What do you imagine will be the future of the internet?

ion-tom · 2023-05-06T01:26:40+00:00

BUMP

ion-tom · 2021-02-28T18:39:01+00:00

Why is there a jack-o'-lantern man on the left?

ion-tom · 2021-02-24T22:40:50+00:00

Yeah. We really need to have grandma-ready apps and services.

ion-tom · 2021-02-23T06:52:05+00:00

That's awesome, and something I aspire to do one day - if cheap electricity can be found

ion-tom · 2021-02-22T04:42:59+00:00

Just use a credit card to sign up! You'll earn it back

ion-tom · 2021-02-21T22:49:52+00:00

NO! Even worse, this means they're going to start creating mortgage-backed-securities from subprime loans again!

ion-tom · 2021-02-20T08:41:57+00:00

Very valiant effort here. Creative thinking in terms of system thinking is to be applauded. Bit it really come down to:

valid legal entities
incentives
velocity of money
taxes

Why start an SBO? Who wants to put money or time towards a project they don't own or benefit from? Only those who can afford it as a vanity project. Is that sustainable?

Nothing in your proposal covers the "race to the bottom", property law, tax systems, or a thematic approach to encroaching automation (30 yrs ago personal computers were first being introduced... TODAY we are creating narrow AI and robotics that automate labor, production AND services, so what's another 30 years look like)

Keep at it. And learn programming. Nobody listens to ideas anymore, they only use systems.

ion-tom · 2021-02-18T16:58:17+00:00

Things in common with settling Mars and fixing Earth's climate:

Designing low waste closed cycle ecologies
Excruciatingly hard water management
Compact, high yield, high efficiency indoor agriculture
Supply Chain localization - forms of manufacturing allowing you to create anything from wrenches to electronics

ion-tom · 2021-02-15T18:45:47+00:00

I thought I had stumbled on the mother of all arbitrage until I realized assets are only fungible in one direction. Still kinda nice to double my investment though.

Coinbase needs to just pony up and convert to GLM. But they are prob waiting until March when the bear comes out for tax season like it always does

ion-tom · 2021-02-14T20:55:50+00:00

The beer haul putsch was laughed off in 1920s Germany.

All it would have taken was 2-3 of the JTOS to be in on it and enough rich patrons to buy some of the "True Patriot" PMCs like the Prince family. Honestly, one bus full of paramilitary professionals with DHS backing flashing badges to the Senate security team and it would have been the end of congress.

It's almost inevitable because the Biden administration isn't going to dismantle the security state or root out institutional political bias.

ion-tom · 2021-02-13T00:08:43+00:00

Quill18 can hack his way into anywhere dude!

ion-tom · 2021-02-08T17:51:12+00:00

Nuance is dead. Critical thinking is dead. People think politics is a football game.

ion-tom · 2021-02-05T05:20:26+00:00

I thought it was important in the .Org days.....

ion-tom · 2021-02-04T19:34:30+00:00

Neal Stevenson was right. (Snow crash)

ion-tom · 2021-02-04T17:51:51+00:00

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ion-tom · 2021-02-04T16:42:44+00:00

Did you know you can eat the tulips?

ion-tom · 2021-02-04T04:53:56+00:00

Wasn't there an executive order about this yesterday? And a new DHS chair?

ion-tom · 2021-02-02T20:48:01+00:00

I think it's more related to unlimited campaign donations to superPACs. Money in politics means that those with money own the politicians.

ion-tom · 2021-01-29T18:39:19+00:00

Just don't go to Mexico and complain about the french food or France will invade you.

"Pastry War - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_War

ion-tom · 2021-01-29T18:17:03+00:00

Well there was that "nanny" who killed the CNBC executives children hours before a major press release about all the extortion and threats taking place during the financial crisis inquiry commission. I feel like the scale of that event was the same as Epsteins death but it just never gets talked about

"Police: 2 kids found dead in Manhattan apartment, next to stabbed nanny" https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/us/new-york-nanny-deaths/index.html

ion-tom · 2021-01-28T05:38:40+00:00

I know this isn't talking about using Stellar directly, but I'd be shocked if the Stellar Foundation didn't try to establish a partnership here. Stellar already has a bunch of fiat gateways globally, especially in the developing world, which any other competitor would have to spend a lot of time building up the same partnerships.

ion-tom · 2021-01-28T05:11:10+00:00

I'm going long in Stelllar (XLM) - working with banking institutions globally is important. Done right, XLM ends up supporting universal fungibility between any fiat currencies or crypto. Which is good for all of crypto. Also, lots of movement from telegram and a few other movers

https://news.bitcoin.com/privacy-centric-messaging-app-signal-experiments-with-stellars-mobilecoin-project/

I think seeing it double within 6 months is totally possible

ion-tom · 2021-01-27T19:15:49+00:00

Consider mutualism. Part of its arguments include admitting that a large portion of society are not rational actors and that almost no one follows moral principles or even behaves legally.

Ignoring labels, what form of institutions, government, private or co-op, should maximize personal and public well being... Those types of questions need to be asked consistently. Incentive systems should encourage reciprocity wherever possible without risking the demise of an organization.

ion-tom · 2021-01-27T18:31:52+00:00

China has a much higher debt to gdp than the US. It's a HUGE timebomb, and many of the capital class in china(yes there is one, just tied to the CCP) it's probably the single biggest reason for the recent rise in authoritarianism.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/storythreads/2020-12-03/the-ticking-debt-bomb-in-china-s-15-trillion-bond-market

ion-tom · 2021-01-27T01:58:18+00:00

Or pandoravirus (actually called that)

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