FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
But, what I’m saying is that charisma (and personal marketing for that matter) is by its nature a “wide” skill. I wouldn’t give him an integral to solve but that’s not what a leader is supposed to do either. I think a major world leader nee
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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s word salad, but for his demographic, it’s a salad of carefully selected words they love, delivered with great warmth, charm, or aggression, as appropriate.
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by FredPret 2y ago
We evolved a natural tendency to like charismatic and funny people, because (I'm speculating) you need a high minimum level of broad cognitive competence to pull that off. Things like empathy, quick thinking, emotional intelligence, a
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by FredPret 2y ago
About 1000x more than the difference between US states
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This is why a little bit of money spent on public order yields 10x - 100x ROI at least. Safer streets, longer lives, a fair environment for the physically weak, longer-lasting infrastructure, a better business environment, and - more crucia
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Public restrooms are the first public good to bite the dust when petty crime picks up.
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Hug of death?
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The entire reason email (and the internet) took off is because there are many ways to use it, for many purposes. Handing down diktats about the correct use cases and workflows for a flexible thing that is currently being used by billions of
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by FredPret 2y ago
I receive many such emails that I signed up for and am happy to get. The senders of those emails are happy to send them. Unless you - an unrelated third party - think you have the right to insert yourself into this business relationship, it
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by FredPret 2y ago
Capitalism works really great when there's competition. When there's a government-sanctioned monopoly like this, you get all of the efficiency and speed of a for-profit corporation, but it all goes in the wrong direction. I once r
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by FredPret 2y ago
Talking to non-tech people means you're going to be copy-pasting screenshots and replying in blue text next to their bullet points that was written in black text. To say nothing of legitimate marketing emails (which many people rely o
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by FredPret 2y ago
I don't know man. The US government spends in a couple of months what the biggest companies are worth in total. According to this [0] Uncle Sam is obligated to spend 6.3T this year. That's 500B per month. Compare to the market cap
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by FredPret 2y ago
Every time war gets automated more or mil-tech improves, the value of information and information processing goes up, and so does the ability to mess with the enemy's information. No point in having an ICBM unless you know where to poi
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by FredPret 2y ago
Put that in your presentation to the Texans!
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by FredPret 2y ago
> Does physics dictate how you build power lines? Bro. Come up with a plan and a budget for your buried cables and sell it to the people of Texas who will have to pay for it.
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by FredPret 2y ago
The government of many places, like the EU and Australia, openly and regularly make moves to crack down on individual freedoms in favour of state power - and they aren’t even in criminal trials.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Any country looks dystopian from the news. From the outside, your own country seems to have a dystopian liking for government control of speech and the internet. If your daily experience does not align with this perception, consider that Te
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Why didn’t we think to regulate physics before!?
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I’m not an electrical or civil eng, but I imagine it’s very expensive to dig so many tunnels. Groundwater (especially for coastal cities) and people drilling holes would be very problematic too.
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Not relative to one another
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For low-frequency radiation, I wonder if you could build a big and light radio dish in orbit
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That's true but it's hardly a failure of the market. Airliners are big, complex products that are apparently best managed by big, complex companies (not my opinion, just an observation). If the government decides airliners are a s
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Boeing is a good example of capitalism working. Go and look at their financial statements. Look at their stock over the past half decade. It's all deep in the red. They're still alive because their past achievements are significan
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You really think 100% of salaries can be attributed to launch costs of one of their rocket types?
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by FredPret 2y ago
Your linked article looks at PPP income. Here are two that compare wealth, showing the US 50th percentilers doing significantly better than European ones. US median wealth according to this is $162k: https://www.richmondfed.org&#
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by FredPret 2y ago
The other fundamental thing is that if you can’t sell something, you don’t really own it. So wether pairs of people want to buy-and-hold or HFT their assets is really neither here nor there for uninvolved third parties.
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You mean like settling trades every 0.25 seconds or something like that? Wouldn't there be a queue of trades piling up every 0.25 seconds, incentivizing maximum speed anyway?
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Instant biggest black market of all time, corruption skyrockets, only the richest people get fair deals on investments.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If one outlawed / disincentivized hostile the bot behavior you described, there would still be the opportunity to do the good and profitable things I described.
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by FredPret 2y ago
What's the mechanism for removing liquidity?

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