davidcbc

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by davidcbc 5y ago
Which other laws should Amazon be able to ignore?
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by davidcbc 5y ago
The vast majority of cryptocurrency advocates are speculators that don't want to legitimize blockchain payments, they only want the number to go up. Criminal activity has been shown over and over to be the only "legitimate" u
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by davidcbc 5y ago
> Have you considered the possibility that existing regulation is one of the barriers to use of cryptocurrencies? Cryptocurrency has been largely unregulated since its inception and it's almost exclusively used for speculation and c
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Religious most likely
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Is there some reason to expect covid is similar to the flu in long term effects? It's a different disease, why would it be the same?
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Amazon Coin isn't a cryptocurrency, so it seems irrelevant to the conversation.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
If they really want to lean into the reputation they are getting for being a platform for counterfeits and scams then NFTs are the next logical step
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by davidcbc 5y ago
No, because it was actually backed by Amazon instead of by hopes and dreams like stable coins
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by davidcbc 5y ago
What value do BezoBucks add in this scenario? They can already convert USD to other currencies to pay their vendors. Just like Facebook's cryptocurrency it's just a solution in search of a problem.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
What happens if you want to switch jobs? Tying basic necessities like housing to your employer is a disaster that traps people in jobs. It's part of the reason healthcare in the US is so screwed up.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Just add yet another element to the ridiculous Rube Goldberg machine that is cryptocurrency.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
It's not like a credit card at all. With my credit card if someone steals my card and runs up a bunch of debt I'm not on the hook for the charges. With cryptocurrency I'm completely out of luck and my money is gone forever by
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by davidcbc 5y ago
What do you think is going to happen? I think you've got delusions of grandeur.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Because I think it's gonna end with a lot of people losing money they can't afford to lose.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
I mean, if it was some kind of open source medical software that tried to play into the essential oils nonsense I would feel the same way. If you want to be a legitimate product don't associate yourself with the kooks
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by davidcbc 5y ago
It seems like an interesting project, but tying it to the Reddit garbage makes it hard to take seriously.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Age is of zero relevance for hard drives?
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Making terrible anti-virus software doesn't make up for murder and rape
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by davidcbc 5y ago
On the bright side it's better to find out ahead of time. If someone told me this during the hiring process I would immediately end negotiations.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Doesn't this assume you only get liquidated below your initial purchase price? With something as volatile as cryptocurrency it's not exactly a crazy idea that you'd buy at say $30k, take a loan at $60k and get liquidated at $
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by davidcbc 5y ago
This isn't how tax laws work. Exchanging one cryptocurrency for another is a taxable event. You are committing tax fraud.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
This is classic whataboutism. We can't do anything to improve the world because there are other bad things happening in the world too.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Kept more money than they could ever possibly need while others starve.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Theranos had a lot of well respected investors too. It was still a scam.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Tesla is a master of framing. The miles driving without Autopilot includes situations where you can't use Autopilot anyway. The fair comparison would be times when Autopilot could be used but isn't vs Autopilot being used.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Which is why we let people sell anything they want as medicine until someone proves it's harmful... Oh wait that's the opposite of how it works. Medical procedures have to go through a rigorous approval process to prove they are s
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Because a "solution" like that is at best several hundred years away and in the meantime we'd like to slow down the current mass extinction event so that the life as we know it on this planet can survive until then.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Tesla is only ahead on body count.
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Stop giving this dude the benefit of the doubt. He knows what he's doing, he's advertising. HN hates advertisers on the internet unless they are a weird billionaire lying about his cars
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by davidcbc 5y ago
Despite what Elon would have you think Tesla doesn't have autonomous cars. The article points out Tesla only logged 12 autonomous miles during the reporting period. "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving mode" are just

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