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by numair 5y ago
Once again, my fellow Americans, if you are ever confused about how the Taliban won the hearts and minds of various groups within their country so quickly — while being such utterly backwards, terrible people — remember that we collaborated
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by numair 5y ago
I think I’ll just link to my comment from a past thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640730 anon9001 was an extremely good sport about the trap they fell into, which most people do, when they don’t
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by numair 5y ago
I appreciate the fact that you’ve kept up with the content. Don’t worry, all’s well that ends well.
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The Incompetence That Will Kill Apple(numair.medium.com)
12 points by numair 5y ago|2 comments
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by numair 5y ago
The thing about not having a lot of money is, you know exactly how much money you have and exactly where it’s going — after all, any unchecked expense will quickly tip you over into negative territory. Therefore, the audience for this p
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What's holding back Japan? The bullies(numair.medium.com)
3 points by numair 5y ago|0 comments
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by numair 5y ago
We tried that. Unfortunately, the “Facebook President” Bolsonaro[1] didn’t care too much.[2] 1: https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2019/04/10/news/bolsonaro-sur... 2: https://www.theguardian.
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by numair 5y ago
There are two theories to what is going on: 1) The best silicon designers in the world have hit a wall and can’t improve on a processor they shipped to production a year ago. 2) There is a massive, global-scale supply chain disaster that is
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by numair 5y ago
As my friends have told me, there are policy papers sitting in staff offices in DC/Virginia that say pretty much exactly what you’ve stated here.
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by numair 5y ago
Reminder to all of my fellow Americans about the messiness of the wars of which we are part — these guys were our alternative to the Taliban: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldie
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by numair 5y ago
People will say “but what about the third world???” and feel very comfortable with their position in a socially conscious first-world country. Yeah, well, where do you think those poor people in the third world are getting the money for t
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by numair 5y ago
Send me an email — numair@numair.com — I’d like to know more about what led you to do a deep-dive into these worlds, as I am sure it’s a long and interesting story!
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by numair 5y ago
Please turn this comment into a blog post or whitepaper or something, because it’s excellent and deserves way more visibility than it’s going to get 4-deep in a weekend comment thread on HN. I think we will all have to take on the task of e
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by numair 5y ago
Here we go again. 1. Attestations are not audited financials. 2. Do not cite attestations when asked to produce audited statements, which carry specific legal and regulatory burden. 3. When others provide you with attestations when you ask
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by numair 5y ago
> option #1 Great! So you agree that your claim that these stablecoins have audited reserves was false, and you retract it. Pleasure doing business. Since you were a good sport about this, I’ll say that I agree that Gemini is one of the
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by numair 5y ago
Please choose between one of these options: 1) You retract your claim that the stablecoins you listed have audited reserves. 2) You’ve found the auditors’ reports and we all get some excellent reading material for the weekend. Your theories
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by numair 5y ago
Do you know what an attestation actually is? Are you aware of the complete lack of accountability, liability, anything from these reports? They literally just mean “I saw some money in an account and it matched the figure they said they w
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by numair 5y ago
> Gemini has GUSD, Coinbase has USDC, Binance has BUSD, all of which claim to be fully backed by USD and have audits to bolster that claim. Congratulations! You’ve just fallen into the rabbit hole of trying to find actual auditors’ repo
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by numair 5y ago
We just sold South Korea a bunch of actual weapons so I don’t think these could-be weapons are going to attract too much controversy. And if you think there’s some actual weaponry among the could-be weapons technology, well... Take a look
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by numair 5y ago
Surprised to see something insurance-related on the front page of HN; very nice! I’m building something in this space, so let me throw in three more data points: - More than 90% of insurers in one recent industry survey stated that “exclusi
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by numair 5y ago|2 comments
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by numair 5y ago
Population growth in Africa has approximately nothing to do with the problems facing the American West. The problem in America is due to ridiculous property- and ag-developer-friendly water policies that resulted in “water credits” being to
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by numair 5y ago
This was an exceptional comment. Have you considered writing a book about food?
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by numair 5y ago
There is a culture, that has remained in place since the time when Apple was about to go bankrupt, to try to keep every penny possible. This corporate culture literally saved the company from its death (remember the Bill Gates Borg appearan
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by numair 5y ago
Because when you are a witness to something with which you disagree, speaking out and acting on it is a matter of making an opinion, and then attaching your identity to that opinion. And thus, you might be a developer who only cares about t
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by numair 5y ago
This is dangerous advice that assists abusers and others from being called out regarding their behavior, because those who witness / are victimized / etc feel that they should “keep a low profile” and avoid getting involved. I kno
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by numair 5y ago
The terrible cost of reporters wanting to maintain close ties and access to scoops from toxic members of our community (not to mention future access in case they decide to convert themselves into VCs, as they do on a frequent basis): these
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by numair 5y ago
This is absolutely phenomenal. Naspers/Prosus are some of the savviest and most forward-thinking players in tech investment — would you have been smart enough to give Tencent all that money, way back when? And remember, they were a b
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by numair 5y ago
This is actually a very valid question. Every situation is different — usually I’d agree with you, and I actually hesitated when describing the success as due to the exit. In this case, however, the exit is likely due to the ability for the
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by numair 5y ago
Depop is an excellent example of using lots of domain expertise in an area that investors etc would write off as a “lifestyle business” or “not likely to achieve a high ROI” to create what is now a billion-dollar exit. The founders of Depop

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