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by seibelj 5y ago
Are you arguing that smoke is harmless? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. No one would cook meat with car exhaust and expect it to be safe. Burning charcoal or wood to cook meat using pure smoke cannot possibly be harmless.
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by seibelj 5y ago
If smoke is bad for your lungs, then putting meat into a smoke house for a long time, infusing all of the food with smoke, and having that carcinogen-infused product pass through your entire digestive system seems… also risky. Just logic to
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by seibelj 5y ago
I try to avoid / limit grilled and smoked food. It seems clear to me that putting charred food and food specifically infused with smoke would be bad for you, just as smoking is bad for you. Don’t need science to tell me.
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by seibelj 5y ago
The government has the ability to print and spend trillions easily and quickly. When one person, exclusively through the private sector system by generating value for customers, creates enough value to obtain billions of dollars, it’s a g
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by seibelj 5y ago
Wealth accumulation, i.e. “savings”, is a virtue. Benjamin Franklin is known for the phrase “a penny saved is a penny earned.” It is extremely common to want to leave a legacy to your kids after you die - this is a natural, human trait.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Cyclists are majority law breakers. They do not respect sidewalks, red lights, pedestrians, and basically anything that gets in their way. I understand that a cyclist potentially removes a car from the road, but every time cyclist harms an
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by seibelj 5y ago
Drivers run red light < 1% of what cyclists do. In Boston, cyclists run the red 99.99% of the time. It's criminal.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Cars do not speed down sidewalks full of people.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Cyclists on sidewalks while pedestrians are present should walk their bikes. A pedestrian is not expecting a piece of metal moving at 20+ MPH to whiz past them as they are walking, and could step right into them. Cyclists who hurt a pedestr
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by seibelj 5y ago
It's infuriating that bicyclists run red lights, illegally ride on sidewalks and hit pedestrians, and generally act like the rules only apply when it suits them. Ask anyone who walks or drives in American cities and cyclists are the ab
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by seibelj 5y ago
Crypto is an area of startups that HN collectively is wholly ignorant of because of a rabid and devoted group that despises anything related to blockchain and crypto. It has driven crypto enthusiasts away from commenting, allowing the downv
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by seibelj 5y ago
Here is an Intelligence Squared podcast episode with an author (an editor at The Economist) who wrote a book defending the meritocratic system. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-meritocracy-myth-ad... Like
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by seibelj 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow you. According to ERC-721 spec, there is a token owner, and it is assigned to a blockchain address. Signing a message with that address proves you own it. If the source code of the smart contract shows that no one
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by seibelj 5y ago
Currently, NFT is about collecting and speculation, which is currently the exact same use case as many collectibles like baseball cards. I believe the space will evolve to allow NFT holders to have additional rights and utility, such as cop
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by seibelj 5y ago
https://archive.is/iyB19
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Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals(ft.com)
1 points by seibelj 5y ago|1 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
One theory is “petro dollars” - Saudi Arabia mandates all of their oil is purchased in dollars, thus ensuring global demand for dollars as every country needs oil. In return, the US has their back unconditionally. https://en.m.wi
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by seibelj 5y ago
> Some states have passed right-to-work or open shop laws that say each worker has the right to hold his job in a company, no matter whether he joins a labor union, or not. If you were asked to vote on such a law, would you vote for it,
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by seibelj 5y ago
Just wrap your invention in an API - if it truly is novel, no one will be able to replicate it.
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by seibelj 5y ago
> Supporters of the procedure, called inter partes review, which is Latin for “between the parties,” say it helps combat patent “trolls,” or companies that obtain patents not to use them but to demand royalties and sue for damages. Oppo
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Study Finds Vapers Not More Likely to Get Covid-19(reason.com)
4 points by seibelj 5y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 5y ago
It is people risking money in order to earn huge profits that makes the system work. The government spends enormous amounts of money on basic research, much of it ineffectively IMO. Bringing cutting edge therapies to the market was, is, and
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by seibelj 5y ago
My wife has worked for a series of VC funded immunotherapy startups. No government money funding them. If there were no biotech patents it’s hard for me to see why anyone would invest hundreds of millions into these tiny companies. The mone
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by seibelj 5y ago
NFTs are purely digital assets. Expecting physical assets to meld with NFTs is a curiosity for which we will have to wait and see. The benefit of NFTs from the perspective of software is that computers can validate the authenticity with a f
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by seibelj 5y ago
I think your anger is misplaced - you should be angry at government who requires Brave (and eBay, and Etsy, and any company that is paying out money to people) to require this. If this wasn’t legally required they (and every other company)
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by seibelj 5y ago
I can’t think of any way to improve your lot in life without working hard. Unless you inherit money or win the lottery, no one is going to hand you a better life. We have a safety net for the disabled. If you are able-bodied and refuse to w
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by seibelj 5y ago
> Three languages > ”At the heart of our Engineering Strategy is a rather simple document. A manifesto if you’d like. We call it Core Engineering Principles.” > Lists 7 fairly complex rules > ”There are about 30 more touc
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by seibelj 5y ago
The moment any economic argument is made that relies on human altruism is the moment it should be rejected. Some people may act altruistic some of the time, but in aggregate people refuse to be scammed to help the “greater good”.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Stimulus checks are not debt - that’s helicopter money. And the “loans” made to businesses do not need to be repaid, or have 0% interest and are automatically forgiven after N years.
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by seibelj 5y ago
> It seems to me that about half of our “new deal activity” right now is happening outside of the US. And very little of it is in western Europe where most of our non-US investing has been for the last decade. I always thought the prob

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