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thisgoesnowhere commented on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo   tempo.xyz... · Posted by u/_nvs
davidlee1435 · 6 months ago
I think the most disruptive thing about stablecoins is the ability to opt-into your monetary system of choice.

It's hard for the average non-US person to opt-into the US financial system. Sure, they could hold dollars in banks, but local monetary policy can nix that privilege at anytime by imposing foreign exchange controls. It's happened before, in some of the largest economies in the world: China in 2015, India in 2013, Argentina in 2011.

The current way users solve this problem requires a lot of resources. That's why you usually only see rich people have Cayman accounts, Canadian real estate, and shell companies in Panama. Stablecoins on permissionless blockchains make this process 100x more accessible for the average person.

So yes, stablecoins currently let you circumvent regulation.

But regulation can be a prison where you can pay to be free.

So what happens when it costs nothing to get out of jail? What kind of strains do this place on economies that people escape, as well as the economies that people join?

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

thisgoesnowhere · 6 months ago
> But regulation can be a prison where you can pay to be free.

As opposed to no regulation where you can't? I don't understand this sentiment at all.

thisgoesnowhere commented on Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/sam_bristow
labcomputer · 2 years ago
Who is going to buy a house occupied with tenants and a negative $1k/month cash flow?

Only someone who would pay less than the same house without tenants, which might not be enough to cover the outstanding balance of the mortgage, which means a short sale, which means you need the lender to approve (which they won’t).

But sure, the GP is “crying”.

thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
I guess you are the former?

What incentive is there to own a negative income asset unless you are lying and you actually are net positive. Unless of course you are the latter and you are claiming that someone should bail you out?

"I'm completely underwater on this asset but if I sell I lose money" yeah that's how that works it's called an investment you can win or lose.

thisgoesnowhere commented on Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/sam_bristow
unstatusthequo · 2 years ago
As a “land pauper,” I disagree. I have renters in Seattle and lose $1k a month because HOA and property taxes. I get zero tax breaks on the loss. Nothing. I’d kick them out and sell, but apparently Seattle is still recovering from COVID. Who knows. It was a bad investment and I learned a lot. That education was expensive. Not all landlords do well.
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
Then sell?

I don't cry about the money I lost investing in startups I just keep investing. Why are you crying about the money you are losing like you are supposed to be absolutely guaranteed to make money?

The reason you aren't selling is because you are lying or you believe the government should bail you out of your bad decisions.

thisgoesnowhere commented on Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/sam_bristow
Sohcahtoa82 · 2 years ago
I played CS2 for about a month at release. It was pretty broken, but playable if you didn't mind the performance issues.

But the "high rent" problem drove me bonkers. You can specifically zone low-rent housing. But it didn't matter. They would live in houses and complain of high rent rather than move into the affordable denser housing across the street.

The real question, IMO, is why does all housing in CS2 seem to be rented?

thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
Same reason as in real life over time everyone will be a renter.

We subsidize landlords and as a result they have effectively unlimited capital to throw at additional properties meaning the price perpetually goes up and they have more assets to loan against to buy more properties.

Then we allow them to take a depreciation value off their taxes on a asset that is appreciating in value.

It's truly insane.

thisgoesnowhere commented on The Death of the Dining Room   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jseliger
trgn · 2 years ago
Weird, people eat out more than ever too.
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
Restaurants solve the problem of lack of time not absence of food.
thisgoesnowhere commented on The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)   slate.com/technology/2023... · Posted by u/nickwritesit
earnesti · 2 years ago
Whatever bro, I trust your self judgement. But statistically, I would bet that alcohol makes worse parents, worse listeners, worse friends. And quite often it makes outright terrible parents.
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
Most people drink most people aren't horrible parents. You are working at the extremes.

And yeah some extremes are bad.

thisgoesnowhere commented on Why YC went to DC   ycombinator.com/blog/why-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
n2d4 · 2 years ago
"Abolition of the state"? In the very article this thread is about he pushes for regulation against big tech, that does not sound like it could be achieved by abolition of the state
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
I wasn't referring to this article.
thisgoesnowhere commented on Why YC went to DC   ycombinator.com/blog/why-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
AlexandrB · 2 years ago
I remember people saying the same about blockchain and, a little later, "the metaverse". A prominent, large tech company even changed its name to show its commitment to this promising technology!
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
I mean there is absolutely no reason to think that AI (broadly) and blockchain are going to follow similar trajectories.

I agree that every company becoming an "AI company" is not in the cards. However, I think there is going to be a slow ramp where every startup just throws a few annoying problems at a LLM instead of hiring ML people.

And kinda like the internet it's just a tool that you use when appropriate, but the things where it's appropriate will continue to expand.

thisgoesnowhere commented on Why YC went to DC   ycombinator.com/blog/why-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
xyst · 2 years ago
Gary is out of touch.
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
He's not just out of touch he's actively pushing pretty horrific shit like the abolition of the state. He also agrees with Balaji about everything and therefore should not be trusted.
thisgoesnowhere commented on AI regulations are crony capitalism   reason.com/2024/05/19/ais... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha
thisgoesnowhere · 2 years ago
Crony capitalism is such an intellectual cop-out.

The people who say this garbage would never let any other ideology weasel its way out of the effects of their system in practice, but for some bizarre reason, the giga brains at Reason are allowed to get a pass and say that this is not true capitalism.

The type of capture by regulation outlined in the article is the direct result of a political landscape that prioritizes corporate power over government power. There is nothing "crony" about it; it's just capitalism.

P.S. This is not pro or anti-capitalist; it's anti-shitty argument.

u/thisgoesnowhere

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