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by vijayboyapati 10y ago
I can't guess the tone of the letter. Could have used some love.
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by vijayboyapati 10y ago
Because smart contracts are (often) contractual obligations on real world things, they only hold as much power as the apparatus of coercion (usually the State) will allow them to hold. That is, you must trust the political authority first a
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by vijayboyapati 11y ago
I've read it. Galbraith's history is ok and his writing is entertaining but his economic analysis is terribly flawed. I recommend Rothbard's America's Great Depression for a solid economic analysis of the causalities inv
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
This is one of the great economics canards of the 20th century. The gold standard was dropped because western nations accumulated too much war debt during the Great War (world war I) and weren't able to inflate it away under a gold sta
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
It should be pointed out that US operated as a democratic republic for over a century on the gold standard - which bitcoins shares a lot of properties with, except that bitcoin can be transmitted at distance easily, whereas gold cannot.
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
AKA donating to Edward Snowden is now a crime.
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
Facebook's market cap isn't 41B, it's about 223B, as of today (using yahoo/google finance): * https://www.google.com/finance?q=fb * http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fb
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
One of the things I found frustrating about Nextdoor when I used it a year ago was that it defines the neighborhood for you. I have a mailing list I created several years ago for my street which has been a very effective way of communicatin
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
Reminds me a little of the Declaration of Independence where the famous line would have been "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" if Thomas Jefferson hadn't been "touched" by Benjamin Franklin with his
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
Sadly the Stackoverflow community seems to have become a lot more officious in the last few years and the number of petty bureaucrats has skyrocketed. I asked a genuine question which I didn't know the answer to and which I was hoping
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
I think Sam is incorrect when he writes "The great technological revolutions have affected what most people do every day and how society is structured. The previous one, the industrial revolution, created lots of jobs because the new
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
There are two major problems with this article (although they're not specific to this article and are more generally applicable to Keynesian economics). Firstly Prof. Krugman writes: "Why is deleveraging a problem? Because my spen
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
Sure, but all those businesses will have to deal with large amounts of incoming cash, so they too will have an incentive to take bitcoin. The secondary businesses wouldn't even need to keep any bitcoin as they could use something like
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
There was a great Planet Money (NPR) podcast on this a while ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/04/166514067/episode-... and I remember hearing another Planet Money podcast on bitcoin
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
I found this super interesting, especially the stuff on the early evolution of the game and how various cheating ("trick") plays were used, such as hiding the ball under a player's jersey and running away with it, or suturing
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The history of American Football(radiolab.org)
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
This article felt very validating for me. I've always done well at school (4.0 in college), on various tests and at work, but it never registered and I've always felt like a bit of an impostor. When I was an engineer at Google I p
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
This one sentence sums up what I think is the fundamental problem: "An insolvency problem was thus dealt with as if it were a case of illiquidity." That is, the problem isn't some ephemeral panic where people are temporarily
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
This post, which definitely resonates with me and my experience in Silicon Valley and in Seattle, surrounded by very leftist politics, reminds me a lot of Mencius Moldbug's brilliant piece "Technology, communism and the Brown Scar
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
Please Google, come back to Seattle! Pleaaaassseee!
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
I wonder if similar benefits can be had by practicing the method of "lean gains" aka "intermittent fasting", or whether this only works with 3 days of fasting, which is a long time to go without food. I'd certainly
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
There are already very promising treatments for certain types of cancer like leukemia: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/health/leukemia-patients-c... A number of companies are working on commercializing
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
https://plus.google.com/110888393967521869195/posts/4REjUe5a... #humor
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
The most powerful part of multi-sig is not that you can have arbitrarily many M of N, but that you can outsource complex policy in a trusted way. E.g., create policy that lower level employees can control a small percentage of a company&#x2
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
The reason that political establishments have always been biased against monetary deflation can be found in the manner in which wealth transfer occurs under inflationary and deflationary environments. During an inflationary credit expansion
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
Yeah definitely, and thanks for the great recommendation. The Z3 is getting close, but still slightly too big. The Compact is the right size, or even a touch small, but it sacrifices the resolution. It's very cool that it's water
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
I've owned an EVO, a Note 2 and a Nexus 5. The form factors being small, large and medium-to-large, respectively. I went from small to large, and while I thought the Note 2 had fantastic specs, it was too unwieldy for me and I decided
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
I covered that in the article: "In particular, Boldrin and Levine devote a chapter of their book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, to the pharmaceutical industry. They argue that the actual cost of bringing drugs to market is substantial
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
I find studies produced by the Gottman institute far more compelling because they're much more prescriptive. In particular they analyze the "four horsemen" of conflict in a marriage and how these undermine marriage stability:
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by vijayboyapati 12y ago
"A toast! To justice... and to vampires!" That made my day.

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