aristocles's comments

aristocles | 7 years ago | on: Airbnb's new typeface

This font is the definition of frivolous corporate idiocy.

aristocles | 7 years ago | on: Coinbase releases professional trading platform for institutional clients

Wash trading makes valuating the market on volume alone harder to do and therefore increases novel activity in the market, making old algo's obsolete and decreasing risk temporarily until the wash trading strategy is identified and made unprofitable.

Wash trading did nothing wrong.

aristocles | 7 years ago | on: Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf]

Augur is my favorite shitcoin for this very reason.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: The rise of the pointless job

UBI will lead to societal degeneration. Prices of essential services and goods would skyrocket; people would lose direction and the small amount of meaning they had.

I call UBI gay-space-communism because it suggests that all human beings are capable of handling themselves outside of employment and daily routine. They are not. The market creates this drive in people, and if you remove it, people will degenerate fast.

Opioids, UBI, and free-love for everyone. Yikes.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: Encoding data into dubstep drops

Very cool. I suspect there is something unique going on with dubstep "drops" and dopamine release. There is a reason it engages peoples basest systems.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

This is propaganda from intelligence agencies. The "RUSSIAN TROLLING" is an organic movement of right-wring nationalism that is building in America.

Russians may have tried to stoke the flames of the divide in America, but its real, and its here.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook

You are only partially correct.

Social networks were extrapolated from friend data. Cambridge analytica was able to use social connections to profile people and who they know.

That was the extent of it.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook

This is propaganda put out by intelligence agencies.

So what happened here? Facebook users who took a 'personality quiz' allowed the 'app' to access their information.

It is extremely depressing that 87 million people are idiots.

There are intrusive apps all over facebook and this is being released with a narrative that supports 'election interference'.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: Amazon HQ2 Winner May Be Boston, Says Wells Fargo AI Program

Wells Fargo has no credibility whatsoever. Wasn't there a court ordering that they "couldnt grow anymore"?

Hard to take these financial companies serious these days.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble

Oh great government can issue us currency we cant see and track everything we do.

aristocles | 8 years ago | on: Nationalize the internet

I registered just to say this is literally the worst idea I've ever seen.