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by jl2718 5y ago
The stock market is a $47T industry. Residential real estate is a $36T industry. How much is the oxygen breathing industry worth?
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by jl2718 5y ago
The bill has nothing to do with ‘raising money’. There are no new taxes or sources of revenue in the bill. It’s about two things: 1. putting greater surveillance on crypto than cash, and 2. making operation of crypto/defi impossible an
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by jl2718 5y ago
Different strategies. ETH PoS is about distributing a consensus state. Bitcoin PoW is about hardening a deterministic state.
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So… JIT doesn’t actually improve performance. Nor does virtual DOM. What next? It seems like web browsers and frameworks are full of this cargo cult magic that doesn’t actually work, but must be used because everything else is built on top
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by jl2718 5y ago
> Eric Schmidt, the former Alphabet CEO, has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus. Is he going to pay an exit tax, or has he found a way around this too?
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by jl2718 5y ago
The first stocks ever sold to the public were claims on land in a new world, an escape from servitude to kings. Turns out they were just being swindled by a bankrupt crown to keep their own oppressors in power. But there was a new world, an
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I would like to hear the strongest case for the privacy trade-off. How many more children will be physically recovered versus existing methods? What is the reduction in money flow to abduction activities? This might be naive, but I would gu
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Most of these are intentional planned exploits carried out by outsourced creators that insert bugs. It’s a good point, but probably more preventable than observed.
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How exactly do you know that it helped? What evidence can you point to that says the whole tech boom would have gone to Trans-Dniester otherwise? Doctor salaries are massively inflated by limiting supply even within the country. That must m
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But there is generational fallout from this policy too.
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Why does the state own a sports team?
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I hired a plumber who took a sledgehammer to my bathroom and the demanded 10x the money to fix it. I’ve hired contractors that ripped out all the copper and left. I lived in a house where the owner had hired a landscaper that got paid but d
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by jl2718 5y ago
There was only one kid in my middle school that went to the regional tech school. His parents were both PhDs and he got into MIT. That’s probably an outlier, because many if not most of his classmates were only there because they got expell
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Oh yeah because they did such a great job at raising median citizen wages too. What is this ‘economy’ that they are such great stewards of? Who owns it?
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> Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said as much when in 2007 he advocated boosting the number of skilled immigrants entering the United States so as to "suppress" the wages of their U.S. counterparts, whi
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by jl2718 5y ago
Irrelevant. You’d have to find statute and precedent for the authorities required in enforcement. Law is not supposed to be rhetoric.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Summary: entry-level jobs dried up, so people are going to law school instead. Also political motivations. Editorial: More lawyers make the country more complicated and less competitive. We need more and better people going into industrial
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by jl2718 5y ago
Too bad the contract wasn’t controlled by some kind of algorithm, a ‘smart contract’, if you will. Oh well, guess we’ll just never have a solution for this sort of thing.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I didn’t read the bill, but here is the summary: “We’re going to use violence against non-violence.”
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by jl2718 5y ago
What are some of the social problems that the SWIFT network solves?
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Then they’d have to define it as currency and they can’t tax purchases made with currency.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Not a lot of people are actually making money. That would require conversion back to fiat. Nor are they buying goods and services. Basically they’re just getting taxed on worthless trades between fake assets. The price goes up when money co
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I’m sure you are speaking for yourself here with such authority.
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by jl2718 5y ago
> power-hungry tax evaders You mean like the owners of all of the biggest companies in the world right now? Or do you mean like that guy that did absolutely nothing except buy some dog coins and then tried to disappear to go live on a be
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Where do you think they got that money from in the first place?
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The data is fully open already. They can’t be this stupid.
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Yeah, they can but they won’t. They’ll institutionalize everything you hate so much about the crypto markets today, and force you to invest in it by destroying your savings account, your house, and your 401k. Centralized fake crypto is the
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by jl2718 5y ago
What you are observing is the ugly opportunism of this war, and it is a war, between systems that are controlled by powerful people, and systems that are controlled by algorithms. This is not a new conflict. Democracy was an algorithmic vic
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One small thing: Firefox developer edition can’t edit files like chrome or their old firebug plugin. Therefore, apps get developed on chrome; therefore, they work better on chrome.
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In case I wasn’t clear, this is a strong recommendation against starting your adult life in SF. Your friends elsewhere will be married with children, own their house, run a nice business, and you’ll be making a pretty good salary but wonder

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