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by GDC7 5y ago
The biggest tragedy that humanity faces today is that we still think that we are living in small communities of 500-1000 individuals. So every move has to be planned to perfection as if we were still living in such small communities and pub
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by GDC7 5y ago
> In fact if you have millions it is quite easy it seems People want to make millions to enjoy them and spend them. Basically no merchant accepts crypto and the crypto for cash schemes are not equipped to convert huge amount of money. Th
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by GDC7 5y ago
Because when JFK died the world stood still for a hot minute and then everybody resumed their activities as if nothing had happened Same with MLK, Diana Spencer, Michael Jackson, John Lennon etc. Even if you are #1 of 8.000.000.000 you are
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by GDC7 5y ago
If this is the principle we should abolish the Forbes rich list to secure the mental health of teen boys and young adults. The 0.00001%ers are out there, in any realm of life. The genie is out of the bottle and it's not about social me
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by GDC7 5y ago
Facebook is used by 3B people. When a company (or even more generally a social phenomenon) is so big, the only logical consequence is that it becomes embedded in the layer that it services. In society not everybody is equal, a social moveme
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This is what being priced to perfection does to an industry. Like it or not people are out to make money. When they feel something is priced for perfection they see no upside
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Crypto is new and risky but 0% crypto allocation is most likely the wrong number at this point in the game. It actually seems the perfect number. You don't want to own anything that is priced for perfect execution for the next 10
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by GDC7 5y ago
Man sometimes I wish you could shortsell people. In this case the buyers of this thing. It's not even a baseball card, at least that you can frame.
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just give us a start button already can't improve perfection
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It's not about the numbers as much as it is about the state of mind of those who read them. People are extremely scared about everything nowadays. There have been thousands of COVID like viruses in the history of civiliaztion and they
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by GDC7 5y ago
I will go to my grave thinking that we'd have never locked down for COVID back in the 80s, 90s and even 00s. Matter of fact we didn't lockdown in the early 00s for SARS. Further it seems to me that the progress in prolonging human
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by GDC7 5y ago
> but to actually recognize when it's important to spend effort on some new trend, and when it's important to ignore other trends And in order to do that you need to put in the work to study the trends and understand if they a
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by GDC7 5y ago
> no most of those 8 billion are just trying to put food on the table by whatever means - relevance is probably the last thing on their mind - you can't blame people for trying to survive You are underestimating the intelligence of
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> Most of this earth is seeking food and clean water and substance. You are underestimating the intelligence of people in 3rd world countries. They might be fighting violently to procure themselves those things, but in their mind there i
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by GDC7 5y ago
The only true answer is that out there are 8 billion people waking up every day. And all they do is seeking social relevance, and by doing so they are inadvertedly diluting your own social relevance. There is not a mechanism which allows yo
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by GDC7 5y ago
In what world is taking possession of a ship/train using violence and offing everybody on board not terrorism?
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by GDC7 5y ago
> You can't hijack a train or a boat and make it crash wherever you want No, but I am astounded by how you are writing off the 300 people on a train and the 4000 on a ship. You'd be effectively trapped aboard with hijackers who
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by GDC7 5y ago
Again you are you writing off the 300 people on a train and the 4000 aboard a cruise ship.
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Again your message proves that you think about the people outside the vehicle as A-class citizens and those aboard as B-class citizens. There are 300+ people on a train and 4000+ on a cruise ship, those things don't need to be used as
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by GDC7 5y ago
And of course everybody ignores trains, they don't even look at you...like the 300 souls aboard a train don't matter. Also the 10000+ souls at the departing and arrival train station also don't matter. Not to mention the 4000
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by GDC7 5y ago
> and more people who are motivated by the impact of their work (of whom there are plenty, and they're just as good as the financially motivated ones). Nobody does the work for the sake of doing the work. People work for a combinat
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by GDC7 5y ago
And in fact, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Waltons and all the people who have been populating the Forbes rich list for the last 30 years...they don't look happy. They seem rather dull and desensitised to anything. Very robotic. Very
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Well sure, but those motivations exist regardless of any financial rewards The amount of the financial reward measures how much you are winning. The juices produced when you win 20$ and those produced when your leveraged long in biotec
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> If you have more than you could possibly ever need then why would you choose to risk that? Because you don't simply do it for the stuff. You do it for the brain juices which are released when you win. Bill Gates biggest wins happe
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by GDC7 5y ago
It's not even companies. It's people! As they progress they become more risk averse and are terrified by the idea of losing their wealth. That's why we have entire sectors of the economy focused on wealth preservation without
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Every single day you're missing out on an investment that performs just as well as any crypto investment. Investment opportunities are like a bus route: there's always another one coming down the pike. The thing is that crypt
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by GDC7 5y ago
"I am not going up to that person to talk, that's needy and like not cool at all...but I can't stay here staring into the void either...what am I gonna do? Oh yes I am gonna look at my phone and pretend that my attention is c
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by GDC7 5y ago
"Build it and they will come" is fascinating but hasn't even worked for Dubai, and the Emirates have poured into Dubai way more than 400B since they decided that they'd open themselves up to the world. Dubai development
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> It's a race at providing better superstimulus Couldn't agree more. if this trend continues, the only possible consequence is drugs becoming a form of art. When external stimuli won't do it anymore people will seek to dir
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> so why aren't far more people successful? You can't defeat power law. It's something that happens everywhere. Natural phenomenons, our universe, social interactions, romantic interactions, business etc.

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