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by p0pcult 4y ago
Dumb idea: what if we re conceptualized firms as entities whose role it is to keep people meaningfully employed at good wages, in order to support societal stability? Oh right, I live in the USA.
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I take no particular stance on your examples of what constitutes good or bad art. I agree: bloody pentagram? Cringeworthy. What I vehemently disagree with is this assertion: >the false notion that art should be provocative not pretty.
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...according to some. Nothing like the trifecta of ipod/itunes/iphone under Steve.
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Right, which is why it is weird when you say it is "Ethereum's" cut.
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So, is it "Ethereum's" or the validator's cute? Who is this monolithic "Ethereum"?
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"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful a
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You're reading into things I didn't say. I don't claim that KYC will protect people--I claim that the regulations that do protect people go hand in hand with KYC. Crypto as the libertarian dream of government-free "mone
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What financial regulations were FTX under the jurisdiction of, in the Bahamas? Did FTX require KYC (I honestly don't know)?
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Vast majority of the complaints about crypto fall into two categories: -lawless: e.g., ponzi scheme, rug pulls, etc. -useless: "this is just a database" For crypto to be useful, both of these challenges need to be addressed; well-
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You should look into Coinbase, which seems to be the exception.
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The KYC stuff goes hand in hand with regulation, which is important if you don't want all of crypto to be eaten alive by future FTXes and SBFs
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At this point, it's not just free things that are becoming infested.
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And you should cite sources.
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Guy with severe mental health issues [checks notes] in an era when the former president led an uprising--one which actually broke into the capitol building--to stay in power and [checks notes] breaks into the house of the [checks notes] sup
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>other limited ideas invented by specific people (sometimes with bad intentions) So, like, religion?
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If there were an infinite amount of matter in a finite volume, we would be infinitely dense (well, some are anyway, but that's a different definition altogether), which would make Earth something that it is altogether not. Are you infi
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The finite supply of resources on earth.
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Is Apple a government? Are Apple users born into its ecosystem? Is Apple committing genocide? I personally think Apple is garbage these days, but its nowhere near CCP levels of garbage.
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A bias towards the party that isn't actively trying to dismantle Amercian democracy? Ooh, scary.
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As would not taking cues from right wing fever dream peddlers.
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>Yet remote workers are struggling with these very things. According to whom? The real estate partner who wrote this article? >before we go all-in on it for a generation. Who is suggesting going all-in on virtual-everything?
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For the downvoters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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>It's becoming pretty clear that almost nothing of societal value has been created in the 2010-2020 "tech" boom. Fixed that for you. Some people made obscene amounts of money.
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I agree with the diagnosis. I think the root cause is growing up with social media.
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These gig companies are vacuums that suck money up the income scale, from those who can least afford it, to those who least need it. A modern day Hobin Rood, if you will.
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What about it? Your question seems to leave it very open-ended.
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1. I am not the only individual on this team; there are more experienced individuals. 2. Thank you for the link. In fact, search was my first attempt--at which point I realized I know so little about this topic, I'd be unable to effec
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Similarly, to have a tolerant society, intolerance can't be tolerated.
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I can get that in contexts other than work, however.

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