miguelmota

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by miguelmota 6y ago
Would love to hear more of these traditional high yield funds with less risk that you're speaking of. People don't need gold in particular, but they need a place to store value without friction.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
2-3% yield is the minimum needed just to keep up with inflation. Right now anyone can convert their USD to a stable-coin and get a safe yield of 8-12% with automatic lending protocols [0]. Gold is physical material people need to keep safe
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Bitcoin is scarce asset and it's more like digital gold and a store of value, rather than a currency. People hold gold to maintain value and don't go to retailers to pay for things in gold. It's the same idea with Bitcoin. Ho
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Fiat money, by definition, has value because the government says so. It's backed by police military. Government can run the money printing machine whenever they please. You can work hard all your life placing your savings in a bank acc
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Intrinsic value is completely subjective. I can't make anything physical out of the internet, does that mean the internet is worthless?
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Metcalfe's law is also an interesting way for measuring value of the network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
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by miguelmota 6y ago
December 2017 were crazy times in crypto. John McAfee would promote a "Coin of the day" for like two weeks straight and the price would sky rocket immediately. People had bots to watch for his tweets to programmatically place mark
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by miguelmota 6y ago
If anyone is curious about the technology powering the Perseverance rover, there's this great video on YouTube explaining the incredible engineering behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqqaW8DCc-I
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Incredibly intuitive and simple. Bookmarked!
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Majority of NFT's are garbage (Sturgeon's Law) and not worth any price. However the nature of an NFT is that it allows an asset to be wrapped in a smart contract and have ownership and terms of use encoded. There's something
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Only you have the keys, otherwise it'd be like saying if you purchased and downloaded a movie, then Microsoft/Apple/Google/Samsung/Canonical have ownership of them as well.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Social media used to be fun 10 years ago. Twitter was a fun place with fun people when I started using it in 2009. Now social media has turned into a platform for misinformation, contrarians, and ‘gotcha’ folks.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Completely agree. And doesn’t installing apps require the owner’s face id or password?
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Does the cop playing the music qualify as a public performance if the citizens are the audience?
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Possible reasons: 1. Allocation of engineering effort 2. Familiarity with readers 3. Discoverability
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by miguelmota 6y ago
The cheap stuff is ok but the 'higher-end' of IKEA products are just not good. For example, their couches are in the hundreds of dollars range but the cushions become flat and uncomfortable after a very short period of time. Inves
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by miguelmota 6y ago
There's always talk about decentralizing content platforms but these decentralized non-blockchain social network and messaging protocols have existed for years: - Scuttlebutt - GNUnet - Secureshare - Fereenet - ZeroNet - Retroshare - D
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Agree that socializing in person with colleagues is important for well being, particularly for people that don’t have roommates or a family at home. Depression and struggling with moments of existential crisis can occur as a side effect fro
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I remember watching that film and getting Elizabeth Holmes vibes from John DeLorean. He made many promises on what he was going to deliver but failed terribly on execution.
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IPDR: IPFS-Backed Docker Registry(github.com)
4 points by miguelmota 6y ago|0 comments
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I recommend Pinata [0] for IPFS pinning if you do not want to host your own IPFS node. I'm not sure when they'll start charging but it's been free since they launched and I believe Infura [1] also has free pinning. Cloudflare
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by miguelmota 6y ago
> money laundering I hear this argument a lot; do you have a source that details how much money has been laundered worldwide in cash vs bitcoin?
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by miguelmota 6y ago
A successful coup or a failed coup, is still a coup. We can argue semantics but based on what happened it's clear this was a poorly executed attempt to undermine the government and seize political officials.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Speech that incites imminent lawless action is not protected speech, for good reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I use pcmanfm but there's no thumbnails in file picker still. They are separate programs it seems.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
If someone sets up a bounty on gitcoin or something similar I'd be down to contribute to sponsor this feature request. The thumbnail viewer would save me time from mistakenly choosing the wrong file when they're all labeled simila
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by miguelmota 6y ago
What are your thoughts on the Paradox of tolerance? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Curious, do you think all 74 million people are actually outraged? A lot of people voted republican because of libertarian views, not because they support Trump specifically. A lot of them also don't believe the election was rigged. Th
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Has anyone tried to create something other than a simple blog, like an actual web product with with users, using only the HTML+CSS stack?
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Not as highly decorated, but in Latin America they do something similar with buses. They're typically brightly painted old school buses. They're referred as "chicken buses" and tend to be the cheapest travel option. They

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