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Taking Udacity to New Heights(blog.udacity.com)
1 points by pshin45 7y ago|0 comments
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by pshin45 8y ago
I agree that everything you say is true or has been true of Bitcoin at some point. However, the more important question is how all of those things will change going forwards. Is Bitcoin's volatility decreasing? Yes. Will Bitcoin ever b
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by pshin45 8y ago
> so big that 1.3 million people were displaced to build it. The fact that China built a large hydroelectric power plant (Three Gorges Dam) that displaced a lot of people, shouldn't be an argument against Bitcoin. There are ways to
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by pshin45 8y ago
The same could be said for any new technology – they are always a double-sword, and it's our responsibility as technologists to do what we can to maximize the upside and minimize the downside. The internet has changed society for the b
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by pshin45 8y ago
> unless you also specify how much better. That is impossible for anyone to say with any certainty, because the future impact of new technologies are, by their nature, impossible to predict. The oft-cited statistic is that 2 billion adul
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by pshin45 8y ago
I think your point about US power plants is a nitpick – The largest power plants in the world are not located in the US, and either way my point still stands because it's meant to be a rough approximation. Unlike data centers where ele
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by pshin45 8y ago
Indeed, as I mentioned in a sibling comment, to put those numbers in context, Bitcoin consumes as much power globally as a single large power plant, and roughly 10% of the world's data centers [1]. To be sure, it's the growth rate
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by pshin45 8y ago
Bitcoin's absolute power consumption isn't at a critical level yet — Bitcoin consumes as much power globally as a single large power plant, and roughly 10% of the world's data centers. However, I agree that its rapid and cons
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by pshin45 8y ago
And for those who prefer written communication, there's Crisis Text Line[1]: Text 741741 (US only) Disclaimer: I'm a volunteer. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/r-u
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by pshin45 8y ago
Re: Bitcoin's electricity consumption, I wasn't satisfied with how one-sided or incomplete a lot of the articles written about this topic are, so I tried writing my own* that (hopefully) more fully and objectively encapsulates the
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Bitcoin is killing the planet: Fact or Fiction?(medium.com)
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Bitcoin is killing the planet: Fact or Fiction?(medium.com)
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Bitcoin is killing the planet: Fact or Fiction?(medium.com)
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by pshin45 8y ago
To add to this point, M-Pesa has been a huge success in Kenya, but has had trouble expanding to other countries because of some inherent limitations of M-Pesa's model. A cryptocurrency could enable the next evolution of mobile payment
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Hate Bitcoin? This might change your mind(medium.com)
10 points by pshin45 9y ago|11 comments
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by pshin45 9y ago
Travis Kalanick's words to that Uber driver back in Feb 2017 are very ironic now in retrospect: "Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit. They blame everything in their life on somebody else."
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Uber’s Board to Discuss Leave of Absence for CEO Travis Kalanick(nytimes.com)
58 points by pshin45 9y ago|4 comments
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Legit or Bullshit? Breaking Down Jeff Bezos’ 2017 Letter to Amazon Shareholders(medium.com)
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Are You a Robot? Or: Staying Human in an Artificial World(medium.com)
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A better way to think about the future(medium.com)
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Rules for Creative Work(niemanstoryboard.org)
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The Washington Post Style Guide Now Accepts Singular 'They'(mentalfloss.com)
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by pshin45 11y ago
I see Donald Trump running for president as being nothing more than a glorified PR campaign to build his own brand. I don't think he even cares if he wins or loses, and I think it's possible he might not even accept the presidency
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If elected president, Jeb Bush will get rid of net neutrality rules(arstechnica.com)
28 points by pshin45 11y ago|2 comments
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Part-time palaver: The importance of the “employee” label(economist.com)
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A New Class of Worker Could Fix the On-Demand Economy(techcrunch.com)
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Don’t* make something people want, make something the world needs(medium.com)
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Betterment sets the record straight after inaccurate statements by Wealthfront(medium.com)
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by pshin45 11y ago
What interesting timing - I'm organizing an Immigration-themed hackathon[1] this weekend in SF, and on Saturday morning we'll have a speaking panel called "Immigrant Founder Stories" where founders from 4 startups (big t
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by pshin45 11y ago
You could say the same thing for any "on-demand" startup out there. It's this kind of intellectual laziness ("It failed in the past so it couldn't possibly succeed now.") that prevented electric cars from happe

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