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The Global Economy Is Rebounding... But There's One Big Problem(bloomberg.com)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|1 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
There are approximately 92 million ETH outstanding. It's much harder to measure market liquidity on the various exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets. With hundreds of ICOs popping up, it's difficult to say what impact they
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AngelList Access Fund II: Index the early-stage venture capital asset class(angel.co)
9 points by pdog 9y ago|1 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
It's pretty clear what's happening. Ethereum (ETH) is rising because people are buying into initial coin offerings (ICOs). They aren't holding ETH, so they don't care about the price of ETH rising in terms of Bitcoin (BT
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by pdog 9y ago
Link to product: https://rampreceipts.com
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by pdog 9y ago
> So imagine my horror at discovering that the United States is more calcified by class than Britain, especially toward the top. The American myth of meritocracy allows people on the highest rung to attribute their position to their bri
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by pdog 9y ago
To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not believe in nominative determinism, but nominative determinism believes in you.
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by pdog 9y ago
Negative externalities. The cost of poor security isn't included in the price of an Android phone but it's paid for by society. Libertarianism doesn't have a good answer for economic externalities.
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by pdog 9y ago
> There are dozens of cloud-based tools aimed at business users. Can all these apps coexist? > It's a mess. You have all these new tools like Slack, but they're totally disconnected from the old ones, so people are consta
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by pdog 9y ago
The Winklevoss twins. And, of course, the person or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
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by pdog 9y ago
Interestingly, the previous discussion is closer in time to when this article takes place (1999) than today (2017).
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by pdog 9y ago
Use a Toddy filter[1] or Toddy paper filter bag[2]. They're the standard for cold brew. [1]: https://toddycafe.com/shop-product/15/Toddy-Filters [2]: https://toddycafe.com/shop-product/21
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Instant Company (1999)(nytimes.com)
54 points by pdog 9y ago|13 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Meanwhile, the same tech billionaires influencing the public school system will follow a completely different curriculum—usually private, low tech, with limited screen and device time—for their own children. Do as I say, not as I do.
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How America Turned Against Smart Kids(theamericanconservative.com)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|1 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Apple products are more expensive, but you know the saying: if you're not paying, you are the product.
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Boutique medical services offer the wealthiest a chance to cut the line(nytimes.com)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
The much more interesting question: what if it doesn't?
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Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker early-next year(theverge.com)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
> $10/month is two coffees. What?! Where does a single cup of coffee cost five dollars? For ten dollars, you can brew at least fifty cups of coffee.
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by pdog 9y ago
> I was interested in making [Gmail] freely available and came up with the ads system. This decision set a terrible precedent. It made it acceptable for a company to deliver "tailored advertising" by reading all your emails.
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by pdog 9y ago
I think the top 50 percent are really responsible for income and wealth inequality. Why should they have more than the bottom half?
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by pdog 9y ago
Do you invest in the stock market? Do you have "asynchronous" knowledge that the market doesn't know about?
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by pdog 9y ago
Over three hundred pages and no mention of Bitcoin, Ethereum, or the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) phenomenon in this report.
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by pdog 9y ago
Espresso, sure. Good drip or pourover coffee is generally brewed by weight with approximately 16 units of water to 1 unit of coffee.
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by pdog 9y ago
Beyond buying some Bitcoin and Ethereum, is there anything else a prospective investor should do?
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by pdog 9y ago
Assuming a withdrawal rate of 4% per year, even a few million in index funds would only yield about $120k annually. And that's not factoring in the risk of a market correction or downturn. The income you earn from owning your own busin
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by pdog 9y ago
A standard cup of coffee is six ounces. Most people use too high a coffee-to-water ratio when making coffee.
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by pdog 9y ago
> And they see more and more American consumers willing to spend $8 or $12 for a cup of joe, which would offset their high costs of production. A single pound of coffee makes about 50 cups. Who seriously pays this much?
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by pdog 9y ago
Why does Kik need a decentralized cryptocurrency to handle payments for digital goods? They can do it with virtual credits on their own servers a million times more efficiently.

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