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No, I don’t. Even if it were possible to acquire that much land, and it isn’t, the land isn’t suitable for solar.

> You are incorrect. No, I’m not. The supply of Bitcoin is 21 quadrillion satoshi. You are making an arbitrary distinction that an entire Bitcoin is some meaningful thing. I’m not …

> Ads. You pay with your attention. What? No. You pay with your data. You pay with your privacy. And the ads additionally destroy legitimate paid services. Ads have destroyed the e…

Have you looked at a map? I live in NY, and there is absolutely no place for such a massive solar farm. The numbers I quoted were just for NYC, and they weren’t adjusted for the wi…

That’s an arbitrary, and pointless, distinction. 100,000,000 different people can own a single satoshi. What does it matter that each individual does not own the entire thing? The …

Each Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. So the actual max supply is 2,100,000,000,000,000. It’s effectively infinite supply.

Opportunity cost is simple. It’s a calculation of what your money could have been doing if you put it to use doing something else. The easiest to estimate is the market opportunity…

The opportunity cost for the cash you had to put down to install a solar array. Or the opportunity cost of the interest payments you’re making on a loan.

I’ve yet to see any renewable plan that could cover big northern cities. Where are we going to build a solar farm to cover NYC, DC, and Philadelphia? There is 9 hours of daylight i…

Probably because finance people know to not accept such obvious bribery.

I find that most of these payoff periods are generous on one side, but lax on the other. For example, does the payoff calculator include the opportunity costs? I doubt it, because …

Have to keep people hysterical somehow.

They do. Actual diamonds have occlusions, slight color shifts, unique sparkle patterns, and other characteristics. Grown diamonds are too perfect, and it’s trivially easy to tell t…

Would you prefer that the USPS join the public pension crisis? It is not scandalous to force a public organization to fund their employee retirements. What is scandalous is the mas…

> Hoffman said he thinks DeJoy’s real goal is to erode public confidence in the government-controlled postal system in order to build support for privatizing it. We don’t need to p…

Good for hobby or personal projects, but not if you’re building something for work. Many of these “free” tiers are designed to vendor lock you before they walk you off a pricing cl…

> Yes they are business decisions but they are also political. No, they aren’t. You’re trying to make them political. This is entirely of your own doing. Take housing. It’s too exp…

Hey guess what we're doing right now? We're discussing the issues of Crimea, Russia, and China... and we aren't getting political about it. Incredible. Maybe impossible? >If you ar…

> What happens if you want to discuss a disputed nation? You don’t? > Banning politics is impossible because everything in life has some hand in politics. Hard disagree. You can ta…

I am sure many of these people will land on their feet, but I would absolutely not hire someone who quit their last position because they were told to stop talking about politics a…

Seems quite similar to Hasura. Looks neat.

Uber is the client, not the person the driver picks up. The drivers are contractors, and they contract to Uber (or Lyft, etc) to do some job, in this case driving some person to a …

It’s more complicated than what you’re saying. The health care industry in the US is almost 15% of the GDP and employs about 10% of the workers. It is difficult to quickly fix this…

Well you used to be able to buy decent catastrophic insurance to protect you from unlimited losses. ACA effectively killed that type of insurance.

They need to allow me to operate my own store, or I’m suing.