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What blockchains solve is the whole pesky problem of following the law and paying taxes, and being a normal member of society. No wonder that much of the early crypto literature was all about anarchy. To this day, the only useful thing that
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This joke actually highlights the utter ludicrousness of a scientific-rational explanation of the universe without God. Because as long as you keep searching for "phenomena" to explain existence, the question remains, what caused
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What creates that selection pressure?
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Why not all of them? I never said intelligence was exclusive to humans.
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All of these discussions seem to hinge on the assumption that intelligence arises spontaneously from nature given the "right" conditions, but that is an unproven and statistically unlikely assumption [1]. Just as a random byte gen
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All this talk about Web3 and I still don't know what it is. Show me some normal, non-tech people who use this fancy web3 tech? Show me some critical human need, like food, energy, or housing that is powered by this fairy tale? What cap
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If the dollar is getting stronger, then it means the inflation we are seeing now is actually worse than it looks. The fact that inflation is happening on a strengthening dollar actually means that the purchasing power of a dollar in the US
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In religion this is nothing new: it's known as hypocrisy, which is despicable because a hypocrite inevitably ends up exploiting true believers, taking advantage of their trust and goodwill. It's a well-studied phenomenon in religi
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Even a logging library is insecure. And some people believe in irreversible "smart contracts" for finance.
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Romance. Tinder and Instagram made monogamy obsolete.
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The problem is not that he's an enemy of US government interests. Sure he is. The problem is the hypocrisy. The US claims moral superiority, advocates for the non-persecution of journalists, free speech, rule of law and judicial due pr
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> Crypto is an open protocol for financial services/transactions running on decentralised hardware. Except it's not. "Open" and "decentralized" are the false promises of crypto. The entire crypto market is d
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Even Bernie Madoff had highly respectable people working with him. edit: removed my comment about Schmidt not really joining, I see it announced on his Twitter.
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For those who believe "crypto is too big to fail", or the genie is out of the bottle, or that crypto concepts have become so engrained and popular that it's not possible to stop, I'd like to point out that Bernie Madoff&
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See also: design-by-committee, the Bystander effect, Mythical Man Month and other well-known pathologies of group behaviour. A sense of responsibility is only experienced by an individual, not a group. It's also the purpose of a leader
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Because the US has an unlimited supply of the world's reserve currency, so there is no incentive to be economical.
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Anyone have deep experience with both Django and Laravel and can offer a comparison of the two?
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One of the examples of wildly successful "one-man-army" software (conceived of and built by a single person). See also: Redis, Linux, Doom/Quake, Steve Wozniak, jQuery, Python and countless obscure modern SaaS products.
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The problem of classification is deeply philosophical. The core problem is that the taxonomic classification of anything is arbitrary, proven only by consensus.
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Because that's how the US banking system works. For now, there is no alternative, except at a few of the big banks which are just starting to offer OAuth-secured APIs. Blame the banks for not offering a secure way to programmatically d
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I always wondered about this. If one was lost in the wilderness with general amnesia, one could figure out the month and day eventually, by counting from the winter/summer solstice, but there would no way of figuring out what day of th
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You're incredibly naive if you think this kind of stuff doesn't happen all the time since 9/11. I personally know several people with similar stories in the US.
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Yes, Google has become worse because the problem is now much harder. I believe that Google's time is coming, because the fundamental idea of a single centralized global search engine won't work anymore in a world that produces pet
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your reading queue (books)?
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You'd also have people die of thirst, just like the homelessness problem in expensive cities in the US right now.
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Liquidity is NOT good in a dire-necessity supply-constrained market like housing, because it invites capital which could've been spent elsewhere to lock up unnecessary housing units (houses are empty while being flipped), further const
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Good riddance. If large-scale house flipping took off, we might actually end up in a scenario where housing was treated as a speculative asset, with empty houses getting flipped between investors looking to make a quick buck, further loweri
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Flippers also reduce the supply of housing units for the time they are unoccupied, which could be months or years, especially when sold to other flippers. More liquidity is not necessarily a good thing for the housing market, as it tends to
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One of the most surprising things about moving to Eastern Europe (being born and raised in Canada and worked in the US) was how much better the payment systems are, from a consumer's perspective. Instant P2P bank-to-bank transfers, con
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As a solo bootstrapped founder working on PHP (Laravel) every day, I was surprised to learn a LOT from this one page. Thanks for posting.

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