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by lend000 8y ago
Yeah, but you're barking up the wrong tree. The military will get the weaponry it wants regardless, likely at a higher cost to the taxpayer and/or more side effects (pollution, for example) if they're forced to do it in-house
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by lend000 8y ago
> Ugh. Yes, we need central banks, if for no other reason than that distributed systems are hard. I can't count how many people there are who assume that because the problem is too hard for them , they need the government to interv
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by lend000 8y ago
Yes, but how the author relates that to a market's continuous price calculations is beyond me.
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by lend000 8y ago
Interesting topic and thought experiment. But this theory is not very fleshed out and not at all convincing (especially the part regarding using an existing efficient market to perform computation for anything other than price of the underl
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by lend000 8y ago
Non-accredited investors don't legally have access to leveraged trading in the US -- many were using it illegally and/or violating ToS of various exchanges. But overall, leverage was not what caused the bubble or the majority of t
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by lend000 8y ago
It seems like this thread proved the opposite of the point you were trying to make -- that Americans are indeed migrating to states with no state income tax?
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by lend000 8y ago
Similarly, where are the cries about a flawed system, where anonymous tips can lead to militarized responses? SWAT teams should ONLY ever be engaged after being escalated from a normal police response. Many policemen are happy to promote th
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by lend000 8y ago
I also agree for progressive measures to prevent huge wealth inequality, which is not the sign of a healthy free market economy. The wealth distribution of the mid 20th century is much more in line with what I and some economists believe to
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by lend000 8y ago
What system do you suggest that has a track record of lifting more people out of poverty than capitalism? On average, people tend to efficiently manage their productive capacities in the pursuit of wealth.
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by lend000 8y ago
In our current system, we have centralized, government bank run clearing houses that you cannot use (which Bitcoin could hypothetically replace). For a Bitcoin-based financial system, you can opt to pay higher fees and clear transactions on
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by lend000 8y ago
> we show that information cannot be communicated reliably between neurons using a continuous representation It seems like this doesn't take into account spiking frequencies (where the frequency is a continuous variable), nor the po
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by lend000 8y ago
I am not sure how the popular implementations address this, but generally speaking you can add arbitrary additional plaintext to each transaction in the block, and contribute that extra data to the signature with the private key. For exampl
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by lend000 8y ago
> Can you show me one of these blockchain-based mesh networks in production? How many users do they have? Why does it need to be in production? The technology is 10 years old, and it has been widely known by researchers for less than hal
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by lend000 8y ago
I then find it difficult to believe that you cannot think of productive applications of cryptocurrencies. As someone who researches self organizing systems, especially in the network space, I have seen numerous applications of mesh network
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by lend000 8y ago
- Signed, someone who wishes they didn't dismiss Bitcoin the first time they heard about it. Blockchain is a brilliant and revolutionary technology. Is cryptocurrency the killer app? Maybe, but in any case it's financing the devel
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by lend000 8y ago
I was working on a private mesh standard for a startup a few years back because of a perceived opportunity resulting from the fractured nature of the ecosystem, resulting in no devices really using mesh. We have Bluetooth mesh, Wifi mesh st
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by lend000 8y ago
Did Rome suffer from more fires than similar cities in that era? Something tells me it's the other way around... On average, group behavior can best be studied when assuming average humans have selfish, rational motivations. It's
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by lend000 8y ago
The reason I would agree with a fine is not because a caller's identity cannot be unmasked, but because phone numbers are so closely connected with identity that robocallers are essentially engaging in identity theft and slander when t
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by lend000 8y ago
The real problem is the lack of security and authentication on telephone networks, which enables number spoofing with virtually no chance of reprisal -- foreign callers (realistically out of the FCC's jurisdiction) use VoIP services to
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by lend000 8y ago
There's a spectrum. It seems like the highest source of ambition external to genetics is growing up lower middle-class / poorer than many of your friends and neighbors, but with opportunity to succeed. Anecdotal, of course. My fri
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by lend000 8y ago
I'm interested in hearing from those in the US who have spent significant time abroad as nomads / not committing to any particular place for long. This website always inspires me to give it a try: https://nomadlist.com&
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by lend000 9y ago
There's certainly an argument to be made that such freedom benefits all but the poorest (those who neither travel nor own real estate), but is restricting this convenient, popular, voluntary service a reasonable way to approach the muc
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by lend000 9y ago
I doubt these factors are statistically independent -- the most popular neighborhoods for tourists and yuppies have always seen prices grow faster relative to the overall metro, and more popular/high-growth/expensive neighborhoods
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by lend000 9y ago
I'm not convinced by this argument -- my understanding is that when you sell property that you have claimed depreciation on, you have to factor in that depreciation to your cost basis. So if I depreciated 50k on a small commercial prop
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by lend000 9y ago
Sentence structure could have been better -- I think the Internet a net positive for innovation, but in this particular regard (aggregating great minds to get concentrated breakthroughs, and being recognized for those breakthroughs), it is
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by lend000 9y ago
I think the Internet has two competing effects here: 1. Ideas and inventions disseminate quickly and become part of open source knowledge almost immediately if useful, and when people do learn of a new idea they are unlikely to know who inv
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by lend000 9y ago
It's an overreaction -- people want to have their cake and eat it, too. The thing is, you can't participate in this connected, global world with all its benefits (including an immense amount of available information about everyt
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by lend000 9y ago
Most on HN do not appreciate the complexity of this -- perhaps more will after they are asked to implement it (or after they've implemented it and then found their implementation was wholly unsatisfactory after an unlucky legal investi
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by lend000 9y ago
Hence the part about rebates for efficient emissions -- the base fuel tax should cover the maximum economic impact.
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by lend000 9y ago
The regulations were plain dumb -- a classic attempt by a bureaucratic working group signed off by the higher ups who have no idea how economic incentives work. The goal was to capture externalities -- so target the SOURCE of the externalit

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