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I’ve wondered about this for years. Given the obviously misaligned incentives between a for-profit dating app and its users, dating seems like a perfect area for a non-profit to op…

I actually find it refreshing that Wikipedia doesn’t cater to the lowest common denominator in the theory section of technical subjects. For sufficiently popular subjects, they oft…

It is indeed a taxable event. People who exchange crypto for “stable”coins are generally doing so to stay out of the KYC banking realm so they can lie about their transactions to t…

And then everyone stood up and clapped.

One could argue that the airline CEOs acted rationally and strategically—they know the airline industry’s importance to the US economy gives them great odds of a bailout if a black…

> I can assure you if tomorrow we woke up and the world was 2 degrees hotter and people were dying left right and centre from it, the same thing would have happened with climate ch…

It’s quite alarming that no country (as far as I’m aware) is taking a more rational approach towards coronavirus policy. Any attempt to make an argument of this sort in the current…

I read it that way as well—-words do have secondary and tertiary connotations, and any competent journalist knows how to use composition and careful word choice to more effectively…

The Chicago metropolitan area is not only the third most populous in the U.S., it also has the third highest GDP by a fair margin. More generally, it tends to be regarded as a much…

Not sure why this is getting downvotes, it carries a lot of truth. Internet-based tech companies like Google have matured to the point where many innovators have left and MBAs have…

Lately, it has felt like Google has become more optimized for less intelligent/tech-savvy users (i.e. people who search using natural language e.g. “tell me the store policy for ta…

They’ve hired specifically for this project, and based on the friends I know working on self-driving at Apple vs. Siri at Apple, the self-driving team has a much greater concentrat…

Patents are far from the only factor affecting innovation, yet you seem to conclude that patents are good based on level of innovation in the US. A logically similar argument (“fal…

Unless I’m missing something, timestamps seem to be HappyOrNot’s only defense against malicious users. While that works against a toddler who relentlessly taps the unhappy button, …

My grandma bought some Bitcoin last week and she doesn’t even use the internet. Friends who are not tech-savvy are talking about Bitcoin often. It most definitely is not still “pio…

You cherry-picked one poor prediction from a single (shoddy) economist and somehow conclude that economists in aggregate are terrible at predictions. That statement doesn’t even lo…

You’re making a false comparison between the period of mania in tulips and the entire lifespan of Bitcoin.

The cult-like “hodl” culture in the Bitcoin community exacerbating the already limited supply of Bitcoins (if it were a stock, it would be a “low-float” stock, which results in inc…

I’m fairly certain it’s a bubble but it’d be foolish to short. Altcoins are in a bubble as well—Potcoin being valued at $64mil is just one of many examples of coins with zero or cl…

I can definitely relate to this. I was an early Ethereum adopter and mentioned it to friends fairly often when it was around $2. I’m usually pretty dispassionate around others, so …

You do know that trend isn’t sustainable, right? Bitcoin evangelists in 2017 seem to love talking about the rate of increase in price as if increasing in value by 300% every couple…

In some cases, they actually contribute a novel feature (e.g. Monero adding features that enhance privacy). In most cases (all but a handful), they add nothing. It’s a money grab—s…

Thank you for being a voice of reason in a domain that has increasingly become overrun by frauds and zealots. As someone who has been involved in blockchain research since 2011, it…

Profits are indeed fat, though (corporate profit-to-GNP ratio is at an all-time high) [1]. Also, there’s no reason to believe corporations would raise wages simply because profit h…