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by cantrip 9y ago
These seems like very different programs to me. The MarArthur Fellowship is a no strings attached financial grant to nominated individuals in any field, they do not allow applications. The Shuttleworth is by application and specifically f
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by cantrip 9y ago
I get the sentiment, but I'd just like the point out that with current interest rates it makes sense put 20% down and invest the rest in mutual funds. You get mortgage interest deduction and are paying 4% interest while making 7% marke
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by cantrip 9y ago
Because the post was a joke about suicide.
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by cantrip 9y ago
Anything can be funny given the right person saying it at the appropriate time in the right context Seeing a suicide joke from a person I don't know in the Hacker News thread about the death an individual I respect an hour after it&#x2
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by cantrip 9y ago
A regular Github search turns up half a dozen more. It feels like you've intentionally limited yourself to the less commonly used tag search in order to attempt to prove a point that isn't there.
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by cantrip 9y ago
It's not by any argument just saying "pay your taxes". The article outlines an interesting situation specific to bubble valuations like the dot com boom or (possibly) crypto currency in which you can easily end up owing far m
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by cantrip 9y ago
I honestly don't know where you're going with that argument. My point was that if the central bank behind a currency goes away so does all of its utility, even if the currency is still physically or digitally there. No one said an
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by cantrip 9y ago
You don't generally hold onto Bitcoin when you take it as payment, you sell it immediately, so no, Microsoft was not "investing" in Bitcoin by taking it as a payment for their products and they're not shorting Bitcoin ei
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by cantrip 9y ago
I don't think it's weird to focus on Ethereum as, as the article correctly states, most new currencies are not a separate chain themselves but are simply tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum is also the only blockchain wit
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by cantrip 9y ago
There are a bunch of solutions on Github but I'm not sure how to judge these ones. Which solution here was the most interesting to you? Were there any bugs or solutions that were clearly sub optimal?
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by cantrip 9y ago
This is a disaster, as it will likely succeed and in doing so make the entire world less secure. Telegram is not a secure messaging platform, despite marketing themselves as such. Signal has built a simple, seamless, and beautiful messaging
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by cantrip 9y ago
Just like if the US Government ceases to exist we'll still have all these dollar bills.
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by cantrip 9y ago
The Gbikes are single speed, not fixies both of which are excellent for commuting longer than a block.
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by cantrip 9y ago
I don't think redacting her name is necessary. Ms. Veach's full name, place of employment, and picture appear in the article. Is it theft? Probably by the definition of the law. But it's also a bit nebulous in practice and ex
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by cantrip 9y ago
Yeah I don't get why you'd assume 4th year Mathematical Finance would be common knowledge. It still strikes me as knowingly condescending. I don't agree that someone else has to lose in order to gain. That assumes zero grow
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by cantrip 9y ago
I think you need to elaborate more on what exactly you're talking about. Nothing does better than the prime rate? You mean in terms of interest rate? Isn't the definition of the prime rate the best you can get? In the long term? W
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by cantrip 9y ago
The statement isn't saying that they're everyone's direct ancestors, just that if 20% of people alive 1000 years ago do not have any current ancestors, that means that the remaining 80% are the ancestors of everyone else aliv
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by cantrip 9y ago
Not yet at least. Once attitudes towards privacy change further towards continual surveillance they'll be the first to flip the switch and turn it on.
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by cantrip 9y ago
None of that is remotely true. Even discounting local and state governments, which use tax dollars to fund themselves and can't print money like you describe, even the federal government doesn't work like that.
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by cantrip 9y ago
I have never paid more taxes (that I'm aware of) than I am legally obligated to and I never will. Your list of conditions for rationally paying more taxes hinges on so many assumptions that it's a moot point. You might as well sa
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by cantrip 9y ago
I actually thought that sentence was one of the more cringe-worthy parts of an otherwise interesting article since "hot-shit" was a term used by the author, not a quote from anyone involved in the parties. I think it's likel
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by cantrip 9y ago
Exactly. Do you think shareholders would stand for a company paying $19.2B more in taxes than they should? That would be absurdly negligent on the part of everyone leading the company. Would an individual pay $500 more in taxes than they a
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by cantrip 9y ago
Really missed an opportunity for the "considered harmful" trope.
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by cantrip 9y ago
Yes, even if the swatting results in the death of an innocent person. > The penalties for driving drunk and killing someone are harsher than a simple DUI. The penalties are harsher because they are different crimes. That's not an ar
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by cantrip 9y ago
> I would like to see this swatter executed Swatting is an abhorrent practice but if a society does execute people (and I don't think that they ever should) you absolutely do not execute them for swatting.
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by cantrip 9y ago
> Over 20 schools and homes > Homes I'm about 10 now > Schools I'm at about 100 Is no one going to reference the typo in that admission? Isn't it possible he meant to say 10 schools?
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by cantrip 9y ago
It's possible that some people just don't feel comfortable taking classes from someone who self describes as aggressive.
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by cantrip 9y ago
A "stablecoin" allows traders to move in and out of cryptocurrency positions to a stable currency quickly, without converting to true USD, which is slow to process. It also allows the transfer of stable value (payments, remittance
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by cantrip 9y ago
The term "hacker" depends on your viewpoint. Put another way, a user executed a function on a decentralized smart contract platform that transferred $150 million to the possession of the function's caller. If the value of sm
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by cantrip 9y ago
The point is that it's stable relative to the most used and trusted currency on the planet.

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