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by cinquemb 5y ago
> However, a far larger portion of illicit drug transactions are for cash dollars than for bitcoin The regulatory system, and people who are ok with deferring to it in its existing incarnation (i.e. the revolving door between people with
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> When Uniswap removed a bunch of coins from their front end I invite everyone to clone/fork (i've removed the google analytics stuff and emptied the black lists and made uniswap-info use the hashrouter): https://git
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy Post-Covid-19: Four Themes(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> … optimized collective outcome of our individual choices.… > …will be the result of each person's optimized individuality."… Where did this optimize come from? Just because I think that individuals don't have to place
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Fire at Tesla Big Battery Under Control After Weekend Blaze(bloomberg.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Well, if the greenhouse effect is real and our planet cooks itself, then pretty sure humanity as a whole is exposed to the downsides. People who have more resources under their control to secure food and shelter in the event of major c
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How High Our Elite Tax?(overcomingbias.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Efficient market hypothesis is based on humans acting rationally with available information. I'm not claiming markets are efficient, or that all humans have access to the same amount of resources or information, just that there ar
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Gold was chosen by the market as the best monetary medium. The same market has also accepted: > and the continuous debasement of dollars has somehow been accepted as feature, not a bug. Every decade unto infinity, dollars will becom
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Money stores the value of that economic output. One must also consider whether it is a medium of exchange at any given point in time, if its used as an unit of account, the variable storage/protection/transportation costs, du
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Either way, whether one think their existence is problematic or not, to me, it does seem like the federal reserve system and CB's in general, are in the process of "jumping the shark" wrt to CBDC's… they are already behi
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by cinquemb 5y ago
The problem with this is that UST's are being used as collateral (maybe not for the "real economy" but definitely financial assets), are also rehypothicated many times over and face liquidation risks in line with notional val
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> The private company defense might become a moot point. There are numerous lawsuits now alleging these companies as state actors and some with actual receipts showing direct government communication and result action. Arguably, any ent
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by cinquemb 5y ago
That makes sense, but I have a hunch that the majority of people that work at Apple (at least in the US, and not say the actual manufacturing plants [thats probably outsourced to many companies in asia]) don't need to work with expensi
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Long Term EPS Forecasts Are a Wild Guess at This Point(thesoundingline.com)
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Global Negative Yielding Debt Ticks Up to $15T(thesoundingline.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> The Bitcoin people generally don't trust the fed and they have, strictly speaking, ended up in a much better position to participate in the economy. Some people here seem think that "guns and laws" will be able to stop t
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Agreed, and there are plenty of alternatives that people can and do use to send garbage to one another that arent fb and its centralized brethren.
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by cinquemb 5y ago
I agree with the courts, speaking as someone that hasn't used FB in almost a decade (never used IG, might use whatsapp every couple of months) and same with twitter. It's just nonsense to me because people have convinced themselve
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A Nanotech Cermet Coating Is Just One of Many Gen3 CSP Innovations(solarpaces.org)
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Clearing mandates and new trading obligations(clarusft.com)
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> I would argue with "society has clearly chosen" statement. Agreed. IMO, what a society is/does/allows is always up for grabs… Man made rules aren't laws of physics, and even those are bounded by our understandi
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Arguments over taxation have always led to war, if history is any example… right now people bullish the decentralization narrative are willing to pay taxes to miners/validators/protocols and less so governments. Eventually this wi
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by cinquemb 5y ago
The collusion of leaders wrt to their personal business interests can make states seem like protection rackets…
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Cheaper than ever for anyone to spy on anyone else, esp with the social media skinner boxes out there with hardware frontends. Getting cheaper by the day…
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Thanks, the second link looks very helpful and gave me further ideas on how to try to work backwards to get an idea of the recycling processing costs: find spot prices of raw/intermediates that come from the process produced by compani
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> It is a complex, often proprietary process, changing Ph etc, and while patented it still has a lot of black art. Yeah that's what I figured, but doesn't really tell me about the costs vs mining (which will be hard to tell fr
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> So yeah: shifting to those technologies will force a big geopolitical change and the executives at fossil fuel companies who boasted being accused of war crimes as a sign of commitment a sure way to advance their careers in front of la
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Interesting video, the guy talks about "hydro metallurgical processing batteries" but I wonder how much these processes (grind up in a vacuum, boil off/condense electrolytes, separate out plastics/etc and ground into bla
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by cinquemb 5y ago
None of this is related to the minting/burning across multiple chains or their cross chain redeemability (or lack thereof) but here are their respective claims: USDT claim (“Every Tether token is always 100% backed by our reserves, whi

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