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Yes we see this comment rehashed on every crypto thread on HN, why? Because it still bears saying, especially given how many people are just looking for greater fools to hold their…

Thanks for a sterling example of what I was saying elsewhere. Nearly 9 years here, and a ban threat. Hell of a way to try and keep order boss.

why would I need evidence? Dang isn’t contesting the point, just the terminology. dang 1 hour ago [-] Apart from the cloak-and-dagger tone, this either says something obvious—that …

You turned off flags, but now you’re doing something else yourself. You’re being honest, but not really telling the whole story. Your thumb is very much on the scale however, where…

Ah yes... perks. Makes those endless late nights a bit less awful. Plus you get to work on such wonderful stuff! The Juicero team is probably still swollen with um... pride. Above …

From what I’ve observed, the idea is to work in hell (edit: obviously hyperbole) until enough money is made to work on your own. Needless to say that doesn’t seem to be the majorit…

I wonder if he had some kind of political connections that could have helped?

Some people probably can, but then in addition to being intelligent he’d have to be an incredibly talented and disciplined actor. Unlikely.

I had the same issue, and essentially developed a lingo to speak to those kinds of people. More contractions, dropped g’s, “fucking” used as an adjective. It’s been a couple of dec…

Squandered talent, exceptional investment, buzzword, buzzword, partial-buzzword, connections. It’s a great place to be young and wealthy, with minimal affect and empathy.

Fair point, I took your “one man alone” comment to mean something it didn’t necessarily imply. I’m sorry for any offense I’ve caused with that unwarranted assumption.

It takes far more energy to make new glass than to clean and reuse old glass. Even melting existing glass is valuable, as it lowers the melting point of the raw materials and there…

Glass can only be recycled so many times and then it is worthless as you say. Value depends on the quality, color, and clarity of the glass. Given that cullet is necessary to make …

Individuals don’t really matter in the calculus of billions of people. The dominant trends are frankly old, and persistent.

And glass. And steel. And precious metals. As for an honest society, do you have some historical reference point, or are you just aiming for utopia?

It’s a feature, in the same way that the decentralized nature of white collar crime is a feature. The bug is in the people who naively believe that technology changes human nature,…

This was recently on the front page, can’t find the link sorry.

I wouldn’t sell NBC weapons short... at least not the B and N parts. Nukes are dangerous in the hands of nations, but my god you just wait until every asshole with a laptop and $10…

I doubt that they still believe that, as much as they are highly incentivized to claim that. Bitcoin is a disasterous enterprise as it continues to scale poorly. But hey, some peop…

What you can do as one man is precisely nothing, except to make yourself feel a bit better. Caring in the absence of organizing and acting, is that really caring? At the very least…