Yeah, that is a problem.

And thanks for the compliment.

Well, if Grace is already well known, then her public key should be available.

Bob would have to know and trust Grace beforehand. Grace could be the IRS, for example. The idea here being to have somebody who already knows your age vouch for your age.

We could just make the middle man somebody who already needs that information, e.g. the IRS.

Here’s my idea: Bob gives Alice a token, assigning her an unique random number n. Alice goes to Grace and tells her, “Somebody assigned me number n, can you verify that I’m allowed?” Grace then writes: “User n is allowed, signed Grace”. Alice then takes this letter and shows it to Bob. Bob now knows that Alice is allowed, but nothing else. Grace only knows that somebody wanted to know that Alice is allowed, not who that somebody is.

Of note here: This system does nothing to protect against an allowed user helping a not allowed user to gain access, but I don’t think it’s possible to protect against traitorous users.

Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.

Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.

What does PI mean (first sentence of your post)?

Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.

I bury corpses.

Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.

In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.

It’s a place where people live and work, so while it shouldn’t look abandoned, it shouldn’t look continuously pristine, either.

Just launch a ton of ball bearings into orbit, and end space flight for ever. Or at least for the forseeable future.

Edit: Bearing balls, actually. Ball bearings is where the bearing balls are. But we want them in orbit.

The premise of the meme is that God exists and can be asked questions.

Because we’re leftists?

I guess that tracks.

If socialist means centrally planned economy, and all countries are centrally planned, then all countries are socialist.

World revolution achieved! We did it, lemmy.

Edit: Jokes aside, I don’t quite get why you two are arguing. You seem to more or less agree that the study doesn’t actually discuss socialist countries.

They’re the ones selling shovels in this gold rush, though.

Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.

Well, I was looking at the election results in the Soviet Union. Here’s the result from 1946:

Now, these numbers seem sort of odd. Like, it’s a very good result for Bloc of Communists and Non-partisans, but a result this good seems to be impossible in a free election. So I’m wondering, am I missing something?

Ah, Momo.