cconroy

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by cconroy 8mo ago
why? asset holders in this country have a free fed put, wage earners get smashed in the face. you can make a solid case this institution is more harmful and free banking is much better for wealth equality.
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by cconroy 2y ago
This is definitely true but btc buys you more of almost anything else too (btc/X): X is one of s&p500, housing, gold, etc. except maybe $nvda or $tsla. For example the btc chart in dollars looks the same as in gold.
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MicroStrategy Announces $42B Capital Plan(microstrategy.com)
2 points by cconroy 2y ago|0 comments
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by cconroy 3y ago
It is b/c he says so! Since they dont value it -- it must be stupid or wasteful!
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by cconroy 3y ago
"Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy’s ability to produce goods and services." I would rather have (monetary) deflation when then economy grows. Then the money I save in wo
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by cconroy 3y ago
Just to be clear, do you believe there is a connection between money printing and decreased purchasing power?
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S&P500 Normalized with M2(twitter.com)
36 points by cconroy 3y ago|35 comments
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by cconroy 3y ago
C is an abstraction over assembly. It is also minimal compared to prolog.
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by cconroy 4y ago
satoshi's use of cash probably referred to the concept of final settlement.
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by cconroy 5y ago
Probably alternating cold/hot temperatures. Probably best to sit in a dry sauna and jump into a cold (very) shower. Nothing beats it. You should come out feeling refreshed, if not sligthly euphoric.
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by cconroy 5y ago
Possibly the coolest data structure to visualize was invented to visualize complex data: zig-zag from the great Ted Nelson.
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by cconroy 5y ago
Humans, on time scale of 100s of thousands of years. You wouldn't expect Earth to be too dissimilar from today, if not for fossil fuel consumption.
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by cconroy 5y ago
Is it known what are, perhaps narrow, the climate conditions for humans? Humans evolved during the Pliocene which was 2-3 degrees warmer than today. My gut feeling is not good, especially on geologic time, of which most spans humans would m
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by cconroy 5y ago
oh man; they should of selected 42 or 1337 study subjects!
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by cconroy 6y ago
he is conflating things with value and a good unit to measure said value -- which is itself very valuable.
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by cconroy 6y ago
bitcoin in its finite, pre-determined supply and halvings every ~4yrs (formed through consensus) while going through s-curve adoption brings forth its unique number go up technology that has economist around the globe stumped
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by cconroy 6y ago
I just looked at coinbase's about page they have 35MM users now. Bitcoin is going through s-curve adoption like the internet. Fools on here look for conspiracy theories because they ignore demand increasing, for whatever reason.
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by cconroy 6y ago
Yeah. ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise. I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type helper. Definitely worth looking into!
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by cconroy 6y ago
"statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power" SML
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by cconroy 6y ago
how about counterfeiting the taxpayer's money?
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by cconroy 7y ago
Look into Cantillion Effect "...recipients of new money enjoy higher standards of living at the expense of later recipients..."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the...
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by cconroy 7y ago
These policies exacerbate inequality. In fact, I think economic inequality wouldn't be an big issue without this crap.
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by cconroy 7y ago
I am sure these best genes will "trickle down".
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by cconroy 7y ago
What is their position on nuclear? I don't see anywhere were there's a plan to replace Oil + Gas + Coal (renewables atm will not come close!). James Hansen has the carbon dividend / tax.[0] This is the only thing that will wo
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Figuring out the future of distributed data systems(medium.com)
2 points by cconroy 7y ago|0 comments
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by cconroy 7y ago
Pink plane reasoning like this makes you dismiss bitcoin as not scalable. The blue idea is to scale off chain with smart contracts whether centralized or not. Compare cos fighting this to those not like cash app which are building on top of
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Goto 2018 • the Robustness of Go • Francesc Campoy(youtube.com)
4 points by cconroy 7y ago|0 comments
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by cconroy 7y ago
Does anyone know of the implications of a year-round ice-free artic? Is the artic salvageable at this point? It seems evident that soon the artic will have a short period of being ice-free, kickstarting an inexorable process with yet longer
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by cconroy 8y ago
s/Bitcoin/Central Banking/g
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by cconroy 8y ago
this proof is sound (for this simple structure) but does it imply you can never have all three (CAP) in some scheme where you can draw from many nodes and edges (not infinite) to handle partition failure while always being available and con

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