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by vzcx 9y ago
There could also be better: one voting share = one vote. I'm convinced that the first sovereign start-ups to take full advantage of modern corporate structures and capital markets will be able to deftly out-maneuver the lumbering beast
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by vzcx 9y ago
I would take it a step further... Why should it be hard for money to make a mark? Why should the voice of someone who sacrifices little or who has no or next to no "skin in the game" be considered equivalent to the voice of someon
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by vzcx 9y ago
> Caffeine is in the same family as meth If by family you mean CNS stimulant with an amino group, then yes, I guess? They are very different structurally and pharmacologically. A synthesis of methamphetamine would not look very much at a
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by vzcx 9y ago
Eh, it sounds like the teacher is just trying to get their class excited about the chemistry. Come for the very pure drugs, stay for the molecular orbital theory and the love of the lab.
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by vzcx 9y ago
"Oh, we could totally synthesize meth and make tons of money, but it would be so good we'd get caught immediately." Talk is cheap. POC or GTFO.
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by vzcx 9y ago
Setting up a lab capable of producing fentanyl has significant up-front costs associated with it. Running the lab and keeping it stocked with precursors is an ongoing risk. For better or worse, the golden age of american clandestine laborat
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by vzcx 9y ago
Is this actually solved by bitcoin? Is this actually solvable? I feel we're butting up against the Iron Law of Oligarchy, here. What I mean is, Ethereum Foundation or not, only some small set of people will have commit access to the up
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by vzcx 9y ago
HFT is not necessarily a feature (nor a bug) of capitalism, although something you might recognize as capitalism is a prerequisite for the phenomenon, but of the fact that information sources and financial exchanges form a distributed syste
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by vzcx 9y ago
Beyond the "providing liquidity" argument, another side effect of HFT and arbitrage strategies that one might see as valuable is the promotion of global invariants across the financial network, which is rather complicated distribu
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by vzcx 10y ago
While it's easy to dismiss such a statement ("Taxation is theft") as rather vacuous reframing of an act in moralizing language, I actually do appreciate the point of view and believe it is an important one. The question of ho
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by vzcx 10y ago
Nice writeup! I was just starting to look into this since people were claiming it was pretty severe and yet I hadn't seen any POC's. Have you made any more progress? For whatever my opinion is worth (i.e. not much), I would agree
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by vzcx 10y ago
It follows by transitivity!
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by vzcx 10y ago
Rand, eh? I would've name-dropped Philip K. Dick, noted speed addict for decades, and whose delusional drivel is actually really, really great science fiction.
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by vzcx 10y ago
> Addicts are going to get fucked up on whatever they can find. If they can't find opiates or whatever, they're going to get fucked up on cough syrup, or booze or huffing paint or whatever. While this is reminiscent of somethin
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by vzcx 11y ago
> Money management is not what the universities are good at, and it's not what they are for. Isn't that precisely why they pay other people to manage it? > It's as if the purpose for which they were created has become a
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by vzcx 11y ago
How does your notion of post-scarcity square up with the laws of thermodynamics? Even if you have vast amounts of capital deployed the amount is still finite and thus en masse has a finite capacity to transform a finite amount of en
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by vzcx 11y ago
You know what? You're right. I'm tired of doing boring work for lazy rich folks. My basic needs should be taken care of and I should be free to live my life pursuing whatever whims or flights of fancy might make themselves manifes
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by vzcx 11y ago
Well it's certainly not because they want to be able to order their heroin online, have it delivered next day, and mainline it in the safety of their own homes. Because they can already do that.
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by vzcx 11y ago
Of course. The list of scheduled substances is arbitrary, and must be constantly expanded as new neuroreceptor ligands are invented. When I consider subparagraph A of the Federal Analog Act, I sometimes wonder if what is actually desired by
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by vzcx 11y ago
I assume you mean "rational, if your goal is to decrease drug use." If that is the case, one must also consider all of the costs involved in making the drugs illegal, from paying people to enforce their illegality (DEA, border age
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by vzcx 11y ago
Bold claims. Forgive me for saying so, but your knowledge of finance does not strike me as particularly deep! Do you not think that use of financial instruments is vital for allocating resources in a world of imperfect information? For me,
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by vzcx 11y ago
This is actually closer to what Grothendieck writes in Recoltes et Semailles: "Yet it is not these gifts, nor the most determined ambition combined with irresistible will-power, that enables one to surmount the "invisible yet form
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by vzcx 11y ago
I would reckon that this is because default is not the same as bankruptcy: it is entirely possible for someone to be late or stop making payments altogether and not go through the formal process of bankruptcy. I would further guess that buy
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by vzcx 11y ago
It is an exercise to modify your SHA1 implementation to start hashing from whatever IV you please. If you work through tptacek and friends' wonderful cryptopals puzzles you will have to do just this!
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by vzcx 11y ago
Mostly, but I'm pretty sure Clojure's range gives the integers from 0 to 9.
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by vzcx 12y ago
You actually don't need all the machinery behind sheaves to understand this! The general concept is that of a terminal object in a category. In the category of sets, the terminal objects are the singletons: given a set S, there is on