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It is theorized there is no adverse effect from killing mosquito species. There is always a counter-effect. Typically it's unpredictable. Mosquitoes FACILITATE transmission of bad stuff. I believe that if bad stuff is not transmitt
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This. Visit Mumbai and tell one of the hundreds of million people that live on 50 cents a day to use their last ounce of energy to walk a piece of plastic to the trash can. I recycle gladly in California, but am realistic that problems at
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Botswana is a model country for Africa. It is ahead culturally, socio-economically and educationally of many countries in South America, Asia and even Europe. Conservation efforts over the last 20 years have been on par with Yosemite. It
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Are you saying they are biased because they see the world through the lens of their studies?
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So profile can be censored by taking down the instance hosting it?
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Controlling thoughts reduces creativity
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Imagine building a startup that moves 10's of millions of new users' monies each month out of US bank accounts. While other startups are just scaling page views, Coinbase is scaling money. Keep in mind that it takes just one fin
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How much energy does it cost to build, power, and commute to bank office buildings?
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Mark Twain's financial struggles and goals were never framed or discussed in my American school education. Wonder what the children of our poorest families would aspire to given the truth of business? God forbid they try to emulate M
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Yet another argument for decentralization. Data monopolies have single points of failure.
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ICO's are now a core application to the cryptocurrency ecosystem and have thereby driven growth to Bitcoin. Let us know if there is anything else I've missed. Your communication techniques are exemplary.
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Robert Shiller's lack of familiarity with ICOs, as highlighted in this article, disqualifies his position on Bitcoin. "The conversation was edited and condensed for clarity." Shiller was unprepared to discuss Bitcoin.
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This. Gold has value like Nike has value. It's a brand. Like the word 'Mom', it's about the strength of the wirings in people's heads. If Bitcoin was around for 1000 years, with less than 1% fluctuations, and ac
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Perhaps the economic leverage of agriculture was lucrative enough to increase dominance by the owner's male lineage. I.E. providing food to starving women from your dad's crop could get you laid more than the hunter gatherer next
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We need to get over social news drama like teens learned to hide their provocative pics from Facebook.
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Satoshi Nakamoto was a good programmer. He influenced the world by speaking through code.
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Top performers will not let their accomplishments be belittled through association with a marginalized sub-group. Sub-group leaders, often not masters in their field, find opportunity in leading sub-groups. Everyone in between, that fits
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Feed anyone sufficient doctor prescribed heroin and they will start to act like the people Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants mandatory sentencing for
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The units have no correlation
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NASDAQ is 46 years old. Bitcoin is 8. How many years until chart analysis applies?
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Feel free to contribute a more accurate term
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Historically, as soon as bitcoin makes national press, it drops. Amateur investors jump on without the stomach for the hiccups, leading to the subsequent virtual "bank run"
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Government handed comcast monopoly over the wire to your door. Now we're sweeping the problem under the rug by policing what goes down the wire. The way to get more choices is to let anyone compete to be your ISP, by liberating the w
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Using an analogy of biological evolution, the "engineer" that nails the right "mutation" on a project can impact its scale of success by orders of magnitude.
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Postgres seems to have become the go-to relational database ever since MySQL fell in the hands of Oracle. Can anyone speak to how its json tree compares to MongoDB's document store in practice?
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IMO, the most vulnerable wallets are going to be the ones actively in use and stored insecurely, for example, on Windows machines subject to the recent NSA bug.
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Perhaps you shouldn't be either. The US is one of very few countries that do this
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Unfortunately this does not play into the mass media narrative of today. Hopefully HN can evaluate statistics more objectively
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Science is subject to interpretation on a spectrum of levels. How accurately can biology predict when a cell will split? Perhaps economic supply and demand is statistically predictable in the same fashion.
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As technologists defining our black sheep is as core to defining our community as to any other. It make us feel better about ourselves (as long as we are not associated with the dark side). Instead of focusing on building better tech, we

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