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by wanderingbort 4y ago
Maybe it’s semantics but, this article fails to prove that it’s core argument isn’t a semantic one. I get that you cannot label transit as a public good in economic terms. Nobody who is presenting reasons it should be free or heavily subsid
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
I'm just going off the research, you can buy whatever you want. "Health obesity" isn't about staying obese, it is about shifting social stigmas as they seem to contribute (paradoxically) to obesity[1]. Why is this someth
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
Simply put, it’s an enabling belief. Being obese isn’t a root cause. It is a symptom of something else. Particularly, when it is a symptom of depression, believing in “healthy obesity” can be enabling even if it’s not the truth. That person
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
A lot of answers for why the fed would want this but regarding your first question: The interest rate can be thought of as the “cost of money”. The higher it is, the more expensive it is to get more money in the short term. This is why 0% w
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
In order to convince one honest node you’d have to backdoor every node they talk to. Multiple independent implementations co-exist on the network including many private implementations. Perhaps the best defense is the vigilance of the commu
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
I agree it’s worse on any measure that can reduced to “distributed computation”. But that’s not what it’s doing. Not really. The only distributed computation is the one establishing trust that there has been no Byzantine failure of consensu
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
The interface to the globally available computation is a bit different and I think novel. In order for my application and yours to interact we had to both chose the same ecosystem and invest in it to some minimal degree. It’s easy to frame
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
I will start to sound like a broken record soon but blockchain has provided a wealth of information about “fair” distribution games and their downfalls. The NFT summer of 2021 saw first come first serve distros gamed by parties with superio
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
Not quite. It would be direct democracy if the “currency” was zeroed/refreshed for every ballot issue. As stated the inter-issue strategy makes this a different game.
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
One of the good things about crypto and blockchain is that I can say with great confidence that it is both easy and inexpensive. For reference see one of the biggest NFT drops this year and the pleas they made to not buy KYC’d addresses: h
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
Games are tricky things to balance. When distribution is equal or in your favor, the obvious gambit here is to propose abhorrent legislation to the opposition. They will be forced to spend more votes to stop it. Leaving you with enough vote
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
The market isn’t the price of the vote, it’s the price to buy someone’s vote. That’s a race to the bottom. Right now the cheapest option is a bot. A perfect anti-bot solution shifts this so that the cheapest option is the global poor. Zoom
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
If you could do that effectively then what is the point of spending money to upvote? Also look into the current state of play to earn games [1] and some NFT auction methods where people are selling their participation quite openly [2] It’s
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
I think you are coming at this the wrong direction. As a buyer I have to have some compulsion to buy. If that is not “I want to buy an authentic piece tied to an artist” NFTs probably aren’t for you. With NFTs I can start at either the arti
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
If you (the artist) have no presence in NFTs, it’s fake. If you do, then I can trivially verify that you are the minter. Crucially, the person that has the incentive to mint (the artist) also has all they need to establish the provenance of
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
I can only speak for myself but I built software in the cryptocurrency/blockchain space for about 5 years before I held any as an investment. For me, the incentive was to learn about the tech for the sake of the tech. I actually wasn’t
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
You are correct. NFTs do not prevent counterfeiting. One could argue that it makes counterfeiting easier due to their open nature. However, it also makes detecting counterfeits trivial. So trivial that the consumer can detect it using their
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
Sure, look at the last sale for this piece https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac... The artist got 0.21 ETH in the transaction despite not actually having a direct role in the sale. Here is
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
To all the opinions already posted I will add just one more: none of it was given by people who know you and your kids. They are unique and will have a set of natural and nurtured skills that are critically important when dealing with the s
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by wanderingbort 4y ago
Not a lawyer or accountant here but I think it would be reasonable to only treat the eventual on-chain withdraw as a taxable event. Until then, you have deposited some value in a number of lightening network nodes and have been negotiating
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by wanderingbort 5y ago
nft42 | Multiple Roles | Remote (US time zone overlap preferred) | Full-time | https://nft42.com nft42 is a group of serial tech entrepreneurs and long time degens in the NFT space with a vision of enabling the "metaverse&q
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
You are moving the goal posts. I put my estimate in the same context you put your estimate in (no over subscription, 100% continuous usage etc). The ISP doesn't pay both sides, but someone pays somewhere. So, if we are talking about
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
> Do the actual math. You first. You made a claim which was woefully inaccurate, I called you out in an admittedly childish way and now the burden of proving you wrong is on me? Here is my ballpark, Both sides will want redundant fiber
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
you are over-simplifying. If we want to be pedantic, and assume that the two edge routers are just switches and we would use a consumer level 10gbps port and that the switchers are already in the same rack in the same facility and that tha
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
> If ISPs can go faster, and they choose not to unless you pay more, that is a form of degradation. You've missed my point. There are some ways an ISP can go faster that are not neutral AND not malicious/extortive. If google
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
whats interesting is that nothing about the current net-neutrality discussions addresses concerns like these. They may or may not be substantiated concerns. The graphs don't show intent so, that much is assumed.
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
That is objectively false. Degrading the "slow" lanes is only one way to produce a fast lane. Direct peering arrangements and co-location of services are two ways to create "fast" lanes without having to degrade anythi
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
> They wouldn't know what was IPFS and what was regular encrypted TCP The extreme conclusion of state-sponsored censorship is not a black list or DPI. It is a white list. It is easy to restrict traffic to a small set of addresses
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
So, to fix this analogy we say all vehicles on the road travel at the exact speed because a single frame on fiber should move point to point at the same speed. To make this easier we will assume that corrupt/dropped cars ("frames
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by wanderingbort 9y ago
> Netflix gives away free servers to cache popular content near the users so the ISP doesn’t need to pay for the bandwidth to stream multiple copies of the same thing You have to be a decently large ISP to qualify. So, this is helpful t

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