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by jshaqaw 7y ago
"Of course, those big company Association members, like Visa and Mastercard, all paid $10 million dollars for the privilege of functioning as validators on the network. Why would they do that? Because they’re going to make a lot of mon
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Exactly. The praetorian guard become the real emperor of Rome or the Shogun exiles the emperor to play ceremonial roles in Kyoto. Except in this case without the need to maintain a popular figure of divine mandate for public purposes, the g
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
And yet there is no inflation. So the currency debasement yielding to hyperinflation argument which has been running since 2008 remains without any evidence.
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I am amused by the comment that owning a private landholding will protect them should we hit a time of political and climate driven unrest. Yeah - a paper land deed will definitely stave off the masses hordes in the event of a desperate apo
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
Event movies for teenagers sell lots of popcorn and candy. Sophisticated indie movies for adults don't. A huge amount of the profit margin at the theaters is driven by the concessions counter. This drives which films the big theater
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Many of the gotchas and pain points are caused by regulatory factors (which I would add may be heavy handed or painfully implemented but are usually there for good and important reasons). Facebook or any alternative payment system will hit
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We are heading to a world where the US Federal Reserve is preparing people for the idea of negative interest rates in the next recession (see https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi... ) The &q
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
Yes but if we are honest 95% of the positive "feelings around Bitcoin" are for capital appreciation/speculation or at least a hedge against perceived government fiat dilution which are not relevant in a stable-coin context.
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This could introduce some more competition into cross border payments like remittances although by the time the regulatory overseers get comfortable that it won’t be used for money laundering/terrorist finance/etc... you will end
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Don’t we already have Venmo for this?
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What I still don’t see here is a compelling use case which would make a critical mass of users say “this is demonstrably better for me than the existing payments system.” All I see from my perspective as a potential user is I can do what I
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At the time of the handover the world was in a unipolar moment. People though that we were converging on an “end of history” where every state was inevably moving towards democracy. The relative importance of the Chinese economy in world wa
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I have such fond memories of the CM-2. As a high school student during a summer science program I got to write genetic algorithms on it C*. I am always sad I became a Lisp fanboy decades later and missed the chance to hack in Star-Lisp th
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It’s a smart business move for FedEx to be the key scale logistics infrastructure for everyone not Amazon rather than be reduced to a dumb pipe for Amazon - a scenario where they would get squeezed by the monopsony buyer over time. I bet Am
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Part of the issue here is defining what it means to “achieve”. I was a gifted child and graduated at the top of my fancy Ivy League university. Did I go on to conquer the world? No. And many days I stress and feel bad about that. But t
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Probably Star Raiders which was awesome for its time
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So true. I used to love meeting friends or colleagues for coffee but now I know I probably won’t get a seat wading through a sea of laptops.
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Do you have kids? Maybe not 8500 but there is always something from summer camp to orthodontics etc... Life with kids is worth it 200 percent but expensive.
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SOME hedge funds consider this a win. Others think it is an error in the legal system which should be fixed as a matter of good public policy.
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NYC staycations can be awesome.
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I’m 43 for whatever that matters. I think the experience and gravity a 45 year old brings vs a 25 year old is incredibly valuable. That said, at this point in life I am no longer willing to give all my life to work. I have a family. I reali
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by jshaqaw 7y ago
Interesting. I signed up for Nextdoor to see what it is based on this article. For my NYC neighborhood it’s all tag sales, requests for opthomology recommendations, etc... No fear monger it in sight.
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Same at Brown. Sure nothing is 100% and jerks exist (in all socioeconomic stratum) but I didn’t see many barriers between the children of the rich and famous and those of other backgrounds.
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Because dogs are objectively awesome. Next question.
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Good luck and a fine sentiment but the free rider incentives will favor cheaper funds with no corporate governance ambitions. The market for investors who care enough about corporate governance to subsidize others isn’t big enough for criti
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It gets dangerous when tons of the people around you are somehow seeking to feed off your wealth and thus you get very little negative feedback anywhere. Everyone says they hate yes men. In practice most people love yes men.
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I did. You can get around nicely on it. But I did find that walkability within neighborhoods was strained by superhighways crisscrossing everywhere.
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Amazing how little anyone is mentioning that Abigail Disney who is worth half a billion dollars purely by virtue of being born rich May be on thin ice criticizing the lay of someone who actually works for a living. She says CEOs can say no
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When I was in Shanghai some years ago it felt as if it was being given to cars versus public transport which was a huge missed opportunity. I don’t claim however to have seen the whole city only being there for 4 or 5 days as a tourist (and
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by jshaqaw 8y ago
I did tameshigiri for the second time last night. Speaking as someone who regularly practiced zazen for 15 years it is an incredibly Zen meditative experience!

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