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by krrrh 9y ago
Benedict Evans’ newsletter on mobile and related tech (everything in tech is related) is quite good as a weekly round up of important stories, plus his own long form writing which is top notch. [1] Ben Thompson’s Stratechery is good too. Mo
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It's a general impression from years of reading newspapers. I'm not an expert, I haven't worked out the probabilities of what Mexico would be like without NAFTA, and there are dozens of other confounding factors such as corru
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Crypto-millionaires aren't millionaires until they cash out a million dollars and at least diversify. The numbers may come more in line the correction continues.
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Every other company in the state will have a harder time hiring those workers because they aren't receiving a subsidy bolstering their after-tax profits. It's unfair to make all other business essentially transfer money to one tha
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> How would the US possibly strengthen the Mexican Government though, barring massive investment? Not creating uncertainty by constantly threatening to pull out of NAFTA would be a good start. Helping to strengthen Mexico's economy
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by krrrh 9y ago
> Filecoin's floor is the cost/demand for actual hard drive space. I suppose that DentaCoin’s floor is the value of dentistry? What happens to its value if people decide they prefer ToothCoin? Or that dollars work for all of th
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An alternative to this is https://krypt.co/ which generates keys on your phone’s secure element/enclave and communicates with your laptop via bluetooth. It has a straightforward script to copy another public key from a
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> Author of is article is a troll. He may have an incendiary and flippant writing style, but it’s worth noting that he was a founder and COO of Monax (née Eris) which released an open source private-chain fork of Ethereum in 2014. He’s q
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It was even weirder than that. He believed he could gain an edge on bitcoin mining by simulating a quantum computer with a conventional computer. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/buterins-quantum-quest/
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How does a blockchain limit illegal reproduction? Having an record of ownership ain’t gonna shut down the torrents whether it’s in a database in Apple’s data center, or on a blockchain. How does this square with blockchain-related projects
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Exactly. There have been a bunch of proof on concept websites that have been offering this service for 3-4 years now with very little pick up or interest from creators or consumers. In the end, there’s no reason it couldn’t be a simple open
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> What is of interest to them is the fact that their data can become decentralized with the blockchain… I honestly feel like the terms decentralized and distributed are often used as synonyms when people talk about blockchain, even thoug
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Didn’t Ronald Coase win the Nobel prize in economics for basically pointing out why this was a bad idea? [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
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Not what you're looking for, but it's worth knowing that since iOS 11, there is a panic sequence that disables TouchID at least. This applicable in non-border LE interactions where a citizen can be compelled to touch the device, b
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by krrrh 9y ago
Everything you say is true, but the vested rent-seeking interests of the medallion holders that for years caused untold costs to people who needed transportation, and to the economy as a whole, was also despicable. Money was already overwhe
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The rest of the world is also building battery manufacturing. [1]. Even Tesla’s plant Is jointly run by Panasonic. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1112878_china-to-build-...
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> Moving from crypto to fiat is also liable to taxation Trading between cryptoassets as GP suggests he has done already makes them subject to taxation. The fiat step isn’t needed.
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Quite often people suffering from a specific nutritional deficiency or cognitive imbalance can go for years beating themselves up over their inability to get an exercise/salad/meditation habit on track, until they get on a substan
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> Fighting imposter products may have extremely valuable applications for blockchain, for example knock-off Gucci bags This example always gets brought up but Gucci bags already come with serial numbers and receipts that you can use for
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by krrrh 9y ago
The film Tim’s Vermeer has a nice exposition of this theory, including a few good scenes with David Hockney himself. Great Look the intersections of art, technology, and personal obsession. http://www.sonyclassics.com/tims
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The Coinomi wallet for Android seems to be early in supporting these forks. When it came to claiming bitcoin gold recently, running it in an android emulator and typing in old private keys was still the most reasonable option for someone wi
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The increase in city budgets is somewhat independent of the value of houses. If the price of every home in Chicago doubles overnight it doesn’t mean that Chicago would require twice as much revenue to deliver city services. Property taxes a
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It’s not just the natural state in a competitive housing market. The locations with the greatest rise in housing costs tend to have a higher degree of regulatory capture, NIMBYism, and less competition and investment in housing. One reason
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Some people are naturally and unconsciously charming, and others, through a confluence of nature and experience, aren’t, and might not even realize it. Is it fair for the less charming people to be at a permanent disadvantage? Or does being
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I noticed TVs in DAL muted with an invitation to download the Tunity app if you wanted to listen [1]. Id rather therr were no TVs, but this is a reasonable compromise. [1] https://qz.com/465630/theres-an-app-to-listen-t
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After my last driving trip to the states i resolved to always carry a roll of duct tape in the car. The speaker holes are small and mute considerably while covered. It’s a small contribution we can all make to a better world.
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Not sure if you’re being facetious or maybe english isn’t your first language, but I’m trying to give people the benefit of the doubt over the holidays, so here you go: his employer took away his current show, stopped playing reruns of Prai
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Garrison Keillor seemed like a case where the punishment outweighed the facts as we currently know them.
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If newspaper headlines start talking about how many crypto-holders are engaging in tax evasion, you can guess where those limited resources will be targeted.
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> isn’t the majority of a stock's value due to speculation on what it will be worth one day in the future? It’s more accurate to say that it’s a reflection of the value to still be generated by the productive capacity that your shar

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