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“The necessary condition for our saying not [or experiencing absence] is that non-being be a perpetual presence in us and outside of us, that nothingness haunts being”
A Critique of Existential Loneliness | Topoi
“an abrupt break in continuity … an original and irreducible event.”
A Critique of Existential Loneliness | Topoi
In the psychological literature, one finds an often repeated ‘standard’ definition: “Loneliness is defined as a negative emotional state that arises when there is a perceived discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships”
A Critique of Existential Loneliness | Topoi
Through loneliness, the individual "discovers life, who he is, what he really wants, the meaning of his existence, [and] the true nature of his relation with others.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
According to Heidegger, we are in an authentic mode of existence when we choose and act with full awareness of our ultimate freedom, responsibility, finitude, and aloneness. In contrast, the person who flees from these human conditions and permits others to define and shape his values surrenders himself to an anguished and inauthentic life.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
It is ironic how much of our freedom we expend on power-on conquering death, disease, and decay, all the while concealing from each other our carefully buried loneliness, which if shared, would deepen our understanding of each other.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
Loneliness is not the experience of what one lacks, but rather the experience of what one is.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
For Wolfe, the experience of loneliness is neither strange nor curious, but "inevitable and right" because it is part of the human heart. Just as the experience of joy is heightened by sorrow, loneliness, "haunted always with the certainty of death," [16] makes like precious.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people-not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul…we find, I think, that they are all suffering from the same thing. The final cause of their complaint is loneliness.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
Rather, existential loneliness is a way of being in the world, a way of grasping for and confronting one's own subjective truth. It is the experience of discovering one's own questions regarding human existence, and of confronting the sheer contingencies of the human condition.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
For Kierkegaard, faith always involves a choice, a daring risk, and a commitment, and the sole antidote to the common experience of despair or loneliness is the courage of faith. Without this leap of faith, the individual remains forever alienated from the ground of his very being. The purposeful confrontation of the despair which constitutes the loneliness of being, becomes a means of revelation and recovery.
Abiding Loneliness: An Existential Perspective On Loneliness
Much of the best evidence is that reported by Aristotle, who regarded him as an important rival in natural philosophy. Aristotle wrote a monograph on Democritus, of which only a few passages quoted in other sources have survived. Democritus seems to have taken over and systematized the views of Leucippus, of whom little is known. Although it is possible to distinguish some contributions as those of Leucippus, the overwhelming majority of reports refer either to both figures, or to Democritus alone; the developed atomist system is often regarded as essentially Democritus’.
Democritus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
By letting contract accounts approve transactions and pay gas fees, account abstraction makes the process of creating and using a smart contract wallet more trustless. To be specific, it allows anyone that runs a relayer to execute transactions on your behalf. You just need to sign a message approving the relayer to deduct funds from your wallet balance after executing the transaction
Account Abstraction: Past, Present, Future | MetaMask News
users are permitted to define custom rules for authorizing wallets to initiate transactions
Account Abstraction: Past, Present, Future | MetaMask News
From a network-level perspective, “account abstraction” means the details of account types are invisible to the Ethereum protocol. Every account (including self-custodial accounts) is simply a smart contract, and users are free to determine how individual accounts are managed and operated. From a user-level perspective, “account abstraction” means certain technical details about interacting with Ethereum accounts are concealed behind higher-level interfaces. This improves wallet designs and significantly reduces the complexity of using web3 applications.
Account Abstraction: Past, Present, Future | MetaMask News
For instance, a rollup project that disproportionately influences transaction sequencing or inadvertently centralizes control over critical functions (like sequencing) without building in proper guardrails might attract regulatory attention, even if unintentional. If a single, definable entity has the power to dictate the order of transactions or blocks, validate data, or influence fees, then that entity could possibly be perceived as having some improper level of “control” and potentially triggering scrutiny.
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Laws and Regulations | Layer-2 sequencing demystified: A lawyer’s introduction | GLI
Is token creation commensurate with meeting the needs of users or, rather, with feeding speculation? Are independent actors setting the price or is the promoter supporting the secondary market for the asset or otherwise influencing trading? Is it clear that the primary motivation for purchasing the digital asset is for personal use or consumption, as compared to investment? Have purchasers made representations as to their consumptive, as opposed to their investment, intent? Are the tokens available in increments that correlate with a consumptive versus investment intent? Are the tokens distrib…
SEC.gov | Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)
Is there a person or group that has sponsored or promoted the creation and sale of the digital asset, the efforts of whom play a significant role in the development and maintenance of the asset and its potential increase in value? Has this person or group retained a stake or other interest in the digital asset such that it would be motivated to expend efforts to cause an increase in value in the digital asset? Would purchasers reasonably believe such efforts will be undertaken and may result in a return on their investment in the digital asset? Has the promoter raised an amount of funds in exc…
SEC.gov | Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)
If the network on which the token or coin is to function is sufficiently decentralized – where purchasers would no longer reasonably expect a person or group to carry out essential managerial or entrepreneurial efforts – the assets may not represent an investment contract. Moreover, when the efforts of the third party are no longer a key factor for determining the enterprise’s success, material information asymmetries recede. As a network becomes truly decentralized, the ability to identify an issuer or promoter to make the requisite disclosures becomes difficult, and less meaningful.
SEC.gov | Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)
But what about cases where there is no longer any central enterprise being invested in or where the digital asset is sold only to be used to purchase a good or service available through the network on which it was created? I believe in these cases the answer is a qualified “yes.”
SEC.gov | Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)
“Can a digital asset that was originally offered in a securities offering ever be later sold in a manner that does not constitute an offering of a security?” In cases where the digital asset represents a set of rights that gives the holder a financial interest in an enterprise, the answer is likely “no.”
SEC.gov | Digital Asset Transactions: When Howey Met Gary (Plastic)
we now think about Base as an economy composed of three parts: a developer platform (Base as the underlying infrastructure), an app ecosystem (all the apps that are built on Base), and a capital market (users and liquidity flowing through the apps—e.g. ETH, USDC)
Base's 2024 Mission, Strategy and Roadmap — Base
Leisure is permissible, we understand, because it costs money; idleness is not, because it doesn’t.
paulbe | Favorite repost: “Quitting the Paint Factory”
Sometimes, I want to say, money costs too much. And at the beginning of the millennium, in this country, the cost of money is well on the way to bankrupting us. We’re impoverishing ourselves, our families, our communities – and yet we can’t stop our selves. Worse, we don’t want to.
paulbe | Favorite repost: “Quitting the Paint Factory”
I have compassion for those making the most of their commute and their cubicle; I just wish they could be a little less cheerful about it. In short, this isn’t about us so much as it is about the Zeitgeist we live and labor in, which, like a cuckoo taking over a thrush’s nest, has systematically shoved all the other eggs of our life, one by one, onto the pavement. It’s about illuminating the losses.
paulbe | Favorite repost: “Quitting the Paint Factory”
No, what the democratic mind requires, above all, is time; time to consider its options. Time to develop the democratic virtues of independence, orneriness, objectivity, and fairness. Time, perhaps (to sail along with Lowell’s leaky metaphor for a moment), to ponder the course our unelected captains have so generously set for us, and to consider mutiny when the iceberg looms.
paulbe | Favorite repost: “Quitting the Paint Factory”
If we have no time to think, to mull, if we have no time to piece together the sudden associations and unexpected, mid-shower insights that are the stuff of independent opinion, then we are less citizens than cursors, easily manipulated, vulnerable to the currents of power.
paulbe | Favorite repost: “Quitting the Paint Factory”
Data brokers who fail to register with the CPPA are subject to administrative fines including: (1) $200 per day for each day the data broker fails to register (increased from $100 per day under the Data Broker Registration law); (2) reimbursement to the CPPA for unpaid registration fees; and (3) expenses incurred by the CPPA in the enforcement action. Additionally, if a data broker fails to act on deletion requests and delete personal information, it can be fined $200 per day for each request on which it fails to act.
California’s Data Deletion Law Imposes a Host of New Obligations on Data Brokers | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Where a data broker rejects a request because it is unable to verify it through the deletion mechanism, the data broker must treat the request as an opt-out of the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information under the CCPA.
California’s Data Deletion Law Imposes a Host of New Obligations on Data Brokers | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Under the Delete Act, the CPPA is mandated to create an accessible deletion mechanism by January 1, 2026. This mechanism will enable California residents to initiate a single verifiable request through which they can instruct every registered data broker that possesses their personal information to delete that data.
California’s Data Deletion Law Imposes a Host of New Obligations on Data Brokers | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
any “business that knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship.
California’s Data Deletion Law Imposes a Host of New Obligations on Data Brokers | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Delete all personal information held about California residents who exercise their newfound right to delete their personal information through the one-stop mechanism.
California’s Data Deletion Law Imposes a Host of New Obligations on Data Brokers | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Delete Act, allowing California residents to have their personal information deleted by all registered data brokers operating in the state through a single deletion mechanism
California’s Data Deletion Law Imposes a Host of New Obligations on Data Brokers | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Concluding that these statements were of “limited relevance,” the court failed to explain why that was so or what sort of evidence (if any) would be sufficient to show non-investment intent or to counteract post-offering suggestions by an issuer.
Court Rules in Favor of SEC in LBRY Enforcement Action | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
“[n]othing in the case law suggests that a token with both consumptive and speculative uses cannot be sold as an investment contract.”
Court Rules in Favor of SEC in LBRY Enforcement Action | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
The court concluded that even if some tokens were purchased with consumptive intent, that did not mean that LBC was not offered as a security.
Court Rules in Favor of SEC in LBRY Enforcement Action | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
The judge did not rule on whether the token itself was a security or on the status of secondary sales of LBRY tokens
SEC.gov | Overdue: Statement of Dissent on LBRY
There is no path for a company like LBRY to come in and register its functional token offering.
SEC.gov | Overdue: Statement of Dissent on LBRY
after winning on summary judgment, the Commission sought monetary remedies of $44 million and asserted that LBRY’s offer to burn all tokens in its possession was not sufficient assurance that LBRY would not violate the registration provisions in the future
SEC.gov | Overdue: Statement of Dissent on LBRY
the Commission’s complaint did not allege, and the court did not find, evidence of fraud
SEC.gov | Overdue: Statement of Dissent on LBRY
Some companies offer long windows because they believe it’s right that you share in the upside. These are the companies you should work for because they’ll treat you well when the hard times come.
A Better Model for Valuing Startup Equity - Varun Srinivasan
Both RSU’s and options come with an expiry clause, after which they are worth nothing. If you can’t early exercise, and you don’t believe that the company can IPO in that timeframe, you shouldn’t take the offer.
A Better Model for Valuing Startup Equity - Varun Srinivasan
An O'Neill cylinder would consist of two counter-rotating cylinders. The cylinders would rotate in opposite directions to cancel any gyroscopic effects that would otherwise make it difficult to keep them aimed toward the Sun. Each would be 5 miles (8.0 km) in diameter and 20 miles (32 km) long, connected at each end by a rod via a bearing system. Their rotation would provide artificial gravity.
O'Neill cylinder - Wikipedia
Many young people bounce from one ambiguous relationship to another and find it impossible to commit to a partner because they have a yawning void in their social lives that no one person could ever fill.
The Load-Bearing Relationship
We used to see supportiveness as a virtue; today, it’s a kind of victimhood. The cardinal sin in the contractual fable is asking of someone: being entitled. The cardinal virtue is refusing to give; having boundaries.
The Load-Bearing Relationship
Therapy culture, both a social media zeitgeist and a real-world medical practice, increasingly frames leaning on the people in your life as a form of emotional abuse. There is a very real conversation about “trauma dumping” that teaches young people that telling your friends about your problems is an unacceptable imposition and provides helpful scripts for “setting boundaries” by refusing to listen or help. Therapy culture teaches us that we’ve been “conditioned” or “parentified” into toxic self-abnegation, and celebrates “putting yourself first” and “self-care” by refusing to be there for oth…
The Load-Bearing Relationship
In a contractual moral framework, you have obligations only within relationships that you chose to participate in—meaning, to the children you chose to have and the person you chose to marry—and these can be revoked at any time. You owe nothing to the people in your life that you did not choose: nothing to your parents, your siblings, your extended family or friends, certainly nothing to your neighbors, schoolmates, or countrymen; at least nothing beyond the level of civility that you owe to a stranger on the street.
The Load-Bearing Relationship
Our use of mimicry and ability to take on the perspectives of other animals presents us with a very straightforward interpretation of the Meat Paradox. By allowing the thoughts of other organisms into our minds, we built a pathway to developing empathy with our prey. Like the rest of the world’s predators, humans have to kill their prey to eat it. Unlike the rest of the world’s predators, we have the capacity to empathize with our prey.
On the origins of empathy for other species - Works in Progress
In many of these cases of deception and mimicry, we can find explicit references to having to think like an animal thinks, act like an animal acts, and pretend to be an animal.
On the origins of empathy for other species - Works in Progress
other humans are not the only agents we have had to deal with. The interactions of minds in the landscape of our evolutionary history have included the minds of other animals, from birds to deer to fish to whales.
On the origins of empathy for other species - Works in Progress