mjfern

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by mjfern 3y ago
You’re just regurgitating conservative talking points that don’t align with reality. The California economy is the largest in the USA, by a significant margin, and its economic growth over the last 15 years far outpaced the U.S national av
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by mjfern 3y ago
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by mjfern 5y ago
It sounds like you’ve had success with this approach. Is this what you do for a living or just invest on the side? My issue is that I have a day job and have limited time to do sufficient research to feel confident with any investment decis
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by mjfern 5y ago
Yes, the people who disagree are those pumping and dumping and the bag holders. And cryptocurrency mining consumes as much electricity annually as the country of Argentina. Country scale emissions is not at all negligible, particularly in l
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by mjfern 6y ago
I respectfully disagree. When a politician and party are inciting violence, encouraging a coup, and undermining the foundations of democracy then I think we’ve crossed over the line from needing to be accepting of different views.
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Stripe quits processing payments for Trump campaign website(cnet.com)
17 points by mjfern 6y ago|9 comments
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by mjfern 6y ago
Privacy aligns with Apple’s revenue model (selling hardware) but not with Facebook’s (selling ads). This is the only reason you should have faith that Apple will work to protect your privacy, while Facebook will work to undermine it.
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by mjfern 7y ago
I don't see much of a difference between these companies and the person in the article. Both are taking advantage of a vulnerable population for some personal benefit.
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by mjfern 7y ago
WeWork had its valuation cut and the founder walked away with $1B+. Where can I sign up for this reckoning?
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by mjfern 7y ago
Like pets.com. It turns out shipping 30 lb bags of dog food via FedEx isn't such a good idea. Edit: Not such a good idea in 1999, when operating without economies of scale and scope, and with high transportation costs.
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by mjfern 7y ago
I provided several top of mind examples. It doesn't take long to think of entire industries that are shady, from payday lenders to cigarette companies.
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by mjfern 7y ago
The housing mortgage crisis, dot com boom and bust, payday loan industry, for-profit universities, fad diet companies, supplements with no scientific basis, cigarette manufacturers... There are whole industries and periods of time where lar
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by mjfern 7y ago
Tell that to Theranos, Fyre Festival, WeWork, the counterfeiters on Amazon, the myriad of shady ICOs, and on and on. Unfortunately, scammers are rife in industry. Let's not fool ourselves.
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by mjfern 7y ago
What underlying tech does Algolia use? Elastic search?
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by mjfern 7y ago
As an aside, why does nearly every Twitter link take you to a page not found thus requiring a reload? This is a terrible user experience that should be easy to fix.
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by mjfern 7y ago
Does anyone know why cable companies are able to tack on all these fees to TV service but not to broadband service?
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by mjfern 7y ago
Ah, yes. Thank you!
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by mjfern 7y ago
As someone pointed out in another thread, a campaign already exists at https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org . That said, this isn't providing the information that I'm looking for.
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by mjfern 7y ago
Weird. I visited this url earlier today and took me to a godaddy parking page. Maybe I mistyped or tried the .com.
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by mjfern 7y ago
Ha! Yes.
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by mjfern 7y ago
How about creating a simple campaign website, trilliontrees.org, that serves as a rallying call to plant trees and that compares and provides guidance on the myriad of nonprofits involved in planting trees? Anyone interested to partner on t
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by mjfern 7y ago
Who/what is XR?
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Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?
111 points by mjfern 7y ago|70 comments
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Arctic permafrost now melting at levels not expected until 2090(independent.co.uk)
34 points by mjfern 7y ago|2 comments
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Venmo without transaction limits?
3 points by mjfern 7y ago|4 comments
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by mjfern 7y ago
Amazing work! Just curious -- what's your revenue model?
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US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the Benefits(jacobinmag.com)
122 points by mjfern 7y ago|76 comments
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Dire future etched in the past: CO2 at 3M year-old levels(m.phys.org)
2 points by mjfern 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: If you run a startup or small biz, do you use a bookkeeping service?
1 points by mjfern 7y ago|0 comments
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by mjfern 7y ago
Wouldn't this theory rule out dark energy since I believe dark energy is used to explain an accelerating, expanding universe?

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