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I reference this post again and again when thinking about these "fun" discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070189

Employees tend to leave when a major portion of their compensation disappears.

Freakonomics recently did an episode on their podcast trying to answer this very question: -Is Google Getting Worse? https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/ To th…

That doesn’t address the criticism. If I pay for a good or service via crypto and it is not delivered satisfactorily, what is my remedy? Who even decides what “satisfaction” is? Ye…

> The pre-central bank localized agrarian and early industrial economic model leant itself to boom and bust cycles eg massive instability Glad to see we put those patterns behind u…

In 1936? Sorry, I don’t remember that.

Fine, I will bite. https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-rea... Cambridge worked both for the Trump campaign and a Trump-aligned Super PAC. Cambridge Analytica w…

Can we please keep these political hit job pieces off of HN? /s

I do believe that all competitive advantage is temporary and that better offerings are to come from a variety of players... However, there is simply nothing close to Tesla on the p…

Success is not a binary. It is relatively easy to build a small team that functions well. When you try to scale, it gets exponentially harder. This is why there are few successful …

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not, so I assume this is a serious comment. Can you share some examples of use cases where DLT is going to be transformative?

Western Union made a bunch of press by announcing they would be leveraging Ripple to streamline their international payments and reduce costs. Last month they announce that they ar…

It is an excerpt from a newly released book. If you want the milk, you have the buy the cow.

Two Spanish brothers are trying to make their own jamón in Texas. Acornseekers.com

Also, keep in mind that Hawaii was not even a US State at this point. It was an independent island nation that happened to have a US military base.

>be rich and do little work like most founders I trust you had an experience that lead you to think this way, but you clearly don't know "most founders."

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfUnwynwZvE

...but Massachusetts just killed their efforts to reform non-competes. http://www.wbur.org/morningedition/2016/08/02/non-compete-ag...