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Medical intervention. You cannot expect the severely mentally ill to "voluntarily" seek medical help - this is the current prerequisite for medical intervention in SF. If a child r…

Sure, if heroin required a doctor's note then addicts would hit the streets once they've exceeded their allotment. But I don't need a doctor's note to get weed from a dispensary. T…

How many of the decisions that determined whether Amazon would become worth >$1T or yet another mediocre web store were made by warehouse workers? Jeff is primarily responsible for…

Good for him.

Chill your hyperbolic outrage. We should be able to talk about sensitive topics like job loss intelligently and in context to the realities of building a startup. Working at a star…

That has nothing to do with the dollar. If bitcoin were to match the market cap of gold irrespective of any money printing, it would be $500k a coin. Which is to say that people co…

The Federal reserve injected banks with money, not the economy. One would naturally think that these banks would then lend money to the broader economy (because that's how banks ma…

ZH is unmitigated garbage. It began by pushing the standard tropes of goldbug interpretations of the economy with the banker bad, armchair (amateur) realist good and an unrealized …

Signal lags pretty hard on ubuntu 16.04, reason why I switched to Telegram despite the latter's inferior privacy

"In fact, Severo said that no-one could recall the last time a non-Polynesian had come to Tepoto – certainly not in their lifetimes." I have a feeling this island is about to get q…

I've always felt that Elon talks like his tongue is numb

Who cares? The vast majority of Stellar's currency XLM is owned by the founders just like Ripple, and their efforts to distribute this currency to the public are entirely disingenu…

I'm quickly running out of excuses for still using Chrome...

"Absolutely functional" is when a user can send+receive a payment as effortlessly as Venmo. You cannot do this with LN at any time in the near future - routing payments, automatic …

The goal of BTCPay server is to use the Lightning Network for Bitcoin payments, which only generates single-use payment requests. Also important to point out that LN will not be fu…

Can you withdraw your USD to a flash drive?

None have materialized except.. for biometrics on all passengers.. the very subject of this article.. ? Downvoted.

Did they ever reverse the product redesign back to the original design? Haven't really used Snapchat at all but curious to know, thanks

I suspect GMU/Mercatus has a few early crypto adopters given the symmetry of their ideas with crypto political ideals. What does a GMU academic economist do with hodl money? Form a…

Any other reliable sources on this beyond GQ?

Lisk is a sidechain and EOS is centralized.

Proof of stake has never been shown to work and the largest projects attempting to move towards it, ie. Ethereum, are finding PoS's issues insurmountable. There is still no proof o…

tl;dr "You don't have to take my word for it: No less an authority than JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has identified crypto as a bubble just waiting to bust." Is this satire?

Ever since LN was first proposed, skeptics have asserted problem after problem as an insurmountable obstacle. And time after time they have been proven wrong. If you really think t…