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I'm actually curious as to how many HN users find The New Yorker useful or insightful. It's always struck me as rather middlebrow and perhaps couched in the would-be-elitism of the…

4chan usually does a better job than this.

> Unless you have a statistical survey of the bitcoin community I don't, and I don't think it's appropriate to make generalizations unless one has access to a sufficient body of em…

That's lovely for you, but not terribly relevant to anything I've stated. An appeal to personal experience does not constitute a refutation of the assertion that a technology canno…

The conflation of libertarianism with a variety of nonsensical positions is likely a deliberate attempt to discredit the ideology. It's nonsense.

Some of the community is like that, sure. But it doesn't follow that the technology as a whole was created as a political vehicle, nor does it follow that it will necessarily serve…

Seeing various media outlets attempt to portray Bitcoin as some kind of Randian fetish with criminal undercurrents is getting rather tiresome. "computer money invented to buy drugs…

There's a key difference: Elon Musk is delivering results. The scientific method enables one to deliver results because its models are predictive, not merely explanatory. The engin…

Bitcoin is an interesting environment in which one might discuss the gender ratio. On one hand, crypto-currency in general is a relatively new phenomenon -- it seems unlikely that …

You. I like you.

I'm curious to see how spending the money would solve an extinction-level meteor strike. Or any number of other not-fully-predictable disasters.

I'd be curious to see a rational argument as to why this couldn't be the case.

You're looking too narrowly at the potential here. What might begin as an underground colony full of social elites or skilled professionals required to run the infrastructure could…

And yet the US government was never able -- nor did they try -- to develop a fully-reusable rocket, which is something SpaceX is currently doing. Saying that corporations are risk-…

It seems that the author is articulating the idea that developing for slower connections and using older technologies requires a different skill set than developing using the "stat…

I'm not certain that assumption is necessarily correct. Elon Musk seems more focused on affecting meaningful change and driving technology forward. He's using corporations as a veh…

Perhaps it's fair to say that they're at the absolute bleeding edge of /applied science/? After all, SpaceX's plans for a reusable rocket are certainly more ambitious than anything…

The possibility of an extinction event on Earth isn't exactly far-flung speculation. A major point of SpaceX is distributing humankind so that such a thing wouldn't wipe us all out…

It's particularly frightening to me because it appears that GitHub is attempting to do the right thing here -- investigate the allegations without the influence of potentially invo…

Why should gender affect the acceptability of one's behavior?

No, they're only allowed to like top-40s and cosmos. /s

Your post was in response to a post that contained the statement, "the richest and most powerful country in the world." Foreign policy, affected by GDP, certainly plays a role in t…

It's only a myth if you're examining the situation from a singular angle -- that of monetary risk. There's a great deal of risk and uncertainty involved in foregoing the completion…

Insofar as domestic policy is concerned, per-capita is relevant. Foreign policy, which is decided by governments that tax the aggregate population (and thus draw from the GDP)? Not…

None of those pre-modern great powers could compete either economically or militarily with the modern United States. Of course, they might have been relatively more powerful in rel…