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by dkokelley 4y ago
Why would a corrupt state agree to use a system resistant to their influence? And if they did, why wouldn't they use violence to force the owner to transfer the property?
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by dkokelley 4y ago
> Why does Musk get so much attention? Why is Twitter so important? I see it as an established group who mostly benefited from Twitter (think journalists and traditional media who had great reach and influence through the platform) feari
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I'm not sure of your point, but I think I disagree. The previous comment was about going from poverty to middle class. Why won't this be possible in the future?
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I want to see a movie where a major criminal organization is completely overrun by undercover agents of various governments/agencies, but none of them know it so they keep the organization running for fear of being found out. The true
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by dkokelley 4y ago
No energy is lost. Imagine a spring installed at an angle between 2 plates being pressed together (the middle bit of a 'Z'). The spring has to be stronger/beefier than a spring installed vertically (middle bit of an 'I&#
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I'd love to see office spaces transformed into other useful spaces: Parks, cultural centers, entertainment, residential space, etc. Some office space could still be used as a coworking space for people who don't want to work from
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Some of the physically present jobs are supporting roles to people who now don't have to be in the city. Example: a restaurant worker has to be physically present to serve customers, but the customers were all former office workers. Ag
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I think he started March 14th based on trading volume. Goes from ~15M/day to 35M/day for the next few days before settling down. (Made another comment elsewhere on this) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar&#x2F
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by dkokelley 4y ago
The price moved from $33 to $40 as he bought the shares[1]. THEN it moved from $40 to $50 when he announced that he bought the shares on April 4th. Hard to say what the stock would have done without the purchase, but Musk has both the threa
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by dkokelley 5y ago
If you’re using a credit card for most purchases, you still likely pay the bill with a checking account. You might also have to pay rent/mortgage from this account, so keeping a ~$3,000 buffer seems pretty healthy. (Let’s assume $1,500
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Production and logistics capacity. If you run a factory at 100% efficiency, anytime >100% throughput is necessary you get backlogged. If you have ~15% headroom as a GOAL, you can weather a shock without any downstream impact. In the case
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Why does it matter if it’s the “good guys” or “bad guys” paying? If a vulnerability only cost ~$100 then a malicious person could compromise an ex lover’s phone, for example. The fact that they are expensive means that their use is limited
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by dkokelley 5y ago
They don't cover the exact same date range (20y has 10 more years of 20y returns than the 30y), plus it's a median so it could be randomness that skewed it towards a higher return vs. the 30y. (The 10.21% return happened 1 year be
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by dkokelley 5y ago
1. Couldn't you argue the same thing about brick and mortar stores that get robbed? "If they don't want to hire hardcore commandos to protect their property, maybe they deserve to get robbed/looted?" (My point is th
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by dkokelley 5y ago
At least you know they do integration testing now. :)
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by dkokelley 5y ago
I'm wondering the same. I don't know how the mechanics of blockchain oracles work, but it seems feasible that the oracle operators could report a price high enough for the contract to believe it's `> 0`. Reasons why this m
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by dkokelley 5y ago
1. History, as it relates to today. It's important for the coming generation to recognize the ebbs and flows of humanity. The media wants to say that "this scenario is unprecedented and scary, and you should be worried". Hist
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Leadership quality is huge. Knowing what to work on, and having the tools and support to be effective is invaluable. I’ve found that as you move up, the ability to “lead yourself” (e.g. solve for those despite clear direction) is essential.
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by dkokelley 5y ago
This has been my experience. Fitbod is a good example of solid product-market fit (for me at least) without followup execution. After the first use I was sold and paid for the annual subscription. But it's so buggy (especially when pai
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by dkokelley 5y ago
I agree that a hash of data != the source data, but these links seem to indicate that it is at least possible, if not already evident, that illegal images and content can be encoded into the bitcoin blockchain (and presumably other blockcha
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Not quite, the analogy breaks down here… discoverability vs. accessibility is different. Both contribute to the distribution of content. Google solves one part of that equation, but I’m referring to total decentralized distribution.
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Take a look at “illegal numbers” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number Copied from another comment: ======= There’s the concept of “illegal numbers”, which means that there are technically numeric representation
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Really? That’s very sad, but I’m not too surprised. (Unless you’re saying that the bits 0 and 1 already exist in the blockchain, which is reaaaaallllyyy stretching the definition.) There’s the concept of “illegal numbers”, which means that
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. Do you think there is ever a scenario where information should be censored from the public at large? (Child porn, or you or your family getting ‘doxxed’, for example) I appreciate the take that the future harm isn’t wort
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by dkokelley 5y ago
I guess I'm thinking more about a "decentralized Google" where it's impossible to remove things like revenge porn. Is there anything we can/should do about that potential?
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Another thought experiment: What would happen if someone encoded something horrible and illegal like child porn into a blockchain? Is everyone who operates on that chain guilty of possession? Does that make a specific crypto "illegal&q
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by dkokelley 5y ago
I appreciate this response! I agree that a legal process seems to be the best solution (so far) to collectively deciding what is and isn't ok. The legal system has its own faults of course. It's administered by fallible governmen
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by dkokelley 5y ago
I understand what the post is saying. I see this as an example of censorship (by Google in this case) being a GOOD thing. This caused me to wonder about how a decentralized platform would handle similar circumstances.
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by dkokelley 5y ago
This is an example of a large central authority censoring information. How does the notion of a purely distributed, unregulated, uncensorable, blockchain-backed internet handle "revenge porn" or other genuinely harmful content? An
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by dkokelley 5y ago
Exercising stock options is a unique case. If I as an employer give you $10m worth of stock (through grants or options), you have something akin to an "income" of $10m on the receipt of that stock. (For the record I disagree with

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