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by colinhb 7y ago
> Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a prominent investor, recalls telling a friend that he was thinking of visiting New Zealand. “Oh, are you going to get apocalypse insurance?” the friend asked. “I’m, like, Huh?” Hoffman told
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Why Amazon, Apple, and a Slew of Startups Are Fighting to Get into [Culver City](marker.medium.com)
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This isn't fun anymore (2017)(therandymon.com)
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by colinhb 7y ago
Think interchange in US is around 2% and wire fees can be in tens of dollars. Right now a reasonable Bitcoin fee would be around 30 sats / byte or 6000 sats / transaction, which is around 50 cents USD. Average transaction fee is l
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by colinhb 7y ago
> I have looked, quite a bit. I have not found a good use case yet Agree with a lot of the analysis. But not quite the broader thesis. Analogy I would make is this: the fact that some banks are bad does not imply that fiat currency is ba
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by colinhb 7y ago
I suspect it's because patio11 is employed by a payment processor, Stripe. Stripe's business is taking a percentage of payments / transfers. One of Bitcoin's usecases is making payments / transfers with lower interc
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by colinhb 7y ago
In the US, enough people have submitted DNA to 23andMe, Ancestry, GED match, etc., that a random DNA sample can be identified by so-called “genetic genealogy” methods. Basically because your generic relatives have submitted their DNA to the
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by colinhb 7y ago
Understanding that current is a convention because it doesn’t matter if you have positive or negative charge carriers in many applications is not wrong in any way. Given the nature of electric charge (not to mention specific applications li
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by colinhb 7y ago
I haven’t followed this work but Todd Mortimer’s slides[1] from last year stuck with me as a good introduction. [1] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2018-rop.pdf
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Facebook Betrayed America(newrepublic.com)
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What is the political situation in the Mario universe? (2013)(quora.com)
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Bloomberg: In an era of hyper-wealth, economy-class rich starts at $25M(bloomberg.com)
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Uber's Defeat Reveals China's Strength and Weakness in Global Innovation(forbes.com)
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To Break a Phone Addiction, Turn Your Screen Gray (video)(theatlantic.com)
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by colinhb 10y ago
Also: took land and resources from native Americans and developed and exported them.
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Charter hires net neutrality advocate to support its merger(wired.com)
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by colinhb 11y ago
> I'm guessing it's either: > (a) all human beings are born with identical talents and inclinations. > (b) human beings may be born with different talents and inclinations, but these talents and inclinations are distribut
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by colinhb 11y ago
All I long for is logical consistency and empathy... Various comments from the discussion: > Whatever happened to "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."? Getting dis-
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by colinhb 11y ago
On the theme of constantly re-inventing time-tracking, it's interesting that 18F called out chosen in their write-up of their time-tracking solution, since chosen is developed and maintained by Harvest, which primarily sells a time-tra