Saying "everything is political" is putting everything up for grabs for state (or mob) control whether you said it aloud or not. Doesn't matter if it's a tyranny by some generalissimo or amorphous mob of twitter gibbering nitwits or tiki torch bearing numskulls.
If "everything is political" there is no room for private life, which is the only life that matters.
>and asking that question is clearly not equivalent to saying that the government ought to be involved in all interactions.
Yes, actually it absolutely is. Putting everything up for grabs for state (or in modern day; the mob) control is literally totalitarianism. People who "don't understand" this are either abysmally stupid or are power mad imbeciles who are pretending not to understand for Machiavellian reasons.
This article deserves some kind of award for peak pretentious smugness, a la South Park fart huffing. I'm not sure what the point is. Restaurants are nice. Muh facemasks.
>"restaurants are where life is lived"
As opposed to ... the rest of where life is lived?
>"Restaurants bring humanity to a city. They’re central to my memories. "
I'm pretty sure bringing food to a city is more central to restaurantness than bringing "humanity" to a city.
"Eating out in Houston is an exercise in acceptance." -are you shitting me? Do people actually feel virtuous and beatific because they bought a bucket of pork fried rice from someone not of the same race as them? What the hell is going on here?
Well he's not a US citizen and unless he's insane, his corporations are offshored in a 0% domocile. It's really only a problem for Americans; everyone else who has their shit together can stick their corporate shell on Cayman or whatever.
The astounding, insane decision to use "libraries" aka delegate call in any immutable smart contract always boggled my mind. The amount of space saved is so ludicrously small as to beggar belief. Hope the 10k or whatever worth of space savings (about 20 transactions worth) was worth it.
Anyway, he didn't get a roll back, and the $200m in value that disappeared didn't either.
> I disagree, because historically major cryptos have allowed known attacks to succeed if they targeted a member of the public at large, and have defended only if they targeted named insiders.
Surely you aren't going to make such a statement without examples! I can think of examples where things were attacked, including some of the largest value destructions, and insider status didn't help. For example, the multisig thing that happened to Gav Wood (the second time).
If your lone example is the Dao attack, that looked like successful governance to me.
There was a conspiracy theory making the rounds for a bit based on Simons connections to Columbia. He rode a moped down there in the 50s, and I think won a tile or carpet factory in a card game. I don't think anyone but the haters give it any credence, but it shows you what kind of person Simons is besides "smart."
I think it's a fair guess that they are just better at playing the game than most. The people I've known from there are all very good, and alums have included people like Lenny Baum (aka hidden Markov Baum-Welch) and Elwyn Berlekamp. They also were almost certainly the first or second (Thorp knew) fund to truly figure out optimal bet sizing via Berlekamp's association with Kelley. Mercer's work in speech recognition at IBM is also evocative; speech recognition has been around for a long time, but it's always been really difficult and inherently a time series problem, like markets. Lots of Mercer's old team got pulled into Rentech looking at different kinds of time series.
Tax optimization is just another part of the game. I know a bunch of guys who renounced their US citizenship and moved to Bermuda to run their fund; 36% compounds pretty quickly.
If "everything is political" there is no room for private life, which is the only life that matters.