trident1000

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by trident1000 6y ago
My favorite stat of the year: There is now more civil asset forfeiture (government robbery) than actual robberies in the US by value.
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by trident1000 6y ago
The LA mayor is telling people to not walk outside because of covid. If thats not absurd big liberal govt policy idk what is. Who would want to live somewhere where the govt thinks they can do that. Your rights as a person dont vanish in
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by trident1000 6y ago
Platforms like Facebook are not realistically opt-in. Thats actually why social networks work. Its a self-reinforcing mechanism that makes it punitive to leave.
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by trident1000 6y ago
"going after women" just means being motivated to go out and form relationships. pavel_lishin I didnt say they didnt. I was addressing the phrase.
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by trident1000 6y ago
I understand its not hard to get on the platform. Id just judge it on the content and presentation over the platform banner.
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by trident1000 6y ago
Heres that ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
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by trident1000 6y ago
Youre pointing out at this stage that btc is a non cash flow asset...yes most people know that. Same with oil and commodities and gold.
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by trident1000 6y ago
Who cares what people who borrow do with it. 5% or whatever is all I care about as an investor + getting my money back.
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by trident1000 6y ago
Its also been around for 3000 years and is far past its price discovery phase. Aside from that you dont hold gold in perpetuity, its for certain several year stretches and certain decades. I hold none just because I think btc challenges
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by trident1000 6y ago
Annual
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by trident1000 6y ago
Social networks have value thats not measured in traditional cash flow analysis. Thats why its less of a gamble than many think it is.
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by trident1000 6y ago
You can actually lend your btc at a pretty good rate. Over 5% on BlockFi. Rates are lower on defi exchanges because there is a risk premium as people figure it out and actually borrow.
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by trident1000 6y ago
A change in stock to flow is not "priced in". And gold is also a speculation, it still works/worked. Social value networks are quite sticky and tend to get stronger over time.
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by trident1000 6y ago
I actually disagree with you. With bonds you are virtually guaranteed to lose value over time as real yields are negative (against inflation). Thats a risk. Getting poor slowly and not keeping up with other rising assets is a threat to w
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by trident1000 6y ago
Paypal still does the credit card transaction. I know because their black box algo blacklisted me for whatever reason many years ago and I tried that. They have no customer support its just an abyss of a company and you are a statistic.
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by trident1000 6y ago
They see it as replacing useless low yield treasuries with something else. Bitcoin also isnt a security. I understand what you mean though.
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by trident1000 6y ago
Id have to see specific examples as this is pretty vague. And I believe Dorsey said himself that misinformation is not against the Twitter rules (might have an exception for certain topics though). Probably because half the users on the
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by trident1000 6y ago
What has he really done to merit being kicked off the platform? He just types in all caps and posts 50 times a day.
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by trident1000 6y ago
Im with you (in spirit). But we know at this point how network effects function and thats just not a practical solution. Leaving facebook, youtube, etc.. is similar to leaving your country and moving to a remote island in the middle of th
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by trident1000 6y ago
Don't believe I am unless you have a convincing argument I'm not aware of.
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by trident1000 6y ago
Because any of those are even close to competitors...there are 2 billion youtube users (80% of internet users). Posting this reply here since the site says Im posting too fast at a lightspeed rate of 3 comments for the day: I just dont agre
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by trident1000 6y ago
This is exactly how California was a red state during the silicon boom and then turned into a blue state thereafter. Everything gets expensive and then people look to the government.
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by trident1000 6y ago
I think its a combo. Ive also been on reddit since the early days and never witnessed a tectonic shift like that.
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by trident1000 6y ago
This has all been debunked?: https://youtu.be/rri6flxaXww?t=4916 (from Phil Waldron) I'm not here to deny elections but I dont think much of it was including the machines going live on the net when Dominion said they
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by trident1000 6y ago
Reddit had a bipolar shift around 2015 before the election. Thats when the main subs were astroturfed and gamed like I had never seen before.
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by trident1000 6y ago
When you have a lot of commits you are working off yourself while everyone else needs to get caught up on what you did and then contribute after. Its essentially twice (or whatever) as much work as a laggard. It becomes 1 persons project
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by trident1000 6y ago
The most noticeable switch happened in 2015 before the election; it was like night and day. Propaganda companies were hired and went to town and all the default subs were taken over. Elections are every 4 years so they are on permanent hi
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by trident1000 6y ago
Correct. Reddit is ~75% (whatever) fake comments/astroturfing by hired companies and foreign operations to move policy and commercial goals. Its only going to get worse now that AI speech tools are so powerful. Entire articles with
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by trident1000 6y ago
Labor costs driving down is also from tech companies outsourcing many of their humans from other countries like India (tech companies are now the biggest segment of the economy). Not to get political but its why they donate 95% to the demo
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by trident1000 6y ago
I pay as well. They need to get these damn ads off my Xbox (same account as PC) which they have not implemented. Worth it though.

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