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Yeah, especially when a very common scenario is fund manager predicts the same thing every day for twenty years, is right once per market cycle, attracts attention and profits when his broken clock is correct, and is largely ignored the rest of the time.

Is the distribution of the money supply similar to the distribution of all types of wealth?

Yeah, with this show, I think that we are able to even debate whether that's true or whether such and such character or company depicted is based on a particular real one is part of the point.

Maybe, what would such a law look like?

Maybe there were less stabbings, poisonings, murders without a weapon, etc?

Unfortunately, every one of the cities here had significantly more than just one one or two murders.

At a glance at the linked source data, it looks like Seattle came in with the lowest values on this list, at 47 murders for 2020 vs 27 in 2019.

One thing of note is that some of the values appear to be for not quite the entirety of 2020.

The first sentence of the story's second paragraph includes a link to a Twitter post [1] from the person who compiled the data, which contains a second link [2] to the Google Doc that he created.

1 - https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1343950694672379905

2 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z9b5mIwztAwmEHJW7Q5D...

Got it, thanks for the reply. Are you familiar at all with Cardano / IOHK's IELE?

I get the impression from their documentation (https://developers.cardano.org/en/virtual-machines/iele/abou...) that it's intended to address that, but I'm no expert in this area.

I actually hadn't considered this issue at all until you mentioned it, but was aware that one of Cardano's selling points is a focus on verifiability (e.g. via their Haskell-based Plutus language for smart contracts), and came across this IELE after a quick search through their materials.

Gotcha, that's frustrating. I was mostly just asking to try and brainstorm, thinking that we might be able to come up with a way for you to access it if we knew anything about how it worked and/or other parties are able to access it.

Probably, but then what? The person I'm replying to stated that they "have no way of tapping into it and storing it", and I don't think that changes suddenly if there's a court order.

How do police or insurance access it?

You can set the rate of the tax to account for the time value of money, charging less up front than you would for the sum total of the subscription over the life of the device.

You could argue that increasing the up front cost is a regressive tax, but you should be able to more than make up for that by not needing to pay fleets of trucks to drive around all day looking to find TV tax scofflaws.

What would a “production ready” system for blockchain projects and smart contracts look like to you?

I'm guessing this person is thinking about the risk that their cloud-provider(s) could shut them down due to political pressure, etc.

This would have tons of negative consequences even if you believe that we'd be better off with debt and loans generally, e.g. essentially acting as a huge windfall (i.e. a free house) toward people who currently have mortgages while doing nothing for renters.

Yes, that would be nice. What policy would you suggest to get there?

Because the “something” is often people’s livelihoods and reverting policy doesn’t always undo the damage it causes.

That’s all well and good, but if the payments don’t actually go to everyone, they aren’t “Universal”.

> With Python & golang getting more traction.

Does pip not have the same issues?

It doesn't need any of that to be nearly entirely effective. The vast majority of people traveling into the country are not going to attempt to falsify documents.

Private entities can and do engage in censorship.

I would think so, yes - the contents of their site.

True, but that's a lot more resource intensive.

The short name for the emoji is "pistol".

Apple deliberately and unilaterally made the decision to represent this as a water pistol, despite this being clearly not representative of a typical pistol.

It's expected for individual entities implementing the Unicode emoji specification to exercise some amount of artistic merit, but if they're not at least in good faith attempting to represent the same type of object that the specification calls for, they are saying that they do not care about the decision that the Unicode Consortium made to allow emoji to be used to represent objects of that type, and that they should be the ones with the power to choose what can and cannot be said with emoji.

There is still value in being able to securely communicate in the present even if you are not able to maintain a permanently searchable log of all activity.

Your preference is likely not similar to that of their typical users. At this point, I'd expect many people receiving text only e-mail from a corporate mailing list or something like that to consider it broken and/or suspicious.

There have similar issues with Merrill Lynch recently.

I think the idea is that they might be more likely to reverse the discussion in response to a forum discussion than to being served legal papers.

That he'd prefer to pay less doesn't mean he couldn't afford to pay more.

I'm mostly guessing at this because I'm not very familiar with Lightning Network, but I think they'd need to be closed out periodically as well in order to settle up? Plus, I think you'd ideally want an account with each vendor that you deal with, not just one account, otherwise I think the channel would probably need to be managed by some central authority who manages the accounting between you and whoever you're keeping these side accounts with, which seems not great for a number of reasons....and then on top of that there's that 350 million is just one country, let alone the entire planet.

That's true, how does it relate to what I was saying?