, it is not a
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by beefield 6y ago
1. Fractional reserve banking is by definition decentralized. 2. Cough, Tether audits, cough.
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by beefield 6y ago
The fact that you do not seem to believe that ads may be able to affect your behavior beyond your analytical research is the thing that is contradictory with you not trusting yourself. Or at least that is something I can't trust mysel
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by beefield 6y ago
This applies to me as well. There are lots and lots of small things I do so rarely that I just can't keep the details in my memory. And I really would love to be able to type "man scp" and on the first lines of the man page t
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by beefield 6y ago
> I don't even trust myself But you trust yourself so much that "advertising DOES work on me, but only insomuch as it alerts me to potential things" That sounds a bit contradictory to me. (I think I could describe myself s
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by beefield 6y ago
EU:You've... you've got a nice IP protection here, AstraZeneca AstraZeneca: Yes. EU: We wouldn't want anything to happen to it. AstraZeneca: What? Germany: No, what EU means is it would be a shame if...
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by beefield 6y ago
I think there are two internally consistent approaches here. Either you go full on Eugene Fama and claim that you do not even understand what market manipulation means as long as there is no hidden information, as markets are efficient and
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by beefield 6y ago
Because I think it is way, way more likely that a human controlled powerful AI wipes out humanity than a real superhuman AI. A paperclip maximizer is way more likely to be a human controlled powerful AI than a proper superhuman AI simply

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