ldbooth

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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   0.5% accuracy on those CT's if Alibaba led me correctly - that's revenue grade, nice!
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   Can you anchor a financial network on BTC stability? (If it achieves stability). IDK.. Total aside..I imagine this utopian energy-financial system future where we overbuild our renewable grid and instead of storing energy we discharge the (
3. 153.▲
   by ldbooth 6y ago

   regarding the transaction cost, wells fargo charges me $15 to receive a wired payment. If the use case is only large gold like transactions, the BTC use case makes more sense. Tbd.. shake it out.
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   Like the smartphone phenomenon. They need to sell you something, so they sell you on useless features. And it works! My flip phone is in the mail. They got me regressing too.
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   How much can we attribute to the financialization of capitalism? I think it's the driving force. Some historical societies have recognized paying interest on capital at every level of the value stack creates an anti-competitive costs o
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   So true. It's gonna take an external crisis to unite these states. I'm praying for vegan aliens.
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   I think they would do better to solve the business model at the genesis of the issue. The Attention economy brought the conspiracy and outrage machine to each of our phones. There's an addict in my pocket. We need the political willpo
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   So let's assume tether is a fraud. All they have to do is buy bitcoin with their cash received for tether and they are out of reach of us regulators. Is it Fraud or is it Genius? Yes.
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   by ldbooth 6y ago

   This is a subjective question, but I'll summarize what I know. -no one can give you this advice, you have to listen and learn to discern the best decisions for yourself. -investing is a full time job, 99% of investors will be better of
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    I was scratching my head too. It's also a broad statement to cover who knows what but I read "ground faults" while getting our tinker on. Agree the frequency and voltage would drop out of phase tolerance. That shouldnt cause
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    The US Gross Domestic Product.
12. 162.▲
    by ldbooth 6y ago

    "trust but verify" -every construction job ever
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    Good comment self, alsoHard to be an engineer without practicing 'worst case' thinking for design. Maybe this is why switching from design to sales is so hard. Long and critical thought versus short and optimistic.
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    Optimism is socially useful. guarded pessimism is unavoidable from evolution. Humans psychologically want reinforcement of their own security i.e. group positivity. Evolution in groups means our unconscious does this without awareness. Nega
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    This excerpt tied the article to the present SNAFU well "Wall Street groups buy the infrastructure. They’ll do what happened to Chicago when it sold all the parking meters, they’ll say, OK, instead of 25 cents an hour, it’s now charged
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    I like the visual of a surface area. It adds to how I think about it... The equation for luck similar as luck being the compounding interest component and over time, compounding itself with consistent doing. Compounding applies to many thin
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    by ldbooth 6y ago

    I agree, 10 days is not long but getting there, pick up the phone and get the direct feedback. Correspondence is less information than a phone call. Call and just "check in" on how their process is going and ask "for any feed