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by bob33212 5y ago
OK, can you provide some statistics with sources? How many police cars were hit on the side of the road last year? What is the breakdown of the Make/Model that hit them?
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by bob33212 5y ago
It is very possible to have a room in an apartment and food and heat and a cell phone and used clothes and access to public busses for less than 14k/year in many towns and cities If you look at median net worth of individuals. You&#x27
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by bob33212 5y ago
Humans do have a problem with this. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=police+car+hit+...
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by bob33212 5y ago
I agree, except in 50 years the productivity of the world will be so high that building this, even if it costs 500B in today's dollars, someone will pay.
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by bob33212 5y ago
They care about those metrics because they know the conversion rate on those users.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Yes it does, it increases daily usage
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by bob33212 5y ago
But not 100 years worth.
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by bob33212 5y ago
No, the plan doesn't expect every single water supply to go empty, and then have 100 years of water in storage tanks. But it does expect that there may be a very large drop in water coming in for years at a time.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Some percentage of the users may be OK with not knowing if there are bots. Get a few attractive "people" to match with you, get a self esteem boost and move on with your day. And there is the lottery element. What if this one isn&
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by bob33212 5y ago
The original strain of the flu was also more deadly. But it eventually mutated and became less
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by bob33212 5y ago
Yes, the old and sick are the real people at risk.
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by bob33212 5y ago
So Drunk people don't kill innocent people? Obviously it can't be just barely safer than humans. It need to be a lot safer to change public opinion
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by bob33212 5y ago
Every year young drivers die because they were inexperienced and didn't realize they were going too fast to too slow for a certain situation. Once full self driving is statistically safer than humans how will you not let people use it?
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by bob33212 5y ago
This happens even more outside of creator roles. Process people invent processes and then that requires other processes to check those processes, and so on. Then you are in a situation where just buying a product in a way that hasn't b
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by bob33212 5y ago
Reaching 1B valuation would require hiring a lot of people, but building a startup that normally cost 15M to build in less than a year is very doable.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Under that scenario inflation could hit A list entertainer salaries. Chapelle could say his next 1 hour special is going to be licensed for 800 million dollars to whoever wants it.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Not necessarily. Just look a crypto, these people are not selling. Just being a crypto millionaire on paper is good enough of a reward. They have no desire to sell it all and buy a bunch of retail goods. Housing is unaffordable to average w
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by bob33212 5y ago
Here is what a16z said about bitcoin in 2014. "use case for Bitcoin is micropayments", "Switching to Bitcoin, which charges no or very low fees" , "Another potential use of Bitcoin micropayments is to fight spam&q
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by bob33212 5y ago
Do you mean proof of stake? If so, yes there is potential for new technologies to come out which could cause crypto to have more real world use cases and then cause the value of crypto to society to be higher. But we have been hearing about
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by bob33212 5y ago
If you find it a good store of value for yourself that is fine, but you need to understand that value is defined by social norms not by technical features. Picasso paintings are currently a very good store of value. Gold has been a decent s
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by bob33212 5y ago
There are two distinct pieces. One piece is the technology and white paper behind Bitcoin. Most engineers on HN think that is very impressive and a legitimate technological achievement. The other piece is a reaction to the pro crypto crowd
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by bob33212 5y ago
It does show why you shouldn't use "Smart Contracts". Unlike legal contracts they do not have phrases like "REASONABLE INTENT" and "FOR INTENDED PURPOSE" meaning that any loophole can be abused.
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by bob33212 5y ago
If you know that your clocks are exactly the same in New York and Japan you can assume that if an account creation timestamp in Japan is before the account creation time in New York for the same username that the account should go to the Ja
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by bob33212 5y ago
Bitcoin fixes this
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by bob33212 5y ago
People want to get attention for helping society. This looks like a good option because no one is going to say they really need the rock to stay.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Until something terrible happens they will keep rates low. The only people who care about high inflation are people who have salary jobs with low raise potential and people on fixed incomes like annuities. Those people have far less politic
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by bob33212 5y ago
Where are you getting your information from? I have not seen anyone with a scarlet letter or being forced to put the PII into a public database?
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by bob33212 5y ago
What is the damage? Telling people that the vaccine may help them not die is damage? Just look at the data, unvaccinated people are dying much more frequently than vaccinated people.
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by bob33212 5y ago
I Agree, I wish people would try to find a compromise. Unfortunately the people who choose to not vaccinate will die out and have no voice in the matter.
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by bob33212 5y ago
You can keep your science, I trust Jesus.

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