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by plankers 8y ago
Bring it on, mate. Fucked is fucked, after a point all relativities are pretty meaningless. It would be worth it to see Teslas being reposessed and vacancies in SF high rises.
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by plankers 8y ago
Great, let our money burn. Will be worse for those with money to lose!
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by plankers 8y ago
What a dominant way to handle that situation. Especially the rotted fruit.
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by plankers 8y ago
Let me answer your question with an anecdote. When my grandfather was approaching the grave and had to battle several serious medical issues, he hired a live-in nurse to help him with everything from cooking dinner to helping him on and off
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by plankers 8y ago
Currently in the process of becoming a commercial pilot. Anything but an open floor plan, please.
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by plankers 8y ago
You could generalize that to "the vast majority of all waking time used by humanity is completely wasted on irrelevant tasks and inefficiencies."
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by plankers 8y ago
I can use bitcoin to buy things on the internet, or send money across borders, or bring money across borders, all without anybody's permission. So it's pretty successful in my book. Oh wait, you're bringing sin into the argum
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by plankers 8y ago
In which case nobody would be teaching the kids art. Of course she's being taken advantage of, she's a teacher in 21st century western civilization.
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by plankers 8y ago
People buying new cars is bad for the environment. Houses being bought up solely be rented out by the day drives up housing prices for people who actually want to live in those neighborhoods. Come on, dude.
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by plankers 8y ago
Oh man, can't wait to see the future graffiti all over self-driving cars. Tech dystopia, here we come! But for real, it's for these reasons that Google et al. place such a high value on systems to identify and deanonymize people.
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by plankers 8y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair Welcome to The Jungle, baby.
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by plankers 8y ago
If uber/lyft are pure efficiency plays, then why do they have their own programs to finance the purchase of new cars just so people can drive for uber/lyft? By the same token, but much harder to substantiate, why are people buying
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by plankers 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that your personal philosophy places absoluely none of the onus for the internet being dangerous and unfriendly on the people who actually develop things for the internet. You instead blame the lay
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by plankers 8y ago
This is brilliant! Has the IETF put out any proposals for a standard of this sort or is this just an idea you had?
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by plankers 8y ago
Quite right. My contracting agency was making as much as I was for every hour I worked. Doesn't seem right when all they did was handle complaints and payroll issues. On the bright side, they were throwing money at us anyway and my stu
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by plankers 8y ago
Not even a tiny bit. Especially when it's your first job out of college.
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by plankers 8y ago
Can confirm, was a contractor in Silicon Valley. The "narrative" these executives sell is little more than an opiate for their fleets of highly-paid engineers to feel like they're justified in having a salary several times hi
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by plankers 8y ago
Your original point was that _Coinbase and Gemeni_ had prevented you from exchanging your BTC for fiat currency. There's nothing preventing you from taking your BTC to some other exchange, or just some guy that accepts BTC for goods or
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by plankers 8y ago
Maybe it's just me but this really seems like quibbling over semantics. Cash is fungible: banks need cash in order to lend it out and they get cash from deposits. The rest is just bookkeeping.
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by plankers 8y ago
So by your metric the global banking industry, which uses several orders of magnitude more electricity than the bitcoin network, also isn't sustainable. A single bitcoin may be pricey, but fortunately there are eight decimal places aft
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by plankers 8y ago
That would be a good analogy if there were government price controls on sugar packets at Starbucks. Or if electricity was free. As it stands, it's a pretty poor analogy.
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by plankers 8y ago
Love watching people cry about bitcoin miners increasing the overall efficacy of electricity use. If you didn't want people moving in and using your cheap electricity, you shouldn't have made it so cheap! Price stabilization in ac
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by plankers 8y ago
Bitcoin is _not_ trying to go proof of stake because proof of work is the most secure consensus algorithm that exists. Proof of stake has some lingering unsolved problems, search for "nothing at stake problem" and "long range
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by plankers 8y ago
Well cheers to that, mate. Hope you find a way to get more of your time to yourself.
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by plankers 8y ago
Replace bank account balance with bitcoin wallet balance, but sure.
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by plankers 8y ago
I'm kind of the opposite, I just love laying around all day doing nothing but reading. I spent most of my time at my last job doing this, but surrounded by people, noise, and fluorescent lighting. Plus, being able to attend events spon
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by plankers 8y ago
In my (relatively short) life, I've always been far more happy in my periods of unemployment than when I was "gainfully employed." Don't expect a single person on HN to share this view, but there it is.
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by plankers 8y ago
I'm paraphrasing from this article in the New Yorker [1] that I read some months ago, but it seems the trick to getting bona fide technologists to work in government is to offer competitive pay and benefits, as well as making the job &
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by plankers 8y ago
That skepticism may have something to do with many of us Americans watching our government spectacularly fail to keep pace with changing technology over the past few decades. Not sure there's any real solution for a nation of federated
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by plankers 8y ago
Really? It seems to be working fantastically in Estonia: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/

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