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This reminds me of hearing Reed Hastings of netflix talking about starting the DVD mail-rental business as preparation for when streaming became technologically viable. They knew t…

Also.. Vitalik (and his offsiders) created ethereum when he was like 19. This is impressive, but it also makes you wonder - what real world problems did Vitalik have experience of …

Vague gambling stuff - is this really going to be a 10x improvement over betfair who already offers solid p2p gambling markets with Distributed computing rewards - maybe for a subg…

When I got into bitcoin in 2011, it had a market cap of $20 million, and already had several killer apps: - Making darknet drug markets possible - Allowed permissionless, highly co…

Went to a bitcoin conference recently and met a plumber who had quit his job to margin trade altcoins. I think a lot of his positions would have been wiped out in the beartrap 12 h…

Elsevier look like a ripe target for a worldwide campaign to cancel access to their journals unless fees arnt dropped. Germany are (have?) Pulled access, some other south american …

Patients (and addicts) state there is a particular euphoria that oxycodone has (and diamorph/heroin) that morphine doesn't really have. Of course oral morphine does cause addiction…

Diamorphine is given IV/IM/SC - not orally - which generally means that its use is confined to a short period in the first few hours/days of a hospital admission until the patient …

Alibaba sells fully featured non-fda approved (usually) veteranary ultrasound machines for as little as $800 USD - this includes a monitor and control panel etc. That is probably p…

The common working class person has no real ability to alter the globalisation and pro-immigration agenda pushed by mainstream politicians. Successive governments have indicated th…

I have experienced a lot of volatility with the bitcoins I bought. Namely, they're all worth 100x what I paid for them, while fiat currency continues to lose value every day as cen…

any link to details on what parts you use for these bots?

As a Doctor, the potential for improvement begins from very basics. For instance - a radiologist sees a funny looking line on an xray and reports "this is probably nothing, but we …

People are sick of biased crap and vague economic theory being touted as data telling them how good immigration and free trade is for them, while in their own lives only seeing thi…

Well, I'm an anaesthetist, and have heard this argument. I personally did a heimlich maneuvere on a hospital inpatient who was blue and choking on a big bit of bread, and the bread…

I wasted about 10 years of my life on fc related forums. They were great to begin with, and then gradually just became utterly terrible.

I know when I was broke, working crappy jobs and in debt, $500 would basically have put a small dent in my credit card, and not much else. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has $16 billion doll…

"The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 38 percent. This…

each year 19,000 americans die from prescription opioid overdoses and another 10,000 die from heroin overdoses which often start with prescription opioid use. In my experience (as …

you should look up "debt monetization" and investigate how it relates to quantitative easing and money printing. Cliff's notes is that quantitative easing is really money printing …

The world economy has seen plenty of downturns but the whole developed world turning to negative interest rates is a new thing. Is this a sign that the economic dogma underlying ce…

if chinese miners are indeed trying to limit blocksize in order to increase transaction costs, then the necessary chain of events which needs to occur is: 1) faith in bitcoin as a …