RustyConsul

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by RustyConsul 4y ago
Internet, Grid, Rockets, astroid belt. You know there's a giant ball of platinum floating around just outside mars thats worth 1.7 Quintillian? Today does not represent tomorrow.
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by RustyConsul 4y ago
travel.
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by RustyConsul 4y ago
'Oligarchs' historically have gained influence and fielty to a nationstate. We are at a new form of Oligarchy, where the business magnates are able to operate internationally on a scale never seen before. Historically, taxation ha
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by RustyConsul 4y ago
> "if my offer is rejected i will reconsider my ownership in twitter." Thats an immense amount of selling pressure on the stock... This is a threat. He's negotiating with a gun to their head.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
What about infrastructure changes? We are using cars in a really shitty way currently. We have the technology to allow cars to go extremely fast, why are we limiting them? For instance, if you could make a highly aerodynamic truck with huge
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
For all the downvoters, he does bring up a valid point. It is a 'click-bait' title that is comparatively neutered to what is actually occurring. "Russia bombs Ukraine' "hundreds dead in russian invasion ofUkraine&qu
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
the US military has been preparing for this eventuality since 2014. We have bases all over soviet block countries. We have bases in poland and recently sold them 30 M1 abrams. Wanna know when the escalation starts? When russia runs into pr
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
holy cow! I literally laughed out loud when i read the rainforest remark. Chill out dude, you're reading something called 'Thoughts' by some random dude on the internet lol
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Kind of. I'm still losing my ability to choose. I've often found the slippery slope 'Fallacy' to not be so much of a fallacy in reality when it comes to power.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
well, at the end of the day they deorbitted because they ran out of fuel. I know Elon is screaming at his engineers right now to increase the amount of krypton in each and if this happens again, they're fired. - i used to work at tesla
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
yeah, but you are creating a populace that is dependent on their government for motivation, morals and concept of time spent. Not a good long term strat, and is historically what you see in the death throws of an empire.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
I agree but why do you need to government to tell you to do that? Move, tell him to put it out, or don't go to that bar that allows smoking...
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Shows how much progress begets progress. There was alot of debate about spending so much money on the large hydron collider when there was other social programs the money could be spent on instead of probing the fundamental nature of the un
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
A democratic government is a government built and run for the 51%. Technically, pure anarchy is the only form of government that is for the people by the people because... theres only the people. Not some entity set above and beyond the rea
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Read the Polkdadot Wiki at https://wiki.polkadot.network/ . It explains most of the concepts involved in blockchain. Also some other books: Mastering Bitcoin Mastering Eth The Sovereign individual Then i would read the first
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
lol - thanks for this. Only on HN can you start with a joke and end with this.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
I don't know wheere the ponzi scheme is in Smart contracts, decentralized identities, arbitrary data communication across and decentralized network, ZK-rollups, SK-Snarks, Automatic liquidation, leverage, and minting using other asset
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Your writing style is entertaining and inspiring. i'd love to read more of your work so i say do it! if not, rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com and i promise not to share them ;)
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
You can also like... use the technology to get the coins. Mine from your laptop for some BTC. Use some of those 2TB hard drives in your drawer to host files. Sign up for airdrops, provide liquidity in defi... I haven't spent alot on bu
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Comments like these make me wish hackernews had a follow button. You leave the article with a certain conception and sometimes it's utterly shattered in the comments; This is one of those times.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
According to the markets, accountability seems to be a liability. When they started axing IPO's, capital fled China and the dollar strengthened.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
DID is the only way you can anonymously comply with regulation. Jack isn't dumb, he still has Twitter to protect even if he's using square to build his new empire.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
This topic is obviously going to rankle some feathers, since it involves NFT's on hacker news. However, this was an incredibly well researched article and i enjoyed it. I've tried many of the crypto games recently and i'm not
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
or, if you've read the article and seen that the crypto gaming space is worth a lot of money, 2k for a bunch of data and insights is a steal to some.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
It's very rare for a sequel to be better than the first, but thats definitely the case with children of ruin I didn't know how the concept of universal consciousness could be expanded on much more after the first book, but wow was
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Really enjoyed this convo, if you want a bit more of a long form of my thought process on this, read the Sovereign individual (With a grain of salt, it gets a bit wild) My main point is don't completely dismiss a nescient technological
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
When i pay for something online, I am giving away my credit card/ debit card/ ACH information away for them to subtract the total amount of my transaction (Or debit it). I am trusting that outside entity in a number of different w
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
lol - the cyberpunk future we never saw coming.
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Yeah! Isn't it fantastic? You solve the double spend problem you have in traditional finance! Due to this emergent phenomena of smart contracts you can have very low slippage between exchanges, high liquidity and high yields. A.K.A Eve
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by RustyConsul 5y ago
Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments? Do you ever think a human being can be a sovereign individual in his own right, without owing fealty, taxes and morality to a government in some future? The current fi

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