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by giaour 4y ago
Sounds like a variant of the prisoner's dilemma: the best outcome is if no civilians are carrying guns, but needing and gun and not having one is a worse outcome than needing and having one?
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by giaour 4y ago
As a buyer, you could validate the authenticity of a ticket from a reseller, so getting a counterfeit from a scalper wouldn't be a worry. I think that's it, though
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by giaour 4y ago
Why not just ban the accounts of people you want to exclude and not open account registration to the public? The system you're proposing presupposes accounts, login, and some form of external trust anchor; I guess you can use the NFT i
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by giaour 4y ago
You would need to have a preexisting trust relationship with the issuer of the NFT. If it was originally minted with a keypair known to belong to the conference organizer or a trusted third party TicketMaster, then it'll probably be ho
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by giaour 4y ago
NFTs are a receipt. There are some areas where having a receipt/proof of purchase in hand is useful (ticketing/licensing), but that utility is separate from the thing you are proving to have purchased. NFTs can be interesting if y
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by giaour 4y ago
"Accountability" here is the public's right to know some facts, like if corporation X dumped toxic waste on public land or if individual Y funded a spoiler candidate in a major political race. Creating a new form of privacy m
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by giaour 4y ago
> It’s the dilemma of cryptography, in that you cannot have a secure system that doesn’t also allow bad guys to use it too. I hear similar things from the NRA about how we'd all be safer if everyone carried a concealed firearm. I ju
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by giaour 4y ago
I guess the problem for me is that the immediate action being normalized is just too ethically suspect. The closest analog outside of the cryptocurrency space is a crime that is generally only committed to get away with another crime. That
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by giaour 4y ago
What if instead of normalizing money laundering you just didn't launder money?
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by giaour 4y ago
Russia also defaulted because it can't pay (in any currency) parties that are barred by sanctions from transacting with the Russian government. It wouldn't matter if Russia were able to ship paper USD to their creditors; the cre
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by giaour 4y ago
> But marking wallets as sanctioned, and threatening any wallets that transact with it to be either similarly sanctioned or subject to heightened scrutiny, would diminish the value of those coins relative to coins which can be freely tra
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by giaour 4y ago
My takeaway was that Sky Mavis's ops culture is a dumpster fire, something that might be generalizable to a good chunk of the Web3 sector. The tech companies where I have worked (a couple BigTech cos, some smaller orgs, and civil servi
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by giaour 4y ago
Why do you think there will be a bailout, and what makes you think the firms in the article are concealing crypto losses? The article makes a compelling case that existing regulations limited the exposure of banks and traditional investment
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How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown(nytimes.com)
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by giaour 4y ago
> Insurance in ANY form is gambling. Only in the sense that both insurance and gambling charge a fee to alter the variance of a given outcome. But insurance exists to minimize or eliminate variance, whereas gambling seeks to increase it.
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by giaour 4y ago
I also wanted to ask this but realized I only "knew" they were illegal from the Simpsons[0], which is maybe out of date and might have been inaccurate at the time. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_A
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by giaour 4y ago
There was an Israeli startup that tried this out ~10 years ago: https://jalopnik.com/battery-swapping-israeli-startup-better... One problem was that they had chosen one model of car to simplify battery inventory, but the c
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by giaour 4y ago
A military boot camp is also an educational institution, so the similarity to a school is hardly accidental.
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by giaour 4y ago
There could be a selection effect at play. When I was growing up (the nineties), there was a social stigma around homeschooling due to its association with creationism. I went to Christian summer camps until I was a teenager, and the homesc
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by giaour 4y ago
Thomas said we could maybe think about finding a different justification for some of those rights “[a]fter overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions." Sounds like he wants them reversed to me!
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by giaour 4y ago
A team of PMs probably spent a full year putting it together by hand.
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by giaour 4y ago
The interview process sucks, but anything that provides a veneer of objectivity makes it less likely you'll get sued. I'm guessing the current system is as much a brainchild of staff attorneys as it is one of staff engineers.
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by giaour 4y ago
Yes. Griswold v. Connecticut (case about the legality of banning contraception) is a pre-Roe example of privacy-as-bodily-autonomy. Post Roe, the same privacy right has been used to, among other things, prohibit state-mandated abortion ( ht
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by giaour 4y ago
There are plenty of reasons not to steal and extort, like personal ethics or a fear of getting caught. If it were easier to mine than steal or extort, gangs would be running mining operations instead of wasting their time with theft and r
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by giaour 4y ago
Yes, it's currently difficult to sell a degree because you have to fake the whole shebang. There are some institutions that do exactly what you propose, but market forces leave only the ones with zero standards standing. They are calle
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by giaour 4y ago
So, you're saying PoW coins have no inherent value, only the value we bestow on them? Your reasoning is circular
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by giaour 4y ago
> We can only hope that future warfare is computational, rather than kinetic Why would this hypothetical enemy agree to participate? Even if they wanted coins (instead of say, land, subjects, or natural resources), it's cheaper and
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by giaour 4y ago
What evidence?
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by giaour 4y ago
Indie devs and small businesses (<5 installs) can use the community edition for commercial purposes, too. I use VS Code & the C# extension most of the time, and that's free as in beer for use by anybody.
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by giaour 4y ago
The market for Tesla cars is still red hot, though. I would be extremely worried about Tesla if there were no factories and dealers, just stock and hype. If hype is your only asset, it's hard to see how you recover from a crash.

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