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by javert 6y ago
What do you think the bond market is, if not risky lending? It's pretty much the engine of our civilization.
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by javert 6y ago
> getting at the hypocrisy of asking for a citation and then making an uncited claim A person asking for a citation is not disallowed from making a claim. Someone else is free to ask for a citation from me, in return. You are not only in
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by javert 6y ago
I'm not interested in arguing with you for its own sake. I'm just saying the following because I don't like to see the kind of behavior in this community that I think is going on here (and I don't think it's intenti
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by javert 6y ago
What behavior of mine do you think I should change? I didn't see any suggestion of something I actually did wrong. It felt like you were trying to criticize, but that your criticism had no actual content.
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by javert 6y ago
I don't think there is any point to saying something like that.
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by javert 6y ago
> Cryptocurrency is designed specifically, by virtue of its decentralized and trustless nature, to facilitate money laundering. It was a design goal. This is what it's for. That and of course, collecting the proceeds of ransomware.
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by javert 6y ago
Saying bitcoin provides less utility than a credit card is missing the point the bitcoin people are making. You can still hold that bitcoin is bad, but that particular argument is not viable and comes from ignoring what the other side is sa
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by javert 6y ago
> a huge fraction of the crypto economy is outright extortion or fraud I'm not sure that's true. Do you have a citation? What is clear is that a huge portion of the crypto economy is based around cryptocurrencies (particularl
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by javert 6y ago
Can you make this specific? What exactly did the U.S. do/threaten to get Canada to arrest a Chinese executive? Obviously, it wasn't a threat of military invasion, but I'm open to some other possibility.
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by javert 6y ago
You could do that, but it doesn't achieve the goal that was being discussed. Spending money on trips is not a "ROI" (return on investment). Plus, if you spend $5M personally on trips, that will most likely be caught as fraudu
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by javert 6y ago
Thank you, this is an interesting example. A Charitable Remainder Unitrust is a very specific thing. It does not make sense to create one unless you actually are charitably minded. If you look at it merely as a way to reduce taxes, you&#x27
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by javert 6y ago
That would be fraud. It's not likely that you would get away with this.
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by javert 6y ago
You can't actually give all your money to a non-profit and then spend it on yourself, so that won't work. I mean, you can, but if you get caught, which you almost certainly will, you will go to jail. Source: Ask any CPA.
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by javert 6y ago
You have to pay capital gains on bitcoin if you spend it, even if you don't convert it to fiat first. e.g. buy $10 of coins, use same coins to buy a meal later, if the value of the meal is $20 (whether denominated in fiat or the equiva
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by javert 6y ago
If anyone else is wondering what the Lisp "condition system" is... Apparently it's analogous to "exception handling" in other languages, but with some extra features. Props to the author for getting out his first bo
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by javert 6y ago
I see, happy to have someone who agrees with me. I don't know why so many people ignore the fixed supply issue with bitcoin, it seems like the "elephant in the room."
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by javert 6y ago
Obviously, if you are a user of the currency and don't want it to be inflated by the central bank, there's at least one thing in bitcoin's favor, as it has a fixed maximum supply. You can argue that's a bad thing if you
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by javert 6y ago
I don't view privacy as attainable with cryptocurrency anyway.
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by javert 6y ago
Well, a fixed supply yields better monetary properties, which people are likely to value. I don't really think a cryptocurrency can win in the transaction niche without also winning in the store of value niche. I think it's a winn
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by javert 6y ago
A lot of bitcoiners are long-term holders who either don't care what happens with Tether, or want the price to crash so they can load up on more bitcoin.
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by javert 6y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what's the situation with Ethereum 2 and Polkadot in terms of maximum supply? (i.e. if bitcoin is 21M max, what about these other two? I'm pretty sure they don't have a cap, but what's t
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by javert 6y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. PayPal doesn't want to get left in the dust. Square offers crypto, so even if the chance crypto really takes off for payments is small, they have a strat
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by javert 6y ago
Ironically, bitcoin itself is the solution for the "Wild West" problem of a company like Tether just printing money. By the way, Tether supply should be correlated to BTC, whether or not they are doing a fractional reserve.
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by javert 6y ago
I think it's OK to use centralized services for small amounts of cryptocurrency, just like you would put a small amount of cash in your wallet. For large amounts, use cold wallets. Not your keys, not your coin.
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by javert 6y ago
This sounds to me like a good PhD project and/or series of research papers. Disclaimer: I'm not in the model-checking community. If it's hard to formalize futex's behavior, all the better for academics, though it's
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by javert 6y ago
> Peter Singer, argues for moral consideration of animals on utilitarian grounds. There are Kantians who do the same. I don't agree with either. In my view, the kinds of arguments they make are not even valid kinds of arguments. &gt
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by javert 6y ago
> What exactly makes humans worthy of moral concern but non-human animals not? Nothing, in the sense of "moral concern" that you are asking about. We have laws against killing humans (and stealing from them, and many other thin
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by javert 6y ago
> I'm not aware of any theory which has convincingly been able to show that animals are not worthy of moral consideration (but all humans are) To argue against eating animals, you need a moral theory which shows that animals are w
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by javert 6y ago
I believe Palantir exists specifically to serve the intelligence apparatus. Do you have information showing otherwise?
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by javert 6y ago
I believe Palantir exists specifically to serve the government surveillance "industry." Do you have information showing otherwise?

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