aminorex

I see, so the banks are the new judiciary?

The usual financial system is far more efficient at converting your wealth for the use of the oligarchs. USD for example has lost almost 100% of its value since the institution of the Federal Reserve system. The wealth did not go away. It was merely transferred from the populace to the rentiers.

You are doing it wrong. Sell the rips and buy the dips.

Use of the legal system is restricted to corporations and HNW individuals (who typically have multiple corporations, so....)

You don't understand how the law works. You are a criminal. In the u.s., for example, that shining city on a hill, it is estimated that a typical adult commits three felonies on an average day.

Double spends are overwhelmingly a theoretical issue. Credit card fraud, on the other hand, is pandemic.

Then he is going to get rekt. As the DAO debacle demonstrated, the attack surface is utterly baroque, and governance is for shite. Buterin literally said "Turing completeness is a red herring". Smartest thing I ever heard him say.

If they lead them into an indexing bubble, they do them no service.

I seem to have struck a nerve. You know it is true. The white house press corps, the science coverage, etc. Most reporters are undeserving of the association with journalism on the level of an, e.g. greenwald. They act as propaganda channels for "authorities".

I'll go one step further:

"Journalists" are not journalists, and being unable to form an opinion of their own, they are often willing to regurgitate anything their sources tell them without fail.

Honesty matters in money. Without it, you pay frictions for graft. Liquidity vehicles abhor frictions.

Zcash has been crashing for a long while, and stealing 20% of the economy outright is a large part of the reason. Yes, it motivates the miscreants, but that does not imply success.

Long cryptocurrency, precious metals, and South American farm land. Short sovereign bonds + long TIPS. Short financials (especially southern European), REITs, highly levered retail, luxury goods, auto makers.

Most especially, assiduously avoid everyone who sells debt to buyback shares. Long value and utility + short leverage and hype.

No way this thing lasts that long. The generational demographic bottom hits in 2024. We're already so levered that a sneezing tardigrade might throw planets into collision.

A whole lot of debt (more than was issued in all of human history before 2008) must destroyed, very very soon. The longer it is delayed, the worse the disruption will be. Already, we are set for the largest wealth transfer in history, when the Boomer's checks start bouncing in earnest.

It is not a retelling, so the plot doesn't help to refresh. It is an attempt to capture the vision and feel of the action scenarios and art work. In that it was brilliant. I will see it again.

The film was a masterful rendition of Shirow's vision. I have never seen anime brought to live action with such fullness. Batou and the Major look feel and act like the anime characters. The tech is precisely on point. Brilliant work.

That they did not wallow in obsolete philosophical tropes saved the film from bathetic anachronism.

Lots of claims to correct the historical record, notably lacking in evidence.

There must be a word distributed analogously to "charlatan" which describes your role here, but it escapes me at the moment.

This suggests a lucrative area of legal practice: suing for negligently failing to automate.

Buy and hold as much monero as I possibly can for as long as possible. So far it is up 240x. I anticipate another 240x to come. That is x as in *, not %.

Why hold? Because it is going to go up and down a lot, but you don't know when. You have to be holding it when it goes up.

Why up? Because it is the only legitimate digital cash on the planet:

1. Fungible (due to transactional privacy).

2. Non-inflationary but sustainable (due to tail emission comparable to gold supply expansion rates).

3. Scalable (due to adaptive block sizes).

(A) There is no freedom without privacy. (B) Everyone wants to be free. When they figure out (A), we all win.

Why legitimate?

1. Legitimate open source peer-reviewed, mature and trustlessly cryptography.

2. Legitimate altruistic community-driven meritocratic development and project management.

3. No IPO, no pre-mine, no centralization, no corporate control, in short: No rip-off.

I consider XMR to be the most important enabler of human dignity and liberty in the history of technology.

It is crazy slow and uses absurd amounts of memory, as well as being simultaneously an object lesson in both over-engineering, and under-engineering. Built by academics, so it's not unexpected.

Nice example of the application of recent NLP thesis topics to parsing problems, though. Quite suitable as documentation and reference for, e.g. future work on SpaCy - which is much more usable in productive contexts.

This software kinda sucks. I guess you get what you pay for, sometimes.

Long term capital gains tax is 15% in the u.s.

Fisher's equation describes the value of any currency - even gold - PQ=MV.

Only if it has dropped below its discounted present fundamental value (PQ=MV).

"Actual computer hacking" in the sense that someone exposed the truth hidden on DNC servers and Podesta''s IMAP server?

Or "actual computer hacking" in the sense that someone downloaded Trump''s tax returns from the IRS servers and passed them to the NYT?

Centralizing power insures that all are dominated by the most brutal. When power is decentralized, abuses are quarantined.

...because we like monero, consider the technology more appropriate and mature for the task, and wish to use it. Currency abhors liquidity barriers, slippage, etc. Since Monero is the most liquid crypto that provides acceptable privacy and hence fungibility, it is a win-win situation if it is universally adopted.

Also the corrupt terms of the zcash social contract make it abhorrent to many of us, who believe in open source, peer-review, and decentralization of authority, as well as casting deep suspicion on the motivations of the beneficiaries of zcash's corporate structure, and the acts which self-interest will therefore dictate.

..and that the framework was proven correct.

20% of the mining goes to the controlling corporation. This is not decentralization; it's a blatant grab at your wallet.

Yes, but it was invented by a Catholic priest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître

Edit: Ooooh. Did that strike a sensitive nerve? Relevant facts are unwelcome?