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mcthrowaway123z··on Keystone pipeline shut after spilling 1.4M litres of oil in North Dakota
I'm glad my country could externalize this cost for you. I'd like to thank the leaders I elected for selling me out to your shareholders.
mcthrowaway123z··on The Fallacy That Is Cryptocurrency
The writing quality was grammatically poor and he resolved with an outrageous conclusion without actually presenting any evidence - just a bunch of poorly-understood generalizations about history. Stating you're basing something on evidence usually infers you will present some. There are too many squatters in this space who sense an opportunity but have no idea what it is yet.
mcthrowaway123z··on After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty
Perhaps we should just grant statehood to the various Indian nations so they may be formally admitted into this republic. I am not a fan of giving representation to alien nations. I'm not sure our courts have legal jurisdiction over such agreements so long as they are extra-national, so there may be no way to enforce it.
mcthrowaway123z··on 100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
I don't understand why we don't pass a Terms-of-Use tax. Require every Terms agreement to be filed electronically with the state and the end-user to pay 10 cents for that service. I think we need to force their business model to be non-free, especially when they are making people agree to things that have a monetary cost either explicitly or externally.
mcthrowaway123z··on Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
As someone who ran a consultancy for several years, no one wants your last 20 hours. I think you'd do yourself a favor looking for more rewarding employment if you are feeling underpaid.
mcthrowaway123z··on France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
Problem solved, use USDC. Not invented here but what did you really have to add anyway? A non-sovereign unit-of-account was just a bad idea for consumer adoption anyway. We still have issues with financial literacy here, why not seek simplicity? I'll tell you why not, because it doesn't satisfy someone's career advancement metrics forced on them by a misguided peer-review/stack-ranking system. What other justification was there to use Libra in lieu of anything else?
mcthrowaway123z··on Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and puts liens on homes
Hippocratic oath meet capitalism
mcthrowaway123z··on 5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
Is this suggesting that modern civilization started with climate change? At the end, he points out that the occupants of these areas moved towards the coasts during the desertification. This would have been immediately preceding the establishment of the first Egyptian dynasty.
mcthrowaway123z··on Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1
In short, a non-static, continuous, non-deterministic neural network that can span infinite state by estimating an NP-hard convex optimization problem.
mcthrowaway123z··on Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1
I already sold 3 companies doing the agile thing, I'm quite aware of the known problem/unknown solution approach. This time I'm more interested in the unknown problem/unknown solution space and, for this particular project, that meant inventing a new branch of mathematics to solve a particularly hairy problem.
mcthrowaway123z··on SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid volatile markets
And enjoy taking vacation with our brand new unlimited vacation policy.
mcthrowaway123z··on Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1
Every time I read one of these my heart freezes up at the possibility someone has beat me to market. Then I remember why I spent 3 years in R&D.
mcthrowaway123z··on SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid volatile markets
Sure we'll pay you, but the only place you can shop is the company store.
mcthrowaway123z··on Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry
I would love to order some but it doesn't appear you deliver to 94607 (West Oakland).
mcthrowaway123z··on Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
Why don't they just charge a $1,000,000 filing fee for a patent? Anything worth less seems hardly worth the trouble to society.
mcthrowaway123z··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Well I've been working on a general-purpose way to see one week into the future for the past 3 years, but everyone thinks I'm joking.