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If you (or anyone else) think you can effectively break bitcoin then there is a billion dollar bounty available to you in the form of a highly leveraged bitfinex short position.

Bitcoin's governance model is what makes it special. 1) The founder declared it would have a maximum of 21 million coins with a set mining schedule 2) Many/most of the people who b…

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UO3iBE0nsuayzNceZPeK2mynHj... Here's a tune I made with Fiverr. Bassist from venezuela, rhodes keyboard from greece, rapper from washington dc, rh…

We had a medical student who had her abdomen scanned as part of teaching. They found a cystic looking thing on her pancreas. She ended up getting it excised - it was benign and wou…

If the form factor is good enough why wouldn't you want the ability to have a tablet sized screen whenever you need a bit more space to do stuff? This seems like the first actual b…

cool project, expected response from BCH crew. permissionless is permissionless. they need to suck it up.

Masayoshi seems great at picking market tops and buying into them.

But it would be pretty easy to obfuscate the whole thing behind a few layers of "We've got 50 PhDs working here, we run black box algorithms" etc etc, the strategy could be artific…

ok while we're playing "ask a hedge fund guy" Say I set up a fund holding a low cost s&p500 index ETF, but at the end of each year sold naked puts with a ~1/25 risk of ruin to earn…

I think even zuck would have given up on any political aspirations at this point. He's a total pariah. Honestly, who wants to be a billionaire at this point? Even if you promise to…

I sold most @ $16.5k in the dead cat bounce after the bubble. I just bought quite a few back @ $3800. You get used to it, this is my 3rd or 4th >80% drawdown. Still remember $30->$…

It seems that the sluggishness of apple podcast software combined with the splintered nature of the podcast player market makes rating/review/recommendations of podcasts really dif…

So you say that tribes can physiologically adapt depending on their environment. Do you then admit that tribes can adapt cognitively depending on their environment? Or does adaptat…

Ok, so if "race" only affects external appearance, explain why every single london marathon champion since 2002 is kenyan or ethiopian?

On the freakonomics podcast episode with the study authors, they said that on average women earn over 10 percent more than men from tips.

Dunking on all these fucking bankers is going to be the sweetest thing ever. I hope every last one of these pieces of shit is holding a big hoard of crypto when it finally crashes.…

Yep, it's like Fiat currency is some crappy thing poor people use to live on while the rich accumulate actual scarce resources with infinitely appreciating prices.

Previously the only real options we have to use as "money" are nation-state derived and under the control of central bankers. For various reasons, nothing else (eg. gold, stocks, p…

God this woman sounds insufferable, and why would you take advice about anything from someone who has never left college?

My doors aren't opening like an albatross anymore!

I don't mean using the fingerprint as a key. I mean that if you can produce a fingerprint image corresponding to a blockchain hash and it matches your fingerprint 20 years later, a…

:rolleyes: ok Apoorv, if you want credentials, here's Hayek's speech agreeing with me. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/la...

Why can't he, or I, diminishing the legitimacy of economics? If someone had made up a fake Nobel prize in psychology I would diminishing the legitimacy of that too. The field of ec…