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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, I said "fuck it" when they started buying corp bonds… DeFi only now, and just finished getting an audit for a decentralized derivatives protocol that was seeded funded with a decentralized incubator. We're planning on t
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How Much Extra Lending Has the Last $2.6T in QE Created? Negative $230B(thesoundingline.com)
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Masdar City Startup Seramic Materials Launches 100% Recycled TES(solarpaces.org)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Centralized organizational structures (governments, corps and ngos) in the US and abroad must be treated with extreme prejudice and avoided for decentralized/federated and open alternatives if available. For those orgs above (or those
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Did Heliostat Cost Cuts Help Likana Bid CSP Under 4 Cents?(solarpaces.org)
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Did Corporate Bond ETFs Kill the “Alpha Stars”?(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Deff agree with electron. > unrelated to the prior move from Gecko to Chromium/Blink Is there publicly available reason for this move? No worries if there isn't. No plans on forking from ff v ~70-ish with the servo stuff and go
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China’s Managed Decline Ain’t Grand(e), It’s (Euro)Dollars(alhambrapartners.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> No, that’s not ‘arguable’. It’s ridiculous and obviously wrong. I'm arguing it now, you may disagree, but I can for sure tell you that If I had at least 5 felonies like certain corporations do (and the exact same ones they were ch
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> What certainly is dishonest is to pretend that a mechanism that isn’t used consistently is equivalent to no mechanism at all. Arguably, any instance where such enforcement mechanism fails to happen in response to an infraction in law,
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Except with no actual enforcement mechanism. Can we not ignore when any given enforcement mechanism associated typically with laws don't get executed when laws are broken by various actors? It's dishonest to pretend that trad
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Corporate law, labor law, contract law, IP law, Tax law, and other legal disciplines do a lot to tell people how to build and run companies in every jurisdiction. If you fork uniswapv2 code and deploy it on chain, it enshrines a bunch
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Nobody is explaining how to build anything Because people can write whatever contracts they want that allow of group users to execute actions. The contracts do not need to have any financial incentives at all. No one tells people how
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> However, there is no explanation of how you build an ‘organization’ out of this. There's not a one size fits all of what being a DAO is (and many people bicker about those calling themselves a DAO when they may not be[0], and some
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by cinquemb 5y ago
The users cannot do anything with the funds outside of what is dictated by the contracts, and there are various forms of incentives for executing specific contract actions for varying amount of actors. I.e. if you want to borrow stablecoins
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Because the code determines how funds can/or not flow from one address to another and is viewable by everyone by default.
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PracTICal Remainders and Reminders(alhambrapartners.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
I used zipcar when I was in college, super convenient to have in providence without having to buy or take a car to school (esp for international students). Was much better to lock it in for days rather than by the interval they had (i think
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Dollar Warning Update from the Islands Which Started It(alhambrapartners.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> The existing systems are much more efficient. If you ignore the costs of the trust issues between participants (as well as a lot of physical infrastructure apart of trust chains) and how that plays out through the entire system, and a
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> which is a disaster for what we got in return (ransomware) Right, that's all "we" got for it… "nothing" besides ransomware and easier ways to pinpoint CO2 compared existing systems it seeks to obsolete…
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by cinquemb 5y ago
The last quote is from the wiki, but the first one is from the article
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Are they trying to persuade? I figure they were just trying to signal their "loyalty" to some audience they have in mind. I found this hilarious: "The Thiel Fellowships, which began in 2011, initially provided $100,000 each t
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by cinquemb 5y ago
More important than guard rails (which makes a value judgement on what actions are "allowed") is a way to determine how to settle the thing that bets are being made on ("did these actions that have stakes on them, actually ha
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> And if that individual doesn't get their $0.25 of water, they die. And in reality, people usually are willing to steal for things when they are desperate for them (which markets may or may not price in thru higher prices) before t
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, i still think it would be pretty doable (esp if just changing return values and commenting out stuff), esp with the amount of time I spent over the years modding/removing/adding stuff to my ff fork in both rust code and c++
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Ahh, yeah don't know any outside of those that make specific defi protocols that are at least GPLv3. I'm deff interested in being apart of something like it in the future with shinedao (maybe being incubated by them in the future,
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Not too familiar with the "Web Compatibility" issues firefox has, but that would have been from when they moved off gecko at least, i doubt that was the case from using electrons chromium fork to upstream chromium. I wonder if the
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Of DAO's funding/incubating projects? shinedao does (though mostly revenue generating focus for now, although those projects can have r&d components, haven't seen pure foss dao's but i dont know everything going on i
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> I think people are forking Chrome because it’s better code, but I might be wrong. I'm going to go with the latter, but at best this is debatable and highly subjective depending on what matters to you. > I have only seen the co

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