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by throwaway1748 7y ago
This is great data, but missing one crucial piece: how much reach did each candidate achieve given their spend? Both what they directly paid for with the ads, and then what the ads achieved organically beyond the spend. My suspicion is that
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
No, be Elizabeth Holmes and Tim Draper and use gender as a means to dismiss valid investigative reporting from the Wall Street Journal. And yeah, bad actors will sometimes use accusations of sexism / racism / etc-isms to silence t
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Sadly negative comments are the norm here on hacker news. No matter how amazing the news, the top comment is usually a snarky takedown of the linked article. (It's nice to see the top comment on this one is actually positive!)
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
I imagine fund investors will get instant exposure to any new crypto asset listed to coinbase or gdax. Which might be worth the price of admission alone if you think Coinbase listing an asset has the potential to drive the price up
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Presumably they'll be launching many more coins this year. There are other advantages in holding crypto through a fund rather than directly, like simplified tax accounting and not having to worry about security, either digital or physi
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
There are also great disadvantages from owning coins yourself, like physical security.
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
If anything, I think the rich in Silicon Valley are the most willing to do something about it. Basic Income is a very popular idea amongst left-leaning wealthy people these days
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Has investing in the stock market become democratized? Sure you could invest in Amazon at a low market cap back in the 90's, but what about Uber, Stripe, Dropbox, or any recent breakout 'unicorn'? The privatization that has h
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
This is the central thesis, but the author made up the idea that we are supposed to already have these cars that are safer than humans. Nobody thinks this. Nobody. Elon Musk does https://www.inverse.com/article/38049-
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
I doubt such a lobbying effort will be necessary. You can still ride around in a horse-drawn carriage on most public roads. It seems far-fetched to think human-powered driving will be made illegal, it's far more likely that most people
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
I assume this means Harvey Weinstein will earn 100's of millions from the deal, yeah? I guess it's still much less than the company was worth a year ago
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Sure, but the procedure for testing vision is far more precise than how we diagnose issues with someone's mind. There's just no way to know 1) to what degree someone's neurology differs from the "norm" 2) if the add
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Wow, that's insane that a kid would ever be prescribed medication by a school doctor/nurse. That seems like a doctor's visit a parent should book & not just be informed afterwards that thier child was prescribed a dangero
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Yeah but Facebook haven't really fixed the problem. That change was a nudge in the right direction but News Feed is still fundamentally optimized for engagement. Hyper-partisan content is just more engaging than nonpartisan content.
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Ah, a simpler time
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Yep, that works too. And has little to do with chance.
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Sure, but taking appropriate risks in one's career isn't a negative-EV bet, whereas virtually every bet in Vegas is negative-EV
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
It depends on how one define's 'rich', but if you go by the metric of having $1MM+ in the bank, it strikes me there are plenty of opportunities to get there that aren't pure chance. The most obvious is to join a high-gro
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
I don't think there are only 3 groups of people that oppose it. You can draw some nuance here. For example, many people believe that work helps give people a sense of purpose, and a mere basic income might enable people to make poor li
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
That's an easy statement to make, but I don't think it holds true for most wealthy people. Especially wealthy people in Silicon Valley. If anything, most wealthy people I know are extremely aware of how bad things are for the bott
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
I don't understand how that's not the case today. I grant you that there are a small percentage of folks who in such a disadvantaged position where this wouldn't be possible, but a lot more could follow this advice and get ah
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Not seeing the comment you're referring to. But my point is that a broader cultural phenomenon is occurring where successful folks are demonized and individual accomplishments are considered more a function of one's 'privile
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
If anything, I find that successful people are culturally un-welcome in the conversation today. It's considered presumptive or 'privileged' to give advice on how to be self-reliant and grow wealth. Culturally this is happenin
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
If you could design a coin that "wastes" human effort in a productive way, that might be a hugely positive force for humanity. For example, if you could somehow devise a "proof of carbon capture" scheme that was immune f
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Not sure why this comment wasn't upvoted higher. Inflation has effectively been a slow-moving tax increase to the middle class, as tax brackets don't change with the decreasing value of the US dollar. A $100,000 salary in 2018 was
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
That's not the conclusion I would draw from reading sites like Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, or even mainstream news like NYT or The Washington Post.
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
This is a good step, but more reforms are needed for political ads on Facebook. One of the most glaring problems is dynamic ad pricing. Ads from different candidates can see wildly different prices based on how 'engaging' their ad
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
Yeah, I really don't get why your post is being downvoted. There's nothing inflammatory in it, just an opinion. Censoring opinions you don't agree with via downvote shouldn't be acceptable on HN
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
That's a ridiculous statement in Gates' case. The Gates Foundation is giving away tons and tons of money at a rapid pace: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Gran... They're not
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by throwaway1748 9y ago
One big reason is liquidity. Many 100MM+ net worth individuals have their fortune tied to one corporation of which they're a founder or officer. Forcing those people to liquidate pieces of their business to pay taxes on their own fortu

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