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by che_shirecat 5y ago
sounds like you don't understand it either. put options let you sell short a fixed amount of stocks without the unlimited downside. other types of options with unlimited downside are heavily restricted by brokers (b/c of underlyin
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
another market pops up. opensea is just reading on-chain data, just like everyone else.
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
read up on L2 chains - both optimistic roll-up and zk-rollups. this problem you are breaking down has been the subject of study and development for years now and is nearing implementation - https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedi
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
this is the whole point of Ethereum and smart contracts.
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
> server (aka. a "centralized authority") that's a very very liberal equivalence to make. decentralized authority in practice is just a collection of servers in aggregate that come to consensus according to a certain proto
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
centralized = one party holds all the power. decentralized = many parties, each of which do not hold all the power in isolation, therefore must come to consensus on a case-by-case basis to make decisions. equating decentralized consensus
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
that's a strawman of the parent comment's argument. and yes, if enough people believe something, it takes on real significance. e.g. enough people believe in the full faith and credit of the US Gov that backs their printed paper
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
I'm actually more interested in Web3 now actually after reading this lol. Sounds like the Wild West of experimentation in new systems, complete with high drama and lawlessness. Sounds fun.
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
What's the alternative? Alot of these people are great entertainers and terrible <anything else>. If they weren't streaming they'd be working shifts at McDonalds. If anything they're doing the most advantageous
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
Saving this so I can come back and laugh in 10 years
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
There's always going to be a segment of people who are scared of strides towards the future. And for good reason, unknowns are scary for a reason.
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
this is cyberpunk as hell, I love it. especially the second video. "drones in rain"
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
This is a great writeup of some of the story behind the Tiktok algorithm - https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorti...
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
> "I’m going to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there." Either you didn't realize it was a quote and are lying, or you have serious issues with communicating in the English language. > it’s still useless rhetori
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
it's a quote from a movie. the premise being that as long as humans compete with each other for resources, there will be some they take most of the pie, and others that struggle for the remaining scraps. it's more a philosophica
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by che_shirecat 5y ago
Peak HackerNews
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
From a strictly rational perspective, wearing a mask in public transit is always the correct decision, you are statistically less likely to contract airbourne diseases with a mask on. You're free to attach emotional significance to the
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
They are arrested in China because certain journalistic actions are illegal under Chinese law, under the (given) justification (stated or unstated) that it destabilizes civil society. For example, in the case of HK, journalists are prosecu
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
what if I'm trying to save 75% of my income? $20k is very significant when I'm working with 62.5k a year.
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
What if the plot twist line is also GPT-3?
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
So, like LinkedIn and Reddit? (the site that the "researcher" behind these NYT-cited claims is using) [1] You could run through the toplist of apps and find hundreds that exhibit the same behavior. Not trying to derail this via w
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
I keep seeing that Reddit thread linked (even the NYT is citing it now?) but still cannot for the life of me figure out what substantially TikTok does that is a concern compared to other popular apps? The guy has like 10 paragraphs of stor
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
Are we playing "what censorship is OK censorship" now? Who determines that "pretty clear difference?" Isn't the point of being against censorship is that nothing is above the interests of public scrutiny? Partia
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by che_shirecat 6y ago
What would it take to get this social aspect of cafes back? Exclusivity? No-smartphone rule? Dedicated discussion times? How do you envision us bringing this back while adapting to modern social norms?
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by che_shirecat 7y ago
https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
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by che_shirecat 7y ago
obvious, bordering on pedantic, point. OP is saying that trying to time the gap up is less likely to pay off P/L-wise than just holding the course
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by che_shirecat 7y ago
I jumped to Etrade a while back and it's been a relatively positive experience. Power Etrade is garbage though - consistently crashes during spike traffic times
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by che_shirecat 7y ago
is this sort of brain-dead Redditor "humor" what HackerNews has devolved to? At the risk of making a unsubstantive comment myself, I sometimes wish HackerNews remained a smaller discussion forum, mainstream online visibility seem
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by che_shirecat 7y ago
case in point: the resurgent popularity of lo-fi hip hop, which heavily uses harmonic distortions and phonographic imperfections as a sort of mood/atmosphere setter
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
An different but related scene was the RSPS (Runescape private server) community that created replications of the game with a reverse-engineered client. Developing private server code was my first experience with programming and with back

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