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by hectorr1 9y ago
Square Cash, Amazon rumors, Wall Street interest, progress on scaling, emerging custody solutions, retail banking integration (Fidelity and USAA), improving regulatory clarity. $170B worth of value today? No. But price is current value + po
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by hectorr1 9y ago
Post 1992, we are paying for a military monopoly. Monopolies are expensive, inefficient, and make dumb decisions. But IMHO a monopoly is preferable to military competition, also known as total war. Obviously it's a scale, but that&#x27
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by hectorr1 9y ago
There's also Quorum, the open source enterprise blockchain based on Ethereum. It's got privacy and zksnarks and pluggable consensus and a decompiler and a consortium and everything. https://github.com/jpmorganchase
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by hectorr1 9y ago
It's actually much worse than that. At sea, those with operational responsibilities don't work a normal day or week. Not only are you working over 100 hours, but you destroy your circadian rhythm. While it shows 23 hours of sleep
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by hectorr1 9y ago
Positive masculinity: Discipline, risk taking, steadfastness, strength, mortal courage. "Toxic" femininity: Gossip, hysteria.
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by hectorr1 9y ago
You're right - journalism has a broken and outdated business model. Amazon has a modern and effective one. To fix the problem, you need to fix this dynamic. I get a lot the crypto hate you see around here, there are some real problems
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by hectorr1 9y ago
A decent plan executed fast beats the perfect solution next week every time when lives are on the line. That said, now we have some time to think and plan. So let's make an app. What training videos or info graphics does an ad-hoc floo
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by hectorr1 9y ago
ICOs are a terrible idea for most business ideas today. But they also may enable new business models that haven't quite been figured out yet, especially in areas where network effects and adoption are key drivers of success. The questi
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by hectorr1 9y ago
Did they have Material Non-Public Information (MNPI) when they traded? If so, yes. If not, no.
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It will be pretty miserable for the first colonists. But that's true of any endeavor like this. Some goals are worth suffering for, even if the individual will never see the payoff. And I don't like to begrudge people for their op
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by hectorr1 9y ago
I agree. Problem is, 100k dead in a week looks a lot worse on TV than 10M dead over five years.
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by hectorr1 9y ago
Howard Marks is an incredibly well respected investor, and this memo makes a lot of good points. That said, his underlying criticism of crypto boils down to the usual ad hominem / appeal to authority kinds of attacks. I was hoping for
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by hectorr1 9y ago
Was Ether a security during the crowd sale? Yes. Would it be a security in a future where the world runs on Ethereum and it is used to secure the decentralized network? No. Is it a security today? That's complicated. There is a lot of
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by hectorr1 9y ago
You're not wrong, but also dismiss some tough moral choices. I'd argue that attacking Libya was against U.S. strategic interests. Since 9/11 Gaddafi had substantially improved relations with the west. He gave up his nuclear p
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by hectorr1 9y ago
My Volvo slammed on the autonomous brake yesterday for no discernible reason. Best guess was a leaf blew across the sensor.
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It's a pretty grey area. I'm not sure they did either, but my guess is that they want to find out for sure by approaching the court system. Would definitely be an interesting conversation with their lawyer.