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by wgerard 7y ago
Uh I mean, not that I'm a cryptocurrency enthusiast by any means, but wouldn't prudent estate planning include a prepared will or some sort of next-of-kin document that includes a mechanism for access to your accounts/passwor
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by wgerard 7y ago
Ehh, I'm not so sure this analogy really holds. 1) That would make the previous 3rd generation before this current iteration (one cycle ago) the generation that experienced WW1 - they'd hardly be ignorant of the horrors of world w
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by wgerard 7y ago
I mean, just because it's legal to resell nintendo products doesn't mean Amazon is required to offer a marketplace for them. First-sale just means that the sellers don't need permission from nintendo to sell the items everyw
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by wgerard 7y ago
> This decision seems to imply that either Nintendo or Amazon would rather limit all used sales of Nintendo products than build a more focused list of scrutinized software and products. Seems like probably both, no? > Users on the use
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by wgerard 7y ago
There's quite a few flash games/etc. that will be lost to the ages. Quite interesting if you think about it! A bit of an antithesis to the idea that what's on the web is preserved forever.
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Largely because the opioid crisis has started to impact a lot of middle class households, which has helped to humanize the problems with drug addiction. Interesting take! I've always thought it's because of the change in view
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by wgerard 7y ago
> I mean this in as polite a way as possible, but why wouldn't established companies like Stripe just fuck off to another city entirely? To be totally blunt, I also suspect a large part of it is that the founders would like to be in
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Yes, the SEC definitely follows up on this Yes, and they're quite adept at it even if you don't think you're leaving a trace. For example: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2014-55
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by wgerard 7y ago
> I just need time to recharge by myself afterwards Yes! The way I've started explaining this to people is it's like going to the gym: I like going to the gym. I make sure to go to the gym regularly. But I can't spend all
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Postgres is fantastic at many things but there are times when it's not the best choice. To be fair, that would be the 5% :).
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by wgerard 7y ago
This is a really interesting phenomenon we noticed as started doing some research into esports: There's a ton of interest in organized game teams as perhaps an alternative to traditional sports for students with different proclivities.
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by wgerard 7y ago
Awesome news! Really excited to try out the new CLI features for training.
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by wgerard 7y ago
k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by wgerard 7y ago
> There's no way for me to win an argument like this The way for you to win would be to counter my argument: Show the amount of money/time/etc. that went into resolving the AIDS crisis was minimal (and of course, you'
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by wgerard 7y ago
> An excellent question to pose to those left-of-center This is literally what the OP was about.
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by wgerard 7y ago
Uh, he's not wrong. You have to jump through some serious mental hoops to avoid classifying the current American right as Populist. They clearly have no qualms about using government to control social norms (e.g. abortion, marriage). T
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by wgerard 7y ago
Most of those "doom and gloom" predictions never came true because of tireless work by people to prevent it from happening. For example, the amount of effort that went into making AIDS more treatable is astronomical. See also: Ozo
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by wgerard 7y ago
> How do you exterminate 7 billion people spread over ~57 million square miles of land? I mean, just make the earth uninhabitable for humans. There are a few ways to accomplish this; even excluding climate change, nuclear weapons were a
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Eventually, in order for the private investors to make money, they either need to get profitable or go public. Most (but not all, obviously) unicorns could easily be profitable if they chose to be. It would come at the expense of growt
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by wgerard 7y ago
> There's not one example of a regional sports league that has had any sort of success in recent memory. Er, we're talking about them right now. College sports are extremely regional but still have significant national appeal.
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by wgerard 7y ago
> There's not going to be much national demand for a state-only organization Uh, this would be true of many states but not of states like CA/TX/FL. There would absolutely be demand for a CA-only athletic organization. Th
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by wgerard 7y ago
I see lots of cheering which, to some degree, I understand given the public persona of Adam Neumann. I'm more interested in the ramifications, and I don't just mean the obvious ones like "potential tech recession" (maybe
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by wgerard 7y ago
My $0.02: Despite being a strong believer in it, I've worked at places that did blameless post-mortems and it was sometimes frustrating because remediation often felt like a second-class citizen. Remediation is often much more diffic
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by wgerard 7y ago
Sure, but clearly there's black market production for the latter. I guess I don't see why you think it's difficult for black market production to spring up for the former. By that I mean: I don't think the e-cigarettes t
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Unlike with cigarettes, black market production of e-cigarettes sounds unlikely. Wait, isn't that exactly the problem that's lead to what's happened here? Unregulated THC cartridges causing health issues in states where
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by wgerard 7y ago
Just as a caveat, I have 0 affiliation with Dropbox (I don't think I even know anyone who works there). > Are they profitable? Profitability isn't the end-all metric for a company. Amazon famously circles around the profitable&
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by wgerard 7y ago
> You believe Lewinsky was a victim of what, exactly? Being pressured into a sexual relationship by her superior, who was by many standards the most powerful person on the planet at the time? Like, regardless of whether you believe that&
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by wgerard 7y ago
I'm not arguing for a blockchain solution here, fwiw. Just pointing out that people under the age of majority are, in fact, restricted from trading securities (for obvious reasons).
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by wgerard 7y ago
while true, most brokerages have age limits on executing transactions (which effectively results in the same thing)
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by wgerard 7y ago
most brokerages i think wouldn't touch underage trading with a 10-foot pole, for obvious reasons.

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