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by seibelj 4y ago
That is another vector on the spectrum of decisions for why quality teachers choose to work at private schools. No one takes a job purely on salary - a decision like that is based on many things. Isn’t it obvious that good teachers want to
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You don’t seem to know how to evaluate them, yet everyone agrees Harvard is better than your local community college, and there is literally a private school half a mile from my house that charges $60,000 per year. So clearly some people kn
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A lot of Western non-US countries honestly don’t have a lot of attractive private sector businesses. Small nations with strong public education are very unique. For example Norway only has 5 million citizens, extremely low immigration, a mo
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In my opinion, the voucher system is correct - keep funding public school through tax dollars, but give the parents a voucher for the amount to spend where they wish. If every parent in Boston received a $25,000 voucher to spend at the scho
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by seibelj 4y ago
People do want to teach and get paid to do it. It’s called private schools. They charge what the market will bear for their quality and location, and they pay what the market rate is for teachers of the requisite quality that let them charg
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by seibelj 4y ago
I’m confused why we are arguing about. I thought you were claiming Ethereum needed ASICS to run and therefore would use more energy. Which is not the case. It’s like saying the internet needs more energy to run when a new application is dev
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I’m saying there will be no requirement for ASICS in Ethereum. There may be L2s to scale Ethereum that require ASICS but that would be a voluntary decision by users who want to use said L2.
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I believe the zk provers will only be for L2s. The base layer will always be the way it is now. The base layer will be settlement for various shards, as it is now for Arbitrum and Optimism.
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That doesn’t mean we need more power. It just means the requirements of ZK proofs may need specialized equipment to process them efficiently. Different problem.
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There is an Ethereum protocol standard (similar to RFCs in the internet context) that defines a standard for NFT royalties https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2981 FYI I am an author of this standard. It is widely suppo
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A sale happens in a marketplace. Marketplaces collect royalties and forward them to the address specified. We are indeed a centralized player, just as all NFT creators are centralized entities (i.e. people) but the assets trade on decentral
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https://opensea.io/collection/nickelodeon-rugrats-heyarnold-... My company is one of the largest NFT companies. This is one of our projects. Millions of dollars in secondaries on OpenSea and our hosted marketplace at
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by seibelj 4y ago
He is a crank, he does post here sometimes to bicker with you which can be amusing
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A baby that will certainly die at birth, or likely cause death to the mother, is one thing. A perfectly healthy baby 1 day before birth that is put to death is entirely different. There is nothing magical about birth that makes it OK to sli
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by seibelj 4y ago
I think reasonable people can agree that aborting an unborn baby that is conceived 1 day prior is not murder, but a fetus 1 day from birth is a human and killing it is murder. There is some point between 1 day and 9 months where killing the
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by seibelj 4y ago
Ransomware groups have been using Monero and Bitcoin as well, it isn't like Tornado was a unique player. I seriously doubt that with Tornado banned suddenly money laundering and hacking will stop. If anything it will make regulators&#x
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> Tornado Cash was /never/ okay, but the government waited patiently for the evidence and acted when it had it. The government didn't even sanction all the smart contracts. BSC chain had more activity than the Ethereum c
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by seibelj 4y ago
There's been a lot of hand wringing about "how can the SEC sanction an open source software?" The fact of the matter is, information is not value neutral. Information may be protected under free speech, but that doesn't
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rust is amazing! crypto is evil! upvotes please!
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I would argue HN is the biggest echo chamber in tech. The hive mind is very strong here
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Words words words - if all of this can be mitigated then why have it in the first place? You work at a startup that hits and need to shell out 6 or 7 figures to exercise… “Bu bu but you can get it back!!” Just change the rule then! What is
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by seibelj 4y ago
All a bunch of bandaids to get around what is the fundamental injustice. And the secondary market isn’t exactly active for small people and there is no guarantee the board will approve a sale.
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True but plenty don’t as well. See Apple.
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Incentive Stock Options. The US government makes you pay taxes on the full paper gain the moment you exercise even though a real exit at that price is still a long ways off or likely still low probability. It makes average employees either
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by seibelj 4y ago
No comment on Tesla but the divergence between big companies and startups on the WFH issue is the first new tangible benefit to working at a startup over a bigco in a while. They never reformed the ridiculous tax treatment of ISOs and AMT.
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It's super hard. Networking along with trial and error. The tech is one thing but you also need a great business person to lead the sales and marketing side. Once you find the right person you ride or die with them. It's better to
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation Is ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Tornado Cash Ban(decrypt.co)
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I hate mosquitos. One reason I like living in the city is bug levels are severely reduced.
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Things were way, way worse in the past. The US fought a civil war. The cities were systematically looted and burned in the 1960s and all manner of figures were assassinated. It is far, far from that today. It is far easier today than ever t
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by seibelj 4y ago
Yes there was no such thing as hard work before America. All of civilization sprung up from nowhere in a life of leisure where everyone relaxed, then America came around and made everyone work hard.

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