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by jasonisalive 12y ago
What if Ensure had a cool name and didn't carry connotations of age and disease? What if it was sexily marketed? What if it was easy to flavour and make delicious? What if you signed up for a subscription and never thought about it aga
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Hey, pretty good! Let me have a go. Ahem: The iPhone isn't "new". It isn't "disrupting" anything. Smartphones have existed for years and there are numerous brands out there that have a commercial proven trackre
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Um, actually you do. The principal differences are: 1) You can choose your arbitrage provider independent of your payment channel (whereas with Visa/Mastercard you are locked into the arbitrage facility of the payment channel) -> sp
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I've been reading HN's overwhelmingly negative treatment of Soylent (as the concept) with some amusement. It's interesting. HN is supposed to represent some of the world's most dynamic, forward-thinkers. However almost
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Better go back to eating pre-husbandry wild plants then if you're so worried about genetic modification.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
No, Bitcoin will help make it profitable to roll out new technologies. Roll out != invent. It will also stimulate the development of said technologies. Because it lowers the cost of taking payment. As far as cash, try collecting cash paymen
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Entrepreneurs smell an opportunity[1] to roll out one of the many, many new energy technologies that have developed in the meantime in your area (which somehow was overlooked until this point.) [1] An opportunity made possible by the abilit
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
bank customers do not have enough information to determine whether a bank is sound or not. Bullshit. Customer reviews, third party audits, history and reputation, secondary signals (quality of website, customer support, advertising, quali
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
If you truly believe in Bitcoin, this is just one more insignificant blip on a path, driven by inexorable network effects, that leads to Bitcoin becoming the sole world currency and savings commodity, leaving the fiat currency milieu of 201
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, you must have missed the part where you actually asserted that theft, the violation of private property, was net healthy for an economy. That's a) impossible b) arrogant and c) heartless. And I'm supposed to be the asshol
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
If you truly believe in Bitcoin, you believe that a) there is a good chance that in the future USD, JPY, EU, UKP et al. will be worthless relics, ornaments in a history museum that schoolchildren laugh and joke about and b) that the world w
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Bitcoin because it was first. Bitcoin because it has the community, the attention, the history - in other words, the network effect. Bitcoin because it's not a clone. Bitcoin because other people choose Bitcoin. Etc. etc. Bitcoin becau
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Checklocktime + multisig + the reputable third-party arbitrage provider of your choice, if you want.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
When/if Bitcoin becomes the world currency, it's price will stabilise to match the global desire to defer the completion of trades (i.e. the aggregate desire to purchase goods in the future). So you might expect to see it go up an
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
The UK is one of the wealthiest, stablest, most developed countries in the world. Pointing out that its banking system is relatively effective as if that reduces the value of Bitcoin is like saying toilets and public sanitation is great in
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
So robbing people is actually striking a blow for economy prosperity? Right, I'm sure all those greedy Jews were wrecking things by coveting their shiny ducats... they should learn to share right? Anyway. Turning "hoarding" i
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Gold's value in industrial uses is a fraction of its market value, just like the value of a dollar bill for industrial uses (wallpapering, rendering to make paper, burning for heat etc etc) is a fraction of its market value too. Ultima
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
This isn't better. It encourages savers to be reckless in their choice of bank, and thus banks to be reckless in their lending policies, because the profits of risky loans are privatised while the losses are socialised. The ultimate lo
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Natural resources... belong to the person who extracts them. Wow, you must be a legal scholar. So let's say one day you come home to find that I've demolished your house and started drilling for oil. You're cool with that,
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
America has long held itself up as "better" than other countries - more virtuous, more wise, more free, more advanced, etc. etc. When you actually look into it you see: a) the utterly brutal dispossession and extermination of a we
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, this article is about taking responsibility. Criticising the tribal struggles of the people you dispossessed, exterminated and then wrote out of history, as if there's some sort of moral equivalence in play here, that's the
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Currently I have a 2013 Macbook Air, which I'm happy with everything about except for a) the keyboard, which I find too shallow and harsh for extended typing, and b) Office for Mac, which is a terrible substitute for the real thing. I&
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
1) I'm not American, I find it insulting that you assume that I am. 2) If your country is so well-run why do you have 23.7% unemployment?
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
1) I'm not American, but thanks for assuming. 2) Australia isn't moderate in the slightest.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
When you read about the statements made by abolitionists ("no one can feel proud of himself when he exploits the flesh of his fellow man") do you think "how arrogant, they should have acknowledged that their ethical system wa
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Hmm, which is it, do you disagree that aggressive legislation against Uber is unrelated to it being an American company? Do you believe that this legislation promotes openness, personal responsibility, free choice and minimal government? Or
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
1) If you read it properly it's not actually a prediction of imminent collapse, it's a suggestion that buying gold is an optimal strategy and if the world realised this and acted perfectly rationally everyone would buy as much gol
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Part 2 of the article: http://www.safehaven.com/article/5206/why-the-global-financi...
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I posted this because I found it quite interesting, as I've found all of this guy's writings. Here he is more recently on Bitcoin - quite illuminating I think: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com.au/2013&#
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Why the global financial system is about to collapse (2006)(safehaven.com)
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