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   by tomasien 11y ago

   Overall dollar for dollar it's even or in the black for Fidelity for what it's worth because of the massive Uber write ups. Seems like a non-event to me, people just want to believe these valuations are insane. Are you really feel
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   by tomasien 11y ago

   Thanks!
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   by tomasien 11y ago

   Is anyone familiar with how this differs from a zero knowledge proof, or is this a TYPE of ZKP?
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   by tomasien 11y ago

   Housing in New York City and San Francisco is a problem - MASSIVE. Airbnb has helped many people in those cities find places to stay, make extra income, etc. I'm certain, because of the reasons the problem exists in the first place, th
5. 185.▲
   by tomasien 11y ago

   Of course you made this about the Southern states.
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   by tomasien 11y ago

   I do think it's sustainable - you need to kind of see the house to understand, but they get 19 rooms into a building that would normally have 14 or 15. They can do this because of the way they organize common space all onto 1 floor, li
7. 187.▲
   by tomasien 11y ago

   I don't need protection as much as I need optionality. There are lots of people like me. Big niche.
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   by tomasien 11y ago

   I'm moving into a Common in a few days. I'm paying about $250 a month more for a much nicer place with month to month flexibility than my friends living in a tiny 3BR with a 12 month lease. All in with utilities/internet&#x2F
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   by tomasien 11y ago

   We've known about the chemistry lab for years, possibly forever? I knew about it when I was there. Making this into a story has been really weird to watch.
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Lots of good answers on here, but I'll just add the minus the horrible Starbucks deal (which may have been worth a shot, but is killing them now) they're very close to being profitable and may achieve that very shortly.
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    What do people use to save? I use Qapital, I know a lot of people like Digit. I know they can't foundationally help the problem but they can help a lot of people who are capable of saving but aren't - which I would suspect is prob
12. 192.▲
    by tomasien 11y ago

    Isn't NuBits widely believed to be a scam?
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    This makes the most sense to me. This kind of innovation was going to happen, would it be centralized or decentralized? For now looks like the latter, made sense to fund both models.
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Exactly. I feel like it's not worth arguing with someone taking this dogmatic approach, but a company that really wants to be in litigation with you will do what it can to convince lawyers and judges (who don't really know how the
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    You're welcome!
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Feeling for you man - been there (recently). You'll get a lot of sideways looks from people who have no reason to doubt you. Ignore it. People always assume the person doing the suing MUST have a good reason. It's the same reason
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    It's fair to plead for people not to read to much into this. But your suggestion that this is a "bullshit pissing contest with 0 innocent parties" seems ridiculous to me, given that a well funded company is suing a less funde
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Sounds so familiar. Feeling for you and anyone else going through this!
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Disagree. 4chan is great and important. It shaped the Internet we know today in so many great ways, and in a few cautionary ways as well. Moot should be proud.
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    The strange history of VISA and Bitcoin(istommydrunk.svbtle.com)

    2 points by tomasien 11y ago|0 comments
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Banks do operate on trust, which is actually how VISA and Mastercard were created (because the trust became a problem) https://medium.com/shekel-magazine/odd-bedfellows-the-strang...
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Met them in person - I'm sure they'll update the website at some point, they're working hand in hand with their customers right now so I think marketing materials are probably falling a bit to the wayside. It's really qu
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    We're going to be actively encouraging our enterprise clients to use Logrr ( http://logrr.com/ ) to eliminate their password completely in favor of on device cryptography. It's the only way to avoid the vulnerabilit
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Hard for me to imagine Stripe at anything short of a $20-$30b company, so yeah $5b seems super cheap. To me though, I'm bullish on them though I understand that.
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    Thanks!
26. 206.▲
    by tomasien 11y ago

    I checked, it was an exact match. It was weird - thanks for helping!
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10216153
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    I did, it's being marked as a dupe I guess? To me it just looks like a comment but maybe it's invisible to others, I don't know.
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    I started a thread on this the same time this thread started. When I saw this one rising to the top I deleted it - I thought duplicate submissions were supposed to get merged in automatically and counted as upvotes instead of separate threa
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    by tomasien 11y ago

    The amazing thing about this to me is realizing how massively undervalued Stripe is if things like Relay are actually successful. The networks effects created by Relay would be massive.