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i don’t know. the past decade has been everyone shouting about network effects, yet i can’t count on either hand the number of matching-related apps i’ve both left and joined over …

say BTC rises from $30,000 to $300,000. two scenarios: 1. 10% of all BTC holders want to cash out. nobody lost their keys, so 2M BTC hit the “supply side” of the market. 2. 10% of …

sorry to come off as pedantic: it's not my intent. everyone has different experiences on Twitter, and this relates to an experience i don't have much of. a _lot_ of people complain…

i'd be really curious how the author approaches DMs. microblogging didn't make sense to me until i realized that the timeline can just be used as an approach to easily create surfa…

i’m frequently confused by people referring to “anonymous” accounts on Twitter. every Twitter user needs a handle, so it’s not really possible to use it anything less than pseudony…

one usually hears the opposite argument: Bitcoin becomes more scarce as users lose their private keys. lost keys => smaller supply => higher price per unit. i can see the opposite …

Eth fell by about 10% relative to BTC pretty much immediately as the Terra/Luna stuff went south. yeah, there's absolutely connections between all the different currencies out ther…

> I’m also never going to rely on anything but .com because I don’t trust ICANN. what's wrong with the other 2 of the "original 3" gLTDs: .net and .org? i spent an afternoon diggin…

> Most world governments and taxing authorities work for their populace, they could be easily voted out if people saw what other nations are benefiting from such innovation. you've…

it's about the economics of mining _using an external source of capital_. the more significant interaction is not between the ASICs and the bitcoin rewards, but the companies and t…

modern day i expect to not have to turn off/on my receiver: it should wake on input and go into a standby state after so much inactivity. hence my problem: i’ve got the Technics re…

we used to have a phrase to remind each other not to give attention to the bad actors: “don’t feed the trolls” (doesn’t capture 100% of attention sinks, but it’s catchy, and a cert…

for the HN readers who aren't clued in to everything Elon Musk says over the last two years, i believe parent is referring to this tweet (AFAICT Elon deleted the original, hence sc…

1) although federation enables any user to _contact_ any other user that's distinct from saying every user's _experience_ is the same everywhere. the ELI5 thing to point to is the …

> If I give someone a sample docker-compose file, they can immediately run my service regardless of OS _if they're already bought into the docker ecosystem_, this is true. if not, …

consider a slow-growth company free of a title system (e.g. where every engineer is just a "member of engineering"). the less-credentialed nature means you don't have to be as spec…

yes. i'm not taking any stance on the risk v yield profile. i was just bothered by JumpCrisscross's mischaracterization of the earlier comment & wanted to correct that.

what's the alternative? of all the friend groups i've had only _one_ has ever been among a group that has all iphones. i'm having a hard time imagining that, in a world of 70% andr…

> > would convert a some portion of my savings into stablecoins > This is probably the worst choice one can make. It's accepting a 0% nominal yield against an unregulated counterpa…

can you imagine the faces of your loved one's? like, if one of them went missing, would you be able to help the investigators draw up a sketch of their face? as far as i can tell, …

yeah but classes like geometry? i remember our section on conical slices. like, cool, you can make an ellipse by intersecting a plane with a cone, but (for someone with limited men…

i'm sure perception is cool when reading, but arguably it's cool mostly because the imagery leads you to _feel_ certain ways? when an author describes a moonlit scene with the prot…

> The there is definitely a question whether, now that they have moved so solidly into content production, Netflix is actually a scalable / viable company any more. When they were …

consumers don’t everywhere react instantly to price changes. the number of lost subscribers is likely to be greater than what you see today as consumers explore alternatives over t…