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by solveit 5y ago
People should stop hanging guillotines, full stop.
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by solveit 5y ago
I agree with you, and am actually for certain state interventions to correct for this (like mandated health insurance that actually works as insurance and not the perverse chimera it is now), but even a naive free market would be so much b
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by solveit 5y ago
180cm in Korea.
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by solveit 5y ago
People forget that demand isn't the only thing that decides prices. The other player is supply, and the problem with healthcare is quite clearly supply. I hate to go all free market evangelist on HN, but the American healthcare economy
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by solveit 5y ago
I can't tell if you're exaggerating for effect or if you really believe the parenthetical comments, but the people working at the fed are fairly regular people and don't think that way.
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by solveit 5y ago
What does this mean? Will the government accept BTC for, say, taxes? Will businesses have to/be encouraged to accept BTC?
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by solveit 5y ago
You're being obtuse. The point is that it's perfectly reasonable to be willing to pay more, but only if all the other rich people do too.
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by solveit 5y ago
Again, the article says it was not so . A hypothesis is explored and found lacking.
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by solveit 5y ago
Unpaywalled link: https://outline.com/A8YKRL
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by solveit 5y ago
> Economists cant seem wrap their head around the idea that being a front line worker being exposed directly to sick people during a pandemic seems to be worth more money than when there wasn't a pandemic. The article says this...?
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by solveit 5y ago
You're certainly not the only one, but the point of the article is that solving these kinds of problems, with all the vagueness that implies, is an important feature of human intelligence.
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by solveit 5y ago
> wouldn't murdering 50 people to make a sufficient point This has been tried. Many, many times. With decidedly mixed results. Convince me you'll do better.
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by solveit 5y ago
I would like to see less of this kind of content on HN. What a hateful comment.
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by solveit 5y ago
> Everyone who owns an index fund benefits when oil companies are profitable. A significant minority of people have nothing in the stock market whatsoever, and of those who do, another large portion are only invested thanks to their pens
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by solveit 5y ago
I mean, even if you have started a billion dollar startup, you should assume that it's the last billion dollar startup you'll start.
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by solveit 5y ago
I don't know about artists, but I do know that the median successful entrepreneur is a middle-aged veteran of their industry who set up a company that nobody outside the field will ever know about.
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by solveit 5y ago
Not Coinbase.
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by solveit 5y ago
I agree. If they're an imminent danger to others, lock them up strictly for segregation and not gratuitous vengeance (that is, be as nice to them as practical given that you're locking them up), if they're manageable, leave t
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by solveit 5y ago
Automation is valuable in itself. Imagine a system of thousands of smart contracts interacting with each other millions of times a second. No court system is (currently) equipped to deal with that except in the most superficial way.
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by solveit 5y ago
> trustworthy third party Merits aside, sidestepping the need for this is the whole point of blockchain.
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by solveit 5y ago
As a Korean, I would very much like US troops to stay for another decade and more. I'm not sure why everyone's talking about Russia, but my worries are firmly fixated around China.
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by solveit 5y ago
The comment you were responding to (mine) was responding to a comment implying there were no significant upsides of ML.
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by solveit 5y ago
> There is not much socially positive application of machine learning, mostly socially neutral or negative. How do you arrive at this conclusion? What about Computer Vision? Speech recognition and synthesis? Fraud detection? Sentiment an
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by solveit 5y ago
You know you can have fractional BTC, right?
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by solveit 5y ago
All they have to do is invest a billion or so in bitcoin, announce it (as they are required to), then sell it. It would be relatively trivial.
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by solveit 5y ago
> VC are incentivized to keep throwing money at these dumb ideas because if even one of them takes off, there are disproportionate returns to be had come IPO time. Rich people funding low probability but high expected value moonshots is
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by solveit 5y ago
There are many books, but only so many hours in the day. Conveniently there are also many HN readers who have also read the book (presumably, you included) who could tell me if I'm wrong and the book is worth reading. That being said t
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by solveit 5y ago
> From the importance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain I find these comparisons deeply suspicious. If there indeed were a strong link between lea
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by solveit 5y ago
> A16Z is willing to give them a $4B given zero revenue, declining traction, and no clear business shows that all you need to do to gain ever-increasing valuations in the tech world is to serve up the exact kind of frou-frou, nebulous bu
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by solveit 5y ago
Also, Musk can get away with things. It's his whole schtick.

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