snarf21

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by snarf21 5y ago
As said, this isn't collectibles. This is pyramid schemes, pump & dump and money laundering.
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by snarf21 5y ago
'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' - Upton Sinclair
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by snarf21 5y ago
Isn't that the rule? If a headline has a question, the answer is always NO!
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by snarf21 5y ago
Agreed. You get what you incentive for. You get what you optimize for. Jobs and housing will always be incentivized. because they are needed everywhere. It is always why corporate taxes are setup to be paid after expenses and personal tax
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by snarf21 5y ago
Is the SEC and FTC ever going to do their job? They have failed us in the 21st century. Shareholder value over everything else. It would be nice for some regulation to attack all this rent seeking.
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by snarf21 5y ago
While I agree, do you think US senators understand the nuances of tech? What about the senator who was complaining about a fake report about Biden and "no meat" and people would have to start drinking plant based beer. Also, one o
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree. This is what I don't get. We don't have a real permanent colony in space. We don't have a real permanent colony on the moon. Mars is so much further away with less access to resources. It is fine to goal to someday g
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by snarf21 5y ago
Yeah, this isn't investing. This is gambling.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Maybe. The municipalities have no money and some small city council has no leverage over a US senator. How can they compete against the bankroll of Comcast in court, PR, etc. ?
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by snarf21 5y ago
I agree with you but the other issue is the huge amount of pressure corporate concerns have. The regulatory capture game is strong. There are a lot of states that have passed laws that say it is illegal to run municipal broadband because of
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by snarf21 5y ago
The government has perverse incentives to keep it low and close to the same. The way the CPI is calculated has changed dozes of times in the last 30 years. Like you said, if you at food, healthcare, education, etc., they are up way more t
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by snarf21 5y ago
It is interesting that Keynes predicted a 15 hour work week in the 1930s. There are many reasons why this didn't come to pass but part of it is our desire for a higher standard of living. The majority of people in the 1930s didn't
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by snarf21 5y ago
Yeah, eating noting but sardines pizza isn't going to end well.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Right, it doesn't count non-employment. Politicians got smart, it only matters what the numbers claim to be true. Inflation is calculated differently than it was 30 years ago. It feels to me like healthcare, education, housing, food, e
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by snarf21 5y ago
It is very complicated. My experience in dating post divorce is that men feel like they are in a no win situation. A lot of women still want prince charming and chivalry but they also want independence. They want a man who will take care of
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by snarf21 5y ago
Exactly correct. The FTC and SEC have failed us completely in the 21st century. Things have gone bad ever since the focus of all companies has been shareholders above all else.
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by snarf21 6y ago
Who will watch the watchers? It isn't like there was no crime/terrorism before 1995. Look at how ex-AG Barr wanted backdoors in everything but they "promised" to only use it responsibly and with warrants. Do you sincerel
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by snarf21 6y ago
Yeah, I didn't enjoy my stint working on Salesforce code. There are a lot weird things around how long a page can run, how man records you can return, user system, no local debugging (but this was coming), etc. I understand it is a sha
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by snarf21 6y ago
The outputs are easy to track. The issue you have is someone running an exchange over seas that won't co-operate. Also, as others have said, it isn't as if there were no online scams before 2015.
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by snarf21 6y ago
I really don't know how the Fed will unwind all this nonsense. It is sad that the Fed had to step in because we can't get the fiscal policy changes we need.
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by snarf21 6y ago
For perspective, my parents both grew up on farms and I spent my summers on them. You are right but "farming" used to be a family with 3 acres and an ox and a plow. These small farms you lament are just as much a whole new world t
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by snarf21 6y ago
These are are all essential but I think the only thing missing is that the person leading the meeting has to be controlling, their only job is to make the meeting productive through any means necessary. It is okay to cut people off and ha
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by snarf21 6y ago
That is a good approach but the risk is that if the feature you add that people really want is trivial for Amazon to copy after you've proven it.
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by snarf21 6y ago
How do you make a better goodreads that is sustainable when Amazon will always make it free as a way to sell more books on Amazon? It is pretty easy to make a X that is better than the status quo. How will you compete with the big guys fi
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by snarf21 6y ago
The problem with the difficulty decreasing is that it depends on how much and how fast. It depends on how much the tax is relative to the cost to mine. Also, it could also politically be positioned as a "bitcoin tax" instead of a
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by snarf21 6y ago
A carbon tax won't halt activity but it could cause the price to drop. If Bitcoin drops to $300, it is no longer profitable to mine. I agree that making it illegal would help. Main street would be loathe to depend on wire transfers to
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by snarf21 6y ago
I agree but they are never going to hold those with the ability to cut off the money to a higher standard. Money talks.
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by snarf21 6y ago
I agree that ALL government employees, their spouses and companies should own no individual stocks until they leave office/job. However, the politicians are just the tip of the iceberg in regards to the rigged game of Wall Street. We
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by snarf21 6y ago
I'm not worried about the soil, I'm worried about the water. The Ogallala Aquifer is shrinking. The more it shrinks, the more there will be compaction preventing it from refilling to previous states. We can always grow food in wat
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by snarf21 6y ago
Or the simple hammer/rubber hose backdoor. I think encryption is only helpful over short windows. Meaning, delete anything you don't want found because it will get cracked at rest.

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