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by seibelj 4y ago
The temperature and co2 levels have been much higher in the past. The earth has been much more tropical as well as an ice world. Humans can adapt to change quite effectively - we did invent air conditioning, as well as the land of The Nethe
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by seibelj 4y ago
Taxi cabs pre-Uber were awful, at least in the 3 cities I used them most (NYC, Boston, Vegas). Dirty cars and often unmaintained. Regularly taken in circuitous routes to raise the meter charge. “Broken” credit card machine. Very difficult t
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by seibelj 4y ago
I’m a developer. I do tons of work to get the right to build - buy the property, the permits, the environmental review, neighbor meetings where they oppose it, more legal and municipal review, this drags on for years. Now after all of these
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by seibelj 4y ago
This is the (accurate) subjective theory of value. Individuals ascribe value to things and that is the only reason something has value. This is in contrast to the (incorrect) labor theory of value so popular with left wing economists.
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by seibelj 4y ago
I also wonder if that revenue is just the payments they process. If so then true revenue is probably ~2.5% of that.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Ancient peoples and societies were very advanced. We constantly find earlier and earlier evidence of advanced behavior and technology because they were using it. People 10k years ago are physiologically the same as us, and human nature does
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by seibelj 4y ago
You complain that pay is too low compared to the private sector… why not work in the private sector then? Unless there is a reason why you prefer teaching to business? In which case the pay cut is logical. Comparisons of totally alien indus
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by seibelj 4y ago
If I’m a rich person and I’m forced to sell shares to pay the tax bill, which then harms pension funds and sovereign wealth by incessantly driving down the value of everyone’s assets, isn’t this problematic?
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by seibelj 4y ago
My house needs protection from the police and all manner of city services. Land is one of the more tricky elements of property to handle fairly and one mechanism is property taxes given there is only so much land in prime locations. Hard fo
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by seibelj 4y ago
I feel like Netflix shows / movies are written by algorithm. As much as management wants AI / data science to be drive creativity, the human soul and character simply isn’t replicable. Their original shows often feel hollow and la
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Almost 1/3 of San Francisco charging stations are broken(electrive.com)
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by seibelj 4y ago
I would still say AI is supremely hyped, and its usage remains in niches. Somehow it still takes thousands of engineers to run Twitter. Not sure how recommendation engine improvements are going to turn the world upside down. I’ve been promi
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by seibelj 4y ago
If you want to build a company from scratch and run it like a community service, more power to you. When I bust my ass for a company I want to get rich, and I work for companies that are designed as such. No one stops anyone from making a n
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by seibelj 4y ago
All problems are caused by greedy corporations! Throw executives in prison! If we just had more government all of this would be better /s
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by seibelj 4y ago
I think my sarcasm is too dry in this thread
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But their lifestyle is so much worse the moment they step foot in America
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by seibelj 4y ago
Yeah it’s crazy why anyone emigrates from Europe to the US
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by seibelj 4y ago
Boston is the land of extremes. The winters are cold, windy, full of snow, and too long. The summers are absurdly humid and hot. The fall is so beautiful it's the most fall you have ever seen. Perhaps spring is a tad mundane, I'll
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by seibelj 4y ago
This is not a product anyone has heard of. Negative crypto stories get a lot more play on HN than the legions of tech startups laying off workers, and FAANG stocks ruining RSU packages. The whole world of markets is being popped right now.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Local banks can provide the capital, often collateralized by your house. Also small business loans from the government and accelerator awards can provide 6 figure amounts. I know some "generic" business people who are fairly wealt
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by seibelj 4y ago
At least in capitalism you can start a new business. The folly of the Monopoly board game is the limited spaces which makes things a zero-sum game. The world is only zero-sum when the government doesn’t let you build new stuff through artif
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by seibelj 4y ago
Before federal student loans, corporations and the universities themselves would lend the money. They very often wouldn’t do so until the second year, when the student had demonstrated that they were capable. Something like that could happe
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by seibelj 4y ago
The “demonstrated need” is quite suspicious https://www.bu.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/scholarships-finan... BU is notoriously stingy and you should take their claims of waiving fees with several healthy shakes of
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by seibelj 4y ago
I went to BU for undergraduate and master’s degrees ~12 years ago. Was only (!!) $50k then but was still very expensive. The education is high quality and there are so many majors that they keep grading standards high as anyone can switch o
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by seibelj 4y ago
Living off campus in Boston within commuting distance of BU… going to be at least $1k per month assuming you have 5 roommates.
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Boston University Undergraduate Costs Reach $80k(bu.edu)
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by seibelj 4y ago
This is how the free market works. Sky rocketing price of lithium is the world screaming to entrepreneurs, “Hey! We need lithium!” And the supply will increase to meet the demand, or substitutes will be found for use cases where the price i
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by seibelj 4y ago
Anyone who doesn’t like crypto doesn’t have to play with it. It’s a tiny blip of nothing in size when compared to actual markets, and the “crime” that exists in crypto is nothing compared to what large banks facilitate for drug kingpins and
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by seibelj 4y ago
Well when you work for the government you never see a dime for improving things, and as a leader you get more prestige and promotions by having bigger budgets and head count, so all of the incentives are misaligned.
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This is why tokens make sense. Can fund development of new features if you could integrate new tokens on Monero. It’s how Ethereum has moved mountains with new infrastructure projects.

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