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by pjkundert 2y ago
Having stayed in ~50 AirBnBs, we have very seldom used sketchy ones that have the problems you describe (once). Are you certain you are representing most unit owners fairly?
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by pjkundert 2y ago
A first order effect of increasing a stock is that price/profit decreases, driving holders of that stock to diversify into different client bases: - lower profit AirBnBs to long-term rentals Reducing supply of AirBnBs does the opposite
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Is your hypothesis that supplying more rental units (even if they were mostly short-term) would not reduce the both the price and profitability of that stock? And, that an increased supply and reduced profitability would not drive some
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by pjkundert 2y ago
The Canadian province of British Columbia just recently enacted "rent control" on a massive scale, by making most AirBnB rentals illegal (thereby ostensibly "forcing" the owners of these units to rent these units to loca
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by pjkundert 2y ago
The Holochain project has invested the last 5 years, solving each of these problems… You can now build Internet-scale distributed systems, with or without requiring centralized (eg. DNS, SSL certs, etc.). In other words, massively distrib
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by pjkundert 2y ago
"mistake" You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. But seriously; a "mistake" is usually something that cannot be foreseen by a group of people reasonably talented in the state of t
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by pjkundert 2y ago
It is pure: utility. Bitcoin has many, many problems - but “usury” isn’t one of them. In fact, that its sole utility: freedom for corruption, has yielded such a high price, is evidence of the desirability of that one utility!
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by pjkundert 2y ago
The best way to “bake in” a set of biases into widely available AIs, is to make it prohibitively expensive for alternatives (without those biases) to be trained. Unbiased AI is, I believe, an existential threat to the “powers that be” retai
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by pjkundert 2y ago
One problem is the base assumption that “desirable” communities exist, ex-nihilo. They are made , and maintained by the people in them. Move 100 good families into a wasteland, and in a few years you’ll have a “desirable community“. Eje
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Deployment of PKI-signed distributed software systems to use community-provisioned compute, bandwidth and storage at scale is, now quite literally, the future. We mostly don’t all want or need the hardware to run these AIs ourselves, all th
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by pjkundert 2y ago
A “Turing Complete” windows “driver” executing unsigned arbitrary code provisioned by “randos on the internet” (CrowdStrike)? What could go wrong…
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Test your own beliefs and others against first principles. You’ll quickly realize that you don’t really “know”.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Traditionally, distributed systems must maintain a globally agreed upon state, via locking, two-phase commit, etc. Of course, Byzantine faults caused problems. Bitcoin's PoW provided reliable Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus in un-p
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by pjkundert 2y ago
AI hasn’t even started , yet. - no full “OODA Loop” continuous feedback self-hosted systems. These AIs are already incredibly useful in “one shot” mode. I can’t imagine how crazy they’ll be with the ability to implement even rudimentary h
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by pjkundert 2y ago
The inversion of authority in distributed & decentralized systems, from data-centric to agent-centric.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Here's a graph of onset of treatment vs. therapeutic effectiveness: https://c19ivm.org/mr/mr-all-delay.svg Literally linearly from 100% efficacy to 0% efficacy over 7 days from onset of symptoms. Linear , over
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Neither of the referenced studies note when the treatment started; one states "plus standard NHS treatment", which implies presentation at a hostpital -- usually days after onset of symptoms. Virtually all of the studies that do
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Go down to the feedlot store and pick up a bottle of liquid Ivermectin, 10mg/ml. Adult dose is ~3ml for the first couple days (0.6mg/kg), ~1.5ml (0.3mg/kg) thereafter 'til symptoms cease. Catch it with in the first 48
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Possibly one of the most important articles of your scientific journey —- not just because of its hypothesis, but to help you avoid “tactical fixation” on the wrong ones.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
The set of underlying assumptions implied by the phrase "commitment to the rule of law" is astounding. Most people blithely assume it means something like "acceptable behavior is defined by these laws, not by arbitrary edict
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by pjkundert 2y ago
I have (checks spreadsheet) 787 accounts where some rando on the Internet (eg. Mark Zukerberg, ...) holds my personal information. "Gross Negligence" is guaranteed . Any solution that doesn't involve me securing my infor
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Why let the politicians and banksters loot the treasury all by themselves? I guess it makes sense to them "share the wealth", since they'll never have the opportunity to buy a home or raise a family? It doesn't seem to
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Open Society: "Its ideals include commitments to the rule of law, freedom of association, democratic institutions, and the free use of reason and critical analysis." Interesting that this set doesn't include the one thing tha
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Because they /can't/ do it. Anyone who claims that legislative or legal peril will accomplish the goal to "safeguard your private info" must be almost impossibly naive. It requires a foundation of /perfect&#x
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by pjkundert 2y ago
You can convince bond buyers to endure negative real rates for a while, but not forever.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
True, but not because of anything the Fed decides… Their control over monetary policy in general is likely over.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Persistent exchangeability for whatever people deem valuable. This requires something to be pledged upon creation of such money. This requirement cannot be (forever) defeated…
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Maybe. Asking “how could you know?” only goes so far. It exposes that much of what you think you believe is actually based on faith.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
QED?
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by pjkundert 2y ago
What is shocking, is that random parents with no teaching background can usually deliver a child through a k-12 curriculum with superior outcomes vs. the average public school. That, alone, is a stinging indictment of public education. And,

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