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by yunesj 6y ago
> deflation You are making a lot of assumptions. But yes, a productive enterprise has to outperform doing nothing to be successful. And no, it is not possible to generate unlimited wealth simply by investing in a deflationary currency.
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Many, or even most people, believe that money must be controlled by the government for the economy to function. "Sound money" is money whose supply cannot be controlled by the government. Some further reading: * https:/&#x2F
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by yunesj 6y ago
Bitcoin's value prop isn't in its anonymity. Early adopters weren't enthusiastic about bitcoin because they hoped it would end fractional reserve banking or any other financial product. Rather, it was incredible to see the en
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by yunesj 6y ago
> You don’t need most to agree. Just the basic majority (50%+). And of course that’s exactly what the major mining consortiums will do You don't need anyone else to agree to start mining your own fork / altcoin. However, even i
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by yunesj 6y ago
> No one treats Bitcoin as a currency. ... And the reason behind that is obvious. Something whose value may double in a month or whose value may halve within weeks is a terrible currency. Nope. I don't buy things in crypto only beca
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by yunesj 6y ago
Maybe proof of existence (document certification), decentralized DNS, provably fair gambling, and prediction markets?
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by yunesj 6y ago
> because of 0.4% ... American greed San Francisco has a city budget larger than most other countries. This election, it voted to pass all nine measures for new taxes! https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-3-2020-ele
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by yunesj 6y ago
You’re linking to an article from mid 2018, before SF passed the largest tax in the city’s history: 2018 Prop C, a gross receipts tax for homeless services expected to raise another $300M. Several other additional tax measures were also pas
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by yunesj 6y ago
> I have a lot of trust in Microsoft I’d love to trust Microsoft. They have a lot of talented people working on a lot of cool things. But, they voluntarily collaborated with the US Government to spy on their users at home and abroad, and
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That’s not surprising at all. From a paper on circadian expression: > We found 43% of all protein coding genes showed circadian rhythms in transcription somewhere in the body, largely in an organ-specific manner. Assuming they looked at
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by yunesj 6y ago
I don't have a lot of daily errands; mostly just picking up coffee or food outside and to go. I don't talk to people for that (except to say thanks!), and don't wear the P100 because it's low risk. Places I've worn
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Material from a surgical mask is taped over it.
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> I'm curious how it compares to the entirety of a system like Mastercard You should also include the cost of running all of the world's central banks. US Federal Reserve budget is about $5B. Assuming 328.5k BTC mined per year,
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by yunesj 6y ago
3M respirators with P100 filters have a comfortable silicone seal, aren’t very expensive, and actually prevent the wearer from infection. We settled on a public policy where we are only as safe as the worst mask an infected person is wearin
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by yunesj 6y ago
“TV for breakroom remodel” https://www.thegazette.com/data/police-forfeitures#route-IC
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by yunesj 6y ago
> It's important to note the nature of the failure. Definitely! UCSF had a security firm send out a fishy-looking fishing email. My email client pointed out the url did not match the link text, whois told me it was a security compan
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It appears that the court broke the contract without being asked to do so by the loser. “But without government, who would break the contracts?!”
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by yunesj 6y ago
There’s a lot of luck in a single hand, but over many hands, players’ luck will be similar. At that point, poker seems to me mostly about the skill of handling uncertainty and communicating with other players.
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by yunesj 7y ago
Only 90%? In the US, the CARES Act is paying 250% of payroll costs! https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/cares-act-paychec...
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by yunesj 7y ago
Johns Hopkins is keeping up with the totals. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu
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by yunesj 7y ago
There's no catch. It's called "pooling" and is used, e.g., to keep costs down for early detection of primary HIV infection.
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Igraph 0.8.0 released. 6 years, 1222 commits since 0.7.0(github.com)
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by yunesj 7y ago
> How can we learn more if we don't change our mind? I think it's also possible to learn without having strongly held beliefs about the subject beforehand. This alternative reminds me of Descartes (don't assimilate knowled
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by yunesj 7y ago
I disagree. Wallets exist that are as easy to use (for small sums) as Venmo. I stopped using Bitcoin for daily transactions because of the stress of having to report every coffee purchase on my tax return.
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I'm surprised that people suddenly think that banks aren't greedy enough to profit from the porn industry! Maybe the reason PayPal and so many other companies won't service adult industries is that there are laws that put the
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by yunesj 7y ago
> Free market doesn't work when refusing to pay for the product costs you in health or even life. The free market works great to provide food.
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by yunesj 8y ago
This is another article that reeks of unsubstantiated, anti-tech sentiment. "culture and fun has been sucked out of the city since the second tech boom ... when the artists [left] the sex parties would dry up ... Burning Man morphed [t
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by yunesj 8y ago
> This article sounds somewhat socialist and left leaning The only hint of anything socialist in this report is that Japanese zoning is based on centrally planned guidelines. However, the author reports a key downside of this: that there
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by yunesj 8y ago
> Society cannot run on the philanthopy of billionaires. Well, it doesn't run on taxes either. Successful societies runs on voluntary exchange. Given how much of the taxes are paid by the ultra wealthy (most of them), how philanthro
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by yunesj 8y ago
> It sucks if you've made a loss, but that's not really the government's problem. Perhaps the government shouldn't incentivize their residents to make suboptimal investments. "It's not really the government&

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