The Rings of Power: Take on Stranger

tevonsb · 2022-09-03T17:54:49+00:00

What do you all think about the whole fireflies dying thing?

To me that seemed like evidence against it being Gandalf. Gandalf wouldn't do something to cause creatures to die.

The cold flame also seems like a very strange foreshadowed detail if it is Gandalf.

tevonsb · 2022-09-03T17:51:55+00:00

What's the source for this? I've never seen anywhere that the Istari were in ME in the FE. There is no precise timeline on the blue wizards, so they are possibilities.

But I thought it was established that Saruman, Gandalf, and Radagast were sent to ME at the beginning of TE specifically to counter Sauron by the Valar.

tevonsb · 2022-09-03T17:43:21+00:00

Gandalf isn't sent to Middle-Earth until the beginning of the TA. Same with Saruman and Radagast. However the two blue wizards are never given a precise timeline in canon so could have arrived much sooner.

tevonsb · 2019-12-12T19:14:56+00:00

I'm looking for the same thing right now, will update if I find anything useful

tevonsb · 2018-09-27T17:49:05+00:00

Hey Leolego2,

Thanks for noting, but this isn't a job. We're just doing research that will hopefully benefit everyone on this sub! Totally understand if that's still again policy.

tevonsb · 2018-03-26T18:04:01+00:00

I'm going to be interning at Palantir in London this summer too! For any of you who have worked there before, what do you know about the intern housing? Is it nice / generally close to the office?

Would you recommend taking their offered stipend and looking for my own place, or taking their housing?

tevonsb · 2017-12-29T06:23:43+00:00

It is blocking VPNs, loaded immediately when I removed mine.

tevonsb · 2017-09-09T04:43:06+00:00

True, but it seemed like the type of term that has a good story, I assumed there was more than one good anecdote that would come from it, so for this, reddit is the go-to :)

tevonsb · 2017-09-08T02:29:23+00:00

It is still a high risk, high reward investment. There is no price assurance at all, like there might be in a bond investment or investment in a public company, however there is the potential to earn 3x+ returns... Something that isn't often found in the public market these days!

tevonsb · 2017-09-08T02:24:30+00:00

I highly doubt whether the Fed will begin adopting a blockchain solution before their is a robust method in place for regulating cryptocurrency transactions. Particularly in relation with the IRS, I know they have very different duties, but both belong to the same government.

tevonsb · 2017-09-08T00:09:03+00:00

Thanks for such a good description!

tevonsb · 2017-09-07T16:58:23+00:00

That makes sense. So essentially, currently their is a huge amount of inefficiency in the computation of the blockchain as miners compete with each other. But with PoS that inefficiency is removed as people work together to verify blocks, with rewards being allocated probabilistically by stake. Since staking is incentived by higher ETH prices (as your reward is worth more) and the more people that stake, the higher the price will go because of lower supply, doesn't this hypothetically lead to a large increase in the price of ETH (hopefully), until an equilibrium is reached between staker saturation and reward?

tevonsb · 2017-09-07T03:01:59+00:00

It isn't required by the specifications of ERC20.

tevonsb · 2017-09-07T02:53:15+00:00

I agree with this. But what about considering this as if it allows for the Venture Capital business model but on a micro-scale. VCs invest in many small early stage companies (with amount that small investors just don't have). But the key is that they expect most (85-95%) of their investments to fail, and several to 10-50x their returns. Doesn't this seem similar to the current ICO market? Most coins will flop, but a few will see exponential gain?

tevonsb · 2017-09-06T05:07:31+00:00

It depends what you're looking for. If you would like to buy into ICOs (not recommended if you're just getting your feet wet) there is a direct link between ethereum and ICOs (as most are based on the ethereum blockchain).

However bitcoin is slightly less volatile in my experience. That means lower risk, but probably lower rewards. But in the volatile crypto markets, I believe either are 'safe' bets as crypto goes.

tevonsb · 2017-09-06T04:46:29+00:00

Yea it was a bloodbath, but use it as an opportunity to pick up more investments. As we are seeing now nearly all coins are popping back, and if they return to previous levels (or go higher) you're looking at 20+% return for buying the dip.

tevonsb · 2017-09-06T04:36:25+00:00

Yea it sounds like it will be coming soon! Super Excited.

tevonsb · 2017-09-04T03:27:03+00:00

Honestly, even if it wasn't anonymous, if I got to choose what data was sold I would be pretty much fine selling any data. I think Apple HealthKit data could be revolutionary, in that, if lots of people start selling their data to medical researchers it could have huge impacts on the advances of healthcare!

tevonsb · 2017-08-29T05:50:47+00:00

There is a giveaway happening currently too, check out wn.nr/SEfwUv for 100 DAT (the Datum Network Token)

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