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didi987 | 5 years ago | on: Tolerance is not a moral precept

Its basic strategy. LGBT groups wanted tolerance in the 1970s, but now sue you out of business if you don't make a "transition-party cake". Same could be said for Muslims in Europe: they want tolerance now because their numbers are small, but when they get the majority, they might want to change a few things. https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-03-22/col...

didi987 | 5 years ago | on: New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets

Mr. Ulbricht has been in prison for 8 years now, a lot has changed since the Silk Road

didi987 | 5 years ago | on: New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets

If anyone wants to update their mental-models, this is highly interesting: BTC019: Bitcoin's Layer 2 Lightning Network w/ Ryan Gentry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr3NC9oqp4&list=PL_xlkwLDH1...

didi987 | 5 years ago | on: Why don't companies pay 50x engineers 50x?

When Microsoft got into compilers, they were giving $1m signing bonuses. [1] There's also the concept of acqui-hire. On the other side there is price-fixing [2]

1. Mr. Gross quit in September but didn't join Microsoft until after a three-month sabbatical to plan his wedding, Borland said. According to the suit, Microsoft also offered Mr. Hejlsberg a $1.5 million signing bonus, a base salary of $150,000 to $200,000 and options for 75,000 shares of Microsoft stock

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

didi987 | 5 years ago | on: John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT

Dan Held on a podcast made the point that NFTs, like ICOs, will scale to suck up all of the available [foolish] money and then collapse.