kangnkodos

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by kangnkodos 5y ago
The author implies the assumption that over time, distributed data will get quicker and cheaper, like the CPU and memory on a PC. It won't. It can't. The problem is that validating transactions on a blockchain must be expensive. I
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
My message in round 1 would be: "340958123405982 In order to decide who the leader is: Before every round, I'm going to flip a coin before I send the next message out. Heads I'll stick with my method of deciding who the lead
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Yes. It's important to analyze why the person giving the advice is suggesting a particular course of action. If it's face to face, after I ask for advice, I always follow up with "Why?"
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
It would look like the Rockstar language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8&t=2959s
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
A US company, Ambri, is also working on a molten salt battery. "The liquid metal battery is comprised of a liquid calcium alloy anode, a molten salt electrolyte and a cathode comprised of solid particles of antimony"
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
I think it's a good rule of thumb to assume that anyone who guarantees returns greater than the historical return of the S&P 500 is a ponzi scheme. I don't know of a single reputable bank, hedge fund or publicly traded company
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Who ends up holding all the $USDT? Who are currently the biggest holders? Lots of different random individuals? All the people who have deposited cash into an exchange but haven't bought bitcoin yet/people who have sold bitcoin on
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
I expect my property, my house and yard, to appreciate less than the S&P 500. I expect the value of my property to go up a little, but not a lot. By choosing to buy property, instead of living in the cheapest rental I could find, there
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
He mentions his house is near a street named Baltimore. And he said he's near DC, not in DC. One possibility is University of Maryland in College Park. The main street that runs through campus is Baltimore Avenue. And it's just a
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Near DC. He mentions Baltimore as a street near his house. That's the main street that runs through the University of Maryland campus in College Park. It's just a few miles outside of DC.
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
This is a bad analogy. The main difference between alchemy and chemistry is that chemistry follows the scientific method. When an alchemist learned something new, they kept the information to themselves and tried to profit from it. They wan
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
First go to where the people are. Turn off your phone and put it away. Then, when you're somewhere with a bunch of people, don't look at the big groups talking and laughing together. Look for someone all by themselves who looks ev
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Just put it on myspace. That information will never completely go away.
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
... with the same message in a bunch of different languages. It will be become a future Rosetta Stone.
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
There have been studies which start with giving everyone the same amount of money, and then simulating random transactions. In a very short amount of time, one person ends up with 95% of the money. When it is run different times, a differen
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Or any small company. Most of what he's describing happens at large companies.
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
"Recent work has recovered the gene sequences of this unusual strain, so that the 1918 pandemic virus could be reconstituted to display its unique virulence phenotypes." What could possibly go wrong?
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
What is the average daily net inflow of US dollars into Tether? How many days of net inflow is $41M?
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
I double checked, and my friend successfully got away with homeschooling her kids in Germany. This was over five years ago. She thinks that maybe because she's American, they didn't follow up as much as they would have with a Germ
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Yes. A friend was homeschooling her kids in the US, and then her husband got an assignment in Germany for about a year. She took the kids and joined her husband in Germany for a few months. The rules were all different, and much stricter in
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
You can't take your kids out for a week or a month. But if you take your kids out of the country for a whole school year, what would stop you?
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
By that definition US Treasury bonds will be a ponzi. Currently, the US Treasury pays old bond holders by a combination of tax revenue and by issuing new bonds. However, each year, a bigger fraction of old bonds are paid by issuing new bond
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
If Tether's USDT went belly up, there would be a loss of confidence in the Coinbase exchange, a run on the market, and a collapse in the price of Bitcoin. Right now, everyone who has an account at Coinbase believes that if they liquida
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
In the last ten years or so, returns have been extremely high. If you look back at all the data available, you get a number closer to 3.5% or maybe at the most 4%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
"Many people with a large amount of money, perhaps a million or two, consider themselves middle class when clearly they could even retire and live off their passive income" If you have a million dollars, stop working, invest the m
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
You would like to read more on this? Read "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and pay attention to how Delores Umbridge defines a set of ideas that must not be questioned. Her role of Inquisitor is similar to the role of a
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Everything, even salt has some small amount of consciousness. That's why I refuse to eat salt.
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
So, you agree that anyone who eats eggs should be fired?
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
I agree that a woman should get to decide what to do with her own body. Texas SB 8 is bad. But imagine you enter a Twilight Zone episode, and are transferred back to the 1920s. You publicly state your opinion that abortions should be legal,
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by kangnkodos 5y ago
Is the left's success and the right's failure at getting CEOs fired a good thing or a bad thing? If you are on the left, it's great. If you're on the right, you just lost your right to have free speech and stay employed.

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