/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>27693095
>elites did colonialism to guilt white liberals
more like, to get rich and control the global south. i think what you're trying to say is that critical theory/decolonization has been used to get white liberals to go along with policies that don't benefit anyone, which i suppose i'd agree with. neoliberalism fucking sucks

>>27555515
that's a really good question, and something i was curious about too. allow me to engage in exactly the type of wild, baseless speculation that seems to get so under your skin, because we are on a Etruscan fresco appreciation forum and I am bored and procrastinating on my homework.

So, presumably Flare is going to have a vibrant ecosystem, full of people. If I had to guess, Alice will get to either choose her agents, or it will be done automatically. What might dictate her choice? Presumably, it will have to do with her desire to have her loan filled and everything to go smoothly. This will depend on her confidence in the agent. What might determine her confidence in the agent? Possibly a record of that agent's past performance. It's for this reason (as well as not wanting to lose my spark) that I think it'll be really important to not fail to cover my obligations as an agent- not just because I'll lose half my spark or whatever the penalty is, but also because it might conceivably put a negative mark on my record and therefore hurt my ability to act as an agent in the future. Like I said, whether this process will be automated or more of a choice-based system, I'm not sure.

I was wondering if there will be a competitive system, wherein agents who have good records can charge higher rates, and agents who have fucked up will be forced to operate on slimmer margins.

Additionally, if agents advertise where some of their profits go to, that could be interesting- for example, I'm really interested in harm reduction, so I could say "1% of my fee will go towards the distribution of naloxone to help save lives and stop the overdose crisis" or "1% of my fee will help save the baby seals, here is a picture of me holding a cute baby seal" or something like that.

Anyway this is a question I'm really interested in as well and if you find any info on how this will look please post it in the thread.

>>26213070
i think they delisted it a few weeks ago? the US version anyway. international should still be good

apparently you can also buy/sell it using the XRPL/dex and XUMM using Bitstamp but i am too tech illiterate to figure it out (pic related)

Are smartphones really humanity's most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can something else explain why the bold visions of the 20th century - fusion power, genetic enhancements, artificial intelligence, cures for common diseases, extended human life, and a host of other world-changing advances - have remained beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in the 1960s failed to arrive?

Perhaps it did arrive…but only for a select few.

Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they've been working toward for years: A device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics - the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over the decades to fulfill their mission.

They are living in our future.

Presented with the opportunity to join the BTC and improve his own technology in secret, Grady balks, and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age?

And when they do, is it possible to defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making?

"Influx" by Daniel Suarez. hmmm

>>20487001
Idgaf what you believe, keep drinking that onions.
>>20487030
Yes