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- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 1 week ago:
Yeah, it needs a lot more thought put into it because with wildly fluctuating equity prices you run into scenarios where a run up on a security triggers you to have to sell a bunch and give it to the government but then if that security returns right back to the price it was the week before you’re just shit out of luck. Because of that it means people will go to great lengths to find ways to circumvent this because it’s not fair.
I’m not saying it’s a bad idea what I’m saying is that it needs refined and thought through a lot more
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
Like I said, the quote was related to my first paragraph asking the question about personal net worth.
I didn’t then quote the company part as I thought the flow continued logically. It seems I was wrong.
I’m aware of the cap he said, and that’s what I was asking an opinion on.
Thank you for contributing yours.
should probably be weighed against public interest and publicly-funded and managed, if they’re beneficial.
So large skyscrapers, large nuclear plants, datacenters, etc would be state owned.
If we did that, I’d argue to make the limit even smaller. It would encourage companies to stay small and that would help prevent monopolies perhaps.
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
I was referring to the company net worth that was mentioned.
The quote was related to my question.
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 2 weeks ago:
cap personal netwoths at 10-20 million dollars
how would this work in your utopia? if the value of my investments goes over that, I have to sell them to give cash to the govt?
Seems difficult to raise capital that way. Would you put more large cap projects in the hands of a government? Things like power plants, large buildings, etc? No one could own or finance them since they are worth a lot.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 2 weeks ago:
Nah never do that. The curve brings trig complexity into the equation. Bananas are used to measure curvy things. Like wheels, roads, and boobs.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 2 weeks ago:
It’s 800k ford explorers
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
An independent contractor IS employed. They’re employed by themselves. Self-employed. So if you’re doing work for them, you are employed as an independent contractor doing work for them.
I think it’s pretty clear what they mean. Could have just said “you’ll be paid as a contractor and receive a 1099 (if USA) or 1042-A (non USA)” tho
- Comment on How Google’s DeepMind tool is ‘more quickly’ forecasting hurricane behavior 4 weeks ago:
Yet this post is about how it does work that way. There have always been pump and dumps.
Perhaps marketing and communications has advanced so much that everyone hears about everything and viral pump and dump stuff is far easier to spread.
- Comment on How Google’s DeepMind tool is ‘more quickly’ forecasting hurricane behavior 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s how capitalism works. Innovation driven by greed ultimately advances everyone.
- Comment on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says 1 month ago:
Crypto currencies are a good example.
Meanwhile I live in decentralized finance world where I see it absolutely changing the finance world.
- Comment on A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke 2 months ago:
Pretty sure this guy was in charge. Feels like simple incompetence and bad luck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Compassions for humans isn’t a right/left thing. It’s a good/bad human thing. Of course you should be compassionate and kind and forgiving.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 3 months ago:
Ah yes. “This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth”. Simple eh?
- Comment on It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug 4 months ago:
That’s a very binary mechanism with little excuse for pulling. And there are typically cameras nowadays. No cameras in the bathroom.
- Comment on It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug 4 months ago:
Schools around the country will disable the keyword functionality very soon. It’s useless in such an environment. Kids can and will say “help 911” every time they leave the bathroom simply “for the lulz”. And there’s no video so they can’t be caught doing it unless you station someone right outside to catch them, rendering the feature useless. Malicious actors are the most difficult design requirement for any system.
- Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk? 4 months ago:
Good greaf
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 4 months ago:
not tied to oil in any way
Like a company that doesn’t use plastic at all in any way?
- Comment on Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop 5 months ago:
managing money is painful
If only there were an internet programmable money layer….
Really, this is a simple program that could be written on any number of decentralized financial networks. No custodian of the money is required.
It’s a shame everyone rolls their eyes when you mention a programmable money solution tho. Crypto bros really fucked themselves there with all the grifting
- Comment on Microsoft Soars as AI Cloud Boom Drives $595 Price Target 5 months ago:
I’m a lover of all things money management, and I firmly believe that everybody can put together a small savings plan.
- Comment on Microsoft Soars as AI Cloud Boom Drives $595 Price Target 5 months ago:
If only there were a way to join the shareholders and get a share of the profits!
- Comment on Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube 5 months ago:
I don’t agree both sides do it to nearly the same degree
gestures at everything
Mhhmm yeah. If you don’t see both sides being equally ridiculous, there’s a good chance you’re blinded by bias for one of those teams.
Yeah, hot take for Lemmy. But absolutely true.
- Comment on Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube 5 months ago:
Indeed! You just described US politics also. Both sides!
- Comment on Fascists in power? WW3 escalating? Your workplace becoming more dystopic by the day? Join Tech Workers Coalition 101 and help us change that 5 months ago:
There’s no information, it’s fud, bitly links. That’s why I did.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 7 months ago:
It’s no different. A new version of the consensus code needs written and deployed.
That page you linked is the same on all chains. All have a proposal, discussion, implementation, waiting period (for code to be deployed), and activation. That’s just blockchain 101
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 7 months ago:
Texas would still require all nodes to upgrade to the code which contains the new algorithm. It can’t just automatically know what the new code is.
Its behavior is no different from other chains.
Bitcoin uses version bits to perform these types of upgrades (see bio 9 implemented in 2016)
Ethereum uses something similar. Solana’s activation mechanism is called “feature gate activation”.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 7 months ago:
It’s the same with all the chains. An algorithm change is a hard fork. If you don’t implement it, your validating node will not continue with the rest.
Bitcoin has the BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) process. BIP-52 is an example of a proposal to change the algorithm due to energy concerns.
If the humans reach consensus it will change. However, I maintain that software can’t be programmed to adjust for social concerns - the humans have to change it.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 7 months ago:
lol it can’t adjust on public approval. It’s software that runs. It’s valuable. If it wasn’t, people wouldn’t run it.
It can hard fork with a consensus mechanism change anytime someone writes one and people decide it’s the best path forward. Ethereum decided this and did this.
That’s not happening with Bitcoin because those that understand how it works agree it’s the best system to use.
I use Bitcoin as a store of value, and Solana for day to day stuff and financial investments like lending and liq providing. That’s my preference, for now. It’s a very fluid industry, nothing is set in stone, although Bitcoin appears to be pretty solidly the preferred secure store of value.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 7 months ago:
It’s a good example that illustrate why automated systems shouldn’t be left running unsupervised, even if it’s designed by the best minds with the best of intentions.
The network is constantly supervised and mining is a competitive business. The network was built to adjust, and is working precisely as intended.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 11 months ago:
I was disputing the implication that this type of dumb tv only matters to Lemmy users. I felt as if that was an implication you were making in your first message. You left that out of your summary here.
Agree that the majority of people don’t want to pay for a dumb tv, and in fact I’d think that the majority of people would not even like a dumb tv. A tv with built in apps to access services is far more desired by the vast majority.
