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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Can you elaborate more? It seems to be that a lot of very smart people think the opposite and are investing huge time and money in it
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Isn't this basically the case with github now? i.e all the cryptos have their code public on github so if I wanted to start mining, I'd have to go there to get the code
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Get in now while it's still early!
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
It would likely cause a short term shock, especially if people were forced to sell quickly. Essentially a lot of shorter term traders would quickly exit the market. Though in the longer run, assuming the network stays up (I see no reason wh
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Bitcoin is essentially unique in that you cannot double spend it.
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Greed is natural. Embrace it.
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Thanks for moderating dang
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Based on this logic aren’t all countries speculating on gold? How do you view sovereign wealth funds?
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Something in the region of 13% of the U.K. population already own crypto. I expect it’s similar in many other countries. What happens if the government forbids owning crypto in that situation? My best guess would be capital flight. Anyone w
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
How is this really any fundamentally different from say GDPR then?
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Why is that?
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
Are you in the US? Ocado here in the U.K. is great.
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by jwblackwell 6y ago
The best ideas are fragile; most people don’t even start talking about them at all because they sound silly. I hear this expressed quite a lot and there's certainly some truth here. I think it can be quite misleading though. Many goo
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by jwblackwell 7y ago
This entire product should just be a rails/laravel/django app with a mysql db hosted on a single server
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Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
186 points by jwblackwell 7y ago|123 comments
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by jwblackwell 7y ago
End to end encryption is not a feature most regular users even understand, let alone want.
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by jwblackwell 7y ago
NodeJS / Javascript finally matures. A true, robust Rails like framework appears and becomes the new default for web dev
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by jwblackwell 7y ago
It's crazy, that's almost £1.5M of debt per restaurant. I expect the independent pizza place next door has less than 10% of that on average
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by jwblackwell 7y ago
Who really cares about 500mb on a laptop?
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by jwblackwell 7y ago
Code is simply the best UI we have for building software
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by jwblackwell 8y ago
The iPhone is really a platform
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by jwblackwell 8y ago
Yes! We launched BuzzSumo 5 years ago almost to the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6437712 and we were acquired by Brandwatch last year.
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by jwblackwell 8y ago
I would trust these tweets to still be visible in 10 years more than one individuals blog being around
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by jwblackwell 9y ago
It’s not easy to get an exact figure but you can fairly easily split out customers who arrived via an ad vs those that didn’t. Likewise it’s easy to split out those customers who arrived via cold selling
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by jwblackwell 9y ago
I think the top of the market is falling as foreign buyers are deterred for various reasons. You are right though, there is so much demand for entry level homes a substantial crash is unlikely
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by jwblackwell 9y ago
This is generally only the case if you buy a leasehold property (which tends to be the case for all flats/apartments granted). Most houses are sold freehold.
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by jwblackwell 9y ago
Having been observing the market closely for a few months, it does look like the asking prices for many £1-3M properties are being reduced. When you consider inflation is running at 3% in the UK currently it's easy to see house prices
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by jwblackwell 9y ago
You’re assuming OP wants to invest all of his money in Lithuum. And that past performance remains the same
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Show HN: A search engine for questions(app.buzzsumo.com)
2 points by jwblackwell 9y ago|0 comments
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Gene testing revolution for cancer care(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jwblackwell 9y ago|0 comments

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