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by Lazare 5y ago
Well...yes and no. We can argue about whether Softbanks plan of handing out billions to let tech companies blitzscale and obtain market dominance via first mover advantage and network effects and the power of SaaS economics (good scaling; l
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by Lazare 5y ago
I think the article missed the point. WeWork was following a traditional (and valid) business model, but they managed to get Softbank to value them as a tech company. That valuation was unwarranted, and ended up with Softbank losing a ton o
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by Lazare 5y ago
I think Matt Levine's take was pretty interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-03/zillow...
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by Lazare 5y ago
The opioid crisis is a difficult topic, but the role of legal opioids in it is highly contested. Note that the rate of opioid prescription in the US had dropped by nearly 50% since 2012 [1], while the overdose rate has more than doubled [
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by Lazare 5y ago
Methamphetamine is much less frequently prescribed than other forms of amphetamines for ADHD, but I wouldn't say "extremely rare". And there's very little evidence it's any more addictive or harmful than normal amph
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by Lazare 5y ago
CBD has quite a lot of scientific support. And it works by interacting with the human cannabinoid system, which is a real scientific thing. Even worse, the FDA has been flexing its muscles trying to prevent CBD products being sold[0][1][2
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by Lazare 5y ago
I disagree. Looking at the broader context, it seems that the foundation simply considered the projects as "theirs" in some key ways, honestly thought the migration was best for the projects, and so opted for a mechanism that woul
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by Lazare 5y ago
But...why crypto? It feels like such a poor fit. A digital central bank currency, sure, excellent. What do you gain from adding a distributed ledger to this?
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by Lazare 5y ago
I think your criticism is unfair. > They can pontificate about likely causes They can , but they didn't .
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by Lazare 5y ago
> They are essentially doing glorified bikeshedding, and providing an explainer of how BGP works that can be gleaned by reading virtually any introductory text on it, and using it as a marketing opportunity. I mean, I'm not really s
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by Lazare 5y ago
There's also been a major push to use the word "warrior". Not everyone is a fan. See, eg: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/19/united-states-afghanist... Edit: As others have noted, "soldi
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by Lazare 5y ago
I highly recommend the linked series; it's accessible and fascinating. The upshot though is: Think of battle at the time as being a little bit like some sort of bizarre college sport where everyone lines up, locked arms, and then smash
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by Lazare 5y ago
I mean, you're quite right. It's true that historians have been talking about the myth of spartan excellence for over a century, with one of the key works being Le Mirage Spartiate, published 1933. It's true that there is ext
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by Lazare 5y ago
Yes, but... ...the analysis of one historian is just that. But the analysis of many historians is more likely to be true, and the consensus of the entire field, held for decades, is even more likely. Certainly more likely to be true than
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by Lazare 5y ago
Well, that's a bit amateur hour. You either care about security or you don't. And here they clearly don't...which doesn't mean their products aren't otherwise secure, but does mean they're being created by a te
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by Lazare 5y ago
Note that according to the story, the fake email address was provided by the CEO , which was then used to arrange a call between Goldman and the COO/cofounder, pretending to be a YouTube exec. At first glance, that seems to implicate
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by Lazare 5y ago
No. Look, if OP wants to suggest a wealth tax, I think that's a concept that can usefully be debated. They're not without precedent; France has had one, off and on, for many years, and sure, property taxes are closely equivalent
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by Lazare 5y ago
Lottery tickets aren't a good investment, but people still buy them. It's certainly true that there is activity in the DeFi space, and it's certainly possible that this activity is because DeFi is just so gosh darn amazing
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by Lazare 5y ago
> Suppose you buy a house (or land) for $100,000 and it increases in value to $200,000. Do you pay taxes on [the] $100,000 [gain] because that's "income", even though it's just a number? You do not. > Why yes, yes
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by Lazare 5y ago
The article is long, and I'm not sure it did a great job of conveying the core message. Looking at the comments here, I think some people may have missed it. Here's a paragraph that outlines the issue: > But even the ob/ob
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by Lazare 5y ago
Not exactly. After many, many decades of frauds, schemes, panics, and crashes, harsh experience has led to a regime where nobody can do anything without a very explicit carve out. In tech terms, it's a default "deny all", w
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by Lazare 5y ago
As in, the interest you might earn on a savings account? The rule is basically: "If you're giving someone else money in the hope of getting more money back later, it's a security UNLESS it fits into a list of exceptions, or i
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by Lazare 5y ago
It means nothing. Archeological evidence found in the 1960s proves quite clearly that Norsemen reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus. In fact this evidence turned up - and got quite a lot of attention - in the 1960s, which is when
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by Lazare 5y ago
Also, timeshares have a terrible terrible reputation. Hence the drive to try and rebrand as "fractional ownership" or whatever. It's quite amusing to check out the wikipedia page on timeshares ( https://en.wikipedia
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by Lazare 5y ago
...well, yes. But timeshares come in two forms, sometimes called "shared leased ownership" and "shared deeded ownership". The second form is fairly widespread, and it's exactly what you're talking about. It&#x2
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by Lazare 5y ago
Old-school timeshare companies sometimes tried to organise "swaps", which somewhat solves the "every vacation at the same place" issue if it works, which, anecdotally, it almost never did. Still, it was a selling point.
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by Lazare 5y ago
Confusing headline. The story seems to be: There's a new startup called Pacaso selling timeshares. Like most people who sell timeshares, they loudly claim they aren't timeshares at all. Unlike most people who sell timeshares, th
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by Lazare 5y ago
People renamed RDF Site Summary to Really Simple Syndication actually. :) In ads in RSS feeds is a thing; Google AdWords supports it, as do many others. https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9189557?hl=en
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by Lazare 5y ago
I think what OP meant was something like: "I've been getting abused by people promoting OF content. I assumed they were doing this because it made them thousands and thousands of dollars and they were making a living doing it, but
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by Lazare 5y ago
So... the punchline here seems to be the median revenue per content creator. Except: 1) The denominator is skewed by a large number of people who signed up but aren't seriously pursuing it, and may not even be active. 2) The numerator

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