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by noddy1 9y ago
Isn't "consistent billionaire" a surrogate for "way over a billion" whereas the "non-consistent billoinaire" is someone who makes about a billion? And, does any of this mean anything? who cares?
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by noddy1 9y ago
:shrug: don't care
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A blockchain could improve on this because it leaves some trail linking actions of individuals as well as authorities together. For instance, you can make a timestamped scan of a university degree to prove it existed on some date. However,
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Actually, it does need to be repeated, because economists and their opinions and their "evidence" are being given too much credit by politicians and laypeople.
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by noddy1 9y ago
Im a "blockchain-for-x" skeptic, but I disagree with this article. A timestamped, immutable blockchain would be useful for reviewing credentials from 3rd world countries where qualifications/experience/government certifi
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by noddy1 9y ago
couple of thoughts: 1) If the value of the individual damages related to this breach are in excess of the market cap of the equifax company, all company stock should be seized and distributed equally among those affected by the breach. 2) I
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by noddy1 9y ago
As I get older, so much of what I grew up being totally excited with but which was considered fringe and counterculture is now being recognized as truly revolutionary. I remember as a medical student on placement asking a palliative care ph
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by noddy1 9y ago
In addition to these blatantly fraudulent ICO's, I contend that even the "legitimate" ICO's are a total shitshow. It's not that they raise far too much money for their projects (although they do), its just that with
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by noddy1 9y ago
I think in the future instead of having a accountant/lawyer assisting with private/offshore banking, you will have a crypto security consultant showing you the best way to secure your own funds.
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by noddy1 9y ago
Split your holdings into 20 portions. Invest in a range of high quality currencies and for each holding have several portions each secured with a different method. Eg. have some on a hardware wallet, some with multisig paper wallets, some
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by noddy1 9y ago
Can you spend most of your time in USA if you are not a citizen? Who wants to live in lebanon?
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by noddy1 9y ago
Had a chat with a high ranking public tax official last week who said that the age of secret offshore bank accounts is over - mass leaks resulting from bounties mean that any rogue employee with a USB of account information can get a 7 figu
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by noddy1 9y ago
SEC regulations are failing the average american in a big way. When it is impossible to own stock in basically any of the high growth tech companies, every person with retirement funds/401k in index funds or markets is missing out, an
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by noddy1 9y ago
I found it funny that Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn who started the ZCash project, and has a background in cryptography and security, publicly admitted to not understanding how Zk-SNARK works. I once spent a long evening trying to understand i
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by noddy1 9y ago
Slack lacks a truly broad network effect. Already loads of competitors with equivalent or better products - lots of people seem to be using telegram now. Whatsapp rooms are just as good too. They are really going to struggle to aggressiv
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by noddy1 9y ago
I was a longtime ethereum sceptic, however I was guilty of being a cynical old curmudgeon; the type that poo-poo's anything and everything novel on the grounds that I'll be right 95% of time, ignoring the fact that I'll poo-p
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by noddy1 9y ago
Just for interest's sake, the Kin ICO has been a fizzer compared to many other ICO's. In the first 24 hours in which preregistered participants were eligible to buy equal amounts of tokens only 20% was sold. Now, almost at the en
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by noddy1 9y ago
I am.
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Ask HN: How can I buy AirBNB stock – if I'm happy to pay a premium?
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Next step is to rank the participants, start making actual trades based on the top 50%, then ICO a coin promising a share of those profits for $30 million in ETH
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I think if there was any justice in the USA, a court would declare that the Equifax breach was significant enough that the damage caused is greater than the value of the Equifax company, and the company itself would be taken from existing s
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by noddy1 9y ago
ICO's will continue to originate from places with relaxed regulatory regimes - Switzerland, the Cayman islands. And people in countries where this type of capital raising is not permitted will find ways around it. KYC is very easy to
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by noddy1 9y ago
Great article. I agree with almost all of it. Although I think all this highlights the massive unmet need for high risk investment vehicles. The stock market has become huge, slow moving and boring, where the already-rich make slow gains o
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by noddy1 9y ago
daily reminder: The Nobel prize for economics is not a real nobel prize
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by noddy1 9y ago
heh, 2 of my favourite things in the world collide - hackernews and chapo.. quote of the century - post-trump election in hillary clinton "democrat" voice: "i MAY not be DALE Earnhardt but I SMASHED into the FUCKING WALL beca
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by noddy1 9y ago
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1xf7GB... utterly terrible idea. I was in india in Dec/Jan and the amount of chaos resulting from demonetisation was immense. The outcome was obvious - noone was
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by noddy1 9y ago
> If you call these currencies, then you need to recognize > that they are extremely deflationary and will never be used as > fiat currencies are. For me, one of the best things about bitcoin is that it is actually going allow a
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by noddy1 9y ago
Question.. All my device lithium batteries seem to lose ~70% of their ability to hold charge after 500-1000 cycles, however the tesla car batteries/powerwall claim to give a decade+ of use despite being built of the same cells. How doe
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by noddy1 9y ago
Keynesian economists triumphantly point to the massive QE that has occurred and the seemingly minimal resulting inflation and claim victory for stimulatory monetary policy. How was the QE performed? Basically printing piles of money and giv
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by noddy1 9y ago
I was skeptical about UBI until listening to michael munger's interview about it on econtalk http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/michael_munger_3.ht... I think one of the biggest flaws of capitalism

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