rjknight

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by rjknight 5y ago
> you are "buying" nothing more than a URL in a JSON file (i.e. no legal ownership of anything), This is wrong. I can see why you think it, but it is wrong. The URL in the JSON file is free, as is the artwork that it points to.
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But all contracts have some element of counterparty risk. Contractual guarantees are just contractual, nobody can give absolute guarantees of anything.
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IANAL, but isn't the point of the Howey test that you're making investments with variable returns, where those returns depend on the efforts of others? If Coinbase is _guaranteeing_ you a 4% return, then there is no variability an
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I think it's harder now than it used to be. When I started programming, any error message you saw would almost certainly originate from the beige box on the desk in front of you, which had only a single CPU core and often didn't r
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"Tory" is just a colloquial term for "member or supporter of the Conservative party". It started out as an insult a couple of centuries ago, but has long since lost that association. The Telegraph didn't just endors
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That's my understanding of the process too. The historic docks are hard to redevelop. The Albert Dock was successfully redeveloped and includes museums and an art gallery, along with various cafes and tourist destinations. That can&#x2
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It's worth noting that the title is a pun on the name of the popular social media channel "I ****ing Love Science". The "science" that they ****ing love is mostly "science as a bundle of useful, entertaining, a
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Realistically, some kind of geoengineering will be required. Given the existence of feedback loops, the sooner we deploy technology to directly reduce the temperature, the less of that technology we will have to deploy, but it seems inevita
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For me, Magit's killer feature is that it provides something equivalent to "git add --interactive" but with a much nicer UI. If you're interactively adding things to a commit then you are effectively editing a text file,
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That isn’t what Google News does. Google News takes a snippet and links to the full story, the equivalent of, say, taking the type signatures from a library and then linking to the library.
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> This product seems like it needs some more thought. Maybe a way to comment, flag, or otherwise call out bad output? Wait for your colleagues to use it, fix the bad code in the pull request, and wait for copilot to learn from the new tr
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by rjknight 5y ago
The distinction here is between buying and selling Bitcoin, and buying and selling contracts for difference or spread betting on Bitcoin’s price movements. The latter is more tightly regulated, as it can result in much larger gains or losse
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The point of the article is not "how to do it", but rather to observe that this kind of thing, previously a (relatively) niche concern, has become important to a general audience. The article even suggests that there's a busi
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by rjknight 5y ago
"ya" is an equally short abbreviation for "years ago".
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It's also the case that many British theatrical productions, going back at least to the time of Shakespeare, were based on Roman history. Many of our ideas of how Romans spoke, look, and acted come through a prism of Shakesperean-era d
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by rjknight 5y ago
I think that when the op said “most people don’t care about them” they meant the tulip bulbs, not the Netherlands.
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by rjknight 5y ago
This is really a case of 8. I doubt that Apple has an account full of US dollars, and I mentioned that low yields on safe investments is already a way of “taxing” this money in order to encourage spending or riskier investment.
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by rjknight 5y ago
I do wonder if we wouldn't be better off eliminating corporation tax entirely. The revenue of a corporation can, roughly, be: 1. Spent on goods or services from another company (including freelancers, contractors, etc.) 2. Spent on ren
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by rjknight 5y ago
The European Union did introduce a system similar to this for VAT, where the rate paid depends on the country of the buyer, not the seller: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/cross-bor...
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The stated fact is that there are people doing jobs that they personally do not believe are necessary or useful to society at large. _Why_ they believe that is a matter of speculation, and will vary from person to person. The political ques
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Is this document incomplete? It outlines some interesting topics, but it can't be said to "explore the details of complexity in general, and complex systems, specifically, in the context of business strategy" as set out in th
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Paradoxically, the UK made it harder to build on-shore wind turbines, resulting in the UK having the largest offshore wind capacity in the world. Calling the UK "the Saudi Arabia of wind" is perhaps a bit silly, but it's an i
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Inflation figures are a leading indicator of US monetary policy. All other things being equal, higher inflation readings now means relatively tighter US monetary policy later on. Yes, the Fed has committed to allowing some >2% inflatio
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Yes, this seems correct. This behaviour is "compliant" in the sense of "complying with the law", so calling it a "challenge... in enforcing tax compliance" seems straightforwardly wrong. The tax laws allow this
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> Isn't one other difference the fact that when you own a physical art piece, you have the option of hanging the original on your wall and claiming the exclusive right to see or move it whenever and however you want? You definitely
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> What happens in any language where you batch stuff in memory? If the system breaks down, you lose that data. This isn't unique to Erlang/Elixir. A little over a decade ago I did a project using Erlang. My next project was usi
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I do understand the idea that "quick and dirty" fixes to climate problems create moral hazard, and that pursuing risky solutions to problems can sometimes create even bigger problems further down the road. I'm not unsympathet
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Geoengineering researchers have halted plans for a balloon launch in Sweden(technologyreview.com)
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I might buy an umbrella because I believe it is going to rain, but that does not mean that an increase in the supply of umbrellas will lead to an increase in the amount of rain.
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by rjknight 6y ago
> It gives you more share of the 6.25 reward. But this is zero-sum competition for a portion of a fixed supply. In the aggregate, more electricity does not buy more Bitcoin because it is a fundamental principle of the Bitcoin system tha

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