diamondhandle

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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Can someone explain what flag in the top left corner is? There’s probably another non-country flag I missed in there too. https://www.anom.io/trojan_shield_seal.jpg
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Will rich nations back a deal to tax multinational citizens ? This is one area where America has a secret lead for both foreigners and ultra-rich citizens. Checkout GRATs and Opportunity Zones if you want to daydream about how to pay near-
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
That’s a pop star you ran out of town. The BBC or Der Spiegel weren’t falling all over themselves to be first to let everyone know that the Catholic Church had a giant problem. There’s a reason Spotlight was an important movie.
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
As a European who doesn’t think Europe has an ongoing skin color / racism problem, you’re signaling that you’ve never really thought about the proceeds of slavery and colonialism to finance, well, almost everything we associate with mo
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Ultimately Tether is backed by obligations from the participating exchanges to fund the tethers that were generated on their behalf. It is basically a scheme being run on behalf of the large crypto exchanges to enable wash trades (which are
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Someone is going to make a chart comparing crypto to the already-ridiculous crypto derivatives market, and you’ll realize your point is totally irrelevant. Companies don’t transact in Bitcoin because nobody wants to hold it. Except for comp
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Okay, and what happens when I run a phony ad next to this one in the New York Times? What happens when I bribe the guy at the Times to accidentally use my hash rather than theirs? It’s a cute gimmick, I’ll give them that.
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
According to https://discordstatus.com/ , there isn’t an outage. Are you suggesting that there’s currently an ongoing outage, and their status page is useless? (Wouldn’t be the first time, but it’s surprising that an otherwi
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
This sounds like an extremely naive and optimistic outlook. Large scale command and control situations are getting increasingly close to reality. Anyone who has followed US foreign policy and the like won’t be too surprised that this guy wo
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Bitcoin is Pachinko for middle-aged white men. You can quote me on that. (And, really, do some research into the $200B a year Pachinko industry, and you’ll see some disturbing parallels.)
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Speaking of the founder of Ventrilo -- this video is priceless: https://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/21/video-man-sells-gt500-ra... I guess there's no more of that.
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
People can critique this writeup, but this is a useful data point for others interested in what happens as companies scale. These aren’t new pain points and they aren’t indicative of looming failure at Stripe — they’re just areas where we c
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
America isn’t even 250 years old. That’s, what, five generations? Do remember that most American “settlement” of these areas was specifically designed to drive out the real locals, whose basic planning took on a seven-generation timescale.
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
I am really glad you posted this, as I’ve heard similar from people within the org. It becomes hard to justify working on such products when you know you’re perpetuating so much harm, with zero interest from leadership in resolving the issu
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Here’s the meat: > No VC funding. > Over a million paying customers. Now you’ve got my attention. I’d be interested to know what their tactics were for getting their first 100, and 1000, and 10,000 users. DigitalOcean was a huge disap
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
It’s way, way more common than you’d ever want to believe. Here’s a starting point, from one very repressed culture where the act of going to the police puts great shame on your family and turns you into an outcast: > There seems to be n
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
People who comment on these moderator issues always overlook the huge huge mental red flag that these moderators always discuss: images of children being molested and tortured. Endless images of young children. Being sexually assaulted, pen
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
Our job in life is to engage in value creation. When money is decoupled from value creation, your long-term bet is that it will lose its value, as value creation is what actually matters in the “real” world. This is also why “crypto” (the a
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by diamondhandle 5y ago
I am guessing you mean the popularity of Apple Watch as a developer platform, which is totally correct. In fact, it might be the first platform where developers said “sorry Apple, we aren’t interested in making you more money.”