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jacksproit··on Say Hello to Full Employment
Are the busts worse by % or just by $ amount?
jacksproit··on Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend
For a lot of people it’ll be their first time being exposed to a concept.
jacksproit··on De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
References https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo... https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bulls...
jacksproit··on 'The Expanse' Canceled at Syfy
The Orville is like watching more episodes of TNG in all the best ways. I can’t recommend it enough.
jacksproit··on 'The Expanse' Canceled at Syfy
“The Orville” and “Star Trek Discovery” are both amazing sci-fi shows, although they might not be as “hard” as you’d prefer.
jacksproit··on Coinbase Ventures
What does your buddy do with it?
jacksproit··on Senate Bill Would Make Credit Freezes Free
Seems to me like it would be better to require an opt in from the person having their data harvested so that bad actors could more easily be punished by the market, and to incentivize passing value from the data collection to the person on whom it is being collected.
jacksproit··on Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
All that to show an affiliate link to a blanket company at the end?
jacksproit··on Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
I remember in the windows xp days there was an app you could run that would show an alert any time a program tried to hook into your keyboard input or display. I wonder why nothing like that exists any more.
jacksproit··on After Bitcoin Futures, Watch Out for Crypto Repos
Is it legal for them to offer those services?
jacksproit··on Netflix is now worth more than $100B
I think that it’s important to keep in mind that posts consisting of feelings like these can be described as memetic. Posting opinions like this can be a way for nations to try and influence the independent actors that make up other nations. Economic or political attacks can occur with fake news type meme opinion spreading.
jacksproit··on What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018
That’s extremely cynical.
jacksproit··on India Says Bitcoin as Risky as Ponzi Schemes
It’s also amusing to see this straw man argument and rebuttal get posted in almost every single discussion about cryptocurrencies.
jacksproit··on Call options used to bet that Bitcoin will go over $50K next year
WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal
jacksproit··on Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
*Or they.
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