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by bmcusick 9y ago
I've been using this technique for years and highly recommend it. I've only had to re-season my main pan from scratch once in five years, after accidently forgetting about it on the back porch for a week (that's Florida humid
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I'm a corporate attorney. I'm pretty sure I know what it means.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
> it means the organization exists for a purpose other than profit The guy making $4 million/year in salary doesn't seem to have gotten that memo.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Without any details on whether this means funding SLS for another $4 billion/year to accomplish nothing vs. fund some real innovation like Blue Origin or SpaceX, it's kind of "Meh" as announcements go.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I hope everyone's in on the joke that "non-profit" just means that someone other than a class of people called "shareholders" siphons off all the profits. It doesn't mean "low cost".
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Yep. As I told people in the bitcoin space years ago, the Roman Empire and Ghengis Khan and Imperial Britain all existed with decentralized, fungible, untraceable money called "gold and silver coins". That didn't prevent the
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by bmcusick 9y ago
This really reminds of the essay "Technologies of Control and Resistance"[1], which has really shaped my thinking over the years. Bitcoin itself is a technology of resistance. Private crypt-currencies more so. (Cash too) But as lo
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Free advice: don't try your hand at FX trading until you've spoken to your accountant. Profits from FX trading aren't tax free.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
My friend, have you heard the good news about Public Choice Theory?
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by bmcusick 9y ago
>> Because they still want people that can afford to pay $50k/year to pay it. That's not quite what I was getting at. My question is: Why are they making alumni find the $120M in grants, when they could just forgive the loan
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Nick Szabo is a credible guess, but it's just a guess. Nakamoto was very good about protecting his identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Why even use TAs for lectures? There's YouTube. There's automated software for quizzes and testing. Textbooks should be open source documentation, printed-on-demand. I'm not saying remove the human element entirely, but there
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Not that loan-free educations are bad, but why is Brown raising $120M from alumni and the like, rather than lowering their tuition by $120M? The student loan crisis is only a crisis because Universities (lead by the Ivy League and similarly
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Yup, good summary. The coercion angle is one more reason why maintaining "full employment" is a pro-labor policy. By keeping the number of job openings larger than the number of people looking for work, you create bargaining power
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Are they worth X though? What if they produce X-1 in value? Would you hire someone who cost more than they produced? Someone's wage has an absolute ceiling at the level of "this is how much value I produce per hour". No one w
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Ignoring whether the study's assumptions are accurate, one problem with this sort of rhetoric is that "the US economy" isn't a political constituency. There's just people, and their claims on the economy in terms of
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by bmcusick 9y ago
> Underneath all that is the real debate: should we able to express ugly, unpleasant, or unfortunate truths in public as facts? I think "the fact" that Damore continues to air his views in public, and no one is stopping him fro
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Very creative! I'm a lawyer, but not an ADA lawyer. Interesting idea though.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Just to expand on that, I want to point out that there's two ways to look at people who choose to air controversial opinions. 1) Say they're wrong. Argue the facts. Point out that historically speaking, similar predictions or theo
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by bmcusick 9y ago
People who are color blind see things differently too. That doesn't mean red doesn't exist; just that they can't see it. It should be obvious though that Damore wasn't fired for his views per se. There's probably pl
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I find much greater benefits avoiding vegan foods like sugar, excess alcohol, and overly processed carbohydrates. I've seen "vegan" brownies and cake. My diet is rich in minimally processed foods like vegetables, fruit, flour
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I'm not a vegan, or interested in becoming one, but this "study" is just stupid. Just look at some of the basic assumptions: "researcher Mary Beth Hall began by estimating the impact of converting all land now used by th
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I didn't know that gas was more expensive than coal in Germany. It's cheaper in the USA; a lot cheaper. But then we have chosen to implement fracking and Europe does not. I'm very supporting of Germany's carbon tax and r
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Weaknesses identified by Bloomberg: [1] It's decentralized; there's no CEO [2] It's open source software people can copy [3] It's subject to competition from new coins Ha ha ha. These are only problems to institutional p
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Tell me that doesn't look like the Terminator version of the Demidog from Stranger Things 2
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by bmcusick 9y ago
>Las Vegas' self-driving bus IS HIT BY A HUMAN DRIVER THAT WASN'T LOOKING WHERE HE WAS GOING in first hour of service ftfy
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by bmcusick 9y ago
If I can make a suggestion, you might want to look into the structure of the blockchain networks that use a network of known super-nodes to watch and verify each other. If you have hundreds of known, diverse nodes distributed globally (run
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by bmcusick 9y ago
> I can't figure out why we couldn't have miners just sign a growing dag of transactions and once a subset of the dag is accepted by 51% of the stake that network can prune the excess data (all the signatures) Because of Sybil
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by bmcusick 9y ago
How do you "switch" from a global shared ledger that everyone uses to a shared ledger that no one uses? I mean, you an, you can fork Bitcoin and start your own, but what does that get you? No one else will use your coin. There wil
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Hi Paul. I'm Brock. I hope we're not talking at past each other, but I read your post as proposing a system where there's a central party that computes transactions "in the open" in a way that third party observers

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