Edmond

The internet is going to be a fundamental part of human life I would argue indefinitely. The need for robust information verification is not something we're going to be able to do without.

The question is, would solutions end up being effective ones or ones that "work" but create all sorts of other problems? The worse outcome in my view would be that we all end up being required to use big tech companies as gate keepers for our digital lives.

Now for my pitch :). Cryptographic certificates are a solution option that CAN bridge this gap.

App: https://certisfy.com/

Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

Technical Doc: https://cipheredtrust.com/doc/#pki-overview

While we like to think of the law and its application as a dispassionate process that only looks at the facts, the sense that someone has been harmed plays a big role in the process and jury decisions.

This development weakens any arguments around harm to others, it could also strengthen arguments in favor of incompetence as opposed to malfeasance when it comes to explaining what actually happened to investor money.

It uses file system mechanics to model objects, meaning you can design object based solutions that support file system style navigation.

Demo: https://youtu.be/XgTgubZQPHw

ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnD6I9w84c

I am the developer, happy to answer questions.

I am not sure any of this is specifically Suburban, there is no reason this same scenarios couldn't play out in a city neighborhood. It just so happens that in America, the suburbs have been sold as the idyllic place to aspire towards, so that's where you find kids and teens, couples move there.

Also the picture you're painting is not what passes for suburbs today. Most people can't afford to live in the kind of places where you can BBQ with your neighbor and walk to an ice-cream shop with a teenager at the counter. You might maybe find them at some soulless strip mall working at a similarly soulless ice-cream chain, but I am guessing that's not what you mean?

There are true suburbs but they are for rich people. Think places like Bethesda Maryland, Old-Town Alexandria VA, Morristown NJ...these are actual suburbs that have excellent mix of what an idyllic suburb should look like, but they are also mostly for the affluent.

What passes for suburbs in today's America, are patches of land with houses on them, basically just real estate development and not much else. Usually there would be some strip mall that is called "Town Center" that is shared between these developments. If your town center has a sign that reads "Town Center", it means you don't live in a town.

PKI certificate based online information verification

Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

I am working on bootstrapping the trust chain (kinda "web of trust"), if you run an org (company,team,meetup,github repo...etc) email me if you're interested in a cert.

I am currently working on one such solution:

https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

https://certisfy.com/

It works, it scales and solves the problem comprehensively.

Happy to answer any questions.

I am attempting to bootstrap the trust chain system. If you run a forum,a github hosted project, run a meetup or in general run some sort of organization, I would consider issuing you a "trust anchor" certificate, ie the ability to issue trustworthy certificates, including with potential delegation authority (ie you issue others trust anchor certificates).

Submit requests here: https://certisfy.com/partnership/onboarding/request/

Saying that the fed should stretch out the timeline of asset sales so as to ensure they mature into their valuations doesn't align with how things work. Time value of money is a thing, if we consider even moderate inflation for instance, the cash you can get today is worth less in the future. In order words if SVB assets are worth $100 today, it makes no sense for me to hand them $100 in cash today while I wait a decade for their bonds to mature, just so I can sell them for $100 again.

That is before we get to the fact that the fed is not in the business of managing investments for random failed businesses.

If some knight in shinning armor takes a look at SVB assets and deem them worth some future value that would justify the current need for cash, they'll buy the bank. So far it appears no such knight has emerged.

The reason SVB is in receivership is because they don't actually have the ability to make all their depositors whole. Any scenario where uninsured depositors end up with all their money back is likely to be a bailout.

Whether you have assets that *you* believe you could draw on in the future doesn't matter when your need is immediate.

If you need money but your current assets in whatever form can't furnish that fund for you, I am afraid you're broke.

Well...ChatGPT has been struggling. It generally struggles with anything subtle, no matter how simple. If it can't regurgitate based on what's slurped up from the internet it struggles.

Do note, my question is simply meant to assume i am using a-w as my digits and "word" is a number formed via a positional number system. It is something a human with requisite knowledge will veer towards, ChatGPT doesn't.

To your point, it is indeed an awe-inspiring tech for the thing it is good at, ie replacing the current crop of search engines.

Sam is only 30 so obviously doesn't appreciate just how retro this is... Enron & Crypto...as I live and breathe.

This is really what should be required as the boldface disclaimer on every investment product.

"10-15 % guaranteed return" has another name...fraud....even in the case of old-school imperial plunder, there is always the risk your target might fight back.

Usually a competitor would disguise themselves but in any case, you're a publicly accessible service, if you're doing something right you should assume competitors are going to take a peek.

Maybe you too should take a look at what they are doing, but otherwise keep "keeping on".

Almost all people you see on the streets end up there after burning all bridges in their personal lives because of their illness. You may not be aware of this but there are in fact a lot of options in existence for housing such people, it doesn't work because they are ill and without treatment (forceful), it is hopeless trying to help them.

From your quote around "public", I presume you think there is some sense in which they're not really public? They are and should ALWAYS be considered PUBLIC. If you find yourself ever crafting a security solution where public keys somehow need to be private or secret, go back to the drawing board or reach out to someone with serious expertise.

There are cases where information on a certificate (which is associated with a public key)may indeed need to be protected, in that case you need to implement an information mask (via hashing) that can protect the private information, we had to do something similar with Certisfy.com certificates. But public keys should be considered public without exceptions.

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/6165/92-1...

In a different life I toyed with it a bit: http://pugoob.blogspot.com/2008/01/pugoob-image-search-tool....

Along those same lines, the internet can in fact have scalable information verification (age,height,income,sex...etc) with robust privacy: https://certisfy.com

In other words, cryptographic certificates can solve this problem.

I fumbled and bumbled my way to this realization while trying to build a billing system intended to tolerate all sorts of invoicing and reversal scenarios.

More precisely, it doesn't matter what the nature of the billing is, ie recurring (monthly, quarterly..etc) vs one-time; You want to build a system around invoicing for discrete items and resolving those invoices against various criteria (payment received, credits issued, cancelled plans...etc).

Dividends and capital gains in general have an inverse relationship, ie dividend paying stocks typically are low growing and as such don't tend to experience much price increase (ie capital gains). You own such shares so you can get the consistent dividend (share of profits) as your return...There may be exceptions but in general this relationship holds.

In a non-bubble market, the capital gains are a reflection of company's growth and expected future profits, thus the stock price is based on present-value-of-future-cashflows model (ideally of course, the reality is often messy).

In other words dividends and capital gains are not inherently in conflict, they merely reflect life-cycles of companies. Of course there are a ton of unprofitable companies on the market currently with high stock prices, there is a larger debate to be had on why that is and how to curtail it.

The market does serve a real purpose, ie deploying capital and providing liquidity.

I happen to be cautiously optimistic about the company, but that is over a longer time-frame. The stock has more than doubled in a couple of weeks and seems to open consistently higher over the past few days. I don't think that is related to any real immediate business prospects. The Facebook settlement, Amazon deal and Huawei patent sales are all good news but hardly warranting the current frenzy.