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abcampbell

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About abcampbell

Pessimistic dreamer

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    Comment #12986501

    Some smart chaps over there...

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    Comment #12718051

    Seems like the kind of questions Twitter was designed for no? Has anyone asked?

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    Comment #12718043

    Why doesn't someone just ask him why he's giving the money. He's participating the democratic process, would be interested to hear his rationale rather than a bunch of speculations…

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    Comment #12328312

    am saying it's an open question now. so people can, and will, and should, ask this also calls into question the general practice of "forfeit right X to get benefit Y" that appears …

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    Comment #12326220

    Domo is not the issue here. The issue is the huge can of worms this (could) open up if every shareholder realizes access to financial information is a #right and not a #privilege A…

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    Comment #12272198

    Love the vision behind Tesla, but man does this 'autopilot' thing strike me as overconfident. Why not call it Cruise Control 2.0?

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    Comment #12265849

    I'd say the bar for writing it off as simply an ambitious phrase is a bit different when you know that particular form of "user error" is literally lethal.

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    Comment #12265724

    "Consider this: If a Toyota driver had standard cruise control set for 70 miles per hour on the highway and failed to take over and reduce speed for a 25 mph turn, would we blame t…

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    Comment #12206554

    Think you are missing (what I understand to be) his point. The point is not that this is the UI of the future, the point is that there are other ways to conceptualize doing knowled…

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    Comment #12169817

    Here's our take...bitcoin is not money. https://medium.com/snow-ventures/bitcoin-is-not-money-part-1...

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    Comment #12162159

    yup, it's just a good product

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    Comment #12162129

    This is interesting, but I don't understand why the existence of CB coin would necessarily lead to traditional bank accounts losing their status as means of exchange. Money is what…

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    Comment #12053670

    Maybe in theory. But in practice they have 1) operational risk - insofar as they are the middle-man and so are exposed to investors suing them when the loans go south 2) Implicit c…

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    Comment #12020733

    Well, what do they think people will do when the car is on "autopilot" If we don't want people to treat it like autopilot, maybe we should come up with a different name. Maybe: "Yo…

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    Comment #12015066

    Someone wrote this up better than I could "With or without tariff issues being resolved — which are actually irrelevant to the access issue — the claim is false. Tariffs do not pre…

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    Comment #12007017

    Someone please give this guy $10m of funding to invent more cool stuff. Regardless of commercial application, this guy can do #hardtech

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    Comment #12007008

    Yes, if you had the data. That's why shares that trade openly are called 'public market' shares. Reading this thread is fun, it's like trying to see Silicon Valley try to reverse e…

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    Comment #12000475

    Points for ambition, but after opening the article by saying you disagree with the consensus economic analysis, you pretty much disqualify yourself from having an opinion on the ec…

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    Comment #12000377

    +1 Tufte couldn't have said it better. Less jazz, more information.

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    Comment #12000372

    +1 That was my reply... "Yeah, well that's just like, your opinion, man."

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    Comment #11996242

    http://bit.ly/2925W6M :-D

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