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endangered··on Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself
It's generally a bad idea to buy a house, so I don't really see how the median home value is relevant.
endangered··on Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
I don't think this is a fair comparison because we breed these animals for farming, so technically we could breed as many as we need to sustain our habits.

On the other hand there is no way to breed whales. There is some finite number of them in the wild and we cannot actively endeavor to create more.

Commercial farming of farm animals will not cause the extinction of farm animals; commercial farming of whales will cause the extinction of whales.

endangered··on Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation
The fossil fuel issue is solely an issue with Bitcoin's proof of work algorithm.

There are alternatives that use virtually no energy compared with proof of work, like proof of stake, which is being implemented on Ethereum.

endangered··on Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
Keep in mind that it's very very easy to edit HTML in webpages.
endangered··on Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework
Kids won't learn if their parents are the ones doing the homework.
endangered··on Google can be forced to pull results globally, Canada supreme court rules
* That is a US company

* The ban affects US companies

* The taxes affect US citizens

* The laws affect US citizens

This has nothing to do with this decision.

What Canada is aiming to do is to force a non-Canadian company to follow Canadian law even if it does not operate at all in Canada.

endangered··on Floyd Mayweather-backed cryptocurrency ICO was fraud, SEC says
It wasn't even a bad idea (indeed there was no real idea at all). They specifically set out to defraud investors.
endangered··on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
How about we stop using Java. It's a terrible language anyways.
endangered··on Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it
Yes, but there is video proof that the human in control of the car was on her phone.
endangered··on My daughter's disabled. Please don't look away from her
It's incredibly expensive to do this. Most people can't afford it especially since one of the parents generally has to spend most of their time with the child forgoing work.

Yes, there are programs in most states to help the parents in this sort of situation, but most of these programs let the benefits run out when the child reaches around 21-25 years of age.

endangered··on Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin rising but ethereum remaining stagnant?
> The ethereum network rewards miners with 5 new ETH approximately every 15 to 30 seconds (~18,000 per day).

This is not true. After the last hard fork, the reward for miners went down to 3 ETH.