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brooklyntribe | 6 years ago | on: Why is everyone a bank?

Sounds crazy --- I don't want to start a billion (trillion $$$) bank. What happens if "my bank" has never more than $10,000 in total assets. Our loans never go above $100. Do want to offer ATM cards, just we're nano-sized.

Do I somehow slip under all the banking laws? Just as an "experiment?" Is this something that I could do? OR is it just a crazy idea?

brooklyntribe | 7 years ago | on: Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America

The majority of Americans have brain damage of some kind from toxic organic pesticides. This is why people are so weird.

Look for the twitches and shakes, that the indicator. Especially facial muscles around the eyes. We've all been poisoned. The organic chemists have known this for years.

The upside? Cheap corn.

Now what?

Source: Former organic chemist who was exposed to toxic organic pesticides. [a light dose]

brooklyntribe | 8 years ago | on: Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin

Ok, so if you think the hell thing is going to hell, just go SHORT, it's one click away. How simple is that?

And that's why these predictions never pan out, if it's SO EASY to make a ton of cash off a crashing market, then EVERYONE will go short, since it's so EASY to make money.

And that's why markets are generally stable and it's what humans do best, we go LONG. :-)

brooklyntribe | 8 years ago | on: Capgras syndrome gives us a unique insight into the digital age (2016)

Our brains have evolved. At one point we recognized everthing in our field of vision as "here", and everyone else was further "away."

Now we have lots more of even NPC (Non-Playing Characters), closer to our inner fields. Facebook friends really are your friends. As if they were standing right in front of you.

Your are in effect, "Delusional" . . .

Or something like that.

brooklyntribe | 8 years ago | on: I don’t want to be a software developer anymore

A heads up? Don't take a cabinet making workshop with an instructor passionate about what you can do with a plank of Birds Eye Maple, a router and a piece of sandpaper.

You may never look at another Javascript framework again. So DON'T take that class. You may do something crazy like quit your day job and make wooden bowls all day. And have way too much fun.

You don't want to have way too much fun. And don't get me started on glassblowing!

You can do pretty well on Etsy, and code on the side. And keep that grad degree in CompSci as Plan B. :-)

brooklyntribe | 8 years ago | on: Launch HN: Darmiyan (YC S17) – Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

> 1 in 10 people will actually end up getting Alzheimer's.?

I have never seen anyone over 75 that does not have some kind of dementia. Zero. Alzheimers and Dementia will soon be one of the same classification. It's happening.

Nature is just telling us, you have to go. It will be incurable, it's painless. She's being nice to us. Yes treat it, of course, but we have to let go sometimes.

PS, I work with seniors. People have NO CLUE to what these people go through. Zero.

And NO one can face this question, eventually, we die. Know the millennials don't believe that. They can't even comprehend it death. But it's true. Really. And it's OK.

So live life as it should be. For ALL our days are numbered. Don't worry, be happy.

:-)

brooklyntribe | 8 years ago | on: Some insurers insist that patients forgo generics and buy brand-name drugs

The mile high view of USA health care is if we can "eliminate" the poor, the old, the sick, in the long run, it will make our economy stronger. It seems to be doing it's thing.

The life expectancy is coming down for the first time in decades and the stock market is at a record high. It's a "social darwinism" thing. We're a living lab to test the theory out.

That's the mile high view. I'm not sure what the long term consequences are.

> US life expectancy drops for first time in 22 years

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/us-life-expectancy-down...

brooklyntribe | 8 years ago | on: The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip

Louisiana sounds like hell. Guess they sold their souls for jobs. They seem OK with that.

> The risk of cancer in Reserve, a community founded by freed slaves, is 800 times the national average, making the community, by one EPA metric, the most carcinogenic census tract in America—the cause is a DuPont/Denka chemical plant adjacent to the town that annually spews 250,000 pounds of the likely carcinogen chloroprene into the air. If you think the situation in Flint is bad, there are approximately 400 public water systems in Louisiana with lead or other hazardous substances leaching into the drinking water. Meanwhile, hundreds of petrochemical plants peppered across the state’s lush swampy interior freely emit carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, and neurotoxins into the air and water, as well as inject them deep into the earth.

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