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by rantwasp 6y ago
hah. try sending a wire transfer from the US to Asia
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by rantwasp 6y ago
this must be some sort of joke. trees were not optimized for clearing human blunders? trees and vegetation have been capturing carbon and providing a critical service for most ecosystems on earth since... forever (well not forever but for a
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by rantwasp 6y ago
1) it’s not 30$ for all transactions 2) how much time does your international wire transfer take to clear? can you do this transaction anywhere in the world where you have an internet connection?
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hmm. went back and reread the comment and... i think you’re right. Saw discrete and did not fully parse everything.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
the amount. also as a side-note, discrete-in-time does not imply a global clock cycle
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by rantwasp 6y ago
miners are getting payed for every transaction. if you don’t include transactions fees your transaction will spend a lot of time in limbo and may actually never be mined. the way it works, let’s say you have A bitcoins and you want to pay s
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by rantwasp 6y ago
not an expert (more like a noob) by any means but: 1) from neuroscience point of view you have cortical columns with layers that are wired to send the input forward but to also propagate feedback. the layers constantly predict what is going
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by rantwasp 6y ago
sorry, that’s a distributed monolith. if everyone can mess with the data directly you might as well keep it in one service
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by rantwasp 6y ago
I'm not going to dox myself, but if you want to learn more about it, here are a few pointers: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/articles/bl... https://hbr.org/202
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hmm. if you ever had to deal with a supply chain and understand all the moving parts you cannot make the argument above with a straight face.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
not sure if you’re a troll, but that’s the reason why you trust it. you can actually verify every transaction that happened on the chain. the way this is done is not unlike any system that uses event sourcing (including the distributed dat
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by rantwasp 6y ago
it’s okay to not see the potential. blockchain is more than a distributed database. in a distributed database someone is still in charge and can make decisions unilaterally about how the data is altered. in blockchain you have a bunch of en
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by rantwasp 6y ago
“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.” Bitcoin itself may end up being worthless or being a fortune. The block-chain technology is the revolutionary part that is here to stay and will only conti
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by rantwasp 6y ago
Fed has entered the room
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by rantwasp 6y ago
do you like design? :)
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by rantwasp 6y ago
you had to be that person that took away the hope... :))
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hah. telomeres and cancer are a drop in the bucket. google “the hallmarks of aging” to see roughly what are the problems that we are confronted with
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by rantwasp 6y ago
would you still drive a car if you could live forever?
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by rantwasp 6y ago
it depends. who gets to live forever and what is the cost of living forever? i can totally see this being unrealistic/unpractical for the majority of people which bring in another can of worms
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by rantwasp 6y ago
if we’re going to live forever, do we have to do it in the same biological form? also, ethics if all fun and games until you are confronted with your own mortality.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
people exists in complete defiance of entropy. One could argue that life itself defies entropy. Yes, it’s a temporary defiance, the amazing complexity that we have evolved is mind bending if you go down to the atom level. There is no reaso
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hah. there is a big difference between 1000 years and immortality. imho we would have to completely rethink how we live and most importantly why we live if immortality was, even remotely, on the table
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by rantwasp 6y ago
fair enough. but if people want to buy the stock at 350$ why disallow it? we either run with the rules or not. you don’t change the rules when the game no longer worked as you want it to work
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by rantwasp 6y ago
i like your optimism, but here is the thing: shorting is not valuable to society. if a company sucks their stock will go down. if it’s a good company their stock will go up. shorting just puts artificial pressure on the price. it’s a practi
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by rantwasp 6y ago
this sounds like the start of a dystopian book :(
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hahahah. yes, SEC needs to shut this down. it’s right on their list after punishing hedge funds for shortselling shares that don’t exist. /s
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by rantwasp 6y ago
it’s not this one stock. it’s the volatility and the unintended consequences these can trigger
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by rantwasp 6y ago
they cannot just make whatever stocks they want up. they are limited there on the number they can emit. plus, not sure if they get to choose who gets to buy the shares. also, why would gamestop bail out the same people that wanted to drive
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by rantwasp 6y ago
DeepF***Value lol
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by rantwasp 6y ago
yes, there are large whales that are long on gme. yes, a lot of retail investors have jumped on it. reddit is the propaganda machine that ignited the fire

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