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Blockchain topics have become a proxy war for Keynes/Hayek poorly framed as a technical discussion. I think most people who are passionately against crypto hold that view for non-t…

And then he'll get a job at Deutsche Bank. Point is the 60M could be liquid if needed to be.

"Hey ma, if I'm locked up I need you to give this pass phrase to my lawyer - he'll know what to do". Lots of multi-sig schemes you could invent to make your funds accessible.

> the effect of a disingenuous Wiki article is far higher than your average FB "fake news" Wikipedia doesn't profit by weaponizing misinformation. That's FB's business model. All t…

It's a great article for HN. All the folks here working on ad-tech to polarize the good people of this country so they can squeeze another penny out of them. Then they have the gal…

As a bitcoiner none of those things sound too crazy. Community banks, community ISPs, and market-based money? Sweet. Kick Comcast and BoA to the curb.

Would be interesting if WSB was allowed to invest in private startups as easily as they can invest in meme stocks. Robinhood doesn't like us? We'll start out own. Reddit doesn't li…

> You say you want free speech yet people can't even invest in your own hardware. We already have the hardware. A modern phone has as much computing power as an early server. Compu…

Your single blade on a rack isn't going to stand up against non-stop ddos attacks. That requires ISP level infrastructure. That's why companies like Cloudflare are publicly listed.…

> When (enough) people think voting software is broken, they topple governments and start civil wars. But why would they be distrustful unless non-sequitur arguments are presented …

Except software does control airplanes and elevators.. Subscribing to this kind of "digital bad" dogma is lazy because you don't have to think for yourself.

There's so much cargo-cult mentality in react that it's difficult to perform DD and predict the technical landscape years into the future. So perhaps we're in agreement the author …

Preach. Cancel Paul Graham. Defending Sci-Hub is a dog whistle for people who want to preserve hate-speech! That's literally defending fascism! #cancel_pg

I think when VR technology improves a bit more it'll be the superior learning experience. Imagine learning history interactively. Don't just read about Julius Caesar being stabbed,…

You're continuing to demonstrate that if I answer your questions it has no bearing on your ideology. Now you want to know if Twitter has an active account with AWS. I could answer …

If I link you to examples of people with blue checkmarks calling for violence then what? Would you support twitter becoming deplatformed? Is principled based reasoning something yo…

> it's all about figuring out how this should be codified and enforced. Democratically maybe? Don't we have an entire police state apparatus to monitor the public and snoop on bad …

People rioting under the guise of "antifa" killed innocent people in Portland. They even bombed a court house. There's videos of "antifa" who tried to molotov police but accidental…

Jobs rescued Apple from the brink of bankruptcy.. There would be no Apple to be up 900%.

FWIW I only discovered reddit because I was "deplatformed" from Digg due to sharing the image below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... Can't be the on…

As I stated, the horseshoe is going to come full circle. Commence the sequence where burning books is a virtue .

> It has to be stopped somehow, right? We can't have online communities pushing real world violence. Seems like a function of a democratic government, not Jeff Bezos. Because Jeff …

Google also runs an ISP. Do you want them to police which IP addresses "don't promote insurrection"? Seems like something a judge and jury should perform.. Democracy and all that..…

Chrome allows access to calls to violence.. Google fiber allows access to calls to violence.. Do you really want Google to be the morality police of devices and services you pay fo…

The shoeshine boy is HN equating BTC to "tulip mania" for a decade. The day that stop.. SELL