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Contrarian opinion: Harvard devaluing their diploma is good because smart people will get off the credential treadmill and do something productive instead.

The number is way low. Housing/rental costs are the largest expense and that's up 20% in many places. Used cars are up 40%.

See also Polygon (MATIC), ZK-STARKs. And ETH 2.0 is due next year.

Granted, but every new technology goes through this and the tools and best practices are improving. The code is open source too. I don't know why people, technologists especially, …

Anyone want to do a web2isgoinggreat.com version of this?

Web 2 is centralized big tech serving ads. You are the product and you own nothing. They own your content and can change the rules at will ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/tech…

Thanks! Your formulation makes a lot of sense.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs yelled at employees a lot. Whether they did so as an intentional technique or a byproduct of having a short temper, I don't know. Any insight into that?

This chart speaks volumes. https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CPIChar...

This is an under appreciated point about web3. We can get away from the ad-based business model. Web2 has an adversarial relationship with the user, web3 is much more aligned with …

Look at healthcare, college, housing, childcare, equities. Also look at shrinkflation: https://www.reddit.com/r/shrinkflation/ Also look at ingredient swaps in food, like HFCS. Als…

This is in part because they changed how CPI is calculated in the 80s and 90s, which, as luck would have it, lowered the rates. You can see what CPI looks like with the older formu…

Actually, have they put any emphasis at all in reducing body fat with regard to Covid? Look at the CDC's recommendations: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-…

I have expressed doubt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371613 But even if that wasn't the case, so what? HN is overrepresented by people convinced web3 has no merit. That d…

Silly title and claim. Web3 is inclusive in the fullest sense of the term. It does not care if you are a bro. It doesn't even know if you are a bro. It doesn't care where you live,…

What if Buffett just wants to see the world burn and doesn't care about getting the money back out? Or if a nation state or the central banks see it as an existential threat, they …

Quite possibly the difference between people who are hostile vs favorably disposed to Web3 is whether or not they think traditional orgs work fine or need improvement. Frustration …

That's like saying market caps in public companies mean nothing because you can't sell all of Apple's stock for $2T.