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by technotony 5y ago
Archived: https://archive.md/RpHh3
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by technotony 5y ago
High Fidelity tried to build this and failed. I think one of the issues they had was that the whole hosting thing was pretty tricky and created barriers to having worlds up all the time, this meant there were never as many places to explore
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by technotony 5y ago
It's not about trading pairs, those can easily switch to USDC or other stables. The big challenge will be the futures markets which are nearly exclusively with USDT. If tether collapses so do all those futures, which presumably will ca
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by technotony 5y ago
This is optimistic, it would require traditional financial service regulators like the SEC to ceed power to a new agency. That's very unlikely to happen. Most of the regulatory institutions in America work to increase their power not h
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by technotony 5y ago
Their claim that the shares were below market value doesn't stack up. They did this when they founded the company, the company has no value at formation so it's fair priced. Just because they raised money a few months later doesn&
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by technotony 5y ago
It's very counterintuitive, but actually the more unbanked you are the more you needs loans/savings and the more complicated your personal financial balance sheet is. I'd recommend the book 'the poor and their money&#x27
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by technotony 5y ago
Depends where you live and if you have to heat or cool your house to work from home. Homes are much more inefficient to moderate temperature than offices. That may or may not offset the benefit from commuting, and even less so if done on pu
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by technotony 5y ago
There's a ton of tech behind Beyond Meat. Their core science is based on research from an RNA professor at Stanford. That proteomics research is the reason their burger tastes so much better than previous generation veggie burgers.
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by technotony 6y ago
Switch to Solana?
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by technotony 6y ago
> [3] When a company IPOs, it opens ownership up to anyone who can afford a share. Imagine, for a second, an investor arguing that this is a sign of low quality. I thought this note was important, this is precisely what investors signall
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by technotony 6y ago
How does the lay person get in on these test the market secondary offerings?
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by technotony 6y ago
Energy is the largest cost in bitcoin mining. Mining moves to the cheapest electricity locations. Renewables are already the cheapest energy source globally, and getting better. So in the mid-term bitcoin mining will move to renewable energ
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by technotony 6y ago
It says you provide lab space, is that all in one facility or is it more that you help teams find lab space in the bay area?
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by technotony 6y ago
He's a major investor in my company, and can 100% attest that's true. What's most astonishing about him is how responsive he is even two years after making that investment. He must have so many companies and he's still a
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by technotony 6y ago
It depends what happens in congress. Trump might win the whitehouse, but lose congress. congress makes the rules around social media and breaking up big tech.
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by technotony 6y ago
It's not just having the theory, Darwin's contribution was collecting data to prove his theory.
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by technotony 6y ago
What do you think you did that helped make that happen? I guess you guys worked hard but did you try a lot of things that didn't work before this hit?
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by technotony 6y ago
Price is relative to shipping fuel, not absolute values. So it's not negative!
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by technotony 6y ago
Zuckerbery has talked about the strategy here for ages. It's not about VR, it's about AR. The tech to build realtime, always on AR is just a more advanced VR tech. AR will be all about the ads as facebook can serve them everywhere
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by technotony 6y ago
Yes, it's called 'biomining' and there have been several startups working to engineer organisms to do this. eg Universal Biomining working on copper (with bacteria) and a team at University of Washington who took an enzyme fr
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by technotony 6y ago
Does anyone know why the husband got 2.5x more penalty than the wife? Was the court able to prove it was his idea or he was somehow more guilty?
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by technotony 6y ago
Curiously, you just listed a lot of good reasons to do YC. Until the last few weeks of the program you will be encouraged to focus on your business except for the Tuesday evening talks and short meetings with the partners. As this is remote
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by technotony 6y ago
How to create a social networking event remotely for a happy hour or business networking event or party is an interesting unsolved problem. Here are a few other early protypes from teams working on it. Both of these have a UI where you walk
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by technotony 6y ago
Last year High Fidelity took one of these tombs and built a VR version that they had an Egyptologist doing tours in. Was pretty cool, sad that they closed the platform.
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by technotony 6y ago
It's less that they won't spend it, and more they won't invest it. As you point out if you can get exposure to global capital growth by keeping your money in cash you will do that. This starves the world of risk capital being
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by technotony 6y ago
This comes up a lot, nobody is literally chained to their desks. Democracy in the workplace comes from voting with your feet and taking another job at another company. It's not perfect, particularly for lower income people, but it&#x27
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by technotony 6y ago
Before High Fidelity VR shut down they were doing tours with an Egyptologist tour-guide of another tomb which was really cool.
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by technotony 6y ago
That's what the article says, human trials in fall this year and then a regulatory filing a year later. There is basically no chance of a vaccine for this being widely available before 2022. That assumes that one of these vaccines work
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It will be interesting to see what they fund and how much the companies fit the current environment. I'm guessing quite a lot of remote working tools. The one I really want is something that allows 'many to many' conversation
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by technotony 7y ago
The military or the dollar (which might be related)?

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