cujic9
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Except for when you're on the same project. Then it's like canoeing with mediocre people. When the alligator comes, instead of paddling for one, you are paddling for two.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'd be interested to hear responses from among the 1.X billion unbanked people in developing countries.
I think the goal of Libra is to turn this population into sticky Facebook users. Facebook has saturated the developed world. Meanwhile, developing countries are too busy surviving to mess around on social media.
Libra gives them a way to transact in a stable currency, and Facebook starts to discover the currently grassroots social graph of small time farmers and craftsmen selling goods to their neighbors in villages with slow internet access.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ohio Becomes First US State to Allow Taxes to Be Paid in Bitcoin
https://www.coindesk.com/ohio-becomes-first-us-state-to-allo...
Comment · 7 years ago
On a side note, I did some more digging, and:
The Agnelli family is the largest shareholder in the Economist. The Rothschilds are second largest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group#Ownership
Also, as of 2015:
> Pearson’s move to sell most of its stake to Exor, the investment company run by the Agnellis, upholds a tradition of dynastic ownership of media assets. Rupert Murdoch owns News UK, which publishes the Sun and the Times, the Barclay brothers own the Telegraph, and the Rothermere family controls the Daily Mail titles. Overseas, the Sulzberger family owns the New York Times, the Springers control huge chunks of German media and the Bonnier family owns a large publishing portfolio in Sweden. Newspapers have long been the playthings of wealthy media barons who are seduced by the access and influence they bring.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/15/economist-beco...
Just because press is foreign doesn't mean it's objective or independent of politics. News is a business, and just like any business, the owners make decisions based on their beliefs.
Comment · 7 years ago
> However, I do not live in that context, I live in a society and inside my own head, and this is what generates an idea of contribution and happiness.
Right. This just happens to coincide with a shift in my life, where all the old contexts from my youth are meaningless, and I need to find new contexts.
So if there is no such thing as contributing, then the contributing you used to do only mattered because of a context you (or I) constructed to find important.
I don't think the right answer is to say, "Nothing is important." I think the right answer is to relentlessly seek for a new context to find important, to give meaning to our own life.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes. I view posting on HN and seeing the response as one way to help uncover the truth for myself.
Comment · 7 years ago
We're on a rock flying through space. In that context, what does contributing even mean?
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not that clever.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've noticed a recent uptick in news promoting the cruelty of China toward its citizens.
I struggle to figure out how much is true, and how much is an alternate reality created by my government. (I'm in the USA, and anger towards China definitely benefits the Republican Party / Trump administration.)
Comment · 7 years ago
In my opinion, inflation is poorly defined.
The metrics we use to measure inflation (e.g. CPI) have grown slowly, but that doesn't mean that inflation is low.
Comment · 7 years ago
You're right. His real voice is slightly more robotic.
Comment · 7 years ago
The discussion here is somewhat relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20026297
I typically say:
1. Anything is better than nothing.
2. 1Password is pretty good.
3. Keepass is the best if you are ultra paranoid.
Comment · 7 years ago
Meteor was the Shiny New Thing in web development that made me stop chasing Shiny New Things.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, if you simply want to run a VM, Docker may not make sense.
The real point of Docker is containerized apps.
Synology is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliance.
I don't think it uploads my data anywhere. If it does, it certainly doesn't upload everything, because I would have noticed the bandwidth usage, but I haven't verified that it doesn't upload some low resolution version of photos.