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wellboy
9y ago
It isn't really hard to mine profitably, you can look up which ones are profitable and choose out of over 1,000 coins, of which 100 are already above market cap of $500M, so that's not the bootleneck.
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108 days and afterwards you make $1,500 income per month and you could travel the world and never have to work again if you don't want to? Sounds like a pretty good deal. What you didn't take into you account as well was the fact
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9y ago
Women can also be great scientists.
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9y ago
Also in yhe case of the dozens of countries with incredible inflation, Venezuela, African countries?
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9y ago
> I thought I should be like Elon Musk and tried working 100h a week and sleeping under my desk. I learned that in fact I’m not Elon Musk and found myself on the brink of a burnout a couple times. Not even Elon Musk is Elon Musk. He is d
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9y ago
Mostly a lot communication vs little to no communication.
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He means 80% of Americans probably, not 100% and that that is a lot more than in any other demographic in the western world. Be aware, 60% of Republicans belie e that the earth really is only 6,000 years old. By not understanding he means t
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9y ago
He can get a job in any republican state, people will probably silently agree about the things he said, or the media painted him to have said.
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9y ago
It's a very well researched issue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intellige... There are more dumber men and more smarter men than women.
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9y ago
He can get a job at a semi-big software company, that is not trendy, maybe in the midwest or in any other country pretty much, he might not make SV-pay, but surely can still pay his bills.
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9y ago
Men also select more career oriented roles with higher pay, of which CS careers are one of the main ones.
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9y ago
Excellent summary.
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9y ago
There are more highly intelligent men than women, because for men, the distribution is higher, look it up.
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9y ago
Can you specidy why exactly his memo was such a huge fuck up? He didn't want to make a statement, he wanted to get to the bottom of what he was wondering about on the internal discussion forum. He also has autism, maybr he was trying t
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9y ago
Theoretically, maybe it doesn't but practically, it has terrible consequences, especially in countries where human rights aren't a thing anyway, it will lead to dystopian concepts. I would suggest to read up on eugenics a bitZ
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9y ago
Because people are crazy about icos right now. Just in the last week, Crypterium has raised $45M, EOS has raised several bilions etc. There are around 1 million people who are big into altcoins that are constantly ogling icos to get in earl
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9y ago
So you're saying we should give eugenics a try?
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9y ago
That worth is the worth paid by people who don't know all the information, sold by people who didn't give all the information. Uber also wasn't worth $70B in the last round, investors didn't know that sexism was rampant
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9y ago
So, to summarize, we don't have a steel skeleton because 1. We evilved from the sea, where Calcium is far more abundant than metals 2. Having a skeleton 100x harder than out current one, would require 100x stronger muscles and tendons,
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> Well, you don't do LN transactions on a blockchain at all, that's where the speed improvements come from. Yes, but I meant using a blockchain for the decentralised aspect of things. > Multiple blockchains could mitigate th
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9y ago
Oh, that's a very detailed explanation, very interesting. So, could you then make a new blockchain for all LN transactions, seperate from Bitcoin?
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9y ago
Where did you find it stated that it's 2x. Isn't it much more, like million to billions times more, since 99.99% of transactions happen off-chain. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5f8w7f
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9y ago
Once the segwit update has been adopted widely (in a few months), transaction cost won't be an issue. Use case is an advantage that Ripple has. However, then again, Ripple is pretty much owned by the banks, so that's a downer.
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9y ago
> While a tedious process, we built a close working relationship and shared their enthusiasm about our future together. On December 11th, they called me and stated they would not complete the acquisition nor revisit the investment propos
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I know a guy who submitted apps with a comment, you get $300 if you can help me with some things. 9 out of 10 times it didn't work. But with 1 guy it worked and he promoted fake apps like this.
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9y ago
Why not reward computation power by the amount of kwh they have spent, regardless of if their computation was worth it or worthless.
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The effect is probably for the layman who doesn't usually build things, so when they finally build something (which is a human built-in dopamin effect, humans love building things), they are attached to it. However, when you're an
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9y ago
This isn't Trumps fault, but money concentrating in the Valley. Spinning things with little substance towards Trump is also harmful, it makes the conservatives less and less willing to listen to reason.
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Lots of factors - Have always lived in california and - have all their friends there - family lives there - are afraid of moving and starting completely new - are introverts and would look at being lonely for several years before they would
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9y ago
Good for the founders but bad for YC, since they miss out on moonshots if they aren't optimizing for moonshots (which make up 90% of their valuation) no?
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