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by nugget 9y ago
Definitely strikes me as semantics but if you view "the population" as a bunch of very mature Chromosome pairs (human beings), then what's the difference? Natural selection can send a specific gene mutation into an immediate
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by nugget 9y ago
99% of crypto is about speculation, not investment; there's less and less talk about real utility as the bubble inflates and the need for real code (or even real ideas) to support the narrative decreases. I'm reminded of 1999 whe
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by nugget 9y ago
This leads me to think that a real downturn is at least a couple years away.
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by nugget 9y ago
Isn't there a self-reinforcing positive cycle that can be manipulated here, i.e. large bcash holders manipulate the price up, making it more profitable to mine, attracting more press (like this article), attracting more miners, making
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by nugget 9y ago
Usually in the US you can only be sued for actual, provable economic damages that are suffered as a result of your actions. It sounds like there may have been more to the story here.
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by nugget 9y ago
Can you elaborate on their claim for specific damages? How could a temporary change to robots.txt cause millions of dollars in damage? (Assuming you weren't telling Google to de-index TripAdvisor or some other huge SEO-dependant site
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by nugget 9y ago
Well if you really believed it was a flawed technology but "fit for speculation" then you could have rationally bought in early just on that basis alone. It's clear that many people buy a little Bitcoin and then become loud a
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by nugget 9y ago
I wonder how your mother's professor reconciled his personal misogyny with the fact that by 1960 Gerti Cory, Marie Curie, and Marie's daughter Irene had all won Nobel Prizes (and Rosalind Franklin would have won one in 1962 had sh
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by nugget 9y ago
If you want to mask your identity wouldn't you be better off buying Visa gift cards with cash at a major store and then using them to purchase services online?
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by nugget 9y ago
Is there a way to measure which cities are benefiting, and by how much?
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by nugget 9y ago
If/when the limit of 21 million is reached, the miners would/will increase the limit. Over time the incentives of BTC holders and BTC miners diverge. One of the many reasons a viable PoS is important, as it merges these two grou
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by nugget 9y ago
A handful of "rich and powerful" people lost out here. Orders of magnitude greater numbers of "rich and powerful" people rely upon unassailable precedents of property law to "take advantage" of less sophistica
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by nugget 9y ago
The State and Federal Governments already provide health insurance for a majority of citizens, and we seem to be rapidly headed towards some version of "single payer" universal health insurance. I think we'll start to see mu
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by nugget 9y ago
Don't be so sure. The penny stock market is alive and well. People love to gamble.
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by nugget 9y ago
> Overstock, Steam, lots of VPS and VPN services, as well as many other online stores take bitcoin. Under current US tax laws, every time you purchase something with BTC, you need to calculate the cost basis in that individual lot of BTC
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by nugget 9y ago
So what are the safer competitive team sports for kids to participate in?
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by nugget 9y ago
> New research suggests that the superrich are hiding their money at alarming rates. A study by economists Annette Alstadsaeter, Niels Johannesen and Gabriel Zucman reports that households with wealth over $40 million evade 25 to 30 perc
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by nugget 9y ago
Certainly, there is always risk of poor strategy and/or poor execution, with an outcome exactly as you describe. Having seen both scenarios play out however (as both an investor and an operator), in this case I think it would be the r
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by nugget 9y ago
All of the above, including her own subliminal bias which is reinforced by being around a lot of peers who run services businesses.
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by nugget 9y ago
Sure, here's an example - a small startup which occupies an attractive niche, definite market need, product-market fit, and decent traction. The founder developed a software platform in response to market need, but the market also tol
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by nugget 9y ago
> It's just really hard to get serious VCs to pay attention to Pittsburgh. I'm an angel investor in a few dozen tech startups, about half in the Bay Area and half spread elsewhere around the country. The biggest problem with t
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by nugget 9y ago
I'll do you one better: combine super comfortable van dwelling type vans, autonomous vehicles, and extreme commuting. Can I fall asleep in my van in my driveway 2 hours away from Manhattan but program it to start driving me in about 9
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by nugget 9y ago
Look at Tezos - they used the success of Bitcoin (and Ethereum) against itself, by the way they funded a totally competing blockchain. You can be bullish on the future of crypto and a bear on BTC and ETH prices, if you envision a future wh
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by nugget 9y ago
Every state's tax code is a story of winners and losers; a historical record often heavily influenced by special interests and circumstances unique to that state. California's tax code has been designed by wealthy real estate dev
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by nugget 9y ago
As another comment points out, GDP can increase even as population declines, thanks to robotics and automation which make each worker more efficient. Demand for real estate (housing) is the wild card -- does it fall broadly (as one would e
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by nugget 9y ago
From what I've seen Keto has started to expand beyond the "diet" label. It's become a universal nutritional description for no low carb, moderate protein, high fat eating, which I and a lot of my friends view as a perma
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by nugget 9y ago
I'm 100% certain that absent a ruling letter the current guidance from the IRS is that a transfer of one token for another token (e.g. Ethereum for Bitcoin via Poloniex) is considered a taxable event, similar to, for example, selling g
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by nugget 9y ago
I believe the IRS considers the transfer of ETH for an ICO token (or BTC, etc) to be a taxable event.
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by nugget 9y ago
This is quite the catch-22. Domestic wealth inequality within the US has widened. Global wealth inequality has narrowed (dramatically). These two trends are very connected.
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The SEC themselves chose the subtitle of "SEC Files Fraud Charges in Bitcoin and Office Space Investment Schemes". Prosecution can be a very political process as prosecutors often have political ambitions and want to be seen in t

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