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Can someone explain what flag in the top left corner is? There’s probably another non-country flag I missed in there too. https://www.anom.io/trojan_shield_seal.jpg

Will rich nations back a deal to tax multinational citizens ? This is one area where America has a secret lead for both foreigners and ultra-rich citizens. Checkout GRATs and Oppor…

That’s a pop star you ran out of town. The BBC or Der Spiegel weren’t falling all over themselves to be first to let everyone know that the Catholic Church had a giant problem. The…

As a European who doesn’t think Europe has an ongoing skin color / racism problem, you’re signaling that you’ve never really thought about the proceeds of slavery and colonialism t…

Ultimately Tether is backed by obligations from the participating exchanges to fund the tethers that were generated on their behalf. It is basically a scheme being run on behalf of…

Someone is going to make a chart comparing crypto to the already-ridiculous crypto derivatives market, and you’ll realize your point is totally irrelevant. Companies don’t transact…

Okay, and what happens when I run a phony ad next to this one in the New York Times? What happens when I bribe the guy at the Times to accidentally use my hash rather than theirs? …

According to https://discordstatus.com/ , there isn’t an outage. Are you suggesting that there’s currently an ongoing outage, and their status page is useless? (Wouldn’t be the fir…

This sounds like an extremely naive and optimistic outlook. Large scale command and control situations are getting increasingly close to reality. Anyone who has followed US foreign…

Bitcoin is Pachinko for middle-aged white men. You can quote me on that. (And, really, do some research into the $200B a year Pachinko industry, and you’ll see some disturbing para…

Speaking of the founder of Ventrilo -- this video is priceless: https://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/21/video-man-sells-gt500-ra... I guess there's no more of that.

People can critique this writeup, but this is a useful data point for others interested in what happens as companies scale. These aren’t new pain points and they aren’t indicative …

America isn’t even 250 years old. That’s, what, five generations? Do remember that most American “settlement” of these areas was specifically designed to drive out the real locals,…

I am really glad you posted this, as I’ve heard similar from people within the org. It becomes hard to justify working on such products when you know you’re perpetuating so much ha…

Here’s the meat: > No VC funding. > Over a million paying customers. Now you’ve got my attention. I’d be interested to know what their tactics were for getting their first 100, and…

It’s way, way more common than you’d ever want to believe. Here’s a starting point, from one very repressed culture where the act of going to the police puts great shame on your fa…

People who comment on these moderator issues always overlook the huge huge mental red flag that these moderators always discuss: images of children being molested and tortured. End…

Our job in life is to engage in value creation. When money is decoupled from value creation, your long-term bet is that it will lose its value, as value creation is what actually m…

I am guessing you mean the popularity of Apple Watch as a developer platform, which is totally correct. In fact, it might be the first platform where developers said “sorry Apple, …