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451.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
> 8 billion people wake up every morning never questioning why are they here, why are they born? People question this all the time
452.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Phones randomize hardware addresses now, so this doesn't work. Although there are better, not-so-publicly-known, ways to do it anyway.
453.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Most places where this would be legal there are probably much more effective ways to do it at the POS, even non-biometrically. Although yes you might consider usng TPMS as part of an ensemble.
454.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
I don't think this is particularly unique to cops. When you're trapped and cornered, you desperately resort to any possible approach to get out of it. Acting incredulous or indignant when you know you've messed up, with the
455.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Honestly I think you'd be better off just making _existing_ cheaper than trying to discourage wealth seeking. The cost of living, especially housing, is a huge motivating factor to try and 'get rich first', before doing the
456.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
I'm not sure you could alter these without significant negative effects on the other things you're trying to encourage. It's not like capital is uninvolved in the provision of biotech, or that medical startup founders aren&#x
457.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
We don't have any reliable and scalable way of doing this allocation, though, so it's a bit like saying that all the resources are wasted being locked up in asteroids.
458.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
It was at least in theory an issue when they tried to sanction mixers. In fact people would purposely send tainted crypto to well known wallet addresses of celebrities etc. making them technically run afoul of OFAC
459.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
By definition the police only ever detect and catch those they are capable of detecting and catching. It's entirely in their interest to let people believe their capabilities are much greater than they really are. That goes double fo
460.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Gait recognition is almost entirely hype. Sure it works to tell the difference between n = 10 people but so what, you can tell the difference between a group of 10 people by what kind of shoes they are wearing.
461.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
These are not secret divinations though, the participants know this and price it in or otherwise allow it to determine which markets they participate in.
462.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
It's impossible to know anything for certain; almost everything is probabilistic. Also I'm not sure how to interpret your criteria because timing matters, I don't think saying 'it gets revealed in the end' is very m
463.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
The benefit is that inside information becomes public information. The reward for the insider is just the necessary incentive for that to happen.
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Because there's always some uncertainty and capital limits. But the uncertainty about the outcome is itself inside info, and that's compounded with your own uncertainty about the insider as a copy trader. So the insider will emp
465.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Work expands to fill the allocated resources in literally everything. This same effect can be seen in software engineering complexity more generally, but also government regulators, etc. No department ever downsizes its own influence or b
466.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
It's not only those groups though, for example a stable food supply requires an efficient commodities market. The utility is not just marginal.
467.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
The market already bets on war and death, and has done for probably centuries, only it's mostly institutional players. Seems to me Polymarket just democratizes that, both for bettors and potentially consumers of the probabilities. I w
468.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Exactly, the existence of alternatives is mostly what keeps the price non-zero. I think counterparties who are actually betting on Jesus returning will be quite rare. So I wouldn't feel bad about taking money from saps, more about ju
469.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
If I'm an insider with 100% confidence, I'll take all offers at a certain price as long as I can afford it. Similar story for lower levels of confidence (but still inside info). There won't necessarily be any left for you t
470.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Apart from minor effects, the price is the probability. If you 'know your shit', you have more confidence and thus bid up or down until there are no more counterparties willing to accept your price, and thus the price settles at
471.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Not all strategies are low-latency, so you can copy trade someone with a buy and hold approach. For example someone you think is an insider or whale who might influence the outcome.
472.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
You can just stand near the stadium during practice and glean this info. I believe people did exactly that.
473.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Polymarket's legality has not yet been tested in many places, although I don't personally object to it being legal, there's a chance it might not be. Also, I'd advise against betting on the Jesus market. You can't
474.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
I don't want to dox myself by getting too specific, but yes it's essentially a frontend framework for backend engineers in a niche lang (at least, niche for frontend). So they'd just hire more backend engineers in their lang
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
Yes, I don't disagree. Well, it's a place where engineering has seized power through obstinance and used it to do whatever they find interesting or resume-positive. Luckily I'm just consulting here as a favor for an old fri
476.
by 0x3f 8mo ago
Sometimes I find the pigeonholing thing is just siloing and laziness. The last guy did our infra, nobody else wants to learn it, so the trivial thing to do is just hire on a tick-box basis. I'm at a company now where one guy was the R
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
What type of companies though? Because startups definitely seem to discriminate. I think partly because it's easier to convince a 20-something that working 6 days a week for mythical equity is a good deal.
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by 0x3f 8mo ago
But they're Chinese companies specifically, in this case
479.
by 0x3f 9mo ago
I'm curious how you feel about images, because it seems we have the same problem: I draw a stick figure with genitals. All good. I put a little line and write '10 year old child', then... illegal? In some places, anyway. T
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by 0x3f 9mo ago
I'm quite happy that it might give me, with pre-existing skills, more time on the clock to stay relevant.

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