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Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Ice_cream_suit wrote: post #136
whataretensors wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame the SEC for this one. Their accredited investor regulation gave the future to the rich. Seed round, series A, B, C, etc should be a vehicle for class mobility. Instead it's a way for the rich and powerful to accumulate more wealth. With YC and other incubators acting as a filter for where investors should put money, it matters more which zipcode you were born into than your overall intelligence and creativity.…

And if you put your life savings into a hedge fund and it blows up ? See http://hf-implode.com/index.html#lists for a partial list. Even the famous Marc Mezvinsky's notoriously "well supported" Eaglevale Partners fund has shutdown up after losing 48% of investors funds.

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Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by jjtheblunt »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #132
tammer wrote: post #121

With an anti-science regime in charge of the government, America will only continue to see its technological lead decline. Brutal to be confronted with such a cutting opinion in an otherwise congenial article and to have no thoughts of disagreement.

America is a bet that chaos has some advantages over good governance.

One of the most discerning and succinct comments i've ever read

Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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jldugger wrote: post #93
whataretensors wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame the SEC for this one. Their accredited investor regulation gave the future to the rich. Seed round, series A, B, C, etc should be a vehicle for class mobility. Instead it's a way for the rich and powerful to accumulate more wealth. With YC and other incubators acting as a filter for where investors should put money, it matters more which zipcode you were born into than your overall intelligence and creativity.…

There's plenty of means within the existing legal framework to allow investors access to VC investment options. Blackstone IPO'd ten years ago, and Intel, Google and GE all have VC subsidaries. My pension with Oregon has a variety of investments in VC private equity funds that have done quite well. There's really no reason to agitate for people to invest their savings directly into a single series A round. Capital po…

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Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

jldugger wrote: post #93
whataretensors wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame the SEC for this one. Their accredited investor regulation gave the future to the rich. Seed round, series A, B, C, etc should be a vehicle for class mobility. Instead it's a way for the rich and powerful to accumulate more wealth. With YC and other incubators acting as a filter for where investors should put money, it matters more which zipcode you were born into than your overall intelligence and creativity.…

There's plenty of means within the existing legal framework to allow investors access to VC investment options. Blackstone IPO'd ten years ago, and Intel, Google and GE all have VC subsidaries. My pension with Oregon has a variety of investments in VC private equity funds that have done quite well. There's really no reason to agitate for people to invest their savings directly into a single series A round. Capital po…

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Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by jknoepfler »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #122
foxylad wrote: post #114

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> yes, there are ethical reasons to accumulate so many resources: because some problems are incredibly hard to solve and need a lot of resources to even start to solve. Allowing people to become billionaires is a hideously inefficient way to solve hard problems. Most billionaires hoard their wealth, or spend it on the hard problem of ostentatious display of wealth. Billionaires who solve hard problems: Bill Gates and…

> Allowing One word in, and already the same inverted burden of proof problem as the comment I replied to. > people to become billionaires is a hideously inefficient way to solve hard problems It's a good thing that's not the reason, nor is any reason required, and that's not your choice to make. And, also critically important: it's a great way to solve specific hard problems that aren't the ones most people are focu…

Your property rights are secured by the government you live under. The government you live in doesn't exist without the consent of the governed (unless you live in one of the many autocracies/despotisms/theocracies/etc. in the world). "Allowing" is the correct word.

Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by jumpman500 »

greymeister wrote: post #111
jumpman500 wrote: post #77

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> It's very natural, and very logical. Being natural and logical doesn't make it moral or ethical. I think you're only kidding yourself if you believe that people deserve that much money and power. > How about folks who centralize powers like politicians in high level functions, who have not even been elected but appointed? How do you feel about that? They also can have massive influence on the world's affairs, even…

I guess they should feel lucky you don't get to decide how much money they are allowed to have.

I wouldn't want to personally decide or have a government which decides limits on wealth. I just hope one day American culture will be driven more by compassion, kindness and duty to common a good, rather than endless accumulation of material goods. At some point maybe cultural shame could embarrass the super rich to become more philanthropic. But that is quite wishful thinking.

Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by bfuller »

derefr wrote: post #34
whataretensors wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame the SEC for this one. Their accredited investor regulation gave the future to the rich. Seed round, series A, B, C, etc should be a vehicle for class mobility. Instead it's a way for the rich and powerful to accumulate more wealth. With YC and other incubators acting as a filter for where investors should put money, it matters more which zipcode you were born into than your overall intelligence and creativity.…

Investor accreditation makes sense (for now.) Giving poor people free access to untested-investment-vehicle-X is basically the same as giving them over-the-counter access to scheduled drugs. Mistakes will be made, and the people making them—lacking resources as they do—won't be able to recover from them. Right now, we're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to get people out of these ruts. (Free housing s…

Not everyone is against drug legalization

Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by dnautics »

foxylad wrote: post #114
JoshTriplett wrote: post #106

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> There is limited rational or ethical reason for one human being to accumulate so much centralized wealth First: yes, there are ethical reasons to accumulate so many resources : because some problems are incredibly hard to solve and need a lot of resources to even start to solve. Second, it is not on the people who have earned something to prove why they should be "permitted" to keep it; it's on the people who belie…

> yes, there are ethical reasons to accumulate so many resources: because some problems are incredibly hard to solve and need a lot of resources to even start to solve. Allowing people to become billionaires is a hideously inefficient way to solve hard problems. Most billionaires hoard their wealth, or spend it on the hard problem of ostentatious display of wealth. Billionaires who solve hard problems: Bill Gates and…

> If even a fraction of that money funded university research departments, say, we'd get far more problems solved.

No, you'd get more grantsmanship. It's an indicator of how hideously inefficient and misguided our university research programmes are that the word even exists.

Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux

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Post by dnautics »

jrs95 wrote: post #39
derefr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Investor accreditation makes sense (for now.) Giving poor people free access to untested-investment-vehicle-X is basically the same as giving them over-the-counter access to scheduled drugs. Mistakes will be made, and the people making them—lacking resources as they do—won't be able to recover from them. Right now, we're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to get people out of these ruts. (Free housing s…

It's not about poor people. A huge number of middle class people aren't accredited investors. But they could easily put a small sum into a high risk investment and potentially benefit greatly from it. Bitcoin is a decent example of this. There aren't any accredited investors regulations, and I highly doubt there's hardly anyone who bought so much of it that they'd go bankrupt if it became worth $0

They won't go bankrupt because they aren't purchasing it using leverage.
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