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As a spiritual predecessor I would recommend the movie The Long Goodbye (1973)

The strategy they are describing (selling covered calls) is actually less risky than holding the underlying. They make more than just holding the underlying when it drops or stays …

Nontech companies are only using spreadsheets, forms, and storage. But they spend their technical manpower on implementing business logic in closed source locked-in expensive softw…

It may be my pure naivety about management software, but I assume it just consists of spreadsheets, forms, secure login, data storage, and simple queries. I cannot imagine anything…

Enterprise software is such a mystery to me. I can't imagine any company ran by To me it just looks like older companies paying to keep from having to deal with Linux directly

Hacker News has a really good dedicated search engine: https://hn.algolia.com/

I don't think regulation is the answer. The US government should just create app.gov with a 1% fee or something and out compete them.

Hardware. If Firefox had a phone to compete with Android, even if was $1000+ it would gain ground. Also selling laptops to compete against Chromebooks. The hardware has to be top o…

You are missing the most important point C) the outgoing president refuses to leave The rioters wouldn't have ended democracy, but if they caused enough commotion to prevent certif…

If they used and published a fair algorithm for matching, they wouldn't really be involved in the matching they would just be providing a venue. Similar to a city providing public …

Instead of regulation, I'd like to see the government offer a free service. A digital commons. In this case the public library version of Tinder, with strict rules of who can be ba…

>bullish on blockchain technology (which I see as basically git with trust/consensus features built in) Blockchain and smart contracts are the perfect technology for managing a com…

I would be surprised if Cisco went bankrupt overnight, but to me their future looks quite bleak. Every day less companies need to buy their hardware as more move to the cloud. The …

The first response to this should be "oh, so you are making me a partner". Family = shared ownership.

I've always wanted to see soccer played with two balls on the field. I think it would be many times more interesting.

Tether doesn't hold arbitrary crypto (except a small amount to pay transaction fees on the blockchain). They are just a window where you can exchange tether tokens on the blockchai…

The US government really doesn't use this much capital control in the current financial system. Look at the fx markets, look at all the dollar denominated bonds and paper issued by…

The US government currently doesn't care if I sell billions of USD and buy JPY instead, as long as I pay the proper taxes and they can see the transaction. I imagine crypto will be…

>So, instant payments are coming in the next 18 months [3] (it is actively in testing currently with a handful of participants), and free accounts for everyone is a stroke of legis…

Why would the people running Tether not just park the money in a US Treasury ladder and collect the millions in interest each year? No hassle, no loss of sleep. Why play games? Why…

This is an extremely low valuation for how famous BD is. They could have gone public and sold 10-20% of their stock for $1B.

99.9% of the interactions with the internet should be read-only and could be delivered via something like IPFS. Make browsers read-only by default and closely monitor when informat…

The difference is the treatment of poor & homeless. Public transit buildings/vehicles are some of the only inside spaces where they can spend time. Then people with enough money av…

I think its just pure fear selling off way too much. The stock market only appeared to be on a huge bull run, the amount of money in the system doubled since 2008: https://fred.stl…

Easy. Cut bandwidth costs. Even just putting everyone at the lowest price and removing all tiers would change the market completely.