chrischattin

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.