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Hardly empirical. The data shows the opposite.

~80% of current billionaires in the U.S. are self-made first generation.

Obviously. I'm just talking about the current state of affairs.

Good point. It's probably more accurate to say it is biased to whatever opinions benefit the YC business model (which is understandable. It's their forum, after all). For example, speaking out against anything other than very lax immigration policy is verboten because driving down American labor costs benefits VC's. Saying anything positive about the previous president will get you downvoted immediately.

(This isn't related to my personal political opinions, I'm just using it as an example.)

This place is a progressive echo chamber for sure.

That’s funny because the left currently dominates all aspects of culture, academia, work, and society. The orthodox is solidly “progressive” right now.

The technology is there from what I understand. The difficulty will be on the regulatory/bureaucratic side.

I hope and WANT people to pick through any project I post on here. The folks pointing out flaws are doing OP a service.

Or, we've reinvented the wheel once again...

I liked DataTables. Never had a problem with it.

No one has done more to harm the environment than environmentalists that advocate against nuclear power.

Can't tell if sarcastic or not. But, that's perfectly legitimate. You could do that and if everything is signed correctly, the network will accept it.

I could write down a seed phrase on a piece of paper and hand it to you, and that's a completely offline transaction.

I think the implication is government putting pressure (or working with) businesses to censor speech. Smaller government would mean less attack surface in that case.

Market forces and competition should help keep speech free because if a private company doesn't allow x group to use their platform, it is likely a competitor will spring up to capture the orphaned market. We see this play out in reality.

ForeFlight is the greatest app ever created.

"Dudes" is often used as an all inclusive term.

I'd argue that's more a characteristic of the publishing and peer review process in academia, not actual science.

No. It's the opposite. All it takes is one single result to show a theory or body of "consensus" is in error.

No. Consensus is not how science works at all.

Yes, exactly.

I get irrationally angry when people say things like "believe the science". No! They entire point of the scientific method is I don't have to believe anything. I can replicate and verify the results for myself.

Good luck effecting a wire transfer outside of banking hours.

I bought a car with Bitcoin while the banks were closed on the weekend.

There are tons of legitimate use cases. However, most of them aren’t immediately apparent to affluent people in the United States as it solves problems most of them don’t have.

Yes. It’s cool. But, it’s hardly revolutionary. They built a Siri that doesn’t suck.

It has the potential to be a Google killer as it’s much more effective at sussing out specific information. But, the ideological guard rails OpenAI insist upon are super annoying. You can never fully trust that you’re getting a non-politically biased output.

Creating a decent Reddit clone is a weekend project. I've done similar stuff as a demo teaching an hour long 'Intro to Rails' class at the local code school.

Just start trying stuff. Learning happens through the trial and error process.

Regulation would introduce a whole new set of problems and unintended consequences.

This comment is wrong on all points.

No. Both of those things can be done with light JS use. A framework is definitely not needed.

I always use sprinkles of jQuery over React/Angular/Front End Framework de jour if given the choice.

Yeah, I've done it many times successfully, drag and drop interfaces, form builders, dynamic form inputs, animations, etc. It's 10x easier with vanilla JS and sprinklings of jQuery.

Believe it or not, gmail was a much faster cleaner better interface before they switched to Angular, and FB worked much better and was way less buggy and slow before they switched to React. The reason the mega-caps pushed their use was to offload processing power to the client, which saves them server costs. Front end JS frameworks don't solve a problem almost every other company has, hence why they had to be pushed by FB/Google, and didn't grow organically from the open source community.

Hard disagree. Front end development was an order of magnitude easier better faster before FB pushed React into the dev mindspace.

Is there a political philosophy less understood, or more mischaracterized, than Libertarianism?

Ironically, SVB, or whatever its new name will be. Like how the safest airline to fly is the one who just had an accident.