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by pexabit 2y ago
This doesn't really make it clear how bitcoin is helpful. I think the trouble is getting valuable physical stuff into the area, not access to various payment systems or domestic transactions. It might well be true, but the article do
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by pexabit 2y ago
What happened is adverse selection due to a stubbornly low valuation that doesn't even try to keep up, in the midst of a growing number of alternatives, worsened by a formal and therefore somewhat gameable process of getting in. The k
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by pexabit 3y ago
I pay for my mail client (MailMate). I pay for my search(FoxTrot Search). I pay for my spam filter (Spamsieve). I pay for my notetaking/archival (Eagle Filer). I pay for my network monitoring (Little Snitch). There are alternativ
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by pexabit 3y ago
Yeah advertising is a failure mode of what I said. But if Firefox ever decided to make a lot of money by selling good browsers at a high price to paying users, well I think the result would be quite interesting.
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by pexabit 3y ago
Sometimes I marvel at what would be possible if just a sliver of open source talent was put to work building independent quality software for their own or an investor's profit. Marketing a product forces you to figure out what it is p
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by pexabit 3y ago
This would be a good idea for ivory not so much fentanyl.
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by pexabit 3y ago
In this case, "supply creates its own demand" and in more than just the usual way. Mexico can't dig itself out but the United States could quite easily crush the cartels and letting them continue is an active policy choice.
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by pexabit 3y ago
What are some of those reasons and why do you think Mexicans don't want that?
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by pexabit 3y ago
There is no race-neutral way to increase racial diversity by definition...
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by pexabit 3y ago
Helpful context would be that some groups in India can parlay their political power and social prestige into oppression certificates ("OBC") that lets them into top universities with scores much lower than everybody else. Which..
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by pexabit 3y ago
there is absolutely no evidence universities are discriminating against OBCs and the guy who wrote this post does not present any.
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by pexabit 3y ago
pretty sure he would have posted his jee score if he got in without quota
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by pexabit 3y ago
That isn't really a useful comparison in a world where public or public-adjacent (bureaucratic committees operating by consensus) funding has totally crowded out rich funding interesting projects in terms of both dollars and status. Bu
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by pexabit 3y ago
Just addition with inside positive and outside negative (or vice-versa)
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Ask HN: Plaintext-oriented and SQLite based family office accounting solutions?
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by pexabit 4y ago
reddit.com/r/fatFIRE is a subreddit for rich people talking about rich people things and a surprisingly interesting resource.
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by pexabit 4y ago
New funding at high valuation imminent, wasting compute on the general public playing with it no longer makes much sense.
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by pexabit 4y ago
Going to be a little hard to credibly show the vaccine protects against infection when everyone is getting infected. Knowing whether someone is vaccinated against COVID is not going to help you predict whether they have been or will be infe
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by pexabit 4y ago
That isn't relevant because there is no evidence that the vaccine reduces your risk of suffering from myocarditis after infection. (It isn't even necessarily true, but that is a separate matter).
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by pexabit 4y ago
What is your back of the envelope math here? Clearly, the vaccine does not prevent infection. There is no evidence it reduces the incidence of harmful sequelae following infection. So how does this add up to support mandatory vaccination
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by pexabit 4y ago
Price functions to clear the market. If the MSRP is too low, then you are going to find waiting lists. It is not like dealers like selling at a price that forces them to carry more inventory than they need to operate.
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by pexabit 4y ago
Ford could do this, but cars are expensive assets that are hard to move around and so subject to changes in local demand, macroeconomic circumstances, etc. Ford would not be able to successfully push flat pricing onto its dealers, because
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by pexabit 4y ago
Maybe I am wrong about this, but the price you pay at a dealership is the spot price for a car now and here. The price you pay on the Tesla website is for a car some time in the future, some times an indefinitely far off time in the future
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by pexabit 4y ago
I imagine estate tax revenue would increase more than tenfold if the rate were cut to something like 7 or 10 percent. As it stands, the estate tax collects less than $20 billion or so. This is a pretty paltry sum for a provision that has
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by pexabit 4y ago
They are not. They are funded by a long-term, zero interest note from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.
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by pexabit 4y ago
Ads were much more relevant in a time when micropayments were much less feasible than they are today. There isn't any good reason Facebook can't charge $40/year if they commit to making it good again ( e.g. rolling back to
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by pexabit 4y ago
Mathematica license.
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by pexabit 4y ago
The tell is that you cannot even pay more to buy ME-disabled hardware when it is obvious that there is plenty of money in it, at little additional cost to Intel. The workaround in me_cleaner was originally intended for government buyers th
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by pexabit 4y ago
The many states and countries that had record outbreaks, the fact they were exceedingly well-vaccinated notwithstanding. (Vermont, Israel, etc. etc. this is pretty trivial to verify). It just does not prevent transmission. We know what
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by pexabit 4y ago
It does not even discernibly prevent infection or transmission.

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