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by noddy1 8y ago
Zuckerberg is very happy to bend/break the rules and abuse his customers when it suits him, so screw him. These aren't instagram's images anyway - they're the images of the people who painted them, and the people who pho
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by noddy1 8y ago
Great way to get a piece of a company which is unable to get adequate funding from VCs (who at this point are funding almost anything anyway)
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by noddy1 8y ago
Moving towards the model where a portion of early VC investment goes straight into the pocket of the founders and early employees, as bird has done. If I've built a company with an implied valuation of 200 million, why can't I ban
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by noddy1 8y ago
I'm a Dr who has just quit my specialist job for the 2nd time to pursue a startup. You'd think I'd do something medical - I've been in the field 10 years, I should have been able to find a problem IT can address? To be h
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by noddy1 8y ago
Has there been any precedent of patients saying to the hospital at the start of a visit "I agree to pay 1.5x the medicare reimbursement rate and no more, if you don't agree to this I will go to the next hospital"?
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by noddy1 8y ago
80% of companies in the S&P500 over time produce zero return. 20% of companies account for ALL of the returns. In the past these would've been driven by massive growth stocks like Amazon going 1000x over a couple of decades. Now
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by noddy1 8y ago
The constant threat of million dollar lawsuits is a pretty stupid way to ensure good practice of medicine.
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by noddy1 8y ago
This is an excellent opportunity for social pressures so curb behaviour. MBS has 45 billion dollars in the vision fund, and if it doesn't work out well, he will look stupid. If the vision fund loses ability to invest in the best comp
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by noddy1 8y ago
Thanks SEC for ensuring that all the returns from high growth tech companies are accruing to foreign billionaires and corrupt oil princes rather than to american retirement accounts and pension funds!
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by noddy1 8y ago
red scare (female russian immigrant socialists in new york critique metoo and other neoliberal stuff in a sexy manner)
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by noddy1 8y ago
Yup, which was the perfect time to dump all your crypto bags.
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by noddy1 8y ago
you can get chinese vet grade USS machines for ~$500
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by noddy1 8y ago
its amazing how prevalent the 808 sound is in modern music... probably 80% of current rap music is based on sounds derived from the 808 kit. The combination of smoothness, "bassiness" and chattering hats and static snare really
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by noddy1 8y ago
I had an acid trip with an agonizing comedown that made me really rethink my life and priorities. As a result of that day I began the path to go to medical school, despite everyone including my parents telling me it was unrealistic. I&#x
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by noddy1 8y ago
Anyone have any insight into why goog/fb haven't acquired reddit at this point? If they could get it for anything near the 1.8billion previous valuation surely they would just snap it up?
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by noddy1 8y ago
Really enjoyed this talk, especially the stuff about the Irish emphasis on making people feel at ease. I wish I had more of that. He has just the amount of humility for his age/CV!
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by noddy1 8y ago
Backpacker hostels also generally have great free wifi. Agree - 5 star hotels have the worst. Clunky, shitty, login procedures and laugh out loud ridiculous pricing models. This is similar to the situation for tourist visas in various coun
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Ask HN: Medical doctor looking to build med research HN site, how to make PhD?
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by noddy1 8y ago
currently in china, was in bangalore last week.. China feels almost like a first world nation at this point (albeit a weird one). India, even in the most prosperous/developed city is still essentially a crappy 3rd world place. I don&#x
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by noddy1 8y ago
How do you account for rogue employees or hacks at the trusted 3rd party? Equifax was a trusted 3rd party with no skin in the game. Facebook was too (at least it was trusted by the west, the chinese never trusted it).
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by noddy1 8y ago
I agree; I'm cynical on about 99.99% of touted blockchain use cases. However, for the 0.01% of use cases where you can't trust the government (money printing) or where the stakes are too high to rely on the security of a trusted 3
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by noddy1 8y ago
Crime and plotting is much harder to do prospectively than retrospectively. Having prospective records timestamped from a number of independent providers is really hard to fake.
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by noddy1 8y ago
"Points 1 and two aren't solved in any way, as the buyer has to trust the producer to not lie when making the entry. In other words, the trust problem here occurs before entry into the database." The blockchain will show in t
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by noddy1 8y ago
Global supply chains involve a number of superpowers who are at proxy wars with each other and a vast number of countries of which the majority have deep corruption issues. Who do you designate as the trusted 3rd party?
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by noddy1 8y ago
An olive farm makes some extra virgin olive oil in Italy. It is recorded at some date. They also make some virgin and some regular olive oil. It gets put in bottles and shipped somewhere. The shipping info is linked to the original producti
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by noddy1 8y ago
If this could be applied to making palm oil substitute, that might be the only thing that can stop deforestation of indonesia/borneo/PNG
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by noddy1 9y ago
Creating new synth sounds does not excite me much... Some things I'd like AI audio researchers to work on: - High quality isolation of vocals and other instruments in recordings - Convert audio recordings into multitrack midi/vst
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by noddy1 9y ago
This 4 billion dollars and all the money wasting on power and ASIC chips is a direct tax on the bitcoin ecosystem. This is the incentive you and your currency/consensus model have to beat bitcoin. In addition to the engineering probl
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by noddy1 9y ago
He just did a podcast with Tyler Cowen yesterday - its a good listen: https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithtyler/matt-levine-ty...
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by noddy1 9y ago
I'm a medical doctor and frequently use sci-hub to review papers relevant to care of my patients. Prior to sci-hub, I would often have a clinical question, look it up, find a paywalled article, attempt to access it via the hospital&#x

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