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by adjkant 9y ago
You do in order to enable UBI directly in the protocol, which is the goal of this paper. You can't regularly distribute Bitcoin to all users without first acquiring it. I think this is one of the few examples of a new coin that actuall
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by adjkant 9y ago
Bitcoin was once just as worthless as this coin. All of this is based on confidence in the value. So were all other currencies minus the value of the paper and ink itself. In order to actually get people to use this, you need an argument (n
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by adjkant 9y ago
That requires initial capital. If people were to use this globally, it would theoretically be an opt-in system that would put everyone on a level playing field (pending start time).
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by adjkant 9y ago
I think there are plenty of flaws here, but I upvoted it because I think there's something novel and creative here that can be leveraged. To those posting criticism and nothing else, let's see if we can try to be constructive with
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by adjkant 9y ago
I don't want to have kids in the slightest, but this is not accurate at all. You can have kids for both reasons, and enjoying the lives of your kids is not wrong if you love and care for them for their sake alone as well. In fact, when
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by adjkant 9y ago
We're on track for that concentration right now. > I don't mind money being more concentrated among tech people, they are generally more rational and tend to spend on important things. Yeah, I don't but that at all either.
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by adjkant 9y ago
I don't think a standardized format prevents that. What I'm thinking of is more how you when can apply to jobs with Linkedin, it takes away factors like resume design/layout and can make the lives of hiring staff easier. Not
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by adjkant 9y ago
I really like this idea and think it could even be expanded upon. What if applications had a screening survey? You answer a set of questions, auto-scored, and based on that score your resume is accepted or rejected. There can be a box to ex
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by adjkant 9y ago
Again, that argument doesn't work. Let's look at an example of Bill Gates - if instead of investing any money or time in Microsoft, he gave away everything he could, he would not help as many people in the end. Again, you need mon
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by adjkant 9y ago
I don't think you're being creative enough with your slicing. Consider what happens when 90% of the primary world currency ends up concentrated with a few thousand - 100K people in the tech world and if that's really any sort
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by adjkant 9y ago
> If you think people in Africa aren't getting paid enough, why are you not selling your PC / smartphone to help them out? Because that would not solve the problem, and it's quite naive to think it would. This gets into lo
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by adjkant 9y ago
> Imperialism is not capitalism, they are orthogonal concepts. I would argue they are very tied, but that is a much larger argument not needed here. To give the short and incomplete version, they are both derived from the idea of exploit
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by adjkant 9y ago
Most of these people are likely affected by capitalism to an extreme: imperialism. Much larger of an injustice than anything you listed. The people who are most able to take risks (in the investment sense) are those with the most. An expone
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by adjkant 9y ago
The problem is that that $1 pledge is no longer just $1. It's bait and switch math.
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by adjkant 9y ago
Can you detail that math? I've seen math thrown around all over this thread, much of it contradicting. To me, this seems completely negative: Before: 7-15% net fees - $100 = $93 or $85 dollars Now: 8%+ net fees with near 30% fees for $
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by adjkant 9y ago
The distinction is arbitrary and appears to be generally used to highlight the most important things of the year through a person, group of persons, or event involving people, which is obviously quite wide. If you want a person of they year
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by adjkant 9y ago
This should be at the top of HN. A tech company just cut the livelihoods of artists and many other important groups of people all over an artificial fee. This is disgusting and I hope a competitor beats them out ASAP.
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by adjkant 9y ago
Exactly no gain if I'm understanding it.
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by adjkant 9y ago
It's UBER savings! Get your life subsidized by VC money! Get it before it's gone!
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by adjkant 9y ago
Does anyone think this credit card could just be an ad for UberEATS? > "Dining, including UberEATS" I bet that subconscious thought could increase spending enough to pay for any given rewards. Most everything in this article se
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by adjkant 9y ago
History says no, TIME does not think it's the point. As noted, this is also one article published by a single magazine.
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by adjkant 9y ago
Trump logic does not apply to reality. He was already POTY last year. The selection is not always an honor either. Let's stop pretending this is a competition just because Trump thinks it is.
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by adjkant 9y ago
Not sure why this is being downed. I haven't looked into the details of this case, but the more detailed the wireframe mesh the faces are being fit to, the more possibilities there are, and the lower the likelihood of collisions betwee
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by adjkant 9y ago
Need-blind policies only stop universities from not admitting you based on need but does not stop their need-based "formula" from being corrupt, as seen here.
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by adjkant 9y ago
No worries :) having news grind on you is normal for all of us, slip-ups happen.
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by adjkant 9y ago
You're still mixing different time period sizes in 1. I think even size adjusted per ride, Lyft may still be in a better position. 6B vs 750M (more if using newer numbers) when the market ratio of Lyft is nearing a third means that unl
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by adjkant 9y ago
That's fair, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be there. I think people feel that way about a lot of things right now, like Trump on the news daily, regardless of where you stand.
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by adjkant 9y ago
You'll see that when notable stories stop hitting the news so frequently. I think this complaint should be forwarded to Uber. Perhaps directly to the CEO since you might get a big payday out of that.
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by adjkant 9y ago
How is 1.5B a quarter on-par or worse than 750M per year?
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by adjkant 9y ago
To be fair, 18 / 2000 is very small and hardly a dent - the layoffs came because they are decreasing the rate of recruiting, which is still notable but is not laying off engineers (yet anyways). If Uber wanted to make IPO and were pres

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