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by saimiam 9y ago
That still doesn't call into question the VC's investment strategy. You can't always time the market waiting for the killer app of Coins. Waiting to black swan the ICO space like John Paulson did with housing isn't fea
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by saimiam 9y ago
Yes.
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by saimiam 9y ago
(Standard caveat: I'm a Coin know-nothing) Once SomethingCoin becomes fungible with Something2Coin and Something14Coin, you could have the makings of an economic system. Edit1: Say you sold disk space for FileCoin, converted it and bou
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by saimiam 9y ago
If this is true, then VCs spreading their money across any and every ICO makes strategic business sense and should be applauded instead of being pilloried for being scam artists trying to fleece regular folks into buying coins.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Just this guy. And anyone else who barnstorms a country asking to be in a position of power. Asking for vote? Show tax returns, thanks.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I know very little about ICOs other than what I have read on HN and HN comments so take what I'm saying with a pinch of salt. My understanding is that an ICO is like an IPO minus a century+ of regulation and oversight by the authoritie
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by saimiam 9y ago
Anything he says about his wealth without also releasing his latest tax returns is up for debate. Whether the debate happens or not is a different question.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I would have put quotes around a different, longer b-word.
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by saimiam 9y ago
What does he know that the rest of the world doesn't? I'd be on the lookout for insider buying filings
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by saimiam 9y ago
These states are also among the most conservative when it comes to gun rights in defense of freedom against a tyrannical government. Upside-down world we live in.
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by saimiam 9y ago
This sounds fascinating to me. I'm looking at doing the same thing - launch a product for global audience while relocating back to India. Any idea how long your friend took to gain traction? What do they do to find a community of fello
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by saimiam 9y ago
> Reservation policy has denied hordes and hordes of exceptionally smart, hardworking and merit people their rightful chance of doing good in life. It continues to. This has been one of the key reasons for mass exodus of these people to
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by saimiam 9y ago
> For programming and technical tasks You are judged and reviewed on a myriad different factors other than this. Are you a "team player?" Do you mentor others well? Do people like you? Were you picked to do complex projects t
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by saimiam 9y ago
What if the tasks he wants done by meritorious candidates were selected by a very heteronormative, white dominated bloc of powerful people? In your view, would that call into question the propriety of asking a minority candidate to compete
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by saimiam 9y ago
I was (sort of) there when the 2000 tech crash happened and was in the thick of it when the 2008 crash happened. This thread and a few offline conversations made me reexamine what I believe about the stock market and the nature of the 2000
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by saimiam 9y ago
You're right! @ Knuth. I knew that but it got overwritten by PG's point about scaling prematurely. Like a good astrologer, I'm going read into your comment to assume support for my larger point - know your tools.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Tell me once more how I should be approaching my profession. I'm all ears.
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by saimiam 9y ago
This entire discussion is about what an SE does vs what a CS does. Item #1 for an SE is to pick a library to use instead to reinventing every wheel every time. OP says they don't care about performance which is a naive, potentially stu
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by saimiam 9y ago
The OP said they don't care/haven't had to care about performance. What you're saying is that they used a library which is known to be performant. If the OP knows it to be performant, they are misstating that they don&#x
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by saimiam 9y ago
> asymptotic complexity If it hasn't mattered to you, it's probably because you are using libraries or apis which have solved for optimal performance. In short, performance mattered a lot to you code. Only, you didn't slog
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by saimiam 9y ago
How can you rent out 3 properties while living in one of them?
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by saimiam 9y ago
Let's assume average income = x So, rental income from 3 houses = 1.5x Even if we assumed that all three homes were owned outright, you'd be on the hook for property taxes, maintenance, and utilities for each house. About half of
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by saimiam 9y ago
Of course there are gender differences..but the only relevant question in this context you or anyone should ask is whether those gender differences justify lower participation of women in technology. If you're a capitalist, if you beli
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by saimiam 9y ago
I'm going to take some guesses for why entrepreneurs are choosing other countries over india but I'd rather talk about why I am going back... Their reasons could be one or more of these: - India is messy, idiosyncratic, language i
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by saimiam 9y ago
A direct outcome of such a choice will be that biodiversity dies out. If produce in America is expensive to produce, your solution will let it go extinct. Extending this train of thought, as different areas of the world become wealthy, thei
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by saimiam 9y ago
Come to India. The demographic dividend of having a captive and growing billion strong market coupled with a vibrant media and democratic institutions make this a no brainer. Plus, once you make a name for yourself in India, the rest of the
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by saimiam 9y ago
You can do a lot of things including eating ONLY lab grown food but will you do it or not is the question.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I don't think you realize the unfeasibility of you're suggesting. You're asking for 1. 15-20% of the world which have higher education degrees to have enough kids to carry the burden of the remaining 80-85% 2. You're als
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by saimiam 9y ago
Fruit picking (which the indigenous population doesn't want to do) is one such business model. Nothing is more nationalistic than living off the land of that nation and that is something native born Americans don't want to do. You
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by saimiam 9y ago
Nobel prize winners on down, the more educated you are, the less likely you are to have children. The fewer children you have, the less likely it is that your population levels will stay stable and not decline. A declining population will l

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