carleverett

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A crash course on the different types of cryptocurrencies and how they interact(medium.com)
2 points by carleverett 6y ago|0 comments
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by carleverett 6y ago
Well said! Early into COVID I thought it'd bring a surge in remote work because we'd see how much work really can be done from anywhere. But COVID-remote work has been way different. I've been a full remote worker for 3 years
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by carleverett 7y ago
It sounds like you're arguing against the idea of debt altogether. Debt is a great, great thing that's allowed us to accomplish way more as a society than we ever could before. Way faster too. Yes, there is irresponsible lending
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Carbon Credits Are Coming to Crypto(medium.com)
1 points by carleverett 7y ago|0 comments
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by carleverett 7y ago
Nice! I'm in Tulsa Remote and am quoted a few times in this - I'm the one who "applied after seeing a post about the program on Hacker News" so things are really coming full circle right now. I think an underrated grieva
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by carleverett 7y ago
The most important challenge cryptocurrencies face is capturing real world value. The ICO craze turned out to create basically 0 value on any crypto platform, and the more recent wave of tokenized securities will be very slow because there
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by carleverett 7y ago
You could get a Wirex credit card and spend them anywhere that accepts Visa: https://wirexapp.com/global
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by carleverett 7y ago
Public good tokens aren't meant to be ownership rights to that public good. Instead of tokenizing the Amazon (the rainforest), you'd tokenize an outcome, like the reforestation of the Amazon. If done right, the valuation of that
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Tokenized Public Goods – A New Store of Value(medium.com)
3 points by carleverett 7y ago|3 comments
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by carleverett 7y ago
Not good. A Cessna 172 cruises at 140 mph and burns 8.5 gph of 100LL fuel, the equivalent of 16.5 mpg, and this is at cruise speed, not accounting for taxi, run-up, and flying the pattern during a normal flight. Not to mention we're st
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by carleverett 7y ago
I realize that everyone is different - but for me the idea that we create our own meaning is WAY more exciting than a pre-existing or assigned meaning. It erases any limits on what's possible and makes thinking creatively (humanity&#x2
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by carleverett 7y ago
Correct, my issues with Libra's centralization has to do with the Association, not Facebook alone. I see what you're saying though where Calibra could itself be used used as leverage by Facebook.
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by carleverett 7y ago
I don't think Libra's collateralization is a hedge against fractional reserve monetary policy, I think it's just Facebook's way of ensuring consumer confidence that a Libra is actually worth something, and the most prove
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by carleverett 7y ago
The white paper explicitly gives the Libra Association (i.e. Facebook and its partner validators) governance control over the cryptocurrency. Here's an easy scenario to imagine that shows how incentives would get misaligned: Facebook
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by carleverett 8y ago
> I’m not afraid to repeat that I have publicly demonstrated that my judgment is good. And in my demonstrably good judgment, radical deregulation of Europe’s labor markets is long overdue. I’m happy to make the Quiggin bet all over ag
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by carleverett 8y ago
Certainly not any SEC laws. Jay Clayton, SEC Chairman, has explicitly said that Bitcoin is not a security: https://www.investopedia.com/news/sec-chair-says-bitcoin-not... If they were in violation of SEC laws, the par
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by carleverett 8y ago
I had to look this up, but apparently "sea level" on Mars (called "topographic datum") is decided using the average elevation near the equator. http://passporttoknowledge.com/lfm/ask/terrain-geo
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by carleverett 8y ago
The article talks about thermometers being rejected by some doctors who thought fevers were more qualitative... they're not wrong. Different people have different average body temperatures, so a fever for one person might not be a fev
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by carleverett 8y ago
So are you considering developer traction to be platform age and what people you know are working with? I'm not trying to be argumentative. I personally like Stellar over EOS as well, but I haven't seen the same developer tractio
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by carleverett 8y ago
What do you define as traction? CoinMarketCap shows EOS trading at significantly higher daily volumes than Stellar.
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by carleverett 8y ago
How do you propose feeding New York City's 8.5 million people with local family farms?
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by carleverett 8y ago
It's the classic "butts in seats" theory of management.
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by carleverett 8y ago
So does that mean the scientists and astronauts that worked on Space Shuttle Challenger had a BS job?
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by carleverett 9y ago
I disagree with the idea that self-driving cars will have the same commodity issue as today's car ride services. How could a significant decrease in operating expenses not increase the profit margin? Let's put it this way - if yo
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by carleverett 9y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but most of Venus's water was lost to space a long time ago :(
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by carleverett 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I have to correct your idea that global warming is a species-ending problem. The worst-case scenario of global warming (which might be inevitable given the current CO2 levels) is a 216 foot rise in sea level
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by carleverett 9y ago
Flights are usually overbooked by around 5-10 passengers a flight, and is well-calculated based on the expected number of no-shows.* Depending on the ticket price, this can mean somewhere between $1-5k a flight, which can be a pretty subst
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by carleverett 10y ago
In the short term maybe, but once our transportation is electric (and our electricity isn't coming from coal or gas), the difference in environmental impact is negligible. Some trees and a nice garden would provide the same environmen
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by carleverett 10y ago
Urban farming is one of those things that "feels" good, but doesn't make any economic sense. Why would you move farms, which are currently on the cheapest land available, into cities, where the most expensive land is? I agr
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by carleverett 10y ago
Agreed. Also, given the nature of his lofty goals at Spacex, they're going to take a huge amount of his time to make happen. Musk is very much motivated by progressing humanity. At this point, the electric car and solar revolutions a

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