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This is cool. Feels like Codex already offers this in their desktop app.

have you tired adding to your agents file: "Prefer solutions that reduce lines of code over adding lines of code"?

This should show in up in higher margins for the company.

Is your company a software firm or considered something outside of pure software?

The way I'm using it is I have AI generate the tool (python script) and then it will use it for the task and for future tasks. As time goes on, the AI has more tools to call on which makes it (and me) more productive (higher quality work in less time)

Always read from experienced developers praising lisps, but why is it so rare in production applications?

Author doesn't see RH profiting by selling customer information they acquire.

I had a business partner/family member steal money from me in our business. It very much hurt and was a painful experience hoping for vengence. Perhaps SBF being distant from you is what makes you indifferent.

How about stopping governments and banks from censoring, stopping and freezing money of their citizens/customers? Seems like one good use case.

I guess you could say you don't need Amazon, the problem of getting goods is solved by physical stores. Yet, millions of people find value in ordering through Amazon instead.

There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases.

Why isn't AMD and Intel working on an alternative?

At what dosages?

Not available to users with personal Google Accounts.

Why not?

How would you evaluate your priors if he is prosecuted, convicted and then given a presidential pardon?

The first two points can be said about cryptography

Unfortunately IRC has failed to keep up with the U/X of centralized chat services like discord which is a shame because an open protocol chat seems needed for the internet.

Why does open protocol usually mean crippled U/X?

Is the source public?

He said the developers deployed tornado cash. How does he know they did? Maybe they only released the source code and another party deployed the code.

Endgame is decentralizing the internet and perhaps non-internet protocols. Even if the probability of a decentralized social network working is small, the upside in the case it does work is so large that it's worth the bet

ie: 100% downside vs 10,000%+ upside. If only 1 out of 100 such bets works out they break even. If 2 they have a profitable fund, 3+ they have knocked it out of the park.

I did the same exact thing. Worked great.

The "money" in the economy is actually mostly credit, and during a recession it contracts (usually from defaults) so the amount of "money" in the system is now less

Since the value of a stock is it's future cash flows discounted to the present and it's had it's current cash flows impacted, usually that makes forecasts revise those future earnings downward lowering the valuation of the company.

Other reasons are assets are sold to make up for lost income needed to pay for expenses, and stocks being liquid often get sold first.

Is this open source?

The numbers in the article seem wrong. The median family income in 1965 was ~$6,900 (https://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-049.pdf) and the median home price in 1965 was certainly less than $100k, probably more in the area of $25k.

This legislation will not raise more tax revenue like it proposes. It will stifle the US crypto industry and push it into friendlier jurisdictions. Ultimately it could end up reducing tax revenue compared to not touching the crypto industry.

Yes I call it a "privacy disaster" when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government. Or when Robinhood/Schwab/Vanguard/Etc send the IRS a list of all your stock transactions for the year in a form 1099.

Option A requires building out power transmission and storage.

Option B does not as the mining is always running and near the source.

How about instant BTC transaction using the https://lightning.network/

1) Low correlation to other markets. Any 60/40 portfolio that moved just 1% of it's allocation to Bitcoin would have produced a higher sharpe ratio (higher return, less volatility) over past 5 years.

2) Many crypto protocols are already capital assets that generate income streams. These income streams can be discounted to the present just like the income streams of companies. Examples: - Ethereum (ETH): It has multiple use cases such as collateral and gas for execution (think oil) both of which contribute to it's value as usage grows, but it's also a capital asset that can be staked and used to validate transactions to generate an income stream. This is not much different than real estate or farm land being used as a productive asset to generate returns. - MakerDAO: Protocol that generates a stablecoin (DAI) backed by debt based collateral (think mortgages against homes). The interest from minting DAI is repaid to unlock the collateral and burns (think stock buybacks) MKR. - Yearn.finance: Protocol that takes stablecoin (crypto pegged to USD) assets and generates returns across decentralized money markets. Returns have been averaging between 10%-35% APR depending on the pool and strategy.

Finally consider the current macro environment. Stocks generate a stream of future income based in USD and fiat currencies. In 2020, the central banks of the major currencies have not only increased currency supply by over 50% (FED balance sheet in march was 4.3T, today 7.2T) but worked with top level governments to hand out the new printed money directly to consumers which is now money that will be hard to pull back out of the economy and they did it while GDP and economic activity has been stifled.

So a larger amount of currency backed by a smaller amount of economic activity is a depreciating asset. If the return on equity of your profitable companies is smaller rate than the depreciation of the currency you have a negative real return.

In order to prevent this companies may start to transact in a currency that has a deterministic monetary policy and can not be changed by the whims of a select few bureaucrats. As the most stable and longest running crypto network, Bitcoin stands to be such an asset. See Micro strategy (MSTR) and Square (SQ) moving treasury reserves into Bitcoin.

The way you value Bitcoin is you estimate the amount of global GDP (140 Trillion) that will shift to transacting in it and then divide that by the velocity of money or how often it changes hands. This will tell you how large a marketcap it will have in order to support that level of economic activity.

So for example if 1% of global GDP is transacted in Bitcoin and it's velocity becomes something like USD (1.5x) or the Euro, let call it a velocity of 2 then: 140 * 1% / 2 = $700 Billion marketcap.

You could say the same about Ethereum's ETH. It's a capital asset that when staked to validate blocks generates an expected return. You can discount those expected returns to the present like you would with any business.

Investing in profitable companies by itself does not generate above average returns. Only 1 of the original companies of the Dow Jones is still in it today, G.E. and it's performance as investment has been below average the past 20 years.

How is this question not a violation of the IRS bill of rights #7, the right to privacy?: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/taxpayer-bill-of-rights-7-the-r...

It was named after a vegetable and vegetables meme well in Ethereum because a subset of Etherians like to "yield farm" and identify as yield farmers.