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Comment · 1 day ago
2026 hosting prices are less than 1/100th of 1998 hosting prices, especially if you adjust for inflation
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd love to see drug trials funded by tax dollars, ideally informed by a legal prediction market on which trials are likely to succeed or fail. The people betting on pharma stocks would likely prefer betting directly on trials, since stock prices move for all kinds of unrelated reasons -- it'd be a new asset class. I'm skeptical about single payer healthcare though :p
Comment · 2 years ago
The price of rent roughly tracks the price of a mortgage, and apartments are only about 20% of all homes. If this legislation passes, and home prices go down, then rental prices for homes will go down, and apartment rental prices will need to match those price reductions to attract renters.
Comment · 4 years ago
D'oh. abolition -> prohibition in the above
Comment · 4 years ago
My inference from nature supported a non-moral point, namely "[abortion is] going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law."
As for my moral argument, I invite you to read about the history of abortion, the history of abolition, and/or the history of America's war on drugs. I expect you will find abolition the easiest example to grok, since it's no longer a political issue. Note the moral arguments for abolition still stand, and yet it's no longer law.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-bruce-effe...
If animals do it in nature, and humans do it with dangerous methods when denied access to safe methods, it's going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law.
Let's face it, this is just another drug war. An opportunity for Republicans to deny Americans personal autonomy and liberty. A justification for state aggression against your neighbors and friends. Wake up.
Comment · 5 years ago
Do we agree it's a bad sign when a model treats lived human experience as noise?
Comment · 5 years ago
> I don't think Tor tries to accomplish the same goal as Orchid
If the goal isn't "Anonymity Online" (taken from torproject.org), what is Orchid's goal?
> afaik Tor still doesn't have a working iOS port
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-onion-browser-and-more...
Comment · 5 years ago
> our users mostly buy in using "in-app purchases", which has led to use implementing various restrictions on spending them.
Browsing through the code, it looks like Orchid's xdai contract is https://blockscout.com/xdai/mainnet/address/0x6dB8381b2B41b7... -- which shows in-app purchases of bandwidth being a bit less than $75,000 total for the last two years. Is that right, or am I missing something?
> I think most projects that have "roadmaps" in this space are using it to cause people in the ecosystem to speculatively purchase large quantities of what should really be a "utility token".
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/orchid-protocol shows Orchid's trading volume as $22 million for just today...
Comment · 6 years ago
There's a great Warren Buffett quote on this:
"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."
Comment · 6 years ago
if the devs only have 76k of capital right now, maybe also pays for ramen?
Comment · 6 years ago
He spent a decade of nights-and-weekends effort on making kids better at math and science, taking what I understand to be startup level risks in the beginning. How much do you think he should make? Mr. Rogers was paid more than $800k/year if you adjust for inflation[1][2].
[1] https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors...
[2] https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1...