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by billions 7y ago
W2 tax rate is the WORST in the country because regulations make it costly for both, employee and employer. At least as a contractor you can write things off fairly.
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by billions 7y ago
Can you make vodka out of thin air?
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by billions 7y ago
When you understand how few lines of code create the business you work for, you realize the value is in taking risks on new product lines, which, are politically discouraged by most companies. for example, google.com could fire all employe
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by billions 7y ago
big companies do not innovate. (counter examples welcome!) unless you’re in a 1-20 person startup, your impact is -5% to +5% as a division. Essentially you’re stroking egos: yours or management’s. best to choose the latter and try your h
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by billions 8y ago
Intel's x86 business is not far behind
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by billions 8y ago
Banks run green. They only require lights in the building, the building, the branches, and the atms, the employee's cars, the oil deals financed, and the wars financed.
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by billions 8y ago
Based on US household income, 7.65% of 56,516 = $4,323/yr
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by billions 8y ago
100% agree. Simplicity. Big picture focus. The buzzwords & flashy libraries add incremental value over ES6 with large organizational migration costs. For example 90% of Redux code is useless and a liability. But, devs think it’s co
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by billions 8y ago
Remember all your ancestors had splinters in their hands until about 2 people ago
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by billions 8y ago
Seems like the government employees should have some skin in the game. Maybe lay off a percentage of the workforce for poor performance? Maybe the committee that interrogated Zuckerberg should be publicly interrogated themselves. Why fin
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by billions 8y ago
Ever notice how only government services have hours long wait times: DMV, immigration, passport services, city hall, etc. Government has no incentive to optimize.
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by billions 8y ago
Personal attacks are not contributions here
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by billions 8y ago
7 billion people X 1 wallet of fully merged TXs X 100b / tx = 652 GB
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by billions 8y ago
A friend of mine built https://backit.com to help drive exposure to top projects
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by billions 8y ago
What are the heuristics for computing your chart? How much energy was it to make the plastic on the credit card terminals? Do bankers drive Priuses or Cadillacs? What if Bitcoin eliminates 50,000 bankers's air-conditioned office des
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by billions 8y ago
Great feedback, thanks. Will fix the placeholders shortly!
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by billions 8y ago
HN is incredibly homogenious across certain verticals, crypto being one of them. The earth is flat and you'll be downvoted if you suggest otherwise. All ideas should be up for fair debate and, at worst, let the "wrong" side
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by billions 8y ago
[Plug alert] Gifting is one of the few practical use cases for transacting in crypto today. We just launched https://Biterica.com : Gift Bitcoin forward and we're getting some positive feedback on /r/Bitcoin. Wou
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by billions 8y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Email hn@biterica.com. Thanks for your interest!
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by billions 8y ago
These gifts are like gift cards, small amounts and Biterica limits the gift size. People are excited to receive a unique, interesting gift with growth potential. If they really don't like it they can trade it for their local fiat cur
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by billions 8y ago
Startup School material has been incredibly helpful for us at Biterica.com. Highly recommend checking out all their videos, especially on finding product market fit and growth. We just launched if you want to check us out: https:/
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by billions 8y ago
For the first few people interested, I can send a little Bitcoin using the service in exchange for product feedback. PM me your email.
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Show HN: simple Bitcoin gifting (YC Startup School '18)(biterica.com)
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by billions 8y ago
"What a strawman." -@wcarron Below is a list of 590+ failed fiat currencies, 150 caused by hyperinflation. Seems the Straw Man argument is yours alone. https://trader2trader.co/tag/historic-graphs/page
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by billions 8y ago
The government's "stable coin" lost 96% of its value since 1913. Time to try something different? https://comparegoldandsilverprices.com/news/economics-101/do...
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by billions 8y ago
This. Google's carrot stick is the privacy yard.
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by billions 8y ago
Why not give A's to C- students? Because it sets an inaccurate perspective of the rest of the world's expectations, setting them up for future failures. Homelessness is a real problem that requires creative, focused and ambitious
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by billions 8y ago
Book burning stands on the wrong side of history.
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by billions 8y ago
While your points are valid, it is a bit disconcerting to have the world's largest data monetizer watch all of a home's traffic. Google's promised benevolence may be temporary
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by billions 8y ago
What if some helpful antibodies are transmitted via mosquitos? What if this happens cross-species?

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