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Ask HN: Ever played tagteam Poker? What are other games can be played in teams?
1 points by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago|1 comments
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
All the lottery winners who cashed out on prizes higher than 750M are in the US because no other country has such high jackpots In order to be a billionaire you have to win the genetic lottery first and foremost, then the geographic lottery
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of a 56B dollar salary
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Every billionaire is an accidental billionaire.
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> what did he do? FTX loaned money to Alameda, the crypto hedge-fund made a series of bets and probably put some cash in illiquid assets too, but mostly irresponsible bets. Crypto market collapsed, bets that were worth billions with a de
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under the age of 40 have a twitter presence and tweet very useful thin
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Twitter competitors are not other social media platforms, they are reality shows, for Twitter is 90% nade up of people dunking on each other, backstabbing and getting revenge. It attracts narcissist at every level ranging from people having
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Ask HN: If real rates are still well in the negatives, why all the panic?
2 points by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago|1 comments
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
When I decided to be atheist I clearly reasoned that if I had to believe in somebody without any evidence I'd rather believe in myself. If the greatest story ever told and 2000+ years of compounding marketing and outreach had no chance
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> Rocket stages that land and are reused is the opposite of vaporware. Just because it looks cool doesn't mean they provide quality of life. Saturn V rockets were way cooler and way bigger and sane people had to pull the plug becaus
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> So no, those guys are smart dudes. Von Braun was a very smart dude but he was making the Nazi salute and fawning over Hitler all the times. When he moved to the US he was fawning over Eisenhower all the times. Similarly this Friedman g
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> no one is innovating as much as this fucking guy The Spruce Goose is marvelous and innovative too, the Apollo rockets, the ISS, you name it. All those things had their plug pulled or are about to be because they are giant money sinkhol
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> Elon Musk does. Elon Musk doesn't own Twitter. Twitter owns him. That's a rather fundamental difference.
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> Is there any way that I can make a large bet with the naysayers about the future of Twitter? Make the most flattering posts about Musk on Twitter, do that for at least a month, guy loves fluffers so chances are he'll notice at lea
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> Linux kernel was Communism Linux IS communism. Excellent developers are humans too, they want a beach mansion in Naples and West Palm Beach, with a 45ft boat and the whole 9. Linux offers them a mod role in some obscure online forum an
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
FührerBunker vibes. I guess Steiner is now in charge of the Android division? EDIT: For those who have not seen the movie, watch "The Downfall" (2004) for a peek at what might be going on in the Trump/Musk/Putin camp rig
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> Oddly enough, this can be a sign of an excellent business. Microsoft originally provided some very mediocre products, but in a world fulled with absolutely shit products, being predictably mediocre was astonishing! Before 2000, when Mi
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Ha sorry for not getting it. You are mostly right, but I still hold out that very smart and competitive people might want to do all. Meaning having their fingerprints on a company that achives the trifecta of being a financial success in te
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Valuation is meaningless from the perspective of analyzing if a company has been a success or a failure. Valuation concerns the players who sit at the poker table and how each and everyone of them managed to fare during the game. The table
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Wallet recovery seed generation? 12 words are needed IIRC Maybe needs to send a message to somebody.
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
You don't get it. It's not about journalists vs. non-journalists. It's about skeptics vs. easily indoctrinated. Thankfully the proportions are about the same, there are about the same quantity of skeptics as well as easily in
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Journalists, government officials, enforcement agencies are not separate from society, they are embedded within it. Some social movements develop and the person which is perceived as the leader of that social movement becomes popular. And w
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> against a private citizen who happened to be in /your/ political tribe? I'd cheer because the first cause of defeat in politics is assholes in your team. You want to weed them out ASAP. The electoral college is the best
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
This guy wants to go out as a martyr . Dems have been smart up to now not to give him this satisfaction, they should keep the same approach.
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> There was a top-down decision that tech could not be covered positively, even when there was a true, newsworthy and positive story. I'd never heard anything like it. Business shouldn't be about stories, it should be about pro
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> His real net worth could easily be negative. That is lower than that homeless guy living under the bridge. Oh puh-lease. Trump's net worth was supposedly -8 billions in the 90s. He used to say that "the homeless living across
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
How many homicides happen in West Palm Beach or San Mateo? People who think this guy won't come out still a millionaire out of this are delusional. As I said enough money to have a mansion in West Palm Beach or San Mateo, he'd onl
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> Him being the second largest donor to the Democratic Party will really test the rule of law. Does it apply to the powerful? We’ll see. Past money only gives you leverage as long as people believe there are potentially plenty more in th
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
People are looking at this thing too closely. When taking the 30000ft wide view then something like this is not extraordinary , and there I say it, not even bad. Fedex was famously down to their last 5,000$ dollars and were facing bankruptc
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by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
Oh the irony.

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