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The correct comparison is with the transaction and storage costs, in electricity, of storing gold in fort knox and moving it once a century in a boat across the ocean. Tesla's 1.5 …

Too rude for Quora? There will always be a place for you here. Welcome home.

"You're #1 states two things as if they are the same." Maybe he was referring to the regulation that prevents health insurance from being sold across state lines? That would have b…

Its really amazing that you would try to defend free press in a discussion about Assange. Locking up Assange is an attack on free press. Trump calling CNN liars actually isn't. Oba…

This study says the effect was small. http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf Even Nate Silver acknowledges the effect of Russia was modest. Maybe he's changed his …

Because you're a complete and total idiot and that comment just proved it.

What is the extent of the Russian interference really though? Studies show it didn't change the outcome. We still don't really know who hacked the DNC, whether it was Russia as a h…

True, evidence looks more like this: Two well-done meta-analyses of statins for primary prevention showed no mortality benefit. After the exclusion of four trials with serious risk…

The thing about statins is if you believe the hype, and don't believe the fear mongering they still barely work, according to the pharmaceutical funded studies. Just enough to clai…

If this were the first of its kind yes, but given that there are numerous studies suggesting that exercise is good for the brain its reasonable hypothesis. Rather than a non-story …

My point only is that the total value is relatively very high and its price would be as difficult for one individual to move around as a large cap stock. Your hypothetical 1 trade …

Are you referring specifically to certain Chinese exchanges where this could be done without a commission? Have there ever been any accusations that U.S. exchanges like Coinbase an…

It applies to all these transactions: https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins

I think "not entirely true" is an understatement. Bitcoin has a 115 Billion dollar market cap and is traded all around the world in arms length transactions for local currencies an…

I think what you're describing is a subset of the character of your neighborhood changing in a way you don't like. For example, your neighborhood becomes expensive, or gentrified, …

You make a good point that the value of regulations for Uber is negligible. Regulatory capture is an understandable motivation by industry but its weird to see the public embrace i…

Have you learned that you wish Uber and AirBNB were strangled by regulation before they got off the ground?

800ms is pretty slow for a sober human I think https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/statistics

I find it hard to imagine any sane person intentionally writing ambiguous contracts with the plan to hash out the details in court in the future. The last place you want to end up …

It seems to me that Amazon gets a tremendous amount of bad press singing the exact song you just sung. However, I think the analogy is more like Uber drivers for package delivery. …

Agree no paradigms shattered with a driver in the seat from an economic POV. Im not sure safety gains have to be marginal. This thing, scaled over millions of miles, paid uber driv…

The problem lies that nobody thought the lawsuit against Gawker was a miscarrage of justice until they learnes a billionaire was involved. Its become more about fear of rich people…

The problem lies that nobody thought the lawsuit against Gawker was a miscarrage of justice until they learned a billionaire was involved. Its become more about fear of rich people…

#3 actually seems positive.

Your problem with ideology is that its not as comforting as religion? I think ideology can help take a 10,000 foot view of highly complex situations. There are many factors in a po…