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by seibelj 4y ago
It’s one thing to be raised in such a way that you have no knowledge or example of how to live a productive, healthy life. It’s another to actively reject traditional structures like hard work and family. There is a sizable cohort of online
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I believe in hard work, sacrifice, and family… ideals and virtues that have provided solace and guidance to humanity for our entire existence. It seems to be the hyper-online types that reject traditional values that are the most depressed
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Right there will never be something good enough. They want an amazing hotel they can shoot up and congregate and party in with all of their druggie friends. It’s totally reasonable to expect a bare minimum of compliance in order to get taxp
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Every single homeless person in Boston can get free transitional housing but the Mass and Cass street area is still packed with tents and drug users
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You can’t stop crime, otherwise murder wouldn’t happen. If you give people a modicum of freedom then some amount of them will act with criminal intent. Arguably the blockchain makes detecting and prosecuting money laundering easier than our
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It's hard to argue with your philosophy because the goal posts never stop moving. Bitcoin worth anything above $0 would have been an absurd thought 10 years ago, now it's a global asset class worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
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And Deutsch Bank laundered hundreds of billions of euros for drug lords. What system is flawed again?
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Parent comment linked to a bunch of projects with promise, but again, the HN crypto hater doesn't care. USDC is over $50 billion - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/usd-coin - so clearly the market is seeing
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You don't need a third-party, you can run your own node. It's a state channel. Visa could participate as a liquidity provider to help route payments but it's totally peer to peer.
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Crypto has been rallying like all speculative assets. If crypto was like beanie babies (as HN group think says) it would have crashed years ago and stayed dead.
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The US government won't let FB acquire any company that generates a headline when an acquisition is announced. We are in a period of government-incentivized small-ness.
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I’m sure the OFAC government office is setup for mass handling of small amounts of money requests from a widespread group of normal people
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It’s possible a government agency will go rogue and try to wipe out the savings and industry of millions of Americans. Seems unlikely to me.
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It will result in merely detecting the presence of Tornado activity to be unenforceable, which will then result in "smart" detection (an algorithm for which is up for debate), which will be cat and mouse forever. The law as writte
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Why this will cause chaos is that Chainalysis and similar tools for sanctions screening are all / nothing - if the rule was that "anyone who has touched Tornado assets should be banned", then sending small amounts to everyone
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I believe Satoshi is Hal Finney. The 2 damning reasons are 1) Dorian Satoshi Nakomoto (someone Newsweek claimed was Satoshi incorrectly) lived very close to Hal. I believe Hal either knew of him or saw his name somewhere. 2) Satoshi disappe
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Not sure when I’ll be able to get to NYC (work is nuts and I had another kid a few days ago) but I’m located in Boston if you can get up here. My email in profile if you want to meet up sometime.
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For various reasons I have an open invitation for dinner with him but my life has been so crazy lately I have been unable to arrange the dinner. I’m thrilled to pay for whatever he wants to eat, where-ever he wants to eat! … when I find the
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Everyone becomes a geneticist when they have biological children. Even in the small talk and banter among strangers when they observe parents and children.
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Nick Gillespie is one of the finest interviewers currently working. The quality of his conversations is excellent and he is a first-rate intellectual that has deep knowledge of the western canon.
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Why would anyone except those with some innate and exceptional passion for law enforcement ever choose to become a cop? The politicians, media, and a good chunk of society hates you. The hours are strange. You have to put yourself in danger
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The human body is poor at processing cellulose. You need a lot of plants to equal the nutrients from meat. You can do it, but a cheeseburger, a multivitamin, adequate sun, and good exercise is also a healthy lifestyle.
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Cryptocurrencies are like digital cash - one way payments that can’t be reversed. You can accept stablecoins on cheaper networks. Check out BitPay or Square for retail.
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SSRIs (lexapro) saved my life. 6 years of depression effectively gone in 2 weeks of starting. Literally night and day and I tried every non-medicinal intervention that you could imagine before taking the plunge. I don’t care how it works bu
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Shoplift? No big deal. Have the theoretical potential to avoid even 1 penny in taxes? The only option is a financial panopticon that tracks the flow of all money!
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Learned about Bitcoin here first way way back. Enough said!
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If there is the profit test then the subway operator will always strive to continue maximizing revenue while minimizing cost. That could be automated trains without drivers, making the trains more reliable to encourage more ridership, marke
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It's not about growth, it's about productivity. All tech innovations increase productivity. Growth to a railway is better logistics so things are directed more accurately, more energy efficiency, more efficient use of labor, etc.
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Managing k8s requires a strong DevOps team. A strong DevOps engineer is a solid software engineer plus a specialty. These people are rare and expensive and extremely hard to attract to startups. Therefore you either can’t find anyone or mor
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I am friends with people with tens of millions of dollars in crypto and they aren't cashing out. If you listened to people on HN none of them would have stuck by their investment. Crypto is a multi-generational project. And some people

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