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by conanbatt 4y ago
That would be even worse, as hackers are by definition rule breakers.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
The real question is why HN is filled with people that have values completely orthogonal to the VC space, like people wanting to leverage the law to make other people do things.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Brokers like Robinhood would love to not have to rely on a third-party market-maker, because it can vertically integrate. Citadel had the years of its life during the bull run in great part to RH. Market making can be neutral, it's not
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Newspapers sell legitimacy and scammers can buy it. SBX is a pretty significant example of the eroding value and public perception of media
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by conanbatt 4y ago
The h1b requirement is the abusive situation
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Fiat is also a bunch of numbers in a computer. This is a very old argument against crypto, need to brush up.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
I didn't know it was that much - do you have a source for it?
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by conanbatt 4y ago
It would still be free for you. What's the conflict?
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Well you want prices to go down because supply is going up. If the supply is the same and prices go down it doesnt mean it is more affordable - it is precisely because it is LESS affordable!
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by conanbatt 4y ago
At the expense of everyone else, with the strict permission from the government. It is a wonder that software has escaped this trap so well.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Well, the author is a sentient AI bent on killing everything human and robot alike so it's pretty consistent.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
If you don't like private prisons, wait until you hear about the public ones.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
It's the exact opposite - this was done in the legal system, not in the defi one.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
defaulting is worse than inflation. It means some people get 0 - whereas inflation spreads the pain. Source: Argentina.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
How do you measure performance
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by conanbatt 4y ago
> Building a bootstrapped business (i.e. NOT taking venture capital) is a rare skill. It is VC companies that are rare - the vast majority of businesses of any kind - and also internet businesses - are bootstrapped.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Ain't that true brother
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Are you willing to pick up a gun to find out what a company is paying for a job? I'd sure like to see that!
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Most good ideas don't require guns to enforce them.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
I disagree - in economic terms the information asymmetry is hardest where there is less competition. You have companies paying 100k and 600k for same-roles in the industry. But alas making it mandatory is not the way to go.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Immigration policy is national, so states can't do much about policy that affects us immigrants. H1B income is capped by the inability to have secondary income sources and the inability for spouses to work.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
*Florida
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by conanbatt 4y ago
The amount of properties that change hands are very few also. A net influx of people changes any local economy. What the OG poster misses is that their income is now a local income - so local incomes also rise.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
This is so complex! Wouldn't just vercel next.js + prisma be simpler?
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by conanbatt 4y ago
The people that bought a 10$ lotto ticket paid 6$ of taxes. How is that not a robbery?
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by conanbatt 4y ago
The slack channel has 11k users, and messages have less than 10 reactions. An Inspection of the user list shows a very suspicious list of names, with some names being repeated 200 times.
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by conanbatt 4y ago
It's how the NFT market works though. It's a different financing model - you might get it way cheaper but every time it passes hands it makes money for the owner. The main issue with this is that what is unique about a record is
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by conanbatt 4y ago
The IRS
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by conanbatt 4y ago
Certainly faster to bike to many places than taking a plane there
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by conanbatt 4y ago
There is more nuance to some of these steps but roughly right. It's very important to understand that this is a very important weakness of the monetary system in every country, and only countries with little political power are forced

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