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by favflam 3y ago
The only cash flows into the ecosystem have been from ICOs. The SEC is cracking down on such activities. Besides investment cash flow, I don't think there have been any revenue generating ventures that cater to customers outside the We
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by favflam 3y ago
Yes, this feature. It seems like a cheap way to put a bunch of servers between yourself and connecting users with built-in rate limiting.
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by favflam 3y ago
Has anyone tried using TOR as a replacement for Cloudflare DDOS protection? There is a single hop mode on hidden services.
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by favflam 3y ago
Regulations mandate a surveillance module attached to the trading system to detect suspicious trading patterns, and I guess also check the stability of the overall market place. Regulators get visibility into a trading platform through the
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by favflam 3y ago
IMO TLDR: Expensive=return on assets from the perspective of the city. Low ROA=unhappy citizens. Cities requires a minimum tax-revenue per square mile to pay for city services, including schools. Revenue comes in many forms (property&#x2F
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by favflam 3y ago
So, the US pre-1950s.
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by favflam 3y ago
Regarding socialization, suburbs are anti-social. There is almost no chance for spontaneous interactions with strangers. Even small countryside towns are more social b/c there is a main street where people hang out on the street. If y
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by favflam 3y ago
Look at San Jose Diridon Station. Caltrain and links to Oakland and San Francisco go through it. It is in the middle of Silicon Valley and yet the station is empty during the day surrounded by parking lots. Let's fix the low hanging
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by favflam 3y ago
Isn't this the original problem Bitcoin (hash cash?) was supposed to fix? If you send email, you do some sha256 computation to make the cost of sending an email significant, but not cheap. Spammers would go out of business.
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by favflam 3y ago
Are there other financial markets where a single entity is custodian, trading exchange, market maker, and Kyc/Aml all under on roof? It seems like a fundamental conflict of interest.
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by favflam 4y ago
The increase in density will cancel out the increase in real estate cost (land). In fact, capital investment in increasing the output from a piece of land is the correct way to profit from real estate, not just squatting as people profit i
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by favflam 4y ago
Step 1 to fix out of control real estate prices and suburbia depression is not public transit. Step 1 is to deprioritize cars. No more free parking, no single family home zoning, free-for-all zoning around train stations and bus stops. Ste
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by favflam 4y ago
I don’t understand how VC funds can be in the billions and yet outsiders must assume they do not know anything about: 1. bank failures in the US in the last 100 years 2. deposits being on a bank’s balance sheet, hence the terms credit and d
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by favflam 4y ago
Also, people should pay attention when a bank is missing a Chief Risk Officer for 8 months during the most volatile period in fixed income history when Fed funds rate moved 400bps. Also, it is not a good look with SVB's CEO personally
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by favflam 4y ago
Fed should have mandated bigger reserves and done better stress testing before raising interest rates so fast. Anything long duration tanked like 20% in mark to market value. SVB is probably not the last shoe to drop in this story.
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by favflam 4y ago
I feel like the improvement in ChatGPT is not the "intelligence", but the fact that the number of dimensions (abstract-math-sense) in search input have gone up magnitudes over "old-style" key word searches.
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by favflam 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. Trains and real estate go hand in hand. Without real estate, trains lose money. Without trains, real estate is worthless (hence parking lots, which are low value). Trains and car owners don't mix. Trains + d
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by favflam 4y ago
I met someone in Seattle who was working on an optical Asic to mine Bitcoin. Is this in the same direction as this article?
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by favflam 4y ago
Also, it is embarrassing that San Jose International airport does not even have a rail connection. Even second tier cities overseas make sure to have rail connections for foreign visitors who probably don't have a driver's licens
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by favflam 4y ago
I visited San Jose Diridon station. It was surrounded by parking lots. It was amazing to me that a train station with connections south and north to both San Francisco and Oakland is a desolate wasteland of parking lots devoid of people.
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by favflam 4y ago
1. Vehicular drivers have no incentive to care. The laws around liability have to be changed. 2. Cities have to deprioritize car traffic to below pedestrians, bicycles, buses/trams. Free parking mandated or provided by the city nee
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by favflam 4y ago
https://nuclearphynance.com/ - 20+/- yr old forum on quant finance.
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by favflam 4y ago
In Dune and Terminator, AI killed almost everyone. So, AI was eventually banned.
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by favflam 4y ago
The F-35b/c? (vtol one) lets foreign navies operate aircraft on helicarriers (think Japan, Italy, South Korea). There are no competing stealth aircraft capable of naval deployment. China is developing what appears to be a stealth figh
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by favflam 4y ago
Without 20x margin trading, you can only be profitable running a spot exchange if you are in the top 3. Everyone below the top 3 has been operating in the red. Even the exchange that Binance bought has been operating in the red for years.
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by favflam 4y ago
I think a wire fraud/bank fraud charge is on the table for people who give in to the temptation. We only need one case to be successful for the precedent to be set that you cannot fraudulently issue unbacked stable coins for there to b
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by favflam 4y ago
I these holidays will be the most chill in maybe a decade. That 1.7 trillion USD omnibus package was passed. Mitch McConnell seemed pretty happy, along with the Democrat caucus. Things are starting to look normal again. Georgia voted for
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by favflam 4y ago
I wonder if the bail condition was set this way as a condition of agreeing to be extradited from the Bahamas without resistance.
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by favflam 4y ago
1. Timezone - I think you need a strong documentation + asynchronous work culture. Less pair programming, more Jira. 2. No "human" touch - just make Zoom calls and drink beer. 3. Difficult to figure compensation scale - I wouldn&
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by favflam 4y ago
He was trying to influence government policy that directly affected his business. This is like a level or two below bribing the SEC and CFTC to look the other way while breaking regulations.

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