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Its very different from Stephenson's other novels. Its much more of a thriller with a few tech elements thrown in. I really enjoyed it, but don't go in expecting another cryptonomi…

The daily trade volume on the Ugandan exchange is ~$18,000. Companies may be “listed”, but good luck actually buying any stock

Financial system varies broadly country to country, but there are virtually no publicly traded African companies. If you wish to invest you need to find private companies willing t…

There are virtually no publicly traded African companies. There are companies like glencore that have operations here, but they’re still European or Asian companies. If you’re look…

Postal investigators have a reputation for taking any violation of the mail system extremely seriously. It seems like yours in Oakland is breaking the stereotype. Have you reached …

Of course. As long as gatekeeper fees are less than the 3% charged for mobile money it’s a win

I saw it on Twitter a month or two ago, but I love it too! Great name

The bulk of those in Uganda are unbanked. Everyone here uses WhatsApp. Something like this would be a great way for me to pay contractors and domestic staff who right now only take…

I live in Uganda and something like this will be a great mobile money alternative. MTN and their ilk take a huge chunk of change for mobile money, and if this is cheap it’ll catch …

What economics courses have you taken that are remotely like this? Economics is extremely quantitative and is not some “shallow ideology”.

How many petabytes does something like this take up?

Looking at shooting silver iodide pellets up in the sky or painting deserts black? Lots of issues with weather modification. Virtual water is the most cost effective way to transpo…

Dropbox doesn’t encrypt your data. There area bunch of other companies that do encrypted cloud storage, eg keybase

You weren't kidding about the small farm! The dealers in your area can't do field repairs?

Obviously your equation is a big simplification, but you’re missing a lot of the input costs.

California has a very strange water system. It’s not really privatized, only ~5% of California’s water is provided by private parties last I checked. Californian water rights promi…

What do you grow? Hay mainly? Acreage?

Keybase chat does support mobile, I use it all the time

Rene Girard comes to mind

How much of the gains from the computing revolution have been captured by a few thousand Bay Area Landlord’s?

Credit fraud. The banks were defrauded, not you.

That makes absolutely no sense. Buying TSLA is in no way a proxy for buying SpaceX equity.