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They need her to buy them a house. That's not needing a little.

> My husband and I never really discussed the fact that I’d be supporting my parents. It was just a given

> He doesn’t mind the way I want to live — he just goes along with it.

> I once had a conversation with my husband about how if I died, he’d have to keep taking care of my parents. It’s a dark topic, I know, and he wasn’t thrilled about the idea. But he wouldn’t kick them out.

> My dad is now retired, and when my mom retires she’ll move in with us too. The plan is to give them this house eventually, and get our own nearby.

She says her parents aren't pleasant people. Imagine how her husband feels about dedicating all his future earnings towards their happiness. She thinks this is normal.

> Commerce would continue, with state-backed currencies swapped for crypto alternatives that float freely on an open market.

I'm assuming this means a stable coin?

Has anyone figured out how to verify the backing on a blockchain? If that was possible Tether's fraud would have been exposed sooner.

Also, why is Facebook's new currency rumored to be backed by multiple currencies? That seems like it would add volatility instead of lessening it.

What's the argument against Alibaba?

Buffett and Munger have said that they are having difficulty investing cash because they have so much of it. In this case it seems irresponsible to take loans. I don't see the point unless it's a tax dodge.

It's more than that. They received money from "investors" without giving away any equity.

Does HN use machine learning to flag posts?

I don't find NetFlix compelling because after I watch great movie X the service cannot recommend me another movie that is of the same caliber.

Also, there are a lot of independent movies and TV shows on NetFlix. And they suck. Horrible acting and plot but the cover is sometimes good enough to trick you into wasting time taking a look.

Is this sort of compliance testing needed in countries with authoritarian leaders?

I wouldn't be so sure. Juries can be convinced of anything if you look at past judgements against Monsanto.

I'm not saying that I think Google is innocent but often the evidence is very difficult for the lay person to interpret (especially when it is absent).

I love Dreamcast. I'm thinking about upgrading the GDROM drive with the FPGA chip. It's only a matter of time before the laser fails.

Loom has better scalability. Most transactions can happen on a sidechain.

https://medium.com/loom-network/everything-you-need-to-know-...

Ethereum 2.0 will have sharding. That should speed up transactions but sidechains will probably always be cheaper and sometimes no fee.

Is there any way to recover a login and password if the user forgets it?

Sidechains like Loom network are making progress, but Ethereum 2.0 is a ways off.

Would airplane mode or poor signal change that? I think GPS is still on during airplane mode.

I'm assuming it saves periodically and uploads when it acquires a connection.

It shows me driving over water. That's interesting. I'm not seeing a bridge.

Because people who buy products from “Moms Across America” are on the jury. You've never met someone that believes essential oils cure shit?

Corporations can signal their values through acting morally and with regard to the health and safety of society. Check out Patagonia. They donated $10 million saved in tax cuts to environmental groups.

Tyler Cowen covers other instances in his new book: Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.

Self driving cars won't arrive for at least another 20 years.

That's not true. The tokens are returned the user. Those tokens may come from the User Growth Pool as well.

Depends. Google's real-time bidding is being investigated under GDPR.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/irish-data-privacy-watchdog-...

So HFT's can see my limit orders that haven't completed?

There are externalities for experimentation which include bankrupting the health system. Imagine if everyone only ate red meat. Bowel cancer would soar.

My doctor prescribes ketamine lozenges. They are quite cheap, safe, and possibly as effective as IV (more research needed here). He said his insurance didn't change at all. What the world needs is psychiatrists who are willing to take the _risk_ of prescribing a safe drug with a long history in medicine.

Yes, the long-term effects of taking ketamine frequently are not well understood. In my opinion a patient with TRD should be allowed to take this risk provided that they have tried several other drugs.

It's perfectly legal to get ketamine from any doctor! The program you linked costs $650/infusion.

> A typical case would be 8-12 infusions over 4-6 weeks.

That's $7,800 for a month of treatment. That's a lot of money when considering that ketamine is not a cure and the patient will need future treatments.

I'm taking 250mg sublingual every day and paying ~$3000/year. Most of the cost is taxis, planes, and shipping because I'm out of state and have to fly in to see my doctor. If I lived in Maryland the cost would be much lower.

Also, if infusion clinic docs weren't bankrupting patients by picking the most expensive (read: lucrative) ROA the cost would be much cheaper.

Author sounds a bit obsessive about all things in life. It's appropriate for a doctor to tell their patient the facts about their situation. If laypersons do that they are going to run into social friction.

Interesting social media strategy.

https://twitter.com/eieMichaelKirk/status/102609142423065804...

How is the mic for talking on the phone? I guess it might not matter since everyone is torturing everyone else with speaker phone and ear buds.

Brave browser also does machine learning locally.

It's definitely a value add for Apple users and something Tim Cook relishes throwing in Zuckerberg's face.

Other companies don't seem to care so much. I think a good compromise is having more data in the cloud that can only be decrypted by the user.