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by pdog 2y ago
> Getting kids to go outdoors is a tough sell. The problem isn't the kids. It's the adults.
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by pdog 3y ago
> I just wish the guy in charge could apply the same systematic thinking to his approach to politics. I fear that the major short term risk to humanity is not the environment, but toxic politics. Elon Musk is not (and never has been) a
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by pdog 4y ago
> "The reality is that everyone runs from the police nowadays." Since when? This should be a bigger story than the availability of GPS tracking darts.
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by pdog 4y ago
The sheer number of rhetorical fallacies employed in the opening of this "takedown" inclines me to believe that Hersh's reporting is a largely accurate and truthful account. For example, stating that you could write "an
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by pdog 4y ago
Not sure how to interpret these tweets: > A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk. I don’t know anything concrete, but if
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Ask HN: What sort of systemic risk to crypto is Paul Graham referring to?
20 points by pdog 4y ago|31 comments
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by pdog 4y ago
You don't need the concept of "time value of money" to value a perpetual stream of payments. Intuitively, only a sucker would pay $1,000,000,000,000 for the promise of $1 per year in perpetuity, even in the absence of discoun
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by pdog 4y ago
If you have inflation, something is going up in dollar terms. The answer is "real" assets: physical assets that have an intrinsic worth due to their substance and properties. Real estate, infrastructure, and commodities are all
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by pdog 4y ago
How does constructor theory relate to Wolfram's Ruliad concept[1] and the physicalization[2] of metamathematics? It seems both theories would have major implications for the foundations of physics and mathematics. [1]: https:/&
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by pdog 5y ago
Note: If you plan on competing with Stripe in any way, you may want to hold off on having them review your YC application: https://www.twitter.com/theryanking/status/14857848236417556...
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by pdog 5y ago
Do you know what isn't bad for your health? Good, clean healthy home-cooked food. Which, in millions of homes, is cooked swiftly and efficiently on gas ranges. Politicians and their media lackeys in the media need to stop trying to mic
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by pdog 5y ago
Can I see a picture of the bioreactors?
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by pdog 5y ago
Their most prominently stated demand is ending all state-backed mandates and lockdowns. Where did you see anything about the dissolution of their elected government? Or, are you referring to the parliamentary system?
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by pdog 5y ago
I'm struggling to understand how inflation is only 7.5% when every major line item comprising inflation is up much more than 7.5% over the past year.
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by pdog 5y ago
Ilya Lichtenstein (YC S11) is the co-founder of YC-backed MixRank. Heather Morgan, his wife, is apparently a serial entrepreneur, investor, and "contributor" to Forbes.
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by pdog 5y ago
> Somehow there's this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease but that is an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has ever met. In the U.S., health experts explicitly sa
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A U.S. Digital Dollar Should Serve the Public, Not Banks(bloomberg.com)
25 points by pdog 5y ago|5 comments
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by pdog 5y ago
"Scientific misinformation" is such an incredible example of Newspeak.
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by pdog 5y ago
His dad is a doctor and his mom is an astrophysicist and mathematician. Do you think that is a coincidence?
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by pdog 5y ago
To paraphrase Ogilvy, half the country is being manipulated by a political party using misinformation to gain power; the trouble is I don't know which half.
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by pdog 5y ago
> People don’t think they can really reach goals related to life stability unless they win some sort of lottery. People think this because it's true. The median U.S. income is no longer enough to cover a year of basic expenses, or
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by pdog 5y ago
By this logic, with no SALT deduction cap, a state could simply implement the federal income tax brackets for its own taxes and permanently deprive the federal government of any income tax revenue by allowing it all to be deducted.
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by pdog 5y ago
A city-wide charging network with standardized, user-replaceable battery packs would be the "holy grail" of short- and medium-range electric bike and moped commuting. Unfortunately, jury rigging a larger battery capacity is the on
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by pdog 5y ago
With software improvements, our perception of time will eventually be slowed down in the metaverse to such an extent that one hour in the material world will equate to several days of perceived elapsed time in meta-reality.
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by pdog 5y ago
Good luck trying to get Sequoia to accept common shares from employees in exchange for diluting their own capital, when they already get preferred shares in a different class through their investments in individual companies.
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by pdog 5y ago
The Supreme Court upheld concentration camps 76 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
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by pdog 5y ago
Isn't that what a credit card is for? Or is it somehow different?
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by pdog 5y ago
$29B is a pretty significant, even for an all-stock acquisition and a company of Square's size. It would be interesting to see the motivation for this beyond a "shared mission" or "economic empowerment."
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by pdog 5y ago
Eric Clapton isn't forcing people to attend his concerts. Anyone can judge the risk for themselves.
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by pdog 5y ago
Alternative headline: Eric Clapton refuses to play venues that aren't open to all concertgoers. Nothing to prevent a vaccinated concertgoer from attending, so what's the problem?

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