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by nugget 9y ago
I've recently tried Lyft - at airports and downtown areas it's fine (10-15% cheaper than Uber), but in some more suburban areas the wait times (compared to Uber) make it unusable.
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by nugget 9y ago
Run the math for Ethereum and it's even crazier. Something like $15m in cloud computing resources and you can control the eth network valued at >$30 billion. For this reason I can't imagine "shorting" these cryptocu
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by nugget 9y ago
The point is that social networking could become a decentralized protocol similar to email. Imagine browsing something that looks just like Facebook but underneath each friend's profile it would say "Hosted by Facebook" or &
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by nugget 9y ago
I've quit answering any unknown calls due to this out of control robocall spam. At first I felt tinges of anxiety thinking that I might miss an important call, but that passed very quickly. Now I figure that if it's really impor
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by nugget 9y ago
I like the concept of Sia but wouldn't the coin value be 1) loosely tied to Dropbox et al storage costs and 2) deflationary over time as storage costs are continually decreasing?
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by nugget 9y ago
They must be making a lot of money to be able to do something like this. I understood it to be millions of dollars.
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by nugget 9y ago
The OTC penny stock market still seems alive and well.
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by nugget 9y ago
Once ETH overtakes BTC I think BTC will start to crash and the resulting panic will (ironically) take down ETH and most other coins and tokens as well, starting the third great crypto bear market. Keep in mind trading volume is heavily man
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by nugget 9y ago
My bet would be that Garrett Camp takes over as interim CEO with the plan to step aside once Travis returns.
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by nugget 9y ago
If my mom had just died in an accident and there was a friend in place who I trusted to take over and mind the store while I went and rebooted my soul for a few months, I'd probably take leave too. Seems like it's likely a net po
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by nugget 9y ago
I've always viewed at least one source of modern anxiety as the gap between perception and reality re: your own potential as a human being. This gap seems to be increasing. Perception - you are just one mobile app away from becoming
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by nugget 9y ago
I've recently become inundated with small business line of credit calls and no amount of asking them to remove my number worked (in fact, seems to have made it worse). On the last call I decided to use a fictional name and spent 15 min
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by nugget 9y ago
> By any measure that is per-student That's a pretty broad statement. I can think of a number of measurements where MIT comes out ahead of Caltech - entrepreneurship (measured per-student) would be one particularly relevant to HN.
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by nugget 9y ago
I've learned the hard way that "Everyone knows" can be a very dangerous (and expensive, in terms of missed opportunity) way to start a sentence. Just some food for thought.
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by nugget 9y ago
It took Wal-Mart a long time to wake up and realize they have one of the largest captive workforces in the world (and that there's a lot of untapped on-demand value therein). Great move on their part to start experimenting with this.
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by nugget 9y ago
What should scare people the most is the Illinois pension funds' assumption of ~ 7% real returns going forward. If the market stays flat in real terms for the next decade, which seems at least possible (if not plausible), it's si
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by nugget 9y ago
Dozens of Venezuelans are murdered every day as a result of the Government's inability to maintain even the minimal facade of law in order in many parts of the country. I'm not sure how many people have to die, and how many other
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by nugget 9y ago
ETH vs ETC was essentially behind the scenes meatspace negotiation. The physical world is not as obsolete as some people think.
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by nugget 9y ago
Increased capital controls from China and increased speculation from the US. In speculative markets, rapid price increases can become self-reinforcing as they kick off press and attention which draw in even more speculators.
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by nugget 9y ago
> and, most importantly, can easily be handed down generations Only if your ancestors win the battles and can stick around to defend it. Land was won and kept with blood, sweat, and tears (in that order).
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by nugget 9y ago
Support for trade schools and skilled vocational pathways (and vocational entrepreneurship) in place of four year university education for all.
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by nugget 9y ago
> It’s unlikely that IBM employees, as they centralize in office hubs, will reap the lavish office benefits and constant supply of free gourmet food that companies like Facebook and Google use to keep employees on-site. They won’t even r
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by nugget 9y ago
America is one of the most entrepreneurial countries on earth. There are plenty of fields that you can enter with no college degree and build your way up to a great living. Even for very "white collar" jobs we are starting to (
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by nugget 9y ago
I'm shocked whenever I find myself in a Starbucks early in the morning - it's essentially a constant line of folks ordering milkshakes for breakfast.
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by nugget 9y ago
The cleverest move was to integrate Cortana with local file and application search, which many users likely use as a universal command line/shortcut (hit windows key and just start typing). I find that when I disable Cortana, local se
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by nugget 9y ago
Yes, that's true. There are other Government subsidies (e.g. increased payments to medicare providers) meant to offset the costs of operating in that environment. What I meant was that within these "permanent distortions" o
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by nugget 9y ago
Look at Alaska which has a long-term state-run form of UBI. It's about $100 per person per month. Even at such a low amount, to your point, it creates some measurable inflation and other distortions in the market. UBI may only work
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by nugget 9y ago
It's incredibly difficult to find a great therapist. There is a fundamental supply and demand imbalance, and plenty of quacks on the supply side.
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by nugget 9y ago
Pre-fork ETH owners didn't necessarily have to pick one over the other. Miners had to allocate their resources between the two chains (but could split their bets, and some did so). Pre-fork ETH owners ended up with both chains in a k
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by nugget 9y ago
The top 5 ETH pools control about 75% of the hash rate. Buterin (for whom I have lots of respect) and others have routinely commented that centralization is a problem in both PoW and PoS systems. In both systems, the problem is "the

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