gojomo

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by gojomo 6y ago
Thanks, it's interesting you see it that way - but I've never seen that view common among 'hackers'. So, I doubt that's the factor why the symbol hasn't been more widely-used, emblematically. I instead suspect
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by gojomo 6y ago
For emoji-capable terminals, games & simulations like that of (other-front-page-story) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24317034 seem promising with this!
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by gojomo 6y ago
In what ways are conways-game-of-life or the glider-pattern associated with time-wasting?
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by gojomo 6y ago
Meh. These are more like objections to the first few weeks of adjustment, than to the new steady-state. People are quite adaptable. Look at the giant changes in working hours, open hours, & distance communications from the Covid-19 epid
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by gojomo 6y ago
> ...no one would agree what normal business hours are. Which would be... great! More businesses should vary hours to adapt to local conditions – the exact needs of its customers, employees, community, complementary nearby activities.
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by gojomo 6y ago
Yes, it's an attractive place to add surveillance code for all NICs. But not all NICs take over encryption/decryption. And if other components do the encryption/decryption, NICs don't see plaintext - just (lots of) metad
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by gojomo 6y ago
But, this is likely a target for 5-10 years out - when the block reward rate will be 1/2 to 1/4 what it is today. And, they're expecting significant inflation - not just the higher-than historic inflation that the Fed is now
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by gojomo 6y ago
I'm sure Zoom would be doing privacy-iffy things even if in full compliance with the GDPRAnd the possibility they might be surveying other cookies, and uploading them elsewhere, would be a giant concern if verified. But the specific co
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by gojomo 6y ago
Exactly, modern e-commerce convenience requires credit-card-equivalent payment mechanisms. The delays & extra expense/staff required for mailed checks are an onerous barrier to legal commerce, for both merchants & buyers. The m
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by gojomo 6y ago
Often, when the market doesn't provide an essential gateway service to a law-abiding subpopulation, some sort of 'public option' is proposed. Not enough market housing, offer public/subsidized options. Not enough low- or
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by gojomo 6y ago
If a special packet from the network -- maybe even just an innocuous-looking magic string in plaintext! – ran some undisclosed software on the NIC, how would you know? If that software then exfiltrated valuable info – session keys, or a dig
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by gojomo 6y ago
Hmm, researchers with the 'National University of Defense Technology' propound on the benefits of offloading encryption/decryption to a separate processor/FPGA on the Network Interface Card. Just for speed, I'm sure
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by gojomo 6y ago
What makes you "think" that? A hunch? Blind trust in ~90-year-old regulatory structures? How many people reviewed the Enron disclosures? How many amateur daytraders & Robinhood investors read all the disclosures of the "p
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by gojomo 6y ago
I don't believe you know anything about the kinds of deals available to me or where I should best invest. (What's your record & credentials?) I trust my decades in this industry more than your hand-waving assertions-of-futilit
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by gojomo 6y ago
That's still not 'wealth' but rather 'ability to pay the costs'. While correlated with wealth, that's not the same bar, and ability-to-pay is far more rationally related. An entity paying – actually forgoing
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by gojomo 6y ago
The SEC makes it easy to use standard arrangements if the investors are 'accredited'. But mixing in any 'unaccredited' investors drives up the legal complexities and costs, through extra liabilities. A generous (or despe
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by gojomo 6y ago
Are those academically-accredited?
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by gojomo 6y ago
Only if they're wise enough to leave themself that wiggle room. It's a binary test, the 'accredited' can risk any amount. So why not let anyone take a proportionate risk?
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by gojomo 6y ago
The 'accredited investor' definition is absolutely & literally a "wealth test". It does not ask if you have legal counsel. Indeed, even being an investment-specialized, bar-licensed lawyer yourself, drafting agreemen
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by gojomo 6y ago
Indeed, & that's one of the things fueling my righteous anger here. Several now very-rich, even 'celebrity' tier investors have mentioned that they simply faked the accreditation at a crucial early stage. Of course, there
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by gojomo 6y ago
But none of your examples use the reductionist & discriminatory "how big is your bank account" standard as a proxy for a person's responsibility. What if you had to be rich - far beyond the sticker & insurance price -
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by gojomo 6y ago
But an MBA who's a millionaire is competent to do any amount of private-investing? And an MBA who's not a millionaire isn't competent to do any private investing, even with just a small amount of their own money? Why sh
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by gojomo 6y ago
Yes, that's exactly in line with how I'd like the SEC to go further than these initial promising steps. More competence-evaluation – ideally constantly recalibrated according to the performance & satisfaction of those approved
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by gojomo 6y ago
You can trade futures, even in many retirement accounts, sometimes with just a few thousand dollars in the account. Such futures can wipe out any amount of principal in as little time as you could wire money to a sketchy private investment.
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by gojomo 6y ago
Sure: replace all wealth tests with competence tests. Then, no competent poor person would be legally locked out of an investment opportunity, by state enforcement power, that would be legally-encouraged for any incompetent wealthy heir. Re
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by gojomo 6y ago
Modern scams don't show the 'accredited investor' rules are helpful. These "are you rich enough?" limits, on just a few classes of potential investments, did not and can not provide any protection against rampant ri
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by gojomo 6y ago
It's been discussed, so it's definitely thinkable. And if getting an accredited-institution MBA, for tuition payments of anywhere from $22K to $200K, after about 17 years of other education (K-12, undergrad) isn't enough for
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by gojomo 6y ago
These are good steps, but abolishing all wealth-tests entirely would still be better. There's no wealth-test that prevents a person from losing all their money in highly-leveraged investments - from real-estate to fancy public-market s
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by gojomo 6y ago
Yes, it's been amazing to me how nearly everyone with continuing interest in HCQ has emphasized Zinc as an important factor, while so many studies have ignored it: neither supplementing it nor even checking enrolled patients for zinc d
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by gojomo 6y ago
And the VA observational study showing no HCQ benefit had the opposite problem, with those given HCQ much worse on many markers-of-health. Non-randomized studies have wasted a lot of everyone's attention on this & related issues.

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