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by olefoo 13y ago
That's an implementation detail; particularly if there is some legal backing (government regulation of the good kind) for the transfer mechanism. Think something using the Ripple protocol backed by a bank fund that holds 1 dollar for e
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by olefoo 13y ago
And that right there is why legalization will be an unsure thing in this country for at least the next decade. If you are going into the marijuana business get good legal advice and have a competent defense lawyer on retainer. There could q
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by olefoo 13y ago
A lot of it has to do with the fact that he is a mainstream economist who pointedly makes fun of the ideas promulgated by the Chicago School, Ayn Rand and the general sort of things you find at mises.org and other right wing watering holes.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Rough answer; in the US you are part of the upper class if most of your income is derived from assets not wages. It's not a precise answer; but as a functional definition it works.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Oddly, the only thing I said PG _should_ do is open a dialogue with some of his critics. This is a much better explanation http://danilocampos.com/2013/12/explained-why-people-are-ang...
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Explained: why people are angry at Paul Graham(danilocampos.com)
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, you could, but there are ebbs and flows. And right now the party of money seems to be riding roughshod over the party of the people.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, the bit about having to start hacking at age 13 to have the right mindset to be a founder packs a number of assumptions into one bundle; and some of those assumptions are gendered. There are girls who start programming at that age, bu
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by olefoo 13y ago
Up until the last paragraph I thought you were going to say that your opinion of Paul Graham had become much more negative. To be fair most of the people directly involved in this ruckus don't come out of it looking all that well; but
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by olefoo 13y ago
The question is "How can we build a house on a solid foundation that helps us live free, happy, healthy lives." Hammers may be a part of the toolset, but they won't solve issues like siting it on the edge of a sand dune, or t
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by olefoo 13y ago
> Comparisons to rich people are irrelevant and envy-driven. The rich are rich. So what? Do they deserve it - why do you care? Not when their riches come at the expense of everyone else. For instance the Walton family who occupy 6 of 10
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by olefoo 13y ago
You could make a fairly strong argument that these days the US is not much of a representative democracy; and that it is more of an elite oligarchy which performs a theater of democracy for public consumption. When overt criminal activity b
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by olefoo 13y ago
Ummm. If Rap Genius had traffic of it's own where people were going to them directly, and google were somehow taking that away from them it might be possible to be sympathetic. But, Rap Genius made a calculated business decision to foc
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by olefoo 13y ago
Because web usage statistics are hard to get right, and hard to interpret even if you do a good job on data collection. To get a reliable sample of web traffic as a whole you'll need to recruit most of the larger websites (Yahoo!, Goog
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by olefoo 13y ago
Can we just decide not to feed these guys any more attention? Rap Genius has always hung a lot of attitude on a really thin thread. Their product is not special or defensible. Their main claim to fame has to do with their winning a sizable
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by olefoo 13y ago
So someday we might see the secret service enforcing rules about how much computing capacity any one entity can control; to prevent collusion attacks on widely used cryptographic ledger systems?
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by olefoo 13y ago
So you need to write that up in a format that Krugman can understand and get it in front of his eyes. But I think his main criticism is that all of that infrastructure falls under the medium of exchange function and doesn't serve as a
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by olefoo 13y ago
It would be interesting to see an OS in which audio and video streams were first class objects. Where the primary display was a video stream composited out of main memory from a render tree that was the core data structure and which treated
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by olefoo 13y ago
Yes. I believe it's an artefact of the popularity of the site that that type of comment is becoming more common. We've seen a noticeable increase in trolling and simplistic bias-driven comments over the past year (i.e. comments th
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by olefoo 13y ago
> Anonyminity Also, why? I get dogecoin, it's fun and worthless and we can pretend that 400,000 DOGE could buy a really nice dogehouse. But this currency seems designed from the outset for something that is borderline criminal in mo
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by olefoo 13y ago
To what extent is the solar economy dependent on the petrol economy? Solar is great for architectural uses, and with a decent electrical grid you can even out and match up the fluctuations in demand and generation. But if you need to ship q
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by olefoo 13y ago
Actually the classic study is the Rapa Nui culture who inhabited Easter Island and whose culture had already been decimated by deforestation when the Europeans arrived. Jared Diamond's book Collapse is an exploration of the phenomenon.
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by olefoo 13y ago
From context it seemed as though he were using the phrase as a euphemism for extrajudicial procedures. (read: black bag jobs, rubber hose decryption, and even piscine sleep therapy) The fact is that the Obama administration seems to have be
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by olefoo 13y ago
/me looks at the parts of the cat cam on his workbench, glances at the machine mining dogecoin in the rack next to it . You may have a point.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Did you consider going the appliance route? Leasing commodity boxes that can mount network shares via Samba or NFS and reselling them as CPE seems like it would work for this particular software. That way you would control the software load
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by olefoo 13y ago
I downvoted you because that was a trollish comment that added nothing to the discussion and seemed designed to encourage vitriol. The fact is you could substitute pretty much any mainstream language in that statement and it would still be
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by olefoo 13y ago
There is no way in which Dollars are a fiat currency that bitcoin is not a fiat currency. Bitcoin has most of the features of a central bank in that it regulates the amount of money in circulation and has policy limits on who can create mon
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by olefoo 13y ago
There is an opportunity for new types of thinking here. Turn Treasure Island into an arcology suitable to house a half-million people in style and comfort...
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by olefoo 13y ago
Enough to live with dignity; within walking/biking/transit distance of the job. With dignity implies; not starving, not being housing insecure, not being unable to afford health care. Note that it does not imply that you can affor
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by olefoo 13y ago
> Google has no idea what this person makes. They can certainly find out. Just like ethically sourced coffee beans are a thing; ethically sourced menial labour can be a thing. It's hip and cool to use ethically sourced labor that is

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