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by gonehome 5y ago
Yascha Mounk and Persuasion is really great. I tend to like writers that have more of a scout mindset. Bari Weiss’ Common Sense, Scott Alexander (the comments here trashing him are wrong, easy to tell by reading him), The Diff by Byrne Hoba
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure, I didn’t know this but I’m also not surprised big fish that bring in massive revenue and readership get better negotiated rates (or some value equivalent) that are not publicized. They provide more value and have more negotiation leve
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by gonehome 5y ago
Thanks for building a native app!
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, the app is great - I loved the email newsletters and read them in my client, but filtering quickly becomes a hassle. Being able to open the app to read when I want to will be much nicer.
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by gonehome 5y ago
ubac framed the question in a hostile way which is probably why he was ignored. What you're describing sounds like a cash advance/guarantee which Hamish mentioned about 'de-risking' offers. If you have good data that a w
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think you're wrong (I'm ignoring the inflammatory rhetoric and taking the core of your argument in good faith). The good thing about substack compared to most centralized apps is that writers maintain control over their audience
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by gonehome 5y ago
This is the highest signal list I'm aware of on the topic: https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/ For a book with more in the weeds details: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency-Technologie
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by gonehome 5y ago
You're right that if you have access to foreign bank accounts or currency that can be an option (can be hard to get if you're in a country with a hostile government). Often BTC is the most accessible option available. Crypto is th
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by gonehome 5y ago
> "if you have to liquidate 90% of your wealth in the middle of a market crash" That's why I said before the invasion, if the market already crashed probably too late to matter, but you'd still want to get whatever yo
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by gonehome 5y ago
I don't disagree with you and I don't pretend there are no risks with cryptocurrency. The security requirements are obviously harder, the UX is bad and even technical users fuck it up. Some of this will be improved by tooling, som
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by gonehome 5y ago
The device holds a private key that can be regenerated from 12 seed words. The device itself doesn't really matter if you know these 12 words. The key is what lets you update ownership information on the public block chain. The wallet
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by gonehome 5y ago
Obviously that is not as easy/useful/realistic as a wallet you can generate from memorized seed words to instantly recover your wealth anywhere.
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by gonehome 5y ago
You're right of course, but it's way riskier to take physical possession of commodities and it's harder to move them. These are things crypto is better at. For cash, the advantage is that crypto is independent of government a
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by gonehome 5y ago
The storage device doesn't matter - it's the seed words that generate the wallet that matter. If you memorize them you're good (short of someone beating it out of you or legally compelling you - even then they'd have to
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by gonehome 5y ago
The capability of self-custody is the thing to pay attention to. Nothing else has this capability to the same extent. Today we store most of our wealth in assets (market index funds, stocks, real estate, etc.) and some (typically very littl
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by gonehome 5y ago
This battle has been fought and lost and the language has changed. I've learned to just accept the new meaning and imo it's better that way (otherwise you'll end up being the person correcting everyone who writes linux to wri
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by gonehome 5y ago
Depends on the state, In California they can’t be be paid below minimum wage.
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by gonehome 5y ago
The food is heavily subsidized though and really good iirc. Google's food is good too, but people bitch about it. Arguably they bitch about it partly because it's free which commoditizes its value to zero so they don't value
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think it's specifically a play on Stripe's mission statement to "increase the GDP of the internet" so in that light he "works for the internet". I like his writing, but his miss on that Japan covid thing (lin
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by gonehome 5y ago
I think it might be simpler? The more complex products are the only ones that typically have any documentation or up to date learning resources. You want to learn how to build a thing and this is the only thing that really exists, is up to
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by gonehome 5y ago
Last I checked LG was the best available mainstream option.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah this is a fair flag and a risk with this kind of thinking I try to be cautious of. It can be hard to know what’s a cultural norm. Plus there’s always over-fitting and high variability within a group (always outliers and exceptions). St
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by gonehome 5y ago
> “I think actually women are quicker to get bored with boring monogamous sex whereas many men will tolerate mediocre sex” Women have easy access to sex in a way that most men don’t. I think that’s probably the reason men are happy to ha
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, built in male ev-psych concern about sex (and really it’s the connection to paternity) vs female concern about resource investment. Poly people argue you can learn to get over these things, but I’m not so sure. I remember reading poly
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I’m with you and we’re also doing this. Reality though (imo) is this is extraordinarily rare and most people pick mates based on attractiveness at a young age and then have kids similarly randomly either then or a couple of years late
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by gonehome 5y ago
I do this, but it does make me wary of lock-in. It’d be a pain to have to change all of these in order to leave fastmail.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Coffee Meets Bagel originally tried this before they changed things. It's bad for men who already get ~0 matches unless you're in the top few % of men. It's bad for women who get a lot out of the massive selection options (wh
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by gonehome 5y ago
Sure you can argue this is how it should be and society would benefit (I’d agree), but it’s not how it is. Housing is scarce and kept scarce by owners through NIMBY legislation. That scarcity drives prices up. Plus 30yr fixed rate interest
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by gonehome 5y ago
You can use a Yubikey for 2fa with 1Password
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I’ve had a PayPal failure, a PayPal success, an apple pay failure. It’s definitely not a guarantee. Most of the Venmo type scams where people “accidentally” send you money and ask you to send it back or pay for an item with bad funds are no

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