rnernento

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by rnernento 9mo ago
It seems to me that since AI is built on the collective works of the workers it's replacing any profits should probably be taxed at 100%
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by rnernento 2y ago
In 2021, Ulbricht's prosecutors and defense agreed that Ulbricht would relinquish any ownership of a newly discovered fund of 50,676 Bitcoin (worth nearly $5.35 billion in 2025) seized from a hacker in November 2021.[78] The Bitcoin ha
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by rnernento 4y ago
It doesn't look evil enough for this timeline...
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by rnernento 4y ago
Can we leverage blockchain to fight back against this kind of stuff?
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by rnernento 4y ago
I think Gene Wolfe is the one of the greatest authors of all time across any genre. I highly highly recommend the Fifth Head of Cerberus which is 3 short interconnected novellas and Peace, which isn't traditional Sci-Fi but is absolute
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by rnernento 4y ago
I think the problem here is what you're really asking for is DRM free content. None of the content producers themselves are willing to license their content that way so it would be very difficult to build the service.
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by rnernento 4y ago
I mean it's pretty straightforward right? There are now more dollars in play all after the same amount of goods, each dollar has less purchasing power. Why are you so quick to throw out the simplest explanation?
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by rnernento 4y ago
I don't think you realize just how much of the money has been printed in the last 2 years. See fed balance sheet over time: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren... See M2 over time: http
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by rnernento 4y ago
I predict a massive backfire on this one.. I know Netflix is struggling but as competitors (see HBOMax) get better and better now is not the time to both raise prices and give people a reason to revisit their active subscription. I know ple
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by rnernento 4y ago
And what value has been created?
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by rnernento 4y ago
Pretty soon you're going to be able to replace "Man" with "Everyone who bought crypto."
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by rnernento 4y ago
Why does my $500 Samsung Galaxy Book Flex have the webcam in a tiny little bezel and this thing has a giant notch?
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by rnernento 4y ago
I think if you ever want there to actually be content you need a way to grab users and make it easy for them to start generating it. When you say "it's a chicken and an egg problem" you're spot on. That's the proble
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by rnernento 4y ago
I'm not criticizing your business model, I'm just saying as a user who doesn't care about your business model and is just curious about podcast discussions your homepage isn't optimized for me. If you focus on building a
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by rnernento 4y ago
Reddit never started by taking me to a giant signup page for a paid subscription. As someone who was mildly curious and might have checked it out of you presented something interesting I immediately left, maybe think about making the base
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by rnernento 4y ago
Imagine if there was basically 0 cost carbon capture device that ran completely off of solar power and didn't just store CO2 but also expelled oxygen and miraculously created useful usable materials...
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by rnernento 4y ago
Forget about "with a battery" - everything should have an off switch. Rebooting hardware like the Amazon Fire TV is so annoying, and it's not like it doesn't like up or crash...
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by rnernento 4y ago
I don't know that they ever realize it's exactly the same as the product that costs 1/10th the price but that doesn't mean it isn't.
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by rnernento 4y ago
They do it because advertising works.
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by rnernento 4y ago
It's almost like we're operating in an economy where it's easier and more lucrative to be a huckster than it is to innovate and create something useful. Maybe part of this is just that we've already optimized so many thi
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by rnernento 5y ago
This is Hacker News, at least build an app to track these or something...
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by rnernento 5y ago
Sorry to be clear, when I say competition I mean non-lego or knockoff toys, things like LOL Surprise or Shopkins, or Paw Patrol figures.
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by rnernento 5y ago
I can speak to this a little, the issue is that the sets are designed to not be as friendly to rebuilding. The walls and floors to buildings are made out of very specific pieces that aren't easily reconfigured into new structures. Hone
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by rnernento 5y ago
Legos are still one of the most satisfying toys to buy your children. Yes they are expensive, yes it's annoying that a lot of them are built just once. That being said when you look out at the competition the bar is low. I have a 5 and
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by rnernento 5y ago
I'm not sure how much mental math you're expecting but you might consider building in a side calculator.
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by rnernento 5y ago
Sorry but I feel like I'm missing something here, how are IQs themselves systemically racist?
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by rnernento 6y ago
As someone who regularly uses Powerpoint but isn't completely in love with it I don't see anything compelling on your home screen that makes me care about Pitch. If there is some killer feature I don't know about it should be
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by rnernento 6y ago
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-05-27... “I still think that we have a good chance, if all the things fall in the right place, that we might have a vaccine that would be deployable by the en
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by rnernento 6y ago
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-05-27... “I still think that we have a good chance, if all the things fall in the right place, that we might have a vaccine that would be deployable by the en
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by rnernento 6y ago
While I agree with most of this (and the part about insufficient testing materials is especially troubling), it's starting to seem reasonable that we'll have a vaccine available for Fall/Winter. There is an argument to be mad

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