ldbooth

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by ldbooth 6y ago
"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Not ever... when we vote corporations out of controlling the government, or "we the corporations". Red/Blue is for strawmanning, both parties are $green.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Headline: space race accelerates as exoplanet discovered to rain beer.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
This is the argument that gets me applied to bitcoin. It's first mover advantage. And the "gold2.0" market value is this perceived incorrectly if there is no other moat. That's why today we are announcing ... Bitquan!
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Adam Grant's Give and Take is a good layman application of game theory to interpersonal relationships. Tit for tat would be called the 'matchers'
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by ldbooth 6y ago
There's always a drop cord and non-battery options for almost every tool, which I prefer to the inevitable battery degradation (so that makes my leafblower coal and hydro powered). I have an electric leafblower and 2 dropcords. When tr
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Let's talk about taxing the 'user engagement' companies similar to what is done with cigarettes and alcohol. Mess with their money.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Ah thanks, touche!
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Outside the couples though, there's a lot less mingling going on. Dating during Covid... Awkward.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
That is tied to the changing of jobs as well. Jeremy Diamond has a lot to say bout this in Guns,Germs,and Steel. My grandfather was raised on a farm, where at the age of 16-18 he was fully employed without a college education or debt. Today
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by ldbooth 6y ago
This sounds like a great project once the US revises it's tax code. And a lot of wasted of time should it be revised to incorporate digital tools available today (like Mint transaction categorization). It's unlikely to be revised
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by ldbooth 6y ago
okay I see your point after falling into a black hole again.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Your cloud servers:the inputs are irrelevant, the cash flow is from the business services provided.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
The majority of all electricity and auto power we use is an environmental disaster. My gore tex jacket, anything producing forever chemicals as biproducts is an environmental disaster (Dupont). Your car tires and mine apparently have biprod
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by ldbooth 6y ago
If I keep finding myself in black holes - the real problem is I am not busy enough, and being busier will not only solve this but several other things one can't predict.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
How is it an environmental disaster? I hear you on energy use but that if we get to 99% renewables the excess generation/load capability could turn this statememt on its head. The US gov will sacrifice their place in the world order by
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Bitcoin is a genius trust system. But if the price gains are based on demand created by financial leverage, it can be both genius and a bubble due to leverage and short term price distortion. If interest rates go up, BTC prices will fall de
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by ldbooth 6y ago
You are conflating a commodity with a cash producing asset like a farm. Show me the cash flows from your gold nugget and I'll show you the cash flows from a farm that produces a usable product in the market.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
The starlink use case is looking democratic.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Some would say this is equivalent to "we've got no better ideas, here, see if you can put the capital to work". Given they are known for expert capital allocation that'd undermine investor confidence.
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by ldbooth 6y ago
> granted those are nation states it should still be a complement. To be fair then: Tom Werner of Sunpower, Dan Shugar of NextTracker, Employees at Bell Laboratories (created the first solar cell), Employees at SunEdison (created the Sol
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by ldbooth 6y ago
There are a few books on this I haven't read about Corporations over the past 30 years using the court system to gain as much/more rights than citizens. There are countless examples. I have an LLC. Self employed. People making min
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Someone didn't see Spaceballs. "12345? That's amazing I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Meanwhile most major banks are convicted felons in the US. JPMorgan, Citibank, Wells Fargo...
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by ldbooth 6y ago
I think she missed the better point: are we at a critical time in Earth's history focusing too many smart people on getting to space than first saving our home planet from some unknown 'new look'. We're on the clock on o
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by ldbooth 6y ago
Lowered the cost of solar power? He acquired his cousins company and idled it, tough business, resi, more of a securitization play. I support the mans intent nonetheless, hard to hit all homeruns at his scale. But for the record you could s
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by ldbooth 6y ago
It might be international, I'm not sure but I blame myself for sticking with Wells after their fake account fiasco. I just love that stagecoach logo...
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by ldbooth 6y ago
You are on point there - No one's got to it yet is the best explanation: YC?!? It's happening at the Utility scale with commercial miners, esp. with merchant (uncontracted) energy. Small producers (residential , commercial solar)
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by ldbooth 6y ago
when this tool is compromised, as most are with time, they've got my calendar, 20 years of e-mail history, cellphone location history, website history, youtube video history. It's true they probably know more about me and my futur
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by ldbooth 6y ago
To non technicals the 'cool one word' branding seems to be misleading at times. The crazies pushing the limits of Tesla's autopilot & such. It's mostly autopilot from what I hear, then again I've never heard o

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