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How many people work on Bitcoin (mining, exchanges like Coinbase etc)? What's the number of transactions (money transfers, loans etc) per employee in banking vs Bitcoin ecosystem?

Women are twice as likely to get a tenure position in STEM when compared to equally qualified men http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/women-best-men-stem-f...

I think in this context it's about businesses built on top of the platform and their direct revenue. A person brushing teeth is not building a business and generating revenue.

The thing I don't get about these stories: don't you have a contract specifying working hours? My contract says 8 hours a day, for x$ per month, this is what we agreed to and this …

Your argument assumes that computers/AI/robots won't be as good as say a median human at any given job. I think that's quite a strong assumption

Way to dodge the question. And how did we get from always knowing when you're failed to "just drive very, very slow when", when dealing with situations that human drivers deal with…

> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed. That sound…

Yes, they are still there, but the protectionism is what allowed the local companies (Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba etc) to compete initially and be better in the end. Whereas in EU, loc…

How has it not ever happened? China, who essentially blocked Google, Amazon et al, now have Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and other massively successful tech companies, while EU is stuck…

Overrating domestic value creation is how you end up being a third world country. I think you are oversimplifying free market dynamics. Free market doesn't magically create optimal…

Noone is restricting trade, they are simply saying that the fact that you are "far away" doesn't give you the right to dodge taxes that local companies have to pay. If anything it …

It certainly didn't hinder Baidu, Alibaba et al

That's a shortsighted view. As the saying goes, "you can have the free apples, as long as I own the orchard". At some point, there will be no more free apples, and you have no idea…

At some point you have to stop giving the benefit of the doubt. I draw the line where Google is unable to make a search page (that is making them the "x billion dollar" company in …

So a multihundred billion dollar web company doesn't have the dev resources to support Firefox? Even though it already works when you spoof the agent string?

That's why I put it in quotes. However, calling it "some demand" severly understates the significance of this fact. It's not just some demand, it means it's absolutely vital for va…

One thing that makes the dollar more "real" is that you are required to pay taxes in it. This creates an automatic demand for dollars. Even if you make your money in bitcoin in US,…

Because you couldnt just walk into a shop and buy a car. You literally had to have a car buying permit, which might take years to get. Because of this, used cars could cost singifi…

You assume that robots/algorithms will never be as good at some jobs as a worker with median abilities. This is a very strong (and likely wrong in the long term) assumption to make…

>Think of how limited our tools were just a decade ago. Not sure what you mean here. What were the limits a decade a go? Many top programmers still swear by vi(m)/emacs, both start…

That doesn't really refute gp's point. In medieval times, there were periods where dynasties didn't last, and every generation had new warlords from new families. That doesn't mean…

Not sure I follow. In what sense are things like Surface Pro, Hololens, Surface book laptop, open source .NET etc. purely marketing moves?