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I can't guess the tone of the letter. Could have used some love.

Because smart contracts are (often) contractual obligations on real world things, they only hold as much power as the apparatus of coercion (usually the State) will allow them to h…

I've read it. Galbraith's history is ok and his writing is entertaining but his economic analysis is terribly flawed. I recommend Rothbard's America's Great Depression for a solid …

This is one of the great economics canards of the 20th century. The gold standard was dropped because western nations accumulated too much war debt during the Great War (world war …

It should be pointed out that US operated as a democratic republic for over a century on the gold standard - which bitcoins shares a lot of properties with, except that bitcoin can…

AKA donating to Edward Snowden is now a crime.

Facebook's market cap isn't 41B, it's about 223B, as of today (using yahoo/google finance): * https://www.google.com/finance?q=fb * http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fb

One of the things I found frustrating about Nextdoor when I used it a year ago was that it defines the neighborhood for you. I have a mailing list I created several years ago for m…

Reminds me a little of the Declaration of Independence where the famous line would have been "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" if Thomas Jefferson hadn't been "tou…

Sadly the Stackoverflow community seems to have become a lot more officious in the last few years and the number of petty bureaucrats has skyrocketed. I asked a genuine question wh…

I think Sam is incorrect when he writes "The great technological revolutions have affected what most people do every day and how society is structured. The previous one, the indust…

There are two major problems with this article (although they're not specific to this article and are more generally applicable to Keynesian economics). Firstly Prof. Krugman write…

Sure, but all those businesses will have to deal with large amounts of incoming cash, so they too will have an incentive to take bitcoin. The secondary businesses wouldn't even nee…

There was a great Planet Money (NPR) podcast on this a while ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/04/166514067/episode-... and I remember hearing another Planet Money podcas…

I found this super interesting, especially the stuff on the early evolution of the game and how various cheating ("trick") plays were used, such as hiding the ball under a player's…

This article felt very validating for me. I've always done well at school (4.0 in college), on various tests and at work, but it never registered and I've always felt like a bit of…

This one sentence sums up what I think is the fundamental problem: "An insolvency problem was thus dealt with as if it were a case of illiquidity." That is, the problem isn't some …

This post, which definitely resonates with me and my experience in Silicon Valley and in Seattle, surrounded by very leftist politics, reminds me a lot of Mencius Moldbug's brillia…

Please Google, come back to Seattle! Pleaaaassseee!

I wonder if similar benefits can be had by practicing the method of "lean gains" aka "intermittent fasting", or whether this only works with 3 days of fasting, which is a long time…

There are already very promising treatments for certain types of cancer like leukemia: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/health/leukemia-patients-c... A number of companies are wor…

https://plus.google.com/110888393967521869195/posts/4REjUe5a... #humor

The most powerful part of multi-sig is not that you can have arbitrarily many M of N, but that you can outsource complex policy in a trusted way. E.g., create policy that lower lev…