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by jl2718 5y ago
BLUF: government should attack vulnerabilities first, disabling systems until they are patched. Very creative. It might also be done better with an open market where companies set the price there’re willing to pay for red hats. This also re
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This article has approximately nothing to do with ranked-choice voting. But about that… I’ll consider criticisms of how to use the vote count only after the vote count can be formally proven.
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Downrange it’s a different story. When I tried to deliver a giant tech support contract to the 101st when they rolled in, the commander told me to deliver the equipment with root, and keep the support out of his theater. I gave him my team’
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> deadlocked between Meg Whitman and Jeff Immelt (Uber board’s choices for new CEO) Wow. I don’t get the whole celebrity CEO movement. The job implies a set of tasks and a strong understanding of the business. What exactly do these peopl
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Interesting that, of all the many possible simple solutions to this massive problem with the protocol, they chose to ignore it in favor of something that solves… wait, what is the problem exactly that this upgrade solves?
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No. The main reason they would reject a transaction is to raise the demand for priority fees. I will repeat: there is zero incentive to include a zero-fee transaction. In fact, the incentive is negative for two reasons. Firstly because it
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Is there any more specific guidance on what normal citizens conducting normal business must do for AML compliance? Somewhat related: https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/the-bona-fide-acquisitio...
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All of that complexity is still in the priority fee. There is still zero incentive to include base-fee-only transactions.
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The irony is palpable.
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I find tweets 3 (centralization) and 4 (predation) to be particularly incisive. This may not be obvious to everybody, because these things are meant to be well-hidden. Although, I will say, those points massively contradict with the second
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I don't really understand the 'advocacy against' part of that. Aside from the lexical contradiction, it seems there's no actionable purpose. What does he want people to do or not do? And what will be the result if they d
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He has a lot of good points, but, he leads with a political trope. This is a sure-fire way to lose most of your audience from the start. His primary argument is “A is bad”. But then he adds “B is bad, and A is associated with B”. But B is t
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Sorry, what is he advocating ‘for’?
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Ian Fleming in WW2: https://worldsgreatestcon.fireside.fm Digest version: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127742...
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A slightly orthogonal way to see this debate is that the standards that became dominant (tcp/ip, http, html, cookies, smtp, js, etc) became that way specifically because they were inferior in specific ways, such as privacy. This gave t
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Part of the dominance of fiat is the effect of lending and investment markets on business cash flows. Reported earnings are a tax liability for an individual, but they are an asset to a business, which increases the value of their equity an
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>>> "What is your day job, Kyle?" "This is my day job. I'm a media artist, I just write a lot of code. I spend most of my time making open source tools with other people." "But how do you make money?&q
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History is full of examples like this. Rich man is killed first, without consequence. Then probably the king. The guards have no loyalty once the King is dead, but the swordsman will never escape the religion.
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> People generally perform better in societies where they aren't constantly threatened into obedience. These should be the first words out of any teacher's mouth in any course in history or civics. It would clear up a lot of co
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How so? What do you mean by 'control'?
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If Monero gets completely cut off from any means of fiat conversion, then what? How do you do price discovery?
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You raise an interesting point. What is the real effect of black market transactions? Is there any positive economic effect? Is fungibility actually necessary, or is it just a quick fix to the problem of value discovery?
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I may have found the answer: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-0-387-74...
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Which is ... proof of stake. Literally vote allocation by wealth.
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> For the example of proof of work the assumption is that every human can own and dedicate about the same amount of computing power. I'm not aware of anybody proposing that bitcoin would be a democratic protocol. There were other pr
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I understand. It wends a bit, but the point is that growth is required by the use of extractive funding mechanisms. They say maintenance costs are the root of the 'ponzi scheme', but I'm not quite buying that. Modern cities a
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> The solution to the above problem would be transparency of government actions, an independent press, and free and fair elections. Those all seem like very nebulous concepts that ring hollow under inspection. Force is much easier to und
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Sorry, I meant passive investment asset. You are correct in saying it is the primary economic value, but almost always active. Government bonds are a special category though. They are the only asset other than gold certificates accepted by
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I started from zero, and my approach was to read Nocedal/Wright cover-to-cover, and then the same with "Numerical Linear Algebra" by Trefethen/Bau. Usually it goes the other way, but I found the linear algebra primer in
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In my post, I explored the nature of ‘rents’ paid from property ‘owners’ to bond holders through property tax. The ‘rents’ you are talking about are from land owners to future buyers. I am sympathetic to some of the ideas of the land tax, b

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