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by ptenk 6y ago
You obviously have never used TikTok. Possibly the most ridiculous comment on HN.
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by ptenk 6y ago
Yep. Those were precious resting days and I took full advantage of them. Perhaps the lesson was death is nothing to be feared if life is 24/7 intensive meditation retreats.
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by ptenk 6y ago
Yes, it’s a night and day difference between who I was before as a layman and now. Hard to even say the same human being.
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by ptenk 6y ago
Sorry, I don’t really check HN. Breakthroughs in terms of understanding Dharma, the unending compassion for all sentient beings, and the overcoming of my own previous delusions and desires. They don’t last beyond the retreat - my takeaway i
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by ptenk 6y ago
Sorry for not responding earlier, I rarely check hacker news. We did Seon meditation (Korea) which is a form of Koan practice (Hwadu). I’ve had a permanent change in perspective and have a “base” that I return to whenever my spiritual pract
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by ptenk 6y ago
During my years as a Buddhist monk, we regularly did two 90 day silent retreats(Summer/winter) and two 45 days (fall/spring) a year. It’s mostly a survival type period where you slog through the days, until you have a week or so o
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by ptenk 7y ago
I’ve read virology reports that the virus originated most likely from bats but through an intermediary source — as to which animal, that’s unknown. Another thing I’ve been pondering is since bats have been the source of deadly, infectious d
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by ptenk 7y ago
But China is weaning itself off fossil fuels? China has over 400,000 electric buses (99% of the world) and the longest high speed rail in the planet. High-speed rails carry twice as many passengers each month as the country’s airlines. 4.2%
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by ptenk 7y ago
What’s missing from this article is that Nobu Iwatani previously worked for defense and foreign ministries in Japan. He is no “civilian”.
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by ptenk 7y ago
America’s been responsible for the death of 500,000 innocent Iraqi civilians since the start of the war not to mention countless Afghan and other middle eastern citizens. We currently hold tens of thousands of border crossers in detention c
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by ptenk 7y ago
It’s possible, but it’s important to note Kyle Bass has been short China for a very long time and has been spreading FUD (true or not) since 2008.
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by ptenk 8y ago
You should ask him about the World Bank and IMF debt traps to developing countries that have stricken those nations in poverty for decades. The Chinese are building critical infrastructure in many of these African countries, where there was
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by ptenk 8y ago
Brushing off TCM as pseudoscience is quite ignorant. There are plenty of legitimate TCM research and verified treatments that have improved the lives of many in the world.
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by ptenk 8y ago
The sinophobia in these comments always makes me uncomfortable because it’s usually underlied with overall anti-Asian sentiment. It reminds me that I don’t belong in America, we still live in a white world.
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by ptenk 8y ago
Thank you for sharing. This is why I never sign up for any fintech services. The amount of data I hand over is never worth the "benefits" they provide.
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by ptenk 9y ago
In the same vein, would you say precious metals are also a Ponzi scheme?
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by ptenk 9y ago
Pretty misinformed and seemingly bitter, especially for a self proclaimed yogi. It is liquid capital - and its value is $86mm since you could liquidate this at any moment without moving the order book.
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by ptenk 9y ago
Blockchain P2P lending would solve this particular issue very well, since its all recorded on a public ledger.
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by ptenk 9y ago
Thankfully built-in parking AdBlock on newer browsers is forcing domain speculators to start dropping their less valuable names, as parking pages are no longer producing any revenue. I see most tech companies coming back to .COM once their
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by ptenk 9y ago
I think it's cool, despite Hacker News' general bearish outlook on cryptocurrencies. +1 for not issuing your own tokens via ICO and using ETH instead.
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by ptenk 9y ago
I'd wait for the dip below $4,000, but in terms of TA (Elliot Waves) as well as Fib levels, we are most likely headed towards $5,000.
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by ptenk 9y ago
People have been calling Bitcoin tulips since 2011. It's still funny now as it was then too.
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by ptenk 9y ago
Mentally disturbed could mean sociopathic, which is likely the case here.
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by ptenk 9y ago
Don't know if this is recently, but as a US citizen, I've wired funds from an American bank successfully to BTC-e back in 2013.
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by ptenk 9y ago
BTC-E didn't specifically bar US customer from trading there, so the indictment is on the grounds that their services were offered to US citizens, therefore liable to US Law.
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by ptenk 9y ago
Sounds to me like an easy way to pump the price of LTC by using their university's name and creating hype.
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by ptenk 9y ago
I'm pessimistic. Bitcoin's main use case is purchasing drugs, gambling, laundering and ransomware payments. Remittances and micropayment are a far distant second. Monero's main use case is even better money laundering than Bi
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by ptenk 9y ago
They should do an ICO. I would buy their tokens.
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by ptenk 9y ago
Completely agree. CSGO any day. If they port it to VR, then I'll be sold
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by ptenk 9y ago
This rise is driven by Coinbase alone. The premium there was like 30-40% to other exchanges at one point.

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