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by cal5k 9y ago
Steven Pinker's new book, Enlightenment Now, has a pretty compelling section on wealth/income inequality. The basic position - and I think the data supports this - is that it really doesn't matter what the top 1% are doing so
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Respectfully, that's bullshit. There is nothing that YouTube could have done that makes an active shooter their fault. "Maybe if they hadn't been so mean...". News flash: normal people don't go on a shooting spree w
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You may just need to upgrade your dyno? Definitely shorten the URL. But I second the other comments - really nice UI, looks great!
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I'm disappointed to see Hacker News turning into Slashdot - immediate negative reaction to anything new, lack of empathy with the insanely difficult task the reddit management team is undertaking, and a general selfish bias of "as
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The subscription price varies substantially according to age and region. I also suspect that they make a lot of money from "whales", i.e. people with the most expensive subscriptions who also buy their other item packs (superlikes
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Most of the people who spout such nonsense have no idea what they're talking about.
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I think this number is a massive underestimate of their annual top-line. Based on the cost of a subscription I'd bet it's in the $1B+ range.
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My thoughts exactly. And she probably knows perfectly well what she’s doing - she professes to take pride in her numbers - but has a journalistic imperative to write things that people will read. I often wonder how much controversy is direc
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I think they're sort of caught between a rock and a hard place - a lot of "retail investors" have bought into cryptocurrency at this point. Aggressive action by the SEC to crack down on digital currency would adversely affect
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Hah. It takes more than an ambiguous subject to get on my bad side. If you start badmouthing Canadians, though, different story bub ;-)
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I believe this is simply an unclear subject - "it" refers to the article, not my comment. I will admit I initially took offence, though, because I rather like tptacek.
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Hmmm, very good point - I think I might have misinterpreted that line. The danger of an unclear subject ;-) Agreed. The main thrust of my comment was that this is a non-article, and yet it seemed to be inviting commenters to lay out their p
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True. And if at some point in the future their actions become aggressive and unreasonable, I would have a far less charitable view. I can only judge them based on their actions to date, not what they might do in the future.
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I'm personally very keen on "coin-mediated" finance. However, that doesn't mean I'm stupid enough to believe I can flout securities law without consequences. A public offering is still a public offering when you cou
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I don't see why that matters. They clarified that DAO tokens are securities but decided not to pursue any action for a number of reasons, one of which being (and they've stated this elsewhere) that prior to their clarification the
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"The Commission has determined not to pursue an enforcement action in this matter based on the conduct and activities known to the Commission at this time" I mean... it sounds to me like they did their due diligence. The PDF conta
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I'm flabbergasted by how much disinformation is infecting this threat. If you look at the list of legal actions the SEC has pursued at the bottom of the article, they are all flagrant violations of securities law and clearly unethical
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Yup. It's really quite simple - focus on the USD on-ramps and off-ramps.
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Just got back from Iceland! (I'm Canadian) Outside of the touristy parts of Reykjavik, everybody will assume you speak Icelandic until you respond in English. Then they'll switch to almost perfect English, with remarkably few exce
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by cal5k 9y ago
Okay, let me pose a question to you then - how much electricity do banks consume in their data centres, their offices, etc. etc.? How is that any different?
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This is the sort of flippant comment that has no place on HN. Who told you to invest your entire life savings in crypto? That seems like a foolish strategy even to someone who is quite bullish on cryptocurrency in general (me). As for &quot
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Sounds like we need a standard for setting standards to make this easier!
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*Lifetime is defined as the TTL setting on our DNS records.
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"Columbia University researchers found that opioid addiction had tripled over a 10-year period, with the proportion of Americans reporting abuse or dependence increasing from 0.1% of the population in 1991–92 to 0.3% in 2001–02."
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I had jaw surgery recently... while I wouldn't describe it as incredibly "painful", particularly since everything was numb (they have to slice through nerves for this procedure), it was really uncomfortable and stressful for
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Are they stuffing that money into a mattress? Buying stuff with it? Or do they deposit it somewhere?
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Yeah, I hear you. At least it's more robust there than it is in Canada... our Schedule I banks (there are 5 major ones) are protected by law from foreign competition. I don't see a move towards the type of deregulation that might
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It's simply not possible to carry on business without a bank account. For that reason I'd like to see legislation which makes it illegal to refuse customers on the basis of their business model, so long as it is legal.
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I'm resisting the urge to respond flippantly, since I think that's a question that could be answered rigorously and is certainly worth asking. With that said, since the advent of the RCT, life expectancy has gone up dramatically i
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An elisphany! What is the human body if not a list of proteins? ;-)

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