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Comment · 4 years ago
Contrarian opinion:

Harvard devaluing their diploma is good because smart people will get off the credential treadmill and do something productive instead.

Comment · 4 years ago
The number is way low. Housing/rental costs are the largest expense and that's up 20% in many places. Used cars are up 40%.
Comment · 4 years ago
See also Polygon (MATIC), ZK-STARKs. And ETH 2.0 is due next year.
Comment · 4 years ago
Granted, but every new technology goes through this and the tools and best practices are improving. The code is open source too. I don't know why people, technologists especially, aren't recognizing this.

It's also worth examining the current system. How happy are you with your bank's 0.01% interest rate? Which is actually negative when you factor in inflation that's eroding the value of our dollars faster than ever, and increasingly transferring wealth to the top 1%? How happy are you about bank CEO compensation and bailouts? No one in crypto is asking for a bailout, even when it crashes 80%. And what about the fact that bank's charge poor people the most or flat out deny service? Or the fact that it's all closed source and behind closed doors.

Comment · 4 years ago
Anyone want to do a web2isgoinggreat.com version of this?
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Thanks! Your formulation makes a lot of sense.
Comment · 4 years ago
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs yelled at employees a lot. Whether they did so as an intentional technique or a byproduct of having a short temper, I don't know. Any insight into that?
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Comment · 4 years ago
Look at healthcare, college, housing, childcare, equities.

Also look at shrinkflation: https://www.reddit.com/r/shrinkflation/

Also look at ingredient swaps in food, like HFCS.

Also look at products that have swapped in cheaper materials.

Also look at artificially cheap labor.

Comment · 4 years ago

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