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by krrrh 9y ago
Yes, distributed but not decentralized.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Gary Johnson made hay in 2016 about the fact that it took Hillary Clinton longer to change her position than Dick Cheney. I feel pretty confident that he wasn’t always in favor of it when he was in Congress or working in the Ford Administra
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by krrrh 9y ago
Cunningham’s law goes back to USENET, and was clever in a pre-Lycos internet. There is actually a reference to that xkcd comic in this article. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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by krrrh 9y ago
Despite popular opinion on other forums, it is faster to search the web than to post a falsehood in order to provoke someone else to do it for you. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dick+Cheney+support+gay+marriage&i...
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by krrrh 9y ago
I’m a fairly happy fastmail user, and have been intrigued by ProtonMail. Has anyone made a switch between them or run both for an extended period of time? I do like he idea of encrypted-at-rest, and the desktop bridge seems like a decent so
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by krrrh 9y ago
Except Microsoft officially stopped supporting Windows XP in 2014[1], and they had already extended support much longer than they had wanted to because XP was so long-lived and customers pushed back against having to upgrade to Vista. Vista
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by krrrh 9y ago
Because they tried that and it ended up in inflation and slow growth. The Phillips curve broke.
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by krrrh 9y ago
I hadn't looked into all the options to be honest, VXX was on my radar. So was TVIX[1], but figuring out how to optimize decaying short-term bets like these felt like too much for a non-expert. I'm certain there are smarter and le
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by krrrh 9y ago
Do you want to list some of the ones you’re thinking of? I’m trying to level up on hedging strategies for retail investors. I was thinking of buying VIX on Friday, and am kicking myself for missing out now.
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by krrrh 9y ago
It’s important to qualify that BTC’s “daily low of $6600” is actually only an 80 day low, and a price that was an all-time high on Nov 1st. The DJIA ”bottoming out" is so far just a return to prices from just over a month ago. There’s
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by krrrh 9y ago
It’s a stretch to call what he does journalism, but I suppose it depends on where you draw the circle around “journalist”. He uses real world events and people as his raw materials, but the subjects of his films are his own perspectives eve
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by krrrh 9y ago
Brian O’Blivion was heavily based on Marshall McLuhan if you want to go further down the rabbit hole.
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by krrrh 9y ago
While trying to parse the 2016 election I watched Steve Bannon’s magnum opus Generation Zero [1] and was struck by how much certain parts of it felt like an Adam Curtis film, with its heavy use of stock footage for tone rather than exposit
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by krrrh 9y ago
Further to this, corporations are (composed of) people[1]. Apple is paying out dividends this quarter and the shareholders will pay taxes on those dividends. Corporate taxes are an expense to a company that leaves them less money to spend o
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by krrrh 9y ago
Apple gets attention because they are the biggest or second biggest company in the world and has been very profitable, but their tax-avoidance strategies have been less aggressive than other major US companies.
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by krrrh 9y ago
Horace Dediu at asymco.com has also consistently made pretty accurate predictions for Apple and publishes a lot of his reasoning for free, if anyone is interested in going beyond the mainstream financial press, which over-relies on sketchy
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by krrrh 9y ago
It's a lot closer to hunting licenses than voting tests. It's certainly true that preventing the unlicensed from hunting means that their rifles, freezers, four-wheel drives, dogs, and grills have less value than someone who is qu
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by krrrh 9y ago
The big difference is that you can point your own custom domain at Medium, and if you want to leave, you can move your posts to your own site and maintain the canonical url structure.
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by krrrh 9y ago
> just like the internet wasn't all that exciting in the early 90s. Anyone who believes this probably wasn’t alive then. Everything we take for granted is built on open and free (as in beer) protocols. The people who created and sup
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by krrrh 9y ago
The same author in a 2015 article I linked to elsewhere in this discussion: “In 1970, some 45 years ago, I wrote an essay in -Harper’s on the subject of homosexuality. The chief points of my essay were that no one had a true understanding o
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by krrrh 9y ago
The same author on similar themes in 2015: http://www.weeklystandard.com/unassailable-virtue-victims/ar...
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by krrrh 9y ago
These are good points, and I think it's important to consider the worst case scenarios, because history does prove that the unexpected can happen in politics. I only challenged the point, because even a 30% haircut seems better to me t
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by krrrh 9y ago
This Cyprus thing gets repeated by cryptobugs without considering the details: - Cyprus is a tiny country whose banks failed and needed a bailout, they had violated rules for staying in the Euro - It was used as a tax haven for Russians and
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by krrrh 9y ago
> Google's value grew in the 90s Google wasn’t even founded until 1998, and didn’t IPO until 2004. It wasn’t part of the dot-com bubble. Amazon would have been a better example (1994, IPOed in 1997). Otherwise, good post.
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by krrrh 9y ago
At least in Vancouver, organizations like Big Brothers do clothing drives and then sell the clothes on to Value Village. This way a charity makes some money along the way. Check around and see what’s available in your area.
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by krrrh 9y ago
It’s not just their profits because they spend a good portion of their revenue on customer acquisition and retention. We may have a more stable economy if there was less customer acquistiin in the consumer credit space.
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by krrrh 9y ago
GP was talking about auditing costs at financial institutions which is a different issue than credit card transactions (I think). Another portion of that 3% cost is marketing in the form of cashback and rewards points which can be eliminate
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by krrrh 9y ago
> and that's assuming that VISA, et al. wouldn't just lower their rates They easily could, their current rates contribute a lot toward cashback and points rewards and other marketing programs. Australia regulated a cap on rates
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by krrrh 9y ago
The policy is stated on every bill: “this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" You can put your question in a search engine and find many references. Businesses in the US must accept dollars, but can choose what form
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by krrrh 9y ago
> Many businesses incur costs to third parties that could be reduced or eliminated by trustless systems The way you phrase this it sounds like a marginal reduction of costs, and maybe a marginal reduction in the auditor workforce. That’s

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