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by seibelj 5y ago
Considering the much-touted "quantum supremacy" achievement was extremely contrived, it seems like the hype has gotten far ahead of the reality.
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Tether scores win in class action case as court dismisses RICO claims(cointelegraph.com)
2 points by seibelj 5y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
It is difficult compared to most other jobs, and within tech startups the people who make outsized returns are the executives / VPs / upper management. Getting a job at that level is not easy, or at least in my experience at a mix
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by seibelj 5y ago
I work in an industry that is more merit-based than most (tech startups) and being good in your job is heavily dependent on hard work and success. This is across the board in all departments. If you find a job that pays a very high compensa
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by seibelj 5y ago
It is self evident. If you meet someone at a conference who opens a door (like an interview), but you didn't work hard enough to pass the interview, then you got lucky but didn't put the work in. I view "the hustle" as t
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by seibelj 5y ago
If your goal is to make it to the top, then it is wise to hear from the people at the top how they got there. Inevitably it comes down to innate talent, passion, hard work, and luck. Luck is the element you can't control, but without h
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by seibelj 5y ago
This is actually an argument I totally disagree with. Businesses are long-lived, have reputations to maintain, and need to build trust. They have every incentive possible to treat their customers right, and issue refunds on valid issues. It
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by seibelj 5y ago
Hal Finney is Satoshi, IMO. Not only is he the first person to respond to Satoshi and receive bitcoin, he lived minutes away from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, an unrelated person who Newsweek falsely claimed was Satoshi. Satoshi also stopped po
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by seibelj 5y ago
Sorry dang I have patiently defended crypto / blockchain for years and taken all the downvotes. Twitter announces full integration and it’s still all negativity. Not sure what success would be anymore to convince the HN community.
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The Library of Celsus(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by seibelj 5y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
That’s a very aggressive posture. I would say HN is one of the best moderated places online where people of opposing beliefs can debate in good faith. I think casting the entire community as -phobic is very unfair.
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by seibelj 5y ago
> Be careful when you venture in this world people. It's never a bad idea to stay anon. The established players are extremely, extremely rich, they don't pull any punches, and can bend the public opinion almost at will. I am
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by seibelj 5y ago
It might help others, but for your own sake I would take it down and hire a lawyer. It sounds like you are under a ton of stress. Having this up might make finding a new job difficult. Good luck and I hope your wife recovers.
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Bitcoin Can Immunize America from Cancel Culture(nytimes.com)
7 points by seibelj 5y ago|1 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
I think if you presented the facts - that even early employees of tech companies, who already earn some of the highest salaries in the world, can make up to $10 million per year tax free - the average voter would say that's criminally
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by seibelj 5y ago
Totally in agreement. But I’m a libertarian. The larger point I was making was that people vote for liberal politicians and act surprised when they get what was promised. Don’t pretend you are a special snowflake and deserve 0% taxes while
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by seibelj 5y ago
Why does anyone deserve to pay 0% tax on gains, even for early stage companies? Why not the guy who works in the sewer or digs ditches for a living? It reeks of plutocracy. And again, I support the QSBS . I'm trying to put things into
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by seibelj 5y ago
Why is raising taxes on the QSBS not what “tax the rich” means? It’s literally a 100% tax-free benefit to the owners of businesses, up to $10 million per year. I support and like the QSBS, but it is exactly the sort of thing the average vot
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by seibelj 5y ago
Well this is what “tax the rich” means. If you don’t like it don’t vote for people who advocate tax increases. This is exactly what was promised.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Take an overweight person, put them on island where they can only eat survival rations and water, and they will lose weight. I accept that some people may gain weight differently / faster than others. But if you count calories and exer
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don't think every child would like to optimize their life for academic success, and some would prefer to do things other than university-level education. And that's fine. We should create individual educational plans that match
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don't think you need a ton of facilities to learn, just as you don't need a giant university to learn most subjects at an advanced level. And we can place pods close to students rather than far away in a centralized place. And f
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by seibelj 5y ago
It literally scales better than any other mechanism of schooling! You have the best possible educators create lesson plans, videos, and visual materials and then lesser-skilled facilitators can assist students as they learn. It’s the absolu
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by seibelj 5y ago
Why don’t we take the $10k to $20k we pay per student in America annually to educate them, and let the parent allocate those funds where they want? Learning pods cost less than that for parents, but sadly only the rich can afford it (like m
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by seibelj 5y ago
I could send my kids to very good private schools but we are seriously considering learning pods. Online groups make it easy to meet up with other pods. And I like the ability to craft the syllabus my kids learn from. The old factory-method
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by seibelj 5y ago
I was simplifying a very complex process. One way to look at it is the Sacklers had a $15 billion fortune and they threatened to burn all of it fighting for decades in court. Alternatively they offered $5 billion to settle and prevent civil
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by seibelj 5y ago
Saying stuff on social media is not relevant to society. The only things relevant to society are groups of people. If you have millions of Twitter followers then saying something online matters because you can influence a large group. If yo
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by seibelj 5y ago
I agree with all those things. I am a libertarian and am deeply concerned about a lot of things. But at the core, western democracy is about freedom and it can be reformed. We have base principles that can be applied logically and appealed
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by seibelj 5y ago
In America we have people like Snowden, and other political prisoners like Ross Ulbricht. However reasonable people can debate about what they did. I would say both deserve to be free. In China the rule is Snowden. Everyone becomes Snowden
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by seibelj 5y ago
This is so incredibly obvious it’s amazing that anyone would think otherwise. Say what you want about western government but I’d much rather anger the US government as a US citizen than anger the Chinese government as a Chinese citizen. In

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