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by trevyn 5y ago
A lot of conversations these days seem to be two sides in their camps yelling over the walls. I think both camps are coming from reasonable positions, and it’s important to me to try and find middle ground when I can. Sometimes I can’t find
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by trevyn 5y ago
Got it, thank you. It’s a long-term play, repeated game theory, all that.
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by trevyn 5y ago
I have never experienced what I would call “crime risk” in the US, much less anything that would require “seriously restricting my life”, so I’m curious if you are referring to a particular area, because I’m sure they exist.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Crime risk? Where were you living?
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by trevyn 5y ago
>Super cheap bandwidth ($2 per 100GB!) That’s only “super cheap” if you’re comparing to AWS’s outright highway robbery bandwidth pricing.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Do you think it is an incorrect analysis in this case? I’d love to have a discussion about the topics raised, but it’s no fun to have a discussion with someone who is repeatedly critical and a little fired up before even understanding the f
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by trevyn 5y ago
I guess the practical execution varies a little in each time, place, individual, and circumstance. Look at all these new temptations and tools we have developed! Maybe it will be different this time! Maybe not.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Knowledge of one’s ignorance is also valuable. Specifically, saying that something is “impossible” outside of a well-defined formal system would more correctly be classed as hyperbole than a statement based on knowledge.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Starting to think that the most honorable thing to do is live a simple, modest life and not have children.
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by trevyn 5y ago
You appear to be jumping to conclusions before understanding the technology and ecosystem. I understand that emotions get charged around money and power, but if you’re honestly interested in the answers to your questions, it might help the
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by trevyn 5y ago
Any technology or way of thinking is part of a series of overlapping S-curves in time ( https://pratt.duke.edu/sites/pratt.duke.edu/files/Layered%20... ), during which the majority switch from one dominant regi
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by trevyn 5y ago
It’s a defense against authoritarianism, concentrations of power, and abuse of that power. Blockchains are early implementations of distributed authority.
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by trevyn 5y ago
You are a program optimized to increase human biomass. That’s literally all that’s happening.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Service may be based in a jurisdiction where compliance with terms and licenses is optional.
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by trevyn 5y ago
>If Google says they'll give you $200k per year in cash + $400k split over 4 years as RSUs, that's the same as just getting $300k per year in cash. It’s not; the RSUs are priced at grant, not at vest. Plus there’s annual top-up
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by trevyn 5y ago
Wait, so you mean we’re solving housing prices too?!! :-)
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by trevyn 5y ago
The value of fiat could go to zero.
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by trevyn 5y ago
I haven’t dug into this, but I do intuitively sense some risks with PoS. Can anyone recommend a good, thoughtful writeup of the specific risks?
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by trevyn 5y ago
The evidence seems pretty strong that the world’s gonna get boiled anyway, fwiw. It’s fine to hope that things might be different, but making decisions and plans based on that hope seems…imprudent.
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by trevyn 5y ago
That’s not strictly true; some forms of capital allocation increase future productivity (and therefore future wealth) at a greater rate than others.
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by trevyn 5y ago
I wonder what the economics are like for a Starship-delivered nuclear-powered Bitcoin mine in space…
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by trevyn 5y ago
Not all work needs to be done.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Just because youth must do some small amount of work to make it to old age doesn’t imply that they aren’t being massively extorted.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Manned hydrogen ballooning is definitely still a thing.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Your guess is wrong, physical Apple stores have no problem with large amounts of cash. :-)
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by trevyn 5y ago
Can confirm; I personally like the MBA M1 keyboard better than the MBP M1 keyboard; the MBA feels like the keys need a little more effort to press, and are a bit squishier/softer, which I like. Overall, the MBP keyboard is acceptable,
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by trevyn 5y ago
It’s in one of the menu bar widgets, or you can remap the keys: https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/jy5ry8/m1_macbook_ai...
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by trevyn 5y ago
macOS reports (and manages) memory usage a bit strangely; with 16GB and an appropriate workload, you’re certainly swapping. Though with a fast SSD, that’s less of an issue than in the past.
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by trevyn 5y ago
I was under the impression that the “housing problem” is basically land prices anywhere near where everyone wants to be, and a zoning/regulation/NIMBY thing, not actual construction costs. Am I wrong?
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by trevyn 5y ago
I disagree with your opinion, and I’m proud that SF is performing the experiment, even if unintentionally. Yes, there is a line, but my opinion is that it’s closer to physical violence against another person’s body. A possibly more interest

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