jaredtn

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by jaredtn 5y ago
Today, with our archaic system. That's why we need digital currencies.
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by jaredtn 5y ago
The parent comment was about enabling micropayments, not the proper price for a song. Forest for the trees...
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by jaredtn 5y ago
This is how literally every financial asset works. If you want to make a customer cash-flow argument, Ethereum has $9B of ARR. Same story.
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by jaredtn 5y ago
That data looks at January 1979 to present. I believe ever includes the rest of the 20th century as well... There was certainly a negative return over 20-year periods including the Great Depression. And negative real returns during the 19
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Graphics on this need some serious work. Can't tell the difference between a bishop and a pawn. Would love to play it otherwise.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Here is a site that makes it easy to download the GIF: https://www.deviantart.com/minecraftrulz2017/art/Nyan-Cat-HD... . Please let me know when the crash is expected, now that your condition has been met :)
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by jaredtn 6y ago
It's considered the same as an in-kind transfer for stocks from one broker to another. Again, the understanding of "property" is evolving in this environment, and there are areas of regulatory uncertainty (such as synthetic a
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by jaredtn 6y ago
For the first question, it depends if you bought the fifty cars for $100 each, or if your basis is less than that. Cost basis is key here. And no to the second question. The IRS has designed crypto as a property, so you are subject to payin
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Not true. Converting from BTC to ETH is a taxable event, for example.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Quite excited to read this. Murphy does a great job of explaining concepts from first principles.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Agree that today, Ethereum transaction fees are terrible. But I'm quite optimistic for the future. First we have Layer-2 rollups: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/layer-2-scaling/ . Even setti
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Ethereum is a much better place to build apps and tokens. The ERC-20 standard has been game-changing. Currently 19 tokens at $100M+ market caps, with more to come.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
If your coin can be sued by the SEC, then it's probably not decentralized.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Steph Curry is 6'3", in the 98th percentile for height. Wouldn't quite call him short. And there are only ~2,800 7-footers in the world, many of which are in the NBA. So tall players - meaning over 7 feet - are extremely rare
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Thanks, fixed!
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by jaredtn 6y ago
This is Berkson's Paradox. Even if coding competition performance correlates positively with job performance in the general population (which it certainly does, given that most people can't code), selecting for this attribute in t
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by jaredtn 6y ago
It was certainly a move to stabilize the stock market and Treasury market. However, having a reserve asset that steadily, stably climbs lower is not a store of value by any definition.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
China is no longer a net buyer of Treasuries. They have begun to sell off their position over the last 5 years. And the renminbi is actually quite strong lately, the Chinese government is maintaining positive interest rates and allowing cor
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by jaredtn 6y ago
There are two concepts here: medium of exchange and store of value. Currently the US dollar (and Treasury bonds) do both. It's unlikely that the US dollar disappears as a medium of exchange, though there are steps being taken here, suc
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Do all technical advances make you feel sad? Why hang out on Hacker News then?
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Amazing the pessimism in this thread. Everyone looking for a way to tear them down. This is an incredible success story, and should be an inspiration.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
That's exactly my point :) It's not that plastic straws are significantly good or bad - they're a distraction from the real issues. And the fact that it gets any airtime at all is absolutely ridiculous. Certainly distracted y
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by jaredtn 6y ago
You said it youself: political mismanagement. Make it illegal to build apartment buildings, make it impossible to build good public transit. Ban plastic straws. Refuse to prosecute criminals. Close the safe outdoor parks. Force public serva
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by jaredtn 6y ago
I think he's saying that Google at a certain point in time managed to hire the talented & motivated people. So it can be done, because these companies have done so successfully at points in their past.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Thank you for this!
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by jaredtn 6y ago
“GPT-3 has stated an incorrect fact, therefore GPT-3 is unable to truly reason about anything.” - qeternity Here we see that qeternity has stated an incorrect fact, therefore qeternity is unable to truly reason about anything :) There is so
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by jaredtn 6y ago
What do you mean by p-hacking? In statistics that refers to running a large number of experiments and taking the one with the best results, but ML trains for hundreds of thousands of steps on a single model.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Can anyone point me to data on the dangers of mask reuse? Masks block droplets from entering, but it's unclear whether those droplets attach to the mask or "bounce off". And if they attach, then it seems like those droplets w
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Does anyone have a link for where these books can still be bought? Would love to gift them to younger family members.
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Sure the theory is nice, but can I see some empirical evidence? :)

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