wuliwong

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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I appreciate that your first bullet point was about real wages decreasing. I wonder how many people know what that means.
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   "There’s just no clear evidence to prove that they have any benefit." Then... "One large, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled US trial in men found that some who took multivitamins had a slight reduction in total can
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I imagine just the fact that they no longer face the possibility jail time alone makes them feel a lot safer.
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I think there profits are less negative. :)
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I cannot really comment on the difficulty of making the business case for only huge cities. But I am not convinced that marketing to non-Huge cities isn't profitable.
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I think there are a lot of places around the world that have Uber but don't have Lyft. Uber has competition in some areas but it seems like there's a lot of places where it doesn't have much.
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I wanted to try something completely on my own and I had done a lot of programming in my physics career so I thought that building a website would make sense. I SEVERELY underestimated the complexity of web development though. :) But I&#x2
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I got laid off and then made that decision. And I basically just started building websites that I thought would be cool. Trying to "get a startup going" might be giving myself too much credit.
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   by wuliwong 9y ago

   I got my Ph.D. in physics in 2010, worked for about 1 year in research then took a year to try and build my own startup while collecting unemployment. I didn't successfully get a startup going but I learned enough web development durin
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I certainly like the idea of blocking these types of ads at first blush. I don't know much about the source of the "disruptive" label so that could be a bone of contention. I would assume there will be some UI element saying
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I think producthunt is for actual product releases. Show HN has a much wider range.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    Looks like it is free for individual users and they have a premium plan for "teams."
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I don't think I agree that this is what people mean when they say "bitcoin has no intrinsic value but gold does." I think that it is a laymen's statement and they are really referring to value or utility outside of being
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    They also have it all on Stanford's site with some other information and course materials. https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    If nobody knows than why do you assume the cost _likely_ staggering?
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    Stockhausen was a contemporary composer though, correct?
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    Wouldn't the deflationary economy only discourage investment in the least value-producing economic activity?
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I believe the standard definition of centralized vs. decentralized currency has to do with the governing of the supply of that currency.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    What you are describing is a moral hazard. A situation where people will take risks they wouldn't normally take because they know they will be bailed out if they lose money.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I think that this article has too many anecdotal references to scams and profiteers but there isn't any sense of the statistics or scale. Without knowing if people are behaving worse on average in the crypto world or the fiat world, I
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I disagree, I think that the federal reserve's artificially low interest rates and essentially unlimited supply of money for the banks to loan out at these interest rates were at the heart of the most recent financial crisis in the US.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    Is the question of what I will think of something when I'm old really the best question? I know that this seems natural but I wonder if it is a bad way to make choices. I don't think my enjoyment when old is more valuable than my
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I've been considering this same move a lot recently. I know this is appealing to some people and seems completely insane to others. I believe that I understand my own psychology pretty well. The situation where every productive hour of
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I am also feeling really nostalgic about AIM shutting down. My HN screen name is the one I created for AIM many moons ago.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I actually found this super confusing. I opened up the app on chrome on os-x and I could move the view around, nothing seemed broken. I don't have a VR headset attached to my mac so maybe that's where the problems arise? It seems
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    The developer is showing off an experiment he made using a bleeding edge web development framework. It has loads to do with web developers.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    My understanding is that they are making some significant new releases which will allow for very fast transaction times and support for contracts. I have been expecting a big breakout from LTC but then again this all could have happened for
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I'll check this out! I've been interested in creating an app that helps in discovery of streaming media around the web.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    I was able to find a trustworthy mechanic. If they did a poor job or were sabotaging my car when I brought it to them, I would choose another mechanic.
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    by wuliwong 9y ago

    It asks for a supervisor's email. I'm not aware of how these smart contracts work. What else needs to be done?