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by kobeya 9y ago
I was trying to imply “live forever” without saying it since that results in a bunch of ignorant responses (not yours). If you don’t die — which should be the end goal, no? — how do you leave a sufficient amount to your kids while keeping e
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by kobeya 9y ago
“Democratization of business and industry” is a way of saying less regulation, right? I’m a mostly libertarian myself, and agree, but it’s not a popular opinion among progressives and BI supporters. They focus on “less regulation” meaning l
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by kobeya 9y ago
Being more rigid about semantics and formalization of program meaning means that it is a simpler process to answer queries about what a certain piece of code does vs an alternative “pragmatic” language that is riddled with exceptions and la
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by kobeya 9y ago
T is never 0.
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by kobeya 9y ago
And they will spend it, on things they need to survive, like rent and food. Now the landlords, factory farmers, and Walmart have all the wealth. Oh, and massive inflation raises all the prices so your next check doesn’t go as far. BI is ext
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by kobeya 9y ago
5. It ignores entirely the macroeconomic results of printing tons of money, which doesn’t end well for society even if widely and directly distributed.
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by kobeya 9y ago
We should be promoting therapies which lead to healthier, longer lives. Dependence on generational wealth transfer throws an incentive kink in that.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The alternative is not necessarily a planned economy. Consider a Georgist land tax, for example.
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by kobeya 9y ago
If you make $7tn from thin air and inject it into the economy, consumer price inflation will drastically rise, which for the most part ends up being a transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the owners of capital. All you will
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by kobeya 9y ago
It is sad and says a lot that in our society journalists, who are responsible for delivering information to the masses, fall in he first category not the latter.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I’m not sure how it squares with physics. I’d recommend finding that reference.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It’s also used to offload bits. Real computers don’t have infinite tape.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Sure. That doesn’t mean it achieves those goals very well.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I meant it in the objective sense of information theoretic complexity. I’m not sure what other measurements would be objective in comparison.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Haskell aims for simplicity. That is favoring the reader/maintainer of code over the writer. It’s a different trade off that is not obviously worse.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Actually the same could be said about Python and the Python way, pythonic programs, etc.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Maybe. The STARK paper hasn't been published yet as far as I know. All we have is claims.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Not after subsidy has played out. That's a temporary state of affairs. Mining provides economic cost of reorg as a product, something people in the bitcoin space call "security."
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by kobeya 9y ago
With a very different set of tradeoffs. MW does not provide anonymity. It provides, at best, pseudo-anonymity with coinjoin mixing by default, with N=2 in the implementations being considered. Careful repeated application with the right c
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by kobeya 9y ago
... that's a system with entirely different properties.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Use the netinst image, which is still being maintained.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> There's gotta be a way to do consensus about zero-knowledge proofs that's a little more... you know ... decentralized. Not really, no. There is no known scheme that has similar properties but non-trusted setup. There's n
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes, he led some GPG training meetups where he taught best practices for securing yourself while he was stationed in Hawai'i, at the very least.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You think they aren't? Mining is a multi billion dollar industry.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Those numbers are still reasonable for the South Bay, which has just as much opportunity, or the East Bay where you could commute in to SF. Or for someone more frugal than the GP. I get what you're saying, but it's still possible
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by kobeya 9y ago
0.5 salary (generous for someone remote working in a different timezone without a large personal network, imho) with 95% savings is the same as 48% savings with 1x salary, not to mention greater growth potential. You're example doesn&#
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by kobeya 9y ago
Outside of a few very highly specialized fields, I don't know anyone who does that successfully who didn't first get their start and build their network in the valley. EDIT: To be clear, I do know people that have "done their
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by kobeya 9y ago
If you're young and single or dual income, no kids, the bay area is a fantastic place to make high income and save tons of money. Lots of people in r/financialindependence are tech workers in the valley. If you're starting yo
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by kobeya 9y ago
GBTC is a regulatory dodge that does not reliably track the price of bitcoin. As someone who wants a bitcoin ETF, I’m certain the SEC would not have approved the listing of GBTC and very confused as to why ICE (who should know better) ever
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes and yes. Small food stalls and food trucks should not be held to the same standards as professional restaurants and franchises. Personal use of medications should be less restrictive than pharmacies.

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