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by diego 5y ago
All this means is that moving Bitcoin in the main blockchain is not practical for most people. Bitcoin is an asset for an elite. Those who are interested in frequent cryptocurrency transactions should not be even paying attention to Bitcoin
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Is Bitcoin Throwing Energy Away?(diegobasch.com)
2 points by diego 5y ago|1 comments
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by diego 5y ago
"Virtual money" is an oxymoron. Is a dollar in a bank account more virtual than a dollar bill or less virtual than a bitcoin?
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I funded Coinbase in 2012. Making 6000x on my best startup investment yet(youtube.com)
1 points by diego 5y ago|0 comments
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by diego 6y ago
If you google "Shaun Cromber" the only match is this article. No Shaun Cromber on Facebook either. Very high chance of being fake.
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by diego 6y ago
I am one. I have invested in some YC (and non-YC) companies over the years. About half of my investments are listed here. https://angel.co/p/diego-basch
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by diego 6y ago
This points to a much more serious problem. This is 2021 and the technology is from the 90s, with a really poor user experience design. Your car warns you when you're low on fuel, but your server doesn't if you're low on cri
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by diego 6y ago
No, that's not the point. I'm not talking about _me_ specifically, I'm talking about how the article has a prescriptive title. It implies that everyone should write this way. In reality it's about the author's prefe
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by diego 6y ago
The main issue with the article is the imperative title. It's not "here's why I like to write in this style." It's telling the reader to write that way. Sorry but no, I won't write the way you do because you te
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by diego 6y ago
It doesn't follow. Bitcoin chases cheap energy, so wherever green is cheaper than carbon that's where Bitcoin will be mined. Eventually carbon will be more expensive everywhere.
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by diego 6y ago
Mine, also 256, 8GB RAM, bought on 12/26/2020. Primarily a browsing machine (Chrome). SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 35 Cels
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by diego 6y ago
I have a 256GB, bought it exactly two months ago. 55TB written, 3%. Not doing anything crazy with it, it's mostly a Chrome machine.
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by diego 6y ago
Yes, 2014 in fact is when Hal Finney died, a few months after that post. He is perhaps the strongest candidate for Satoshi, and if so we'll probably never know.
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by diego 6y ago
The explanation the article doesn't give: 1) The category "country" is useless for this comparison. Monaco, Taiwan, New Zealand and China are all countries. 2) Population clustering, movement, demographics and culture, public
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by diego 6y ago
You don't need to leave, you can strike for example. "Condemning" does nothing.
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by diego 6y ago
Also keep in mind that the quote is from a different time. Today if something important happens I will find out about it even if I don't want to. An acquaintance will text me, or it will be discussed somewhere (everywhere perhaps) onli
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by diego 6y ago
It could be, but this is Occam's razor stuff. It doesn't sound hard, nobody knows what the factors are. Other people have tried it, they have not succeeded. Sama doesn't know what the other people look like. You'd have t
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by diego 6y ago
"none of it sounds that hard, and yet in the 15 years since, it hasn’t been close to replicated." ^ That right there is the definition of luck and timing. If it's not that hard, tons have tried, and nobody has replicated, the
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by diego 6y ago
Never once in my life I thought "I wish I had taken notes when I met person X." I naturally remember something worth remembering to me, and never once I found out that there was something important that was said and I was worse of
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by diego 6y ago
That is a really good article. The question that prompted is very telling: the asker fails to see nuance, and reduces OP's work to "backups." He/she might be more impressed if Colin were an author of tons of papers that
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by diego 6y ago
I am 145 lbs, live in San Francisco, I used to be a programmer (basically retired now). I met the mother of my son while bouldering at Mission Cliffs. She has nothing to do with the tech sector. Bouldering requires just a pair of shoes. The
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by diego 6y ago
There is no contradiction. We can all be altruistic or nasty depending on the context. We are messy and complicated animals, and we cooperate or defect depending on many signals. For those interested in this topic in depth (not just anecdot
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by diego 6y ago
As an investor, all I can say is that having gone through YC is not the signal of quality it was 7 or 8 years ago. This doesn't mean YC is doing anything wrong regarding their investment strategy. It simply means they are expecting a
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by diego 6y ago
They benefit from engagement. Turns out hate is a large part of engagement. Writing an article to say it isn't so does not make it true.
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by diego 6y ago
How many of those people would normally be walking in malls, stadiums or even gyms?
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Why learn to code for fun and not profit(diegobasch.com)
3 points by diego 7y ago|0 comments
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by diego 7y ago
"Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died" The keyword here is reported . We don't know how many unreported cases there are, it could be 10x the reported ones. In the US it's much more than that, given
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by diego 7y ago
If having a user-removable battery makes my phone not water resistant, then I don't want that. I have never had an issue with an iPhone battery. As things are, the battery is replaceable by any skilled technician so the cost of having
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by diego 7y ago
I get his point, but it’s not expressed well. It’s not “easier to succeed.” The chart effort/time has a different shape. Upfront effort is tremendous, and if you can get past that then it gets easier.
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by diego 7y ago
That doesn't follow. Once people work there, they don't want those people to leave for Facebook et al. so they have to compete on retention.

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