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p0pcult··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
Who is the other party in staked crypto?
p0pcult··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
It sounds like Coinbase did hire lawyers, and it sounds like SEC is getting heavily questioned in court--by the judge!--about hiw the SEC can enforce without disclosing why or what.

https://twitter.com/BillHughesDC/status/1636069735006699523

p0pcult··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
Is my house a security?
p0pcult··on SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud
>selling $5 pancakes that each cost you $10 to make.

So the Silicon Valley business model?

p0pcult··on SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

Will wikipedia work?

p0pcult··on Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years
>Businesses are not welfare programs, they are profit oriented.

So, we change that by requiring corporations that want to continue indemnifying their owners from damanges become workfare programs and less profit oriented. The current regime sure aint working, and I think it is fair to expect businesses that benefit from public infrastructure have some skin in the societal game as well.

p0pcult··on Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector
Right, thereby increasing the purchasing power of those who need it most, aka, inflation relief.

I dont like the recent inflation, but as someone one the upper end of the income distribution (likely true of many HN readers), my life isn't fucked up by it. Merely my discretionary income.

p0pcult··on Cesium-137 missing and found in junk yard in Thailand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
p0pcult··on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’
I don't disagree with the existential threat proposed by climate change. I just think that you're being a condescending jerk, which will ultimately only impede progress toward your goals.

You're not going to convince people of your cause by calling them ignorant. Jesus.

p0pcult··on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’
Geoengineering, lets gooooooooooo!
p0pcult··on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’
>Oh my Sweet Summer Child

Yeah, this person offers nothing but condescension. Immediate downvote.

p0pcult··on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’
Aggregates (global temp average over a year) are generally more predictable than the underlying datapoints (daily local weather).

Source: am data scientist.

p0pcult··on Who is still inside the metaverse?
Both of my kids play Fortnite, as do I on occasion. During COVID, they had concerts (Marshmallow), movie nights, and BLM-adjancent lectures. Anyone who had an account could fire up their rig, jack in, and attend--even with friends.

This is one of the many metaverses. Minecraft is a pretty readily available one too. Neither required VR gear, either.

p0pcult··on People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity
ITT: the libertarians of HN, having just gottent their bailouts, pivot back to their boostraps narratives and objectivism.
p0pcult··on Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza
I was mocking Chicago style deep dish "pizza". My favorite American style is New Haven style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven-style_pizza

p0pcult··on Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza
Right, but it's not pizza.
p0pcult··on Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza
You can take your lasagna and have it.
p0pcult··on Rupert Murdoch Lies at the Heart of Democracy's Destruction Worldwide
Oh god we're all f*cked
p0pcult··on ChatGPT is laying you off
Laying you off both literally (the communique) and metaphorically (by doing your job at 60% quality for 1% of the cost).
p0pcult··on 'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
No, the SV model would be to treat you for free until you have some chronic condition that locks you in, at which point, they pull the "free" rug, and take you for every spare penny (and sometimes more).
p0pcult··on Studies Link Marijuana Legalization to Positive Public Health Outcomes
Is it though?
p0pcult··on Studies Link Marijuana Legalization to Positive Public Health Outcomes
Yep, youre right. I've edited my post to reflect that. Apologies.
p0pcult··on Studies Link Marijuana Legalization to Positive Public Health Outcomes
>legalization creates in general more accessible weed, and so more teens could get it?

When I was an NYC middle school teacher, one of my students offered to get me all of the weed I wanted, if I could get him some beer for his party.

The illegal, unregulated weed was obviously far more available to him than the legal, regulated alchohol.

That argument doesn't hold.

p0pcult··on Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
If the tech industry makes frictionless hypercalitalism possible, then isnt the problem both capatialism (as posited by you and parent poster) and tech.

The grocery industry absolutely lives and dies on capitalism, for example, but it isn't destroying teenage mental health.

p0pcult··on Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
>first war that is truly good versus evil without nuance

Jewish people would like to have a word with you. My grandfathers would too.

p0pcult··on Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
>It's not a utopia. It's a dystopa. And the people driving it

...keep shoveling more of it down our throats with no end in sight.

This is how we get to the world of Neuromancer

p0pcult··on Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
And we ruined the internet with advertising.
p0pcult··on Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into making unwanted charges
Cogs can't push back; experts can, and should.
p0pcult··on US court rules Uber and Lyft workers are contractors
There is a difference between an employee of a company breaking the law, and the company itself breaking the law.
p0pcult··on SVB insider says employees are angry with CEO
Especially if you don't have a risk management team.
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