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by the_local_host 5y ago
Who exactly? If they were rich before cryptocurrencies, they shouldn't care (unless they unwisely bet the farm on it); and if they're rich because of cryptocurrencies, no one else should care, because if cryptocurrencies crash,
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by the_local_host 5y ago
> Regulating cryptocurrencies now would be political suicide. That seems like a stretch. Most people wouldn't care, and the institutions that own it haven't bet that heavily on it. It's a fear-of-missing-out trade for th
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Even after understanding that the service is about distinguishing fake from legitimate products, I still don't know what an "order note" is.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
That warning is posted at the entrance to essentially every building in California.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
If there were an adequate social safety net, specifically a universal basic income, then employees could be paid in equity if the employer wanted to conserve or did not possess cash.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
> In what ways could capital be made less necessary? By reducing the cost of anything and everything that startups spend money on. (And for the largest item in many budgets, namely employee costs... in the presence of an adequate social
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Receive ETH, and turn it into dollars. Tutorials should focus on getting money, not sending it out, if they want to get people's interest.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
I'm not suggesting that startups be given free capital; I'm suggesting that we find a way to make capital less necessary, i.e. lower the stakes. At the extreme, if starting a company only requires pocket change, then nobody (socie
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Name checks out.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
I hope society figures out how to make startups in general less capital-dependent. If there weren't investors trying to protect themselves, we'd find out if running a company in Zhu's manner works or doesn't.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but I hear where their coming from. I'm not visually impaired, just in need of bifocals; I zoom HN to 150% and it works fine. But I am kinda surprised when I turn the zoom off. Even 25 years ago that te
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Not everyone is comfortable with the risk that the truth might eventually come out. What some intrepid manufacturer should do is create custom diamonds that are actually more expensive than natural diamonds, with some subtle structure tha
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Equivalent is not as good when what matters is what other people think. Even if the person displaying a luxury artifact agrees that some other artifact is equivalent, if the people they're displaying it to don't also agree, then t
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by the_local_host 5y ago
What's "Trading View"?
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by the_local_host 5y ago
> There's not a lot of "cultural fluency" involved in matching squares There are a lot of cultural factors involved in believing a seemingly pointless exercise like matching squares is worth doing. You have to believe tha
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Yahoo Finance is so good that when I'm trying to find information about a company, I'll type the company's name into Google, do a bit of reading, then... go over to Yahoo Finance and manually type it in again to look at their
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by the_local_host 5y ago
If you ever get the chance, try putting together a strat with one of those cheap paulownia bodies and compare it to.. well, anything else that is exactly the same except for the body material. To me, the difference is glaring; the paulowni
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by the_local_host 5y ago
In fact I just installed Ubuntu on a laptop this evening, and it worked really well. (I did make sure others had met with success with this specific model of laptop before I tried it though.) Things have come a long way since "linux
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by the_local_host 5y ago
I suspect that would devolve into endless fights over cleanliness and storage of personal items.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
Linux desktop/laptop is actually pretty usable nowadays - installing Ubuntu on a laptop is much less of an "adventure" than it used to be, with fewer incantations needed to get things working.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
That difference is itself dependent on how the pick is grasped. Anything can happen.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
> When going out, you could easily meet people working for those It's not just that, you actually can't avoid them. If you write software and are walking someplace in a commercial part of San Francisco, basically every convers
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by the_local_host 5y ago
I hope NFTs and crypto are a worse, and more popular, place for plutocrats to park their cash.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
It's not easy. Apple does have a consistent "spirit", but it's such a strange combination of idealism and ruthlessness that it's hard to know which aspect(s) anyone is invoking when they mention it. I don't k
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by the_local_host 5y ago
> Free choice and the ability to make mistakes... It sounds like the parent poster's relations have freely chosen to delegate their technology management to him or her, and in turn the poster is comfortable delegating that to Apple
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by the_local_host 5y ago
A red flag indicating what?
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by the_local_host 5y ago
I'm always surprised to hear, as a supposed benefit, how easy Bitcoin makes it to move money. I don't want it to be fast, easy or cheap to move my life savings. I want inertia.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
EDIT: Turns out it was not intentional, see below, now fixed on the post. (original): Given how well-written the rest of the article is, I have to believe that's deliberate.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
For some reason this reminds me of the Feynman article on HN recently ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931359 ) - the enjoyment in pursuing something just because you think it would be fun.
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by the_local_host 5y ago
The intent is not to fool anyone, but to provide a face-saving interpretation when socializing falls flat. You didn't stop in for a conversation that might or might not go well; you stopped in for a drink, and that worked. Having some

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