michaelyoshika

I really don’t understand why a hacker community would consistently downvote crypto currency related comments. Can anyone explain it to me? Like, folks can build their own cpu so not to be controlled by big companies, but they all like using money controlled by some big banks?

I don’t believe usd will hold value as US is technically bankrupted now. I also don’t use yuan or other currencies as they are not globally accepted now.

So I believe in technology evolvement and use crypto currencies which solve both problems.

If you believed distributed databases would replace centralized databases, why wouldn’t you believe distributed money would replace centralized money?

I'm not sure if this is the dogfood version or not.

All my experiences using Airbnb have been terrible and their apps/website are the slowest I've ever seen in a tech company.

But I think the price is reasonable because the Fed printing machine won't stop and US has long lost the opportunity to ever increase interest rate so everything will just pop up like end of world, e.g. what has Apple done this year so they are now worth 1 trillion more than last year? Thus 60b for Airbnb is basically the same as 30b last year.

tl;dr: if your asset doesn't pop 100% this year, you are a fool.

This is why I always buy $10K+ Rolex watches instead of $20 made in China Casios. Worth it.

I honestly don't know why you got downvoted.

I'll try using other online retailers whenever I can until Amazon gets splitted.

I don't feel "running a 200 person company (ref: article) at 23" is remarkable if you look at who runs a 328.2 million person country now.

Running a company is a different skillset from getting to the position.

An alternative of "I work hard enough so my boss can buy another Ferrari".

Sad to see this kind of shit from a YC funded CEO.

The question seems to be: what can we do to limit Amazon?

geopolitical. if russia/china has us military bases, you should have already received their vaccines.

Totally, I've just thrown out everything made in china from my house. You should do the same!

+1 I think this is the infra revolution we need.

if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you

tl;dr: a monopoly with deep ties to government.

Look at Kodak.

Great product! Although I also gave up on KVM already, I wouldn't hesitate to get a disruptor if it's 10x better.

Other than the money, you also need to count in the fact that as an Asian/Chinese you are not really that secure/free in the US especially now with a president saying Chinese Virus all the time.

People can't even trust US police, not to mention US military.

Lesson learned: change your chinese name when your company goes public.

It's just consequence of some niche thing becoming popular.

There is no way to fix it other than inventing a new niche thing.

Great idea! Renaissance of the original Internet.

I'm just here watching FB spending billions doing free advertising for Bitcoin.

Soon Tiktok will be banned in the US by an act proposed by FB lobbyists.

Smart for them to hire an American CEO, though. But I still believe FB has more lobbyists.

Another possible outcome is they will be forced to sell TikTok to some holding companies in the US.

Am I the only one feeling that we should be thankful that these unicorns (whether actually profitable or driven by crazy VC money) have created so many jobs in the past several years?

Isn't China restricting the sale of new gasoline cars like what EU is doing? I agree US market could be hit badly as CA is still under lockdown and tech companies are laying off.

I totally agree with you. In the richest country in human histroy, people shouldn't be forced to live paycheck to paycheck.

On one hand, I don't understand why they need so many employees for a ride-sharing platform. On the other hand, I can understand that people are just so eager to find another growth point so anything looking like a growth point could get almost unlimited capitals then hire a lot.

Issue a coin.

This separation of society is the worse problem here.