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I still don't get it, how can people bare an iPhone. Even smartphone is a stretch, tbh.

eli5on Show HN: Earn Bitcoins with your t-shirt

One thing I found a bit alarming is that the FAQ page says advertising funds are held by the site. It's good they realize the threat though and say a multisig solution will be rolled out. I hope this multisig solution will be rolled out quickly, otherwise I don't see big advertisers trusting the site with a lot of money.

eli5on Ask HN: what can I learn in a week that can greatly improve my work or life?

Ahh, already read it long long time ago. Great advice though!

eli5on Ask HN: what can I learn in a week that can greatly improve my work or life?

You do realize I listed Vim as one of the things I'm familiar with?

On a serious note, maybe I should learn Emacs at some point. Just to be sure I'm still in love with Vim.

eli5on Medical Anarchy

So, do you think that if enough people want to peacefully live without government interference at all (e.g. without a government) they don't deserve to do so and they don't deserve, for example, to be sold a piece of land to completely secede from state?

eli5on Medical Anarchy

That's not like that at all. As far as I understand all answers doctors give are open to the public on the site, so everyone else on the internet, including other doctors, can read them and say if it's a good answer or a bad answer. I imagine if this sites starts issuing bad advice, no one would want to go there. However, as of right now, it appears you are wrong and answers are getting paid for by willing customers.

Now, this idea may be far from perfect. But comparing it to the existing system while having a blind faith in it is wrong. In our existing system patients don't have many options of checking what their doctor tells them; they are referred to doctors by other doctors and very often have no way of checking on the reputation (% of successful operations this doctor conducted, for instance). The current system is very inflexible and not consumer oriented at all. Consumer interests are sacrificed in the name of their supposed safety, without first giving said consumers options to decide what they actually want and consider safe.

eli5on Microservices

> We do not claim that the microservice style is novel or innovative, its roots go back at least to the design principles of Unix.

And that's the first thing that I thought.