murbard2

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by murbard2 11y ago
You need a Sybil prevention mechanism to avoid stuffing the ballot box, and that can be a small proof of work stamp, but that doesn't mean you need to use a blockchain and incur the scalability hit. Votes belong to each user and are sp
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Sure, but the salary they draw from the charity will be taxed. It may be taxed at a slightly lower rate than capital gains if they don't earn much, but not extremely so.
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A block-tree would be append only. The blockchain is a block-tree + a canonical leaf (or a head) which is a mutable variable. https://medium.com/@arthurb/what-do-blockchains-accomplish-e...
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You do not need a blockchain to do this. If you can represent something using an append only data structure, a DHT is enough.
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It's not a tax shield if you don't get to keep the money. Of course, if you were going to donate anyway, then sure, it's more tax efficient to give appreciated stocks. But calling it a tax shield makes it sound like you can s
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Well, the lazy way to do this is for everyone to use the same prime, but to pick a safe prime so large it is out of reach of the NSA. Isn't the all promise of cryptography predicated on the idea that you can impose exponential effort b
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Sure, you can use your film camera. Then what do you do with the picture? Scan it? Your new scanner has DRM preventing you to do that. Circumvent the scanner's DRM with a mod chip? The software refuses to display it. Use unofficial sof
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by murbard2 11y ago
Ah, but the JPEG displayer would only run on a Trusted system, whose screenshot function honors DRM. You could try to snap a picture of your screen with your digital camera, but the camera manufacturer also embedded DRM inside the camera. I
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Sadly yes. That's why I'm not suggesting you ask your older relatives to do it. If you have to ask, it's too late. My point is that you should prepare yourself mentally for doing it later in life and be cool with it.
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The lessons is not to "be wary of scammers" or "hack your phone"... That's totally missing the crux of the scam. The lesson is that, as you approach old age, and if at all possible, you should give a trusted relativ
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This is about the PCP theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCP_theorem An interesting application are SNARKs, a fully generic type of non interactive zero knowledge proof of knowledge. They can be used to preserve tra
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Makes sense, it's so their IT department can read it to you more easily over the phone.
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Their generation isn't great. They should tweak the resulting password to ensure that it passes most common tests. I think I would enforce - 10 characters - at least one punctuation - at least one digit - at least one upp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(Liberian_polit... "After the official end of the civil war in 1996, Taylor ran for president in the 1997 general election. He famously campaigned on the slogan "H
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by murbard2 11y ago
Most people work for companies for reasons which have nothing to do with "social solidarity", so no, it's not true of any organization.
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Awesome, thanks!
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This is not a matter of scale. Is a large city "human scaled"? It's hard to separate Brutalism from its socialistic underpinning. The brutalist monument is centrally planned, whereas the medieval urban center grows anarchical
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by murbard2 11y ago
Someone who lives in this rural place will find it quite profitable to become the town's Amazon delivery person. Drive to pick up packages in the morning, come back and deliver during the day, then go home.
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Amazon will most likely cover such problems, no questions asked. They will be defrauded more, for sure, but they gain a possibly gigantic network of distributors.
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Would love to see this compile to blc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
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This also seems to disprove the often repeated theory that most people incarcerated for non-violent drug crimes are actually known violent criminals who are only being charged with those offenses because they are easier to prove, while mere
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Note, this is released freely under the new BSD license; it is not being sold for the one U.S. dollar; it's just name.
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They're expecting their investment to appreciate as the value of the company becomes evident to other investors. However, that value is ultimately contingent on when the profits will be realized, and what the interest rates are going t
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by murbard2 11y ago
No, it's absolutely not a futures contract: you collect coupons over time.
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If you're thinking: this is fascinating, what other schedules can we use, besides exponentially increasing or decreasing the coupon over time? Assume we have a market with n different perpetuities: p1,p2...,pn. When we shift the coupon
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I'm glad I never had to, but that edge case doesn't obviate the advantage of issuing perpetuities.
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You are absolutely correct. I initially wrote maturity then changed to duration, and forgot to correct the sentence. I now have.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Perpetuities are a great idea. One of their advantage is that new debt issues are fungible with old debt issues (provided the coupon payment dates debt align). The downside of that is that the duration of such a bond is fixed and depends on
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Straightforward cash based product without too many complications. Stock split, merge, spin off, for instance.
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Yes, and by the same account, a good scientist shouldn't be a moral realist.

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