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Hardly empirical. The data shows the opposite. ~80% of current billionaires in the U.S. are self-made first generation.

Obviously. I'm just talking about the current state of affairs.

Good point. It's probably more accurate to say it is biased to whatever opinions benefit the YC business model (which is understandable. It's their forum, after all). For example, …

This place is a progressive echo chamber for sure.

That’s funny because the left currently dominates all aspects of culture, academia, work, and society. The orthodox is solidly “progressive” right now.

The technology is there from what I understand. The difficulty will be on the regulatory/bureaucratic side.

I hope and WANT people to pick through any project I post on here. The folks pointing out flaws are doing OP a service.

Or, we've reinvented the wheel once again... I liked DataTables. Never had a problem with it.

No one has done more to harm the environment than environmentalists that advocate against nuclear power.

Can't tell if sarcastic or not. But, that's perfectly legitimate. You could do that and if everything is signed correctly, the network will accept it. I could write down a seed phr…

I think the implication is government putting pressure (or working with) businesses to censor speech. Smaller government would mean less attack surface in that case. Market forces …

ForeFlight is the greatest app ever created.

"Dudes" is often used as an all inclusive term.

I'd argue that's more a characteristic of the publishing and peer review process in academia, not actual science.

No. It's the opposite. All it takes is one single result to show a theory or body of "consensus" is in error.

No. Consensus is not how science works at all.

Yes, exactly. I get irrationally angry when people say things like "believe the science". No! They entire point of the scientific method is I don't have to believe anything. I can …

Good luck effecting a wire transfer outside of banking hours.

I bought a car with Bitcoin while the banks were closed on the weekend. There are tons of legitimate use cases. However, most of them aren’t immediately apparent to affluent people…

Yes. It’s cool. But, it’s hardly revolutionary. They built a Siri that doesn’t suck. It has the potential to be a Google killer as it’s much more effective at sussing out specific …

Creating a decent Reddit clone is a weekend project. I've done similar stuff as a demo teaching an hour long 'Intro to Rails' class at the local code school.

Just start trying stuff. Learning happens through the trial and error process.

Regulation would introduce a whole new set of problems and unintended consequences.

This comment is wrong on all points.