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by nytesky 4y ago
Heard this on NPR? It almost sounded like an endorsement for crypto by NPR — that it was a way for minorities to come out shed versus traditional banking. Very odd piece for such speculative investment tool.
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by nytesky 4y ago
Well even if you “own” your home, you are renting it from your municipality. See what happens if you don’t pay property taxes (or civil rents).
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by nytesky 4y ago
As the sole shareholder, does that mean he is reaping all the profits? It sounds like they had millions in profits from the article? That is quite a niche for a small company to carve out, when their competitors are stripe etc
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by nytesky 4y ago
Is this supposed to be a meta joke?
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by nytesky 4y ago
Yeah O365 is not same as Standalone Office 2019. First off his version would not include outlook at that price point. Second, the 2TB storage and mail service (and maybe personal domain?) is part of the value.
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by nytesky 4y ago
I know they have containers but maybe I’m using wrong as it’s cumbersome.
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by nytesky 4y ago
Multiple profiles in parallel. Does Firefox support that yet??
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by nytesky 4y ago
I’ve read that you aren’t supposed to use iCloud photos on a NAS (which is heck of a problem with the small SSD drives in MacBooks these days)
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by nytesky 4y ago
So maybe we are working towards a trilogy? https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/423721
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by nytesky 4y ago
The Venn diagram of folks skeptical of crypto and calling it a Ponzi who are big gold investors is a dot. Edit: for erroneous autocorrect of Venn
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by nytesky 4y ago
I assume the volatility of crypto work against it being used for real world finance?
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by nytesky 4y ago
Prop 13 has distorted housing market in Californian by fixing taxes; I could imagine extraordinarily low fixed rates would act similarly.
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by nytesky 4y ago
Oh sorry I repeated you!
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by nytesky 4y ago
If all the exchanges lock users out, you can “transact” with BTC But can you convert it into US dollars? Where does one spend BTC these days, buy some furniture off overstock?
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by nytesky 4y ago
I was confused as well. Did PP mean revenue?
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by nytesky 4y ago
Isn’t this one of cited reasons for a lack of diversity in VC funded founders — they invest in a founder as a person and their team, thus biased by personal relations, rather than the merits and details of the actual business plan?
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by nytesky 4y ago
I highly recommend Google Voice or similar VOIP for all commercial services. That may help reduce spam to your mobile and Google Voice has filtering of spam built in (unsure of quality).
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by nytesky 4y ago
That’s surprising, I thought apple provided iOS updates and security updates much longer than Android phones — i thought there was some issues where Googles update had to be pushed by the manufacturer and they tend to drop support much soon
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by nytesky 4y ago
Smallpox vaccine is contagious (live virus varicella I think) and can have awful side effects (full body blisters, death) for people with eczema which is far more common. Even without exzema, side effects are hard.
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by nytesky 4y ago
So sad to hear Mariah disparaged. I’m an Gen X engineer and Matlab is one of our first languages. Use it today still in aerospace but I would imagine Python suits software shops much better. Does Python handle matrix math as well?
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by nytesky 4y ago
Facebook, Coinbase, all these companies publicly announcing hiring freezes. There should be plenty of other tech companies and non tech hiring, but will this soften wages?
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by nytesky 4y ago
I guess I’m just old but when I started in 90s many people where in IT because it was cool tech, not really motivated by the money. Did that all wash away in dot.com or more recently?
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Ask HN: Why is economics/finance often a trending topic, in with the tech news?
3 points by nytesky 4y ago|4 comments
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by nytesky 4y ago
Ah summer lake leaches. Stuff of nightmares. My understanding was as long as you didn’t touch the mucky bottom you were in the clear? I swam in New England lakes for 20 years and never had one myself but saw several. Probably why I did the
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by nytesky 4y ago
Then crypto will never be the future of money. That's their point. But honestly, most HN uses password managers -- if crypto became primary currency, that would make hacking someplace like Bitwarden or Coinbase enormous world shatteri
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by nytesky 4y ago
Yeah I posted about it above and people said it works fine. I wonder if it depends on who you original carrier was or something? I'm going to try again!
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by nytesky 4y ago
How did you get iPhone to enable iMessage without a phone number?
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by nytesky 4y ago
We have a bunch of old iPhones for kids, but we can’t setup iMessage on those phones without an active phone number. We can setup iMessage (email based) on iPad and iPod Touches, so this is frustrating. I want my kids to not be full on cell
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by nytesky 5y ago
I think your title is prescient. The algorithm is amazeballs at engaging content, TikTok has been linked to even worse outcomes in teens, and the Chinese govt limits their own youth strictly. https://www.wsj.com/articles&#x2
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by nytesky 5y ago
My understanding is that Newsweek is not the same respected magazine of old, so is there confirmation from another source? https://newrepublic.com/article/158968/newsweek-rise-zombie-...

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