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Yeah, I actually pretty much agree, I was more responding to the point that nobody made a decision for it to be this way, and that is intelligence. I actually think that it was som…

It’s not really intelligence, so much as selection pressure in the direction of high margin. Evolution isn’t “intelligence” either, but still leads to interesting or highly honed s…

You may be able to make a sale and then build it and still keep the sale, but if you think that this is too risky with respect to reputation or having a customer depend on what you…

The primary benefit of a linear emission rate, as far as I’m concerned, is that it doesn’t depend on fees completely taking over from the block reward in order to provide adequate …

Inflation (depending on the type and extent) can be a form of slow motion jubilee

My assumption is that you sell a given stock with 1x liquidation preference, and the price of that stock is used to determine the valuation for the company, pretending the price is…

It’s a tough situation, because the amount of access that these extensions have to users’ actions can be extreme. Malware is a much greater concern than, say, the AppStore, as acce…

Yes. I would like customized timeouts. 7 days is too long.

I think they could probably just open the case and wire a new port anyway.

Some of the described attacks would make me want to get the fuck out of wherever they work. Seems like some good advice though.

At fees of 4/100ths of a percent. Vanguard has created a simply enormous consumer surplus. Thank you Bogle.

Just goes to show the effect of putting away money every year, and placing it in assets where the returns will compound over a long period.

This is hardcore

Yes, I’m purely talking about losing people if they forced a password reset.

Agreed. I am assuming they will not do it for the same reason yahoo didn’t. They are simply afraid of losing too many active users. Yahoo’s case was worse though, since it was hack…

Aren’t electric vehicles more at risk of the reverse, ie. a big decline in gasoline prices? They’re more costly so users usually hope to make some of it back due to lower operating…

Whether it’s disappointing or not is always relative to what expectations were.

Even if they don’t profile you directly, how do you feel about the fact that your non-paying friends would still be profiled?

They did a great job avoiding taking too much funding though!

That kinda revenue with those profit margins are the insane thing. I’m less impressed at revenue per employee generated from oil.

My feeling is that either system can probably work if there is some level of known policy stability, education, and the freedom and incentive to innovate. Most improvements to livi…

The difference is that the x86 chips were so much faster than what they had for PPC, that they could still emulate it without customers feeling like they were going backwards.

If he means the equity is worth 0, then the point still stands. The bond holders would get it.

The most likely explanation to me is that the authors are connected to people shorting AMD, and they wished to get the maximum impact out of their release. It didn’t seem to hurt t…

Not necessarily - the software could be upgraded to take the existing chain, and upgrade it to a quantum resistant hash prior to any damage being done.