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Yes, the SEC will continue to take a very light touch. There's no upside to them cracking down on ICOs. The only people losing money are the people who mostly understand the risks of cryptocurrencies and "invest" anyways. The
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> This is why discrimination any basis is wrong, because the individual's experience, advantages and disadvantages are not dictated by whatever group they belong to. Privilege is a statistical metric, but individual experience is n
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That post is something else. Are we really believe that an internship for Pacific Islanders constitutes a plot against White Men? At least you didn't go all "Cultural Marxism" like Damore. I do hope that this is the hill that
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How on earth is Amazon getting too big for its britches? The company does absolutely nothing but help customers by destroying margins. This idea that Amazon should be avoided is very, very strange.
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I think you would be very, very surprised at the quality, quantity and cost of engineering talent in China. This sort of ageism is awful but there's no doubt that China is still very much coming online with its engineering workforce. M
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Your response to scientific studies that demonstrate the VA actually provides better care than private counter parts is to dismiss them all as dishonest cherry picking. You offer up no studies or data of your own. You have no evidence for
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> The VA is, on the whole, atrocitous. There are a couple of regions which do relatively well, because the system is federated, but on the whole, it's almost universally considered to be a disaster, even by people who are supportive
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Again, this is not true. Read the studies comparing VA care to private care. You're actually better off going to a VA hospital than most private hospitals.
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This is a lie. By virtually every measure the VA is the most cost effective and best quality care that Americans can get. * The VA is very cost effective. It is much cheaper than any private sector health plan or Medicare. Instead of buying
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See, 'microwork' is flawed. Facebook doesn't really benefit from the endless stream of likes and comments and sharing. Facebook couldn't care less what you like or what you actually think about current events or what you
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The GDPR goes beyond physical presence. It's strange that your legal team would not know this. See my previous comment [1]. My own understanding based on conversations with lawyers (who spoke to regulators in France) is that the law is
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This is not true. Just read the regulation. It's pretty clear that unless you're located in the EU or you're pursuing EU residents then the GDPR does not apply to you. Logically, it should be clear that the GDPR cannot appl
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> And according to that clarification, having paypal as a payment processor might make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the union. That's what I said. Or it might not. Its not
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> And that is because they are cheaper to operate: the market decided that, rather than a regulator. This is not true. The US has parallel regulation that encourages the phase out of incandescent bulbs [1]. True to form it's a lot
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All of this is spelled out in the law. > Pursue isn't currently a fully defined term. This is pure FUD. This is fully defined that's what makes it a binding legislative act. Let's go to the actual law: Article 3: Territori
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This is pure nonsense. You might learn that the GDPR only applies to businesses located in the EU or who pursue EU citizens. It does not mean that if you Google Analytics and an EU citizen stumbles upon your site you are suddenly in viola
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It's really funny because the blog post is far more ambiguous than the GDPR. He cites no specific provision of the GDPR, he doesn't quote the law, all he does is offer up the big scary $20m number. It's pure FUD. But since we
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This is nonsense. Why spread this nonsense instead of doing a 30-second google search? Why is there so much pure FUD and nonsense about GDPR on HN?
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Yeah, stuff was never scarce. I don't know where on earth you got that idea. After World War 2 the US stumbled upon the greatest wealth creation machine the planet has ever known, a consumer-driven economy that literally printed tril
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Frankly this strikes me as really hacky. A million operations a second isn't even that much. Something like Chronicle [1] can do million s of atomic operations a second. A cluster of 10 nodes for what are basic in-memory counters? And
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Yes the article is badly misinformed and not really worth consideration. That said there are much stronger arguments against UBI. There's a strong argument that UBI combined with current housing and spending policies... would simply en
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There are plenty of people in China who are happy to discuss the pros and cons of their government, especially as compared to America. You could even read Chinese newspapers and forums (some are in English or you could even learn Mandarin!)
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The vast fear and ignorance in this thread is amusing but the comparison of China to Nazi Germany is perhaps a new low, even for Hacker News? It's interesting though how people develop such warped perceptions of the world. It's ex
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There is certainly an expectation of profits. Dot com domains are irrelevant. They are not investing in a common enterprise they are buying an asset they think will accumulate. Decentralization is also a red herring. The courts don't c
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I've noticed Australians and many others will go out of their way to not buy Chinese-made. It's a bit crazy. People, especially some Chinese themselves in certain cities, will go out of their way to spend a bunch of many on expe
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Yeah, this is not predicted by classical economics. Westerners really need to look at other countries. You do not see these sorts of extreme housing shortages in Asia. You don't see it in Tokyo, Bangkok, Shanghai, or Seoul. I have tr
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I think you're very confused if you think other minorities faced anything like what blacks faced. Combined this with the well-known fact that most recent non-Mexican immigrants to America (after 1960) were often quite wealthy before
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This makes even less sense than the original question. The original poster posits a theory that generations of housing discrimination contributed to the enormous racial wealth gap. Another poster comes along and says "what about these
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Yeah, it's like Americans have this massive blindspot when it comes to government. The "problem" of standardized medical record storage and distribution has been thoroughly solved in France. There you have a nationwide system
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This is just basic dependency injection. I agree it is mildly amusing to watch Javascript devs excitedly discover these principles but it does show that these principles are universal. Virtually everything in this talk applies to building v

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