maneesh

Like entropy, wouldn’t this lead to greater disparity in the short term but uniformness in the long run?

Just go. I’m off to Tulum Mexico, where hundreds/thousands of American digital nomads are spending covid time

Do you think America isn’t looking at America like a trainwreck too?

Is there a way to get Zoom / Meeting , or even just Calendar, on my BitBar?

What were the gripes?

Is there any sort of 1:1 syncing integration between slack and zulip? It would be awesome if posts in public channels would show up on either app, regardless which was posted -- would make transition easier for teams!

And -- if there isn't, if any developer is interested in working on it, I'd possibly be willing to pay -- and we could probably release it as open source! maneesh@pavlok.com

great unless you want to use it as a vpn to watch Hulu from abroad haha. They require you to use a set of specific providers, which are all blocked by Hulu.

I ended up using openVPN on a home raspberry pi, but I want to figure out how to deploy IPSec or ZeroTier rather than OpenVPN

Hey -- I'm the founder of Pavlok. When trying to quit a habit for good, you follow the aversion protocol -- You enable the Aversion mode. 5 minutes a day of intentionally doing the habit, while the device zaps.

This creates an aversion, similar to getting so sick from drinking a type of alcohol that you don't want to do it again.

If you decide to not use it, of course it can't work. However, the vast majority of users who complete the 5 day protocol register no desire or craving for the old habit, even a year later. You can read some more studies on our device specifically, and aversion in general, at pavlok.com/science.

I'm the founder of Pavlok 2. Awesome that you use it :)

What’s the most likely place to catch coronavirus? I would posit it’s probably hospitals. If an elderly person needs to go to a hospital for any reason these days, I would guess they get taken to one full of other elderly people with coronavirus. I wonder what effect this might have on the results.

As recently as Jan 14, 2020, the World Health Organization stated that there was no evidence of human to human transmission for nCoV. [1]

The USA, and the world as a whole, has done an amazing job mobilizing itself to change borders, adjust social mores, limit large groups of people, and relax regulation around testing in order to get a treatment out.

And it's been working! We've already begun testing new vaccines, and cheap and already-approved treatments of Hydroxylchloroquine and chloroquine are showing extreme promise in both prevention and treatment of the disease. [2] [3]

It's easy to complain and blame America for problems, but look at how fast things have changed. Humanity as a whole is amazing -- in times of peril, we have the ability to adapt so rapidly that we can fundamentally change the world.

[1] https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en [2] https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/18/progress-on-covid-19-tr... [3] https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-researche...

Like...at the same time?

Um...are we forgetting derivatives? Real estate isn't even close...

https://i0.wp.com/money.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uplo...

It can happen! http://www.visiontimes.com/2015/01/26/2-chinese-chauffeurs-b...

Bali and Thailand (Chiang Mai and Bangkok) are fantastic.

Medellin in South America as well

Intrigued how your comment seems to imply that civilization will collapse no matter what before 2100. Am I reading that right?

You truly believe there is an extremely high probability that the world will starve in the next 80 years?

Did you read the article? It's very clearly about one specific bank (Cross River).

You might be trying to say that the forbes article is exaggerating with the headline, but your comment is implying that there is literally no specific subject of this story.

At least indentured servants only had a 7 year time span before payback was complete. Kids are getting lifetime loans these days.

Amazing

Out of all social networks, Instagram makes it the easiest to unsend messages without an easily visible trace ( without a warrant or compelling fb to give up info)

Even WhatsApp leaves a "user has removed a message" ghost

Does this mean that out of the 5000 false positives, 10 people will actually GET cancer by doing a follow-up CT exam?

Yes, I believe that's correct.

Exactly. If you were a new startup founder in this environment, wouldn't you likely do ANYTHING to not have a valuation >$49MM? Probably deciding not to raise more funding, not to scale, not to grow and help others.

I think that the side effects of a wealth tax might just end VC investing in high valuation companies altogether. I don't know if many people on HN see that as a positive.

The NYTimes had an article today about the difference between an income tax and a wealth tax, and how there is a constitutional problem with the wealth tax. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472442

Here's a thought experiment: You're a HN reader. You have had ideas to build a startup that can help the world solve a problem.

So you create it. You decide to fundraise, and that capital will help you succeed. You pay yourself a salary of $100,000/year, and put everything else into the company.

You raise $4 MM in a seed round, valuing your company at $20MM.

10-months later, your company is doubling growth YoY again, has a solid SAAS model, and low churn. You decide to raise again.

This time, you raise some more money for your company, and you're now valued at 70MM.

About a year later, you're growing just as fast -- but you see a new competitor is entering the ranks. It's time to scale even faster. So you go and raise again. In a fantastic series-B round, spread across TechCrunch and HN, you raise again, at a $200 MM valuation.

As the sole founder, you now own 50% of the company -- making you worth $100MM. Your salary has remained constant at $100,000/year though.

And then the wealth tax hits.

The new wealth tax says you're responsible to pay an annual tax of 2% on all assets over $50MM. Starting this year.

Which means that you, as a private founder with no liquid assets, are now responsible for $50MM * 2% = $1MM in taxes this year.

Even though your liquid income is $100,000, and you have barely that much in your bank account -- you need to come up with $1,000,000 in liquid cash this year. And since your valuation probably won't go down, it'll be at least that much, every year, for the rest of your life, until you shutter the company.

So you go and try to liquidate your shares. But unfortunately, it's not a public company --- and it's not that easy finding private secondary-market buyers willing to buy the half of the founder's entire stake.

So what do you do now?

As far as I can tell, this is how the wealth tax would work for startup founders.

One thing that might be worth considering is where the best leverage point in the system is. See http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...

A great book on the creation of the fed and fractional reserve is The Creature From Jekyll Island

I was in Berlin this summer for 2 months (Neukolln), in 3 different airbnbs and the water was not tasty, and was quite bitter. Very different compared to Swedish or Austrian or even Italian (florence) water.

tasted gross in Berlin this summer, spent 2 months there.

How do you go public so easily?