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by anon4this1 9y ago
This reminds me of hearing Reed Hastings of netflix talking about starting the DVD mail-rental business as preparation for when streaming became technologically viable. They knew that internet delivery would eventually work, but to be the
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by anon4this1 9y ago
Also.. Vitalik (and his offsiders) created ethereum when he was like 19. This is impressive, but it also makes you wonder - what real world problems did Vitalik have experience of that he was trying to solve? Zuckerburg was trying to conne
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by anon4this1 9y ago
Vague gambling stuff - is this really going to be a 10x improvement over betfair who already offers solid p2p gambling markets with <5% house take? Distributed computing rewards - maybe for a subgroup off applications (eg. illegal stuff
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by anon4this1 9y ago
When I got into bitcoin in 2011, it had a market cap of $20 million, and already had several killer apps: - Making darknet drug markets possible - Allowed permissionless, highly convenient storage of wealth - Allowed large, rapid, low frict
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by anon4this1 9y ago
Went to a bitcoin conference recently and met a plumber who had quit his job to margin trade altcoins. I think a lot of his positions would have been wiped out in the beartrap 12 hours ago.
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by anon4this1 10y ago
Elsevier look like a ripe target for a worldwide campaign to cancel access to their journals unless fees arnt dropped. Germany are (have?) Pulled access, some other south american countries have also with local academics saying that everyon
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by anon4this1 10y ago
Patients (and addicts) state there is a particular euphoria that oxycodone has (and diamorph/heroin) that morphine doesn't really have. Of course oral morphine does cause addiction, but oxycodone just seems to have greatly increas
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by anon4this1 10y ago
Diamorphine is given IV/IM/SC - not orally - which generally means that its use is confined to a short period in the first few hours/days of a hospital admission until the patient can be switched to oral medication. Noone is
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by anon4this1 10y ago
Alibaba sells fully featured non-fda approved (usually) veteranary ultrasound machines for as little as $800 USD - this includes a monitor and control panel etc. That is probably pretty close to commodity pricing for a specialised device.
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by anon4this1 10y ago
The common working class person has no real ability to alter the globalisation and pro-immigration agenda pushed by mainstream politicians. Successive governments have indicated that they would reduce immigration but all it has done is inc
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by anon4this1 10y ago
I have experienced a lot of volatility with the bitcoins I bought. Namely, they're all worth 100x what I paid for them, while fiat currency continues to lose value every day as central banks print money non-stop.
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by anon4this1 10y ago
any link to details on what parts you use for these bots?
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by anon4this1 10y ago
As a Doctor, the potential for improvement begins from very basics. For instance - a radiologist sees a funny looking line on an xray and reports "this is probably nothing, but we should repeat the xray in 6 weeks to make sure."
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by anon4this1 10y ago
People are sick of biased crap and vague economic theory being touted as data telling them how good immigration and free trade is for them, while in their own lives only seeing things getting worse. Nassim taleb sums it up well: http:&#x2
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by anon4this1 10y ago
Well, I'm an anaesthetist, and have heard this argument. I personally did a heimlich maneuvere on a hospital inpatient who was blue and choking on a big bit of bread, and the bread came out and he turned pink again. So from my samples
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by anon4this1 10y ago
I wasted about 10 years of my life on fc related forums. They were great to begin with, and then gradually just became utterly terrible.
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by anon4this1 10y ago
I know when I was broke, working crappy jobs and in debt, $500 would basically have put a small dent in my credit card, and not much else. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has $16 billion dollars and hes making significant strides towards colonizing ma
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by anon4this1 10y ago
"The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 38 percent. This has occurred despite the global population increasing
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by anon4this1 11y ago
each year 19,000 americans die from prescription opioid overdoses and another 10,000 die from heroin overdoses which often start with prescription opioid use. In my experience (as an anaesthesiologist), people who use opioids as a response
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by anon4this1 11y ago
you should look up "debt monetization" and investigate how it relates to quantitative easing and money printing. Cliff's notes is that quantitative easing is really money printing used to finance government spending, and is r
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by anon4this1 11y ago
The world economy has seen plenty of downturns but the whole developed world turning to negative interest rates is a new thing. Is this a sign that the economic dogma underlying central bank decision making is not really based on anything s
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by anon4this1 11y ago
if chinese miners are indeed trying to limit blocksize in order to increase transaction costs, then the necessary chain of events which needs to occur is: 1) faith in bitcoin as a currency/payment system drops causing price crash 2
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by anon4this1 11y ago
http://www.anchoragecapital.com.au/team/ Phil Cave was the anchorage capital guy who they made the chair of dick smith, and who must've led this thing. "Phil was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia i
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by anon4this1 11y ago
In modern economic terms, subsistence living in small communities barely registers as existence at all. However it is the way most of humanity lived for most of history. And generally it seemed to be a satisfying way of life. We evolved t
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by anon4this1 11y ago
I suppose this is what separates environmentalists from non-environmentalists. You have a fixed belief that any and every human life is more important than all animals or plants.
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by anon4this1 11y ago
"lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty" Objectively, humanity most closely resembles a cancer. The more you feed it, the more it grows. It tramples everything in its path. The belief that somehow exponential econo
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by anon4this1 11y ago
Humans are just an exponentially increasing function which will generally grow to consume the resources available to them. Why do they deserve to be prioritised over the millions of other species on earth?
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by anon4this1 11y ago
Oh .. and another thing. I do point of care needlestick blood testing on people every day. I check haemoglobin and blood sugar levels. When doing a needlestick test for Hb I always do it twice because these results are often spurious (esp
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by anon4this1 11y ago
MD here. The vast majority of soldiers are fit and healthy and will have completely normal labs 99% of the time. The times when they are not normal will be insignificant 99% of the time (had a few drinks last night? your GGT level will be
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by anon4this1 11y ago
I'm dismayed by the lack of focus on the environment here. Humans as a species are doing just fine. Health gains just marginally improve that. We need to focus on finding balance with nature that doesn't involve mass extinctions

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