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1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by throwanem »

tomp wrote: post #599
throwanem wrote: post #598

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cosmesis is elective. Neither of us is going to convince one another; you very evidently have strongly held opinions about how medicine should be practiced, whereas I know some things about how it is. That being so, I see no point in continuing this line of discussion any further. Should you feel otherwise, I hope you enjoy it.

The core reasons seems to be that you seem to keep misrepresenting my arguments. I'm not talking about "practicing medicine" at all, just about who pays for what.

Ensuring patients are able to access the treatments ordered for them, or at least trying to do that, qualifies as part of the practice of medicine. That's why medical practices have billing departments to deal with insurance on the patient's behalf, rather than requiring cash up front and letting patients figure their own way through the reimbursement process.

The problem isn't that I'm misrepresenting your arguments, such as they are. The problem is that, instead of finding out how this stuff actually works and understanding why it works the way it does, you prefer to continue insisting on your opinions, which are as apparently uninformed as strongly held.

I don't see what you hope to achieve by this save wasting someone time, and my test suite just finished running, so it'll have to be someone else's time from here.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by tomp »

throwanem wrote: post #651
tomp wrote: post #599

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core reasons seems to be that you seem to keep misrepresenting my arguments. I'm not talking about "practicing medicine" at all, just about who pays for what.

Ensuring patients are able to access the treatments ordered for them, or at least trying to do that, qualifies as part of the practice of medicine. That's why medical practices have billing departments to deal with insurance on the patient's behalf, rather than requiring cash up front and letting patients figure their own way through the reimbursement process. The problem isn't that I'm misrepresenting your arguments…

You're right, maybe I'm just unfamiliar with how health insurance works in the US.

In Europe, neither public nor private insurance covers beauty surgeries (at least the ones I'm familiar with).

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by fleddr »

sagichmal wrote: post #594
fleddr wrote: post #158

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Saying you're a mission focused company and this being somehow controversial is ridiculous. Every company should be mission focused. As his post demonstrates, it turns out to not be controversial at all. A handful of people left and after a few weeks the Twitter mob stops. Then you're left with reasonable people to do the job, which is the point of any company.

> A handful of people left They lost close to half of their engineering team, significant percentages of their operations teams, and many senior leaders.

Maybe you're mixing this up with Basecamp?

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by sieabahlpark »

onelovetwo wrote: post #510
tims33 wrote: post #68

I think it is great the company went the direction they did and I'm glad Brian is happy with it. The commentary that I find frustrating is about the "retaliatory and intellectually dishonest hit pieces." The press does suck in many ways, but when you're own a massive chunk of a $65B company you should expect some negative press and be prepared. It makes him sound like he isn't open to dissent which is an incredibly p…

does it mean he should not point out the obvious dishonest hit piece simply because the company is valued at x amount?

He meant to say he just has to deal with absolutely wrong pieces and accept them as factual statements against Coinbase.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by ABeeSea »

asabjorn wrote: post #191
ABeeSea wrote: post #174

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What is “classical white culture?” I’m not aware of any global culture associated with skin color. But feel free to enlighten me.

Because I was communicating with someone I believe is a critical social justice (CSJ) adherent I was trying to use the language from that faith. However, I changed it as it may overall be confusing. What I meant was classical liberal culture, which by CSJ adherents is termed as white culture by perpetrating whiteness. Whiteness is not about color, although its assumed all white people by default are this, but is abou…

Lmao, what you just wrote is unhinged. Seek help.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by ABeeSea »

oh_sigh wrote: post #347
ABeeSea wrote: post #161

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I hope you properly paid sales tax on that purchase, if required, as the political system in many US states requires you to.

That's the legal system not the political system.

And you think there is a difference between the two?

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by prayingforexits »

I was able to chat to Brian about this the other night. I think it’s under appreciated how brave it was to do this on the precipice of multiple fundraising / liquidity events and in the eye of the storm of cancel culture generally.

Kudos to the Coinbase team.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by malermeister »

asabjorn wrote: post #612
malermeister wrote: post #491

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I'm not as concerned about identity politics as I am about class issues. Bitcoin is an ancap political project designed to make exploitation of the working class, independent of skin color, easier. Identity politics themselves are a neoliberal ploy to distract from the real struggle at hand. Also, what even is "white culture" other than a racist dogwhistle? Whats the common denominator between Russian, Portuguese, Hu…

Exactly. A great thing about cash is that dissenters can use it anonymously in a way that no institution can legislate unmasking the transactors. Crypto should gain that capability To expand upon your point about the greater political moment: these revolutions have never been good for the working class, because those with little power in order to gain a powerful voice need to organize into powerful interest groups us…

> A great thing about cash is that dissenters can use it anonymously in a way that no institution can legislate unmasking the transactors. Crypto should gain that capability.

Replace "dissenters" with "capitalist robber barons" and "great" with "problematic" and I'm with you.

>these revolutions have never been good for the working class

Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the US TO THIS DAY. From 1953 to 1962 their literacy rate went from 56% to 96%, one of the highest in the world. Yugoslavia had the best passport in the world and Yugoslavs were the only people who could travel freely in both Cold War blocks. You're just parroting propaganda.

The main problem is capitalist overlords trying to establish neo-feudalism (Erik Prince and his private army come to mind). The only institution that's strong enough to fight that trend is the state, and taking power over money away from it seals our neo-feudalist fate. Our only chance is to take control of the state before it gets to that, be that through peaceful democratic means like Salvador Allende or through a more direct struggle like Castro or Josip Broz Tito.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by tims33 »

onelovetwo wrote: post #510
tims33 wrote: post #68

I think it is great the company went the direction they did and I'm glad Brian is happy with it. The commentary that I find frustrating is about the "retaliatory and intellectually dishonest hit pieces." The press does suck in many ways, but when you're own a massive chunk of a $65B company you should expect some negative press and be prepared. It makes him sound like he isn't open to dissent which is an incredibly p…

does it mean he should not point out the obvious dishonest hit piece simply because the company is valued at x amount?

It doesn't come off as simply pointing out. How does he know it's obviously dishonest? The author likely felt otherwise. It just comes off as an entitlement that wasn't necessary.
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