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by zxcmx 9y ago
So what we are discussing is externalities. For example you might have a land owner and a factory, and both parties involved are perfectly happy for the factory to pump toxic waste straight into the ground. Neither party wants the police i
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Drug sale and use is not victimless. The costs vary with the type of drug and the enforcement regime but the social costs never go to zero. There can be huge negative externalities involved with drug use, as anyone with a family member who
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Nearly all fiat onramps have AML/KYC. There's also localbitcoins.com, one way to meet parties who are interested in transacting person to person. Naturally you are still supposed to pay your taxes if you do this.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Ok, thanks for the discussion, I don't think we will agree but I understand your point of view.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Absolutely the opposite. I've been poor and absolutely I valued connections and networks over the fundamentals, much as rich people do. Frankly I think this is the rational decision under the circumstances, factoring in uncertainty and
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by zxcmx 9y ago
That might be because you don't value family or other people like you around you. Personally I've lived in a bunch of countries and it's always been a lot easier for me with a support network. I suppose in the context of the
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Go where, though?
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by zxcmx 9y ago
GP was referencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect Some ways this could play out would be: a) Found a startup that does $immoral_thing, wait for "payouts for everyone" to start rolling in. b) Like
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yes. Personally I think people are underestimating the utility of a new asset class that's not london apartments or fine art for rich people to park their money in.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
This is hilarious but not at all accurate since BTC to USD is traded on exchanges and not on the blockchain.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
The same thing that would happen if the bulk of AAPL shareholders tried to cash out. A new price would be discovered.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
There is also the issue of marketability, focus grouping, age group bracketing and the crafting of narratives that will appeal commercially across cultural boundaries. We have these massive "story engines" but only the simplest st
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yep, but you can't necessarily sell it for full value because the process of doing that damages the brand.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yeah definitely noisier. https://tinkertry.com/supermicro-superserver-sys-e200-8d-and... shows about 60db(!) with fans at full blast during spinup but 42db or so when dialled down. So not too bad. The difference with IPMI t
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by zxcmx 9y ago
pcengines APU2 is also a pretty sweet platform: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm Also for homelabbers the https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/Mini-ITX/SYS-E300... is like the "ul
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I like this idea but let's take it to the limit. Very young children (<2 say) aren't reasoning or reasonable creatures in the usual way we might expect of adults. They are very scientific (aka will try all the things and are su
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by zxcmx 9y ago
End the blockchain patriarchy! We need more pink hashes. Red hashes no! Pink hashes yes!
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Actually e-passports have (in 2017) a pretty competent public-key based issuing scheme behind them. You can read them with NFC and cryptographically authenticate the contents.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Fiat means by decree, or order. Typically we mean by government when we use this word. Essentially, the government creates it by law and then forces you to use it. I'm struggling to see how this applies to bitcoin.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
But that would be... inflation! High inflation would affect collective bargaining agreements, benefit increases, super increases and all sorts of measures designed to keep compensation increases in line with increased cost of living. Centra
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Well if you really want to maximise your odds of becoming a doctor, the best thing you can do for yourself is choose your parents wisely. Don't choose to be born in a slum in a third world country, or a trailer park, thats gonna hurt y
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Occupational heritability will also be boosted by the "company town" effect. I feel that might be a confounding factor in their analysis for many working class occupations. If you are raised in a town with a big steel plant or tex
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yeah there is a conspiracy theory that you are the bourbaki of computer security. Difficult to see how you can really be just one human.
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by zxcmx 9y ago
So I invested weeks in openscad but as a fusion 360 user now I have to shamefully admit that I choose fusion every time I want to make real parts. I switch accounts regularly here to not tie to my real life identity but hopefully I hve enou
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yeah the F-22 really is useless without a military industrial complex behind it. And a defense use. Sort of a parable about modern products really. Self driving cars with no maps, phones with no updates, no app store. Our best products are
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Oddly enough I find it easier to believe that Bill Gates wants to change the world for the better than to believe that he is secretly pushing some neocapitalist agenda. Mainly because he personally has everything to gain from the former and
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by zxcmx 9y ago
I find this article weird because from an exploitation point of view external control of allocation is super valuable and having user controlled pages to land on is a big part of the game. The safety of your memory model is not reliant on h
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by zxcmx 9y ago
There was not much difference between optimising bombing runs over tokyo (in terms of "target damage" per "input dollar" say) and other war crimes for the people affected, what's your point? Sure I guess operations
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by zxcmx 9y ago
Yeah you never win or pay off "ancestor debt", and you'll never be free of the debts you owe your children. At the end of it, being an adult looks a lot like working for everyone else all of the time and it sucks. It is what
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by zxcmx 9y ago
In that case, there was a "bezos wall" this week :)

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