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by seibelj 5y ago
The value of my post is that a charlatan with very damaging views has somehow been promoted as great thinker when I find his entire engineering philosophy not only incorrect but totally moronic and damaging. I’m calling it out because it’s
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by seibelj 5y ago
I find it particularly stupid compared to most other hyped technologies, as the pattern pervades the entire engineering superstructure and has to be entirely burned down in order to fix the core rot. The foundation of any microservice-based
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by seibelj 5y ago
I’m a self made rich person and I work 70 hours a week. I have worked 70 hour weeks my entire career.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Self made rich people lived life a certain way and made their money through a combination of hard work and luck. But you need to do a lot of work to be able to recognize and take advantage of luck when it presents itself, plus the risk taki
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White House More Than Doubles Its Inflation Forecast in New Update(wsj.com)
44 points by seibelj 5y ago|36 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
> NoSQL databases are maturing, for sure – we’re starting to see support for transactions (on some timeframe of consistency) and generally more stability. After years of working with “flexible” databases though, it has become clearer th
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Government of Cuba Says It Will Recognize, Regulate Cryptocurrencies(decrypt.co)
2 points by seibelj 5y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
Half the country doesn’t pay a nickel in federal income tax so I don’t know where the middle and lower class tax burden is. You are so all over the place it’s hard to make sense of what argument you are trying to make, if there even is an a
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by seibelj 5y ago
I was told the inflation was temporary. This doesn’t sound temporary!
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by seibelj 5y ago
They sold out in minutes of the initial batch. Expecting a centralized bureaucracy to create this is so moronic I don’t even know where to begin. Or maybe I don’t understand your brilliant “communitized production” methodology but certainly
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by seibelj 5y ago
It’s also capitalism - this became economically viable through endless technological progress and globalization, a risk was taken, the market was validated, and what once required millions of sales to be viable now is tens of thousands. Thi
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by seibelj 5y ago
There is no better time in the history of humanity to be alive for nearly all people (barring those in war zones / communism). We just cured a novel disease with a vaccine on the order of months, while prior diseases were repeated plag
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by seibelj 5y ago
This whole post is so negative and warped. You sound clinically depressed - not everything in the world is shit and neither is humanity.
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by seibelj 5y ago
It is very hard to ban math. An “anonymous wallet” is a random number!
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by seibelj 5y ago
Here's a German man who simply refused to give the authorities his password, so he gets to keep his $60 million https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/2/5/22268646/german-polic...
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by seibelj 5y ago
A major problem with hyper-Keynesian MMT advocates is that it relies on: - Having the global reserve currency - Being able to raise taxes at will to fight inflation It may be possible that with a one-world government and global agreement on
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by seibelj 5y ago
There is a website https://longbets.org/ Long Bets that's let people do this. Essentially it's to publicly state to the world you are betting, and the winner donates to charity. I would do this here with my real n
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by seibelj 5y ago
My wife says that this is complicated and there is a lot of nuance, but there are specifics of their work that cannot be replicated, and in fact my wife's lab came to opposite conclusions for some of the results. So the labs that do wo
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by seibelj 5y ago
You can go down the list of projects on https://coingecko.com/ and they always need devs. Every project in crypto is remote-OK ("decentralized"). I know one of the people doing https://dxdao.eth.link&#x
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by seibelj 5y ago
Bitcoin crossed 50k (again), US senators are debating cryptocurrency regulation as part of historical legislation, and major global companies like Visa are making moves in the space. Is it possible the HN decade-long dismissal of crypto and
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by seibelj 5y ago
My wife is asleep now but I set a reminder to ask her tomorrow. I believe it was this one https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/23/caught-our-notice-the... Posted in 2018 but people knew about it for years. I w
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by seibelj 5y ago
Is it? My wife was studying in a lab (real science, not social science) and there were only a handful of labs in the world working on the problem. One of the labs had a key paper that no one could ever replicate and it was widely understood
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by seibelj 5y ago
Able to pick me up at my apartment in Boston and take me to a location in Cambridge. I would not say the current "self driving cars" in Phoenix are anything close to ready (even for Phoenix!)
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by seibelj 5y ago
I wrote this in Feb 2020 after years of downvotes criticizing self driving cars and AI https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam... I will still take a thousand dollar bet from anyone who thinks self
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by seibelj 5y ago
Why let people drink alcohol when some people will become addicted and ruin their lives and families? Why do we let people gamble when some will become addicted and financially destroyed? Why do we let people drive cars when thousands will
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by seibelj 5y ago
This is a very poorly written blog and I believe it is only being upvoted because the title appeals to the HN crypto-hate set. That said, his whole premise is flawed because the independent judiciary in the US is strong and tens of millions
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by seibelj 5y ago
Ride firms ultimately forced to pay more for labor. Less drivers total and more expensive rides. Poorer areas stop getting service. Stock prices fall. Not a big deal if you don’t care about ride share transportation. If you actually like it
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by seibelj 5y ago
Most cities in America are very car-focused, including metropolises like Los Angeles. San Francisco also needs cars, at least uber, given the downtown transit system is a joke for true commuting. The only cities in the US with actual transi
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by seibelj 5y ago
Which blockchain did you use? If it's privately run, wouldn't this be the same as a centralized DB? And if a public chain, how did you encrypt the data? Thank you
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by seibelj 5y ago
There is a genre of videos showing the Taliban taking over American weapons, humvees, buildings, etc. Here is one of them using the army gym https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/p5tp4k/tali...

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