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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
I think he probably does plan to ignore the election results?
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
Yeah, that’s what I don’t get… the inflation we’re seeing is clearly a result of the energy spike from Russia’s invasion plus the end of Covid (demand came surging back for things like air travel and diminished supply takes a while to catch
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
To play devil’s advocate, perhaps risk takers should be rewarded?
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
“The Dictator’s Handbook” is a great book that argues (convincingly) that countries “act” not in their “own” self-interest but in the self-interest of their leader. Which is always to stay in power (and maximize their power). So I agree as
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
I hope they are also offering USDC on polygon so the fees are less than a penny instead of generalll more than a dollar.
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
I agree... and here's something weird (using DoorDash as an example): 1. Everybody says DoorDash doesn't pay their workers enough. 2. Everybody says DoorDash charges restaurants too much. 3. Everybody says DoorDash marks up the fo
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
Us/me too! The besssst feeling in the world! In the summer of 1997 I actually made my own Mille Bornes card set by hand (after finding the card distribution on the (new) web) to pass the time while studying in Taiwan.
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
I thiiink it’s maybe finally sort of happening/possible with USDC on polygon? https://www.circle.com/en/usdc-multichain/polygon
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
Exactly… no zoning is the best zoning! You wanna be low density, but out all the land and pay for it. If the market supports low density, so be it. In terms of property tax, I thought there was some research that the best way to do that wa
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
10 years ago I had a site running on an 8GB of ram VM ($80/mo?) that ran a site serving over 200K daily active users on a completely dynamic site written in PHP running MySQL locally. Super fast and never went down!
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
Noooo!! Why?!!!?! Arrrrrgh!!
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
Probably the right solution is charging for all public roads, not making trains free.
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
“Well, he wasn’t very good at making them self-drive.” -my daughter
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
https://www.bitcoinisdead.org/
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
"Do these sound like the actions of a man who had had ALL HE COULD EAT?!"
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by zhoujianfu 4y ago
Wouldn’t the best way to do congestion pricing be to simply optimize for maximum revenue (which you then mostly redistribute either equally or progressively)? I feel like the way to maximize revenue would just be to try either raising or lo
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
Are there any costs? Is it all free? And you make money on deposits like any ordinary bank?
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
I believe collectibles are one of the two forms of investments, and capable of being good investments. A normal, warren buffet-style investment is a good investment if you are better at predicting future cash flows than the average investor
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
It’d be nice if there was a service like this for physical addresses and even phone numbers. Every account you sign up for could be with a made up name, email, phone, address, and single use credit card number.
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
Bitcoin/crypto solved the “proof of resources” problem in a decentralized trustless way, which is cool. What would be neat now is “proof of unique living individual” in the same way.. that would solve a number of problems, related to U
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
You say that like speculative gambling isn’t legitimate!
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
I also own the house I currently live in because of a script I wrote! I wrote it in 2012 to automatically buy bitcoin once a week.
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
The programmers virtues: Impatience, Hubris, Laziness -Larry Wall
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
Nice! A lot of Germans! Gummipuppen!
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
I had a list (of 37) recently public tech companies I was going to buy some of a couple of days ago. I realized 3 of them were Chinese and dropped them from the list.
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
I've tried just asking for zip instead of city and state but then watch people as they type their city and state into the address line. Also theoretically people may mistype their zip and you'll have no way to validate it against
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
AFTER the Apple ads..
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
Last time I went skiing I noticed ski goggles kind of look cool, and are the perfect form factor for pass through ar. I think that’ll be the form it finally takes when Apple makes it cool.
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
Actually I think it was Jeff Bezos who liked it, and Steve Jobs thought it was terrible..
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by zhoujianfu 5y ago
I think universal basic income is the best compromise between capitalism and “socialism”. What if there were only private health care, parks, libraries, school, elder care… but everybody was “rich” (enough to easily afford them all).

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