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by lvs 5y ago
Unless there have been classified changes, EO 12333 bans such activity.
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by lvs 5y ago
No, it would just push such payments into the shadows.
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by lvs 5y ago
> select Norton 360 customers in Norton’s early adopter program will be invited to mine for Ethereum. Wait, what? I thought this was going to be a ransomware product. What in the world is going on here?
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by lvs 5y ago
Actually, this is probably the principal goal of anti-decentralized projects like China's digital yuan.
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by lvs 5y ago
Seems like a deeply tedious topic, but it sounds like the argument is that the small number of (claimed) profitable companies have basically ignored whatever it is you tell them to do. That's a great pitch.
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by lvs 5y ago
Which ones? There are only two public companies that currently make a profit that I'm aware of: dropbox and coinbase. I don't really pay much attention, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
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by lvs 5y ago
Maybe the brand is a little bit hyped to begin with? I suspect there are only two companies these VCs have ever funded that are known to turn a profit. It seems like they've trained a generation of young smart people on how to get rich
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by lvs 5y ago
Well, everything in the economy is a ponzi scheme in a loose sense of the word. The real question is whether it provides a value that allows its price to be set on a market. A classic ponzi scheme has no value beyond its commitment to yield
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by lvs 5y ago
Is this not just a broad ad hominem against people with whom this venture capitalist has had prior disagreements? If only you choose to do risky things that are (inexplicably in many cases) capital intensive -- i.e. engage investors in ways
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by lvs 5y ago
OK, so add it to your list then.
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by lvs 5y ago
No, I think you misunderstand. The rewards are predictable, and fees are generally a tiny fraction of the total reward (a few percent or less). The exchange rate vs the price of electricity is what determines whether it's profitable to
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by lvs 5y ago
Well that obviously depends on what the commercial paper is. The treasuries are going to be liquid under most conditions, but who knows with paper.
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by lvs 5y ago
Sometimes a thoughtful critique can be obvious and widely held, as I think it was here. Endeavoring to belabor a simple argument or feign a unique thought process has little intrinsic value. Sometimes a spade is a spade, and that should be
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by lvs 5y ago
Wiped off its market cap denominated in US dollars. It didn't lose value if you measure its value against some other crypto assets. Everything is relative, but it's not surprising the USD is the root metric considering there isn&#
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by lvs 5y ago
Because it's backed by the full faith and credit of absolute void.
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by lvs 5y ago
No, your reply was a flagrant straw man. "every such idea must be true" != "confusing chance with wisdom or luck with skill." A straw man is where you're evading an argument by pretending it's something it isn&
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by lvs 5y ago
No doubt a thankless job, but your claims to being unbiased are obviously going to be faced with skepticism when you label industry critique as "predictable" or "mean" and censor it. It's your perception that it fil
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by lvs 5y ago
Hm, it certainly looks a lot like "improve the quality of the threads" == suppress industry critique.
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Is Comcast having an “ad hoc CM Crisis?”
1 points by lvs 5y ago|2 comments
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by lvs 5y ago
The disparities are certainly a big concern to be rectified, but the overall cost analysis -- as usual -- neglects the unpriced externalities of carbon emission on the state. Obviously that's a bigger problem than the state itself can
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by lvs 5y ago
You're getting a bit semantic in defending what you certainly know is ad hominem misdirection. But if you want to double-down on it, it doesn't faze me. Your contention is that it is more important that I, a random commenter on th
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by lvs 5y ago
There is some irony in invoking ad hominem arguments while claiming my critique is a distraction. I'm simply acting as an arbiter of which intellectual sausage makes the world worse, just as you are. We have different opinions about wh
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by lvs 5y ago
Ridiculously, I think the aggregate of tiny tips that people forever lost to that tipbot would be worth serious money now. Never would have imagined.
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by lvs 5y ago
Are you sure that a community idolizing the utterances of a winning gambler isn't what makes everything worse?
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by lvs 5y ago
Holmes was a domain expert, wasn't she? I guess con artists also happen to be domain experts sometimes. Oh no, is it possible your precious founder is confusing chance with wisdom or luck with skill?
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by lvs 5y ago
Update authoritarianism is on the march. Please stop.
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by lvs 5y ago
So the state is obligated to prosecute all crimes with extenuating circumstances all the way through trial in your dystopia? No thanks.
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by lvs 5y ago
What you're describing is far more totalitarian than I think you understand. Corrupt selective enforcement is an evil, but prosecutorial discretion is a necessary component of a free society.
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by lvs 5y ago
I think there's a chance the two topics you mention might be connected. The loud backlash to the cryptocurrency scheme took many by surprise and seeded doubt about Moxie's ideological commitment. This post might be seen as an atte
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by lvs 5y ago
I understand you're being pedantic, but that's actually false.

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