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by jeremyt 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you try to buy a two dollar tube of toothpaste with a two dollar speck of gold, they'll say no thanks.
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Whenever I look at anti-Bitcoin arguments, it mostly just boils down to the fact that they don't really know Bitcoin all that well. There's absolutely no reason why digital gold can't be extremely liquid. There's no rea
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Well, I guess that's great. It's a free market, and the best option will win, but a blockchain isn't a blockchain unless you have enough distributed hashing power behind it to ensure that no one entity or small groups of ent
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by jeremyt 10y ago
The people in this thread hating on crypto are missing the point. Complaining that you can't go into CVS and buy something with Bitcoin right now is like complaining that all you can do with the Internet is send "electronic mail&q
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by jeremyt 10y ago
What's weird to me is you seem to keep trying to play this off as you being the reasonable one here, as if i'm being frustratingly obtuse. Frankly, I don't understand what your argument is, because "I believe in consent
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by jeremyt 10y ago
I'm sorry, i'm just laughing. I appreciate your response, and I'm struggling to take it seriously, but I think you just admonished me for being one of those knee-jerk deregulationists while in the same breath suggesting that
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Did you really just "Double right on" the need for smart regulation and then proceed to armchair quarterback your way to another useless regulation? Look, we don't have a problem with overbooking in this country (USA). I saw
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Look, this is silly. Thinking that one news story reported by the media is representative of the whole United States is like westerners thinking that if they travel to the Middle East there will be a roving bands of Muslims beheading people
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by jeremyt 10y ago
In the most non-trolling way that I can manage, why can this not be generalized to the economy? Why is academia a special case scenario where bureaucracy and regulations create unintended consequences and cause people to expend effort to ge
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Stack overflow is a bad example. The vast majority of their workforce is in sales and works on the recruiting product. The actual team which maintains and improves the Q&A product is tiny
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by jeremyt 10y ago
So let me get this straight, her domain got hacked, transferred to a hacker, who proceeded to sell it. Then, she contacted the FBI, who gave her an interview and basically did not much, and then she got her domain back by paying for it and
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by jeremyt 10y ago
If you raised wages and nobody wants the job, you haven't raised wages enough.
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Nobody knows about what I have. It's not public, and the product never went out of private beta.
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Ask HN: How do I go about open sourcing a project?
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David Gelernter under consideration for Trump advisor role(yaledailynews.com)
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by jeremyt 10y ago
You think FDA employees are immune from this type of thing? How do we go about finding the angels needed to staff this agency?
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by jeremyt 10y ago
See, I added, "in general", because I knew somebody was going to come behind me and give one anecdotal reference to a good public school. Yes, there are some good public colleges, and a whole lot of crappy public colleges. Yes, t
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Public schools are not nice, in general. That's why anyone with any money at all sends their kids to private school.
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by jeremyt 10y ago
The price crashed today because the BOC visited BTCC. I think that's obvious.
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Until they aren't. Bear Stearns paid its bills every year until it suddently didn't.
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by jeremyt 10y ago
I'm sorry, but this statement is not true. These numbers require the use of the Social Security trust fund. The Social Security trust fund is a "special issue treasury bond" in which money is deposited and then spent by the U
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Bitcoin
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Try protonmail
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Just sour grapes. You don't have any magical insight into the industry. You're just drawing conclusions from one data point. Here are two more data points for you: I've worked at two startups and so far both startups are soli
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Mitt Romney paid 14% federal, that doesn't include state. And the person I was responding to said that there is "nobody" paying more than 50%. FYI, he paid 14% federal because most of his money came from carried interest whic
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Are you kidding? An upper income taxpayer in California pays 39.6% federal, 10% state. On top of that there are sales taxes, property taxes, payroll taxes, unemployment benefit insurance, the 3.4% Medicare surcharge, car registration taxes
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by jeremyt 10y ago
I actually think that medical records are basically public. It's only a matter of time before the various doctors offices or government agencies or private companies that hold these records are hacked and the records released on the In
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Could you lay out the play-by-play on how global warming is a threat to civilization? It seems to me, at worst, a slow-motion problem that will take almost a century to unfold and perhaps force large chunks of people to relocate to other pl
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Could you cite one or two of those?
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by jeremyt 10y ago
Or read a few paragraphs of Lyndon Johnson's biography.

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