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by jboy55 4y ago
Twitter is a counter example for your tech stock scenario. However, you could argue that its hyper-inflated Tesla stock trading for hyper-inflated Twitter stock, much like a BTC millionare, trading BTC for ETH.
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Madoff was also a great patron and philanthropist. Al Capone was known to help Chicago's poor and hungry.
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by jboy55 4y ago
Look, if you have a belief that Ethereum will power the digital economy, you should have no problem waiting until it does, and just use it within the digital economy. I use Venmo to buy random things from vendors at Art and Wine festivals ,
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by jboy55 4y ago
Its not a company, you know. Just because it has "market cap" slapped onto it, it still doesn't mean anything. You should be saying, "A host of companies made $10 billion collecting fees for transacting in Etherium"
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I'm just going to take a second to recognize the fact we're talking about "investing" in a currency and expecting 10x returns is nuts. The best thing for crypto as a currency is for Etherium to be worth in 10-20 years ex
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by jboy55 4y ago
Aren't the vast majority of that 150T market in cross border payments already done outside of crypto?
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Besides the Can-Am series lenient regulations, what auto race series didn't have regulations?
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My guess is that the earliest Code Versioning systems were completely manual, "Duplicate your tape, mark it 1.2, store it in drawer". And these manual processes were brought to and duplicated on computers when code began to be sto
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by jboy55 4y ago
Looking at the dot-com era, it probably would be more likely to compare crypto to the sudden rise and collapse of the 'dark fiber' companies. https://25iq.com/2017/11/11/the-1990s-telecom-bubble-what
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If the data doesn't have the details required to build accurate models, then the data is just costing Tesla money. Since Tesla's are just cameras only, with telemetry, they can replay scenarios with existing roads, but what happen
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by jboy55 4y ago
I think they mean when Jesse Eisenberg told Andrew Garfield Facebook would never sell ads, which is what Justin Timberlake told him, setting up the essential personal conflict between Jesse and Andrew in the movie The Social Network.
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by jboy55 4y ago
You have a lot of survivorship bias in your post here. Having lived, albeit briefly in the software industry of the 90s, the world was full of massively overbudgeted, multi-million dollar messes. 22 years ago, I was working on software to r
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by jboy55 4y ago
Microsoft subpoenaed MCI, AOL, Intel, Novell others, including all email messages related. https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/amd-subpoenas-... https://cyber.harvard.edu/msdoj/archive.ht
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Well, you can work on it with the existing functionality, with the trust that everything that's hosted on Penpot is first released to the current version on Github. Eventually they will diverge though, and the source code will be a ver
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by jboy55 4y ago
When you get into non-voting shares, you move closer and closer to "corporate branded" crypto. We'll see when a major company with a lot of non-voting shares really struggles and gets acquired at a discount or moved private,
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by jboy55 4y ago
If crypto were a real currency, in real use, there would be valid criticisms of its future viability as a currency if it changed more than 1% in a day, or dropped in value > 10% a year. Its as if someone traded a tulip bulb for a sack of
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by jboy55 4y ago
I'm not sure where you are getting "Pyramid scheme", most criticisms of crypto are that they are Ponzi schemes. The difference is that rather than money funneling up to the top of the pyramid, in a Ponzi scheme an illusion of
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by jboy55 4y ago
If a company stated that all their building materials were able to withstand the impact of a bullet in a public forum. You can sue them when you purchased said materials and found out they weren't bulletproof. You don't have stand
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by jboy55 4y ago
I feel like I've never seen a project that I liked, where I surprisingly discovered it was developed using TDD. I have seen only a handful of projects, show as examples of TDD, that actually were projects I liked. Its a variation of th
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by jboy55 4y ago
The lasers are around 10-15% efficient in converting electricity to light. These pellet experiments are not about energy production. They are about telling scientists how these materials would handle the pressure and heat of a collapsing ur
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by jboy55 4y ago
The fact they are bringing a magnet shows how confident they are its iron. My hypothetical scenario: "There's a chance its not iron but something new!" "What chance is that?" "Its inverse to the chance we told
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by jboy55 4y ago
You start a ransomware group, you take the country of Belize for a million in etherium. You also start a NFT collective, you post a bunch of pictures you have for sale. In a fit of 'we're gonna blow this money', the ransomwa
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by jboy55 4y ago
I doubt you could invent a better way to launder all that ransomware cyrpto than inventing NFTs.
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I have family members who paid for computer service because Microsoft was so nice to call them after detecting an issue with their computer. But lets get them all cold wallets to hold their money.
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We're giving the keys to our financial system to crypto-bros who we're supposed to 'trust' because they claim to 'understand' how crypto works. Yet their investment advice is to buy and hold, while they pump an
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by jboy55 4y ago
Two thoughts, 1) it will be impossible to get out of our current housing hole without making developers rich. 2) We are so far into the hole that any availability will be gobbled up by those with money or those with connections. I have a t
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That would have been perfect. That's what I would have wanted checked in. I would have quickly turned to telling you how awesome the company was.
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This is what I was thinking, as I was driving in, and heard the same song. It was an iPhone, and it was my impression that this is how the iPhone worked. Now, my iPhone did something else weird, it randomly dropped songs from being download
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Perhaps there's another collectively shared work experience that also created leetcode style interviews. That is dealing with someone who has a degree, can speak well of what it takes to code, but who cannot code to save their life. I
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Re: Thinking machines. If you are looking at moving on from your current company, and are evaluating 6 companies, you have to bank up 6 weeks of PTO to 'try to work' at various companies for a week?

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