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by GDC7 5y ago
> But as long as partying Partying in Singapore? You sure? They are snoozefests. You get some really awful factors working against you for parties: 1) Some 16% of population doesn't drink 2) No drugs allowed 3) People are exhausted
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Adults need to be careful in life. No, they don't. Proponents of such world view are those who feel that they cannot compete with regards to merit and talent, so they hope to do so via their "superior morality". Bill Cli
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by GDC7 5y ago
> but the problem is to have energy or motivation to test-drive them Exactly, I feel Gwern is sidestepping this problem and could leverage the social hatred around the future founder of multibillion dollar company to claim that they are
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by GDC7 5y ago
Say a startup actually goes and implements one of Gwern's ideas...they further become a great success and then a unicorn. Would Gwern point to his idea and try to take credit for the startup success or would he stick to SV mantra that
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by GDC7 5y ago
> but it's useful to acknowledge he wasn't exactly a "good guy" What exactly constitutes a "good guy" for you? The only possible definition is somebody who wastes away his life, doesn't have fun, works
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by GDC7 5y ago
There are only 2 ways of surely making money: 1) Bundle 2) Un-bundle The Internet was bundling, now the next step will be un-bundling. People will start looking at the very microlevel to improve their lives after 3 decades spent at the macr
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Finally, I'd like to ask for an explanation as to how Feynman's actions starting in 1949 could have had a causal effect on a war that ended in 1945. That's exactly what I mean, thank you! You have stressed the whole poin
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by GDC7 5y ago
But again people want to be in the 1% of income, wealth and social status, not in the 1% of "trying".
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by GDC7 5y ago
That's because the educated don't want to just "do" , they want to be successful at it. The most ambitious want to be "world class good at it" . Hence nothing gets ever started because it seems like an unsurmou
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by GDC7 5y ago
Nobody cares about 1$ coins, people would care about a 1T$ coin.
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by GDC7 5y ago
Oh for sure. Being famous today in the US is not worth it. Given how litigious the US is and how every surface of attack is exploited by the mob (offline or online) is simply not worth it. My prediction is that people have a natural desire
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by GDC7 5y ago
> You're talking about the idea of some one who hurts and abuses other people no longer being allowed to be a part of polite society, and the people that want that to be the case, like its a bad thing. No , the bad thing is that whe
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by GDC7 5y ago
There is only one, really. There is no guarantee that people will care about climate change in 10 years time. Matter of fact there could be an opposite effect as too many politicians, influencers and VIPs are talking about climate change.
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by GDC7 5y ago
As I said there is a difference between 1$ and 1 trillion. People don't question the face value of 1$ given the fact that it's cheap change.
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by GDC7 5y ago
> I think Apple would be an even more interesting company if he were still around There is no way Jobs would have been at the helm of Apple, even if he was still alive. He'd have been canceled, matter of fact he'd have been one
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by GDC7 5y ago
Why a coin? It has to be a note because the coin+platinum could be a PR nightmare as people would do the math and realize that the amount of platinum in the coin is not worth 1 trillion dollars. I know that even for small coinage the value
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by GDC7 5y ago
This right here. Back when the first ships failed causing the death of all the occupants , human lives were just not worth much , so humans kept building ships. And also mass media wasn't there yet, so there could be no way to massivel
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Put a few hundred well off people in luxury and slow air ship them to locations hard to reach by ships The problem is that the infrastructure required for a blimp to land and takeoff might be significantly less expensive than a port bu
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by GDC7 5y ago
> It does when you consider EVs and fossil fuel plants efficiency It does not if you consider all the intellectual capital and talent which is going into EVs, which are essentially a bandaid on an open wound. EVs were never about climate
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by GDC7 5y ago
Maybe intentional? Zuck trying to give an example of what a world without FB would look like, kinda saying to detractors what would happen if they had it their way.
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by GDC7 5y ago
> It certainly isn't anything that would lead the Russian people to lose faith in him. Well you can't say that. Attacking a male leader because he has sex more often (or with partners which are more attractive) than his subordi
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by GDC7 5y ago
That's what I mean. Most people won't put up with that just to be part of the "intelligentia"
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by GDC7 5y ago
It is superhard to post on HN A person can post for 6 months and still they can't be sure about speaking their mind freely , negative karma points accumulate fast and pretty soon they'll be shadowbanned. Once you are at -15 karma
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by GDC7 5y ago
> I think you're ascribing ill will where there isn't any. Banks charge high interest to business and/or personal loans not because they hate poor people or whatever, but because they're risky. I don't mean to ac
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by GDC7 5y ago
> But when they talk about a topic you know very well, you realize they aren't that smart. In the historical academic and intellectual epicenter of the US (East Coast college towns), the rule about not talking about a subject in whi
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by GDC7 5y ago
> nope, you can withdraw it. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2021/01/29/margin-loan-ibkr- ... Is that intentional from IKBR? I guess if they knew they'd raise their interest rate. If people start using
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by GDC7 5y ago
But that's for margin. Meaning you use the funds to trade. It's different than taking a loan against 300k USD in FB shares, because that you can use for everything...ranging from buying a Ferrari to starting a new business. Intere
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by GDC7 5y ago
I think it's because those who have knowledge of financial and human capital are the ones who make the final sprint of the marathon of problem solving. When the science is knocking on heavens door after years or decades of struggles th
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by GDC7 5y ago
> You have to ask yourself... If you are not trying to save the world from cooking itself, or trying to end poverty or trying to cure cancer, or trying to ensure the existence of humanity into the far future, what the bleep are you worki

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