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Twitter is now worth more than Snap(techcrunch.com)
9 points by rblion 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year(recode.net)
552 points by rblion 9y ago|349 comments
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Ask HN: Has Facebook started to plateau?
15 points by rblion 9y ago|10 comments
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by rblion 9y ago
knowing my luck, it'll be Atlanta
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10 Biggest Crypto-Currencies Lose Over $100B in 24 Hours(fortune.com)
2 points by rblion 9y ago|0 comments
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by rblion 9y ago
Do any really connect you to your friends from school, from work, from hobbies, to family, an to interests like Facebook does?
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by rblion 9y ago
"Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn something new. I've visited every US state, run 365 miles, built an AI for my home, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin. I started doing these challenges in 2009. That first year
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Mark Zuckerberg’s personal challenge is all about fixing FB before it implodes(techcrunch.com)
17 points by rblion 9y ago|11 comments
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Ask HN: How did you deal with your last existential crisis?
3 points by rblion 9y ago|1 comments
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by rblion 9y ago
Thanks. I've learned to accept that I can't do anything about most of what's happening around the world but I can do something about my daily decisions.
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by rblion 9y ago
How much do you drink a day? a week? What made you want to stop? I can help you out based on your responses. It's doable, the first few days can be rough for the body but after that it's mostly in our heads. I've learned that
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by rblion 9y ago
8 months of life without alcohol, pot, meat. Launching an agency/consultancy with a sister company that resells hosting and optimization.
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Ask HN: Why has the price of Bitcoin dropped from $19,000+ to $14,000?
7 points by rblion 9y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts about 'Star Wars: Last Jedi'? Disney's direction?
5 points by rblion 9y ago|2 comments
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by rblion 9y ago
I normally don't let social media affect me, I barely even use it Facebook or Instagram anymore (just a few minutes of scrolling a day before feeling annoyed and logging out), check Twitter a few times a week at most, don't use Sn
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by rblion 9y ago
Couldn't agree more, I think blockchain is something special and out of all of them I like Ethereum the most. Yet, I know enough about economics and psychology to forsee a lot of the same issues in today's capital markets inside o
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by rblion 9y ago
fair point.
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by rblion 9y ago
This gives me peace of mind. Thanks for the clear logic. I was 10 when the dotcom bubble happened and 18 when the Great Recession started. This is the first time in my adult life where I've had the money and opportunity to 'be par
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by rblion 9y ago
you read my mind, that fear is why I think I should invest. My gut says 'this is like 1999'. On my Facebook feed there is one kid who is a tech support agent who has become a 'bitcoin daytrader' and a music video model w
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by rblion 9y ago
Here's where I'm stuck... Half of me sees this cryptocurrency boom as the beginning of a bubble that will pop in 2018 or 2019. The other half of me is like what if this is a new era of global commerce and this is the investment of
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Ask HN: What cryptocurrencies do you believe are going to 'blow up' next?
18 points by rblion 9y ago|24 comments
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by rblion 9y ago
I've come to terms with a lot of things I am powerless over. I've had to accept that the Anthropocene extinction is happening and most people are only vaguely aware, only a few people are willing to change their lifestyle choices.
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by rblion 9y ago
I deleted this comment. This isn't the right forum for this kind of thought.
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by rblion 9y ago
Thanks, this is the healthy way of looking at it. My hunches are based on my underlying understanding of psychology and economics. > Consider what "there's still money to be made, I just have to sell off before the crash"
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by rblion 9y ago
I'm not knocking the concept of cryptocurrencies as a whole, just like I would never knock the Internet as a whole. However, I would say that a lot of people speculating with stars in their eyes without understanding the underlying tec
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by rblion 9y ago
This is how you know a bubble is coming, when you start seeing articles like this. It's starting to feel like 1999.
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by rblion 9y ago
I just sold a domain for $500. If I put that into bitcoin, could I easily sell it when it's worth $1500 you think? I don't want to buy it and be forced to keep it. How can it rise in value 'forever'? At some point, gover
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Ask HN: Do you feel bad about 'missing the boat' on investing in Bitcoin?
6 points by rblion 9y ago|10 comments
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As Bitcoin’s price passes $10,000, its rise seems unstoppable(economist.com)
2 points by rblion 9y ago|1 comments
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by rblion 9y ago
Hopefully seedy people along with it.

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