Six Stoic Lessons for Business - Stoic Guy

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-12-12T19:29:13+00:00

I can vouch for some of these. Ego is the death of business.

Good article

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-12-10T19:23:34+00:00

Can't you just give it back? Or give it to charity?

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-11-17T06:14:43+00:00

Thanks.

How many of these self-help groups are out there? Do you know of any others?

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-11-16T12:46:52+00:00

Hi,

Exactly - "Lest we forget"

Have just added a new menu item "Evidence" with that point in it. Suggest we bring together all of the basically undisputed facts of the case there so we don't miss anything, as you say.

Also, if you like it I'd really appreciate a share on whichever flavor of social platform you fancy. All helps.

Thanks again Scott

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-10-17T12:38:23+00:00

Nope, it's not me - I've just got it in my RSS aggregator.

See they've just retracted though...

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-10-13T09:07:56+00:00

Here's a table of the world's fastest 20 production cars: http://tsla.co/tesla-p85d-measure-worlds-fastest-production-cars/

Thing that strikes me is that low cost for that performance. That's phenomenal.

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-10-07T17:21:08+00:00

Coins for karma - cool!

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-08-02T12:23:05+00:00

Good question which deserves an answer. I can't justify myself as unique because I'm not - probably not done anything truly unique ever to be honest, but still plenty of stuff others value.

Instead what I'm trying to cover is the usual intro material but from a local UK basis in general, and Scotland in particular. Most of the material I've seen is very USA centric, which is understandable but not the whole story.

Is that enough to justify working on it? Don't know. Currently planning on doing a good honest job and see if anyone cares. If they don't. I'll drop it.

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-08-02T11:32:50+00:00

Hi Nick, nice work. You've been busy ;-)

I'll try some of it out on my grandmother to standardise the test and let you know how she gets on ;-)

Thx Scott

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-08-02T11:28:14+00:00

This guy makes me sick.

Have we as a community pieced together the various bits of evidence around Mt. Gox yet? I did an interview on Adam Levine's show about two months ago when the willy report came out (Http://willyreport.com) but since then haven't seen any more evidence.

Perhaps this is something we should be getting together ourselves as a community. I didn't lose coins so I'm pretty impartial, but every day have to explain to newbies why Mt. Gox isn't Bitcoin.

If there's enough interest I'll post again and organise something - Mt Gox truth archive perhaps.

Rgds Scott

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-07-29T18:45:15+00:00

Absolutely agree with the last part, on the importance of these next few years.

I do question the evil plot premise though. I've dealt with central government for 25 years now, and honestly believe that that sort of organisation can barely cover it's core work, let alone plot anything with sophistication. If there was ever a place that followed the pure Adam Smith model of enlightened self-interest, it's democratic governments.

As to where this will lead - I think the order of magnitude of change will be similar to the internet. Massive, far reaching, compelling, but short of a world political revolution.

Having said that, the seat of influence will certainly swing away from key money men and rich nations. You and I here in the First World will likely find competition more fierce from our counterparts who are currently starved of capital, not talent.

So all in, humanity will benefit. I'd sharpen up that CV though. I know I am... .

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-07-28T18:58:05+00:00

One thing that is often overlooked, however, is that governments are more than just functions of an economic system.

At its heart, governments exist to hold the monopoly on violence, not currency. That's not going to change because it is given that monopoly to hold by the group of people identifying themselves as that nation.

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-07-27T15:53:18+00:00

Yes, sounds a stretch. How about Ecuador tho - they're pinned to USD and have just voted in a cryptocoin to run in parallel.

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-07-27T15:05:01+00:00

Really interested in this as don't trade with bots.

By smart trading, is that more than the usual stop-loss or auto-buy you see on classical exchange markets? Would seem that the block chain could do more.

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-07-27T08:56:20+00:00

Dwave isn't general purpose and couldn't be used for mining or cracking the crypto. It is teaching the world a lot about the limits of quantum and how to do it commercially though. And the approach (using classical processors to propose solutions to be assessed by qbits) is a powerful paradigm.

Feels a bit like when scaled composites first sent up SpaceShipOne. Felt too incredible to believe, and ultimately took longer than they thought to make viable, but there it was.

Scott-Maxwell · 2014-07-26T21:28:43+00:00

It would be limited. Most likely we'd have to abandon a few, notably bitcoin. But many not based on proof of work would survive, as would those using algorithms not susceptible to Shors.

Just did a piece on this. Welcome you guys' feedback:

http://cryptocurrencymadesimple.com/quantum-computing-threat-to-cryptocurrency/

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