namaria

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by namaria 4y ago
The problem of transferring value around unjust restrictions is not solved by crypto tokens or the blockchain, it's solved by the money markets around these tokens at both ends of the transaction.
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by namaria 4y ago
Funny you should mention Dali, as he famously sold blank sheets of paper with his signature.
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by namaria 5y ago
Let's play a game. You get one bitcoin and I get the dollar value. Let's see who can obtain more goods in 1 hours with it.
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by namaria 5y ago
Bitcoin has no currency. I can't pay taxes with it, I can't buy groceries with it. It's an asset at best. A wallet has a claim on a number stored in distributed database. No more no less.
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by namaria 5y ago
Cryptoheads really gone from "printed money is becoming worthless, we need currency with enforced scarcity" to "it's all arbitrary anyway". It's been quite educational watching the whole cryptocurrency communit
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by namaria 5y ago
You see how you just highlighted a worsening trend right?
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by namaria 5y ago
I think a Greek guy was warning us about extremism some 2000 years ago...
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by namaria 5y ago
When we start hitting food shortages down the line from climate change induced damage, you will get to witness the alternative: powerful countries confiscating supplies for their rich citizens (at stable prices to stave off rebellion of cou
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by namaria 5y ago
A system that turns set backs into lessons and better future performance is praise worthy...
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by namaria 5y ago
Any system with signalling delay will experience this effect. Changes will get amplified across layers. That's also a common way to die from a viral infection: your immune system goes into overdrive from too many signals of infection
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by namaria 5y ago
Depends entirely on the time frame. If you have a superior capital allocation scheme, by all means, capture all the value left on the table then.
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by namaria 5y ago
There is no optimal strategy because there is no perfect knowledge. That's why good CEOs are paid their weight in gold. A vision and steady hands can pay off handsomely.
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by namaria 5y ago
Yes definitely a lot more goes on in the shadows of private equity than businessmen calculating capital efficiency. Anyone who thinks any measure of power goes unused in society is either naive or hiding something.
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by namaria 5y ago
So that means trusting software and hardware will always adhere perfectly to advertised specifications. Sounds air tight.
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by namaria 5y ago
Such as Lisp?
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by namaria 5y ago
Being clever alone or in a group can be different things and valuable in different situations.
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by namaria 5y ago
Why is this misdirected rant here? The author admits in the opening paragraph that the whole thing is based on one anecdote, and fixates on a minor point.
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by namaria 5y ago
I find it amusing that much like Marxism, bitcoin promised a revolution under capitalism's nose, only to thrive in dragging dramatically underdeveloped societies into it.
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by namaria 5y ago
Might be just me but I'm way more scared of the CCP then of the FB board of directors. The latter hasn't really used online data for genocide purposes yet...
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by namaria 5y ago
The problem with data collection is not what they companies doing it use it for at the moment. The problem is making so many details of your personal life discoverable by someone simply buying some data and cross referencing databases. When
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by namaria 5y ago
Did I say anything contrary to what you just stated at any point? I literally said simplicity is an illusion, just a name for tamed complexity.
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by namaria 5y ago
Simplicity is a name for isolated complexity only if there is as little unnecessary complexity as possible? You can only contain intentional complexity. I think you are agreeing with me.
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by namaria 5y ago
>the language itself may become very complex to permit such a short program Hit the nail on the head. We can't fight thermodynamics, we can only cheat by drawing lines and pumping entropy one way. "Simplicity" is obtained
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by namaria 5y ago
The more I think about it the more it seems to me 'simplicity' is just another name for 'encapsulated/isolated/modularised complexity'