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by GDC7 5y ago
When the Tesla scam finally folds, it could be the end of Silicon Valley. Also coupled with the potential sentence of Elizabeth Holmes
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> Markets are designed to reward people who take risk to create useful things for other people. This is an illusion. Recency bias due to technological advancements in the recent past. But through the history of our specie it was social p
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But rappers do frequent the most socially volatile areas, albeit in the US. The US is huge and there are pockets of instability of course, especially in big metro areas such as LA, Chicago , Baltimore and Detroit. For a socially competent p
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by GDC7 5y ago
I think they know too. But techno-utopianism is a form of art in Silicon Valley. Your average SV techbro feels superior to regular people who enjoy other forms of art such as music or sports or poetry or even film making. Label those activi
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I don't believe the US are special. I believe the circumstances that led to the US birth and growth are special. Had the same circumstances happened in USSR, then the USSR would have gotten the same praise of moderation that you are re
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But he had camps for immigrants. Let's talk about Indian Americans? Again.....adjust for wealth , education, quality of life, etc. The US was really not that moderate if you adjust for the aforementioned conditions. Switch cultures and
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> It was far from a guarantee that the Soviets would moderate after Stalin's death That is the same of saying that there was no reason to suspect that the US would moderate after FDR's death. Getting involved in a conflict on t
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by GDC7 5y ago
> I personally witnessed a police-vs-robbers shootout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout Present day Lagos is not that much unlike the Los Angeles of the 1990s or the NYC of the 1970s and 80s. Pr
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What? If you are a socially competent person (say a rapper with > 500k followers) you can go in the most dangerous areas of Lagos and people will maybe beat and shot each other....but to host you for the night...I know this for a fact! O
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> I've never feared being out in Singapore, even at 4am at night, in any part of the city. You might have never been in fear, but were you ever stoked? And I mean genuinely socially stoked, not the monetary excitement after winning
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And none of that happens anywhere basically (except maybe some barrios in El Salvador or Venezuela) Besides, in this world the shit is everywhere it's just the color that changes and the window dressing that makes people believe otherw
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> Preamble: I'm extremely lucky. ... So what you're going to read is 99% luck and 1% planets alignment. We are all extremely lucky. We are just too cowards to move to Nigeria or South Africa or Ethiopia or El Salvador to cash o
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Every potential enemy is also a potential friend or a potential neutral. By definition. Besides you don't get to wipe 1B people off the planet (which way back then represented 35% of the global population), and have as only consequence
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> There really are healthy moderated ways to live. Nature doesn't like moderation. It likes a variety of many extremes so that it can reward those extremes which are particularly adapted/lucky to win in that particular moment.
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The fact that people in here are considering waiting to have a kid till they can self-diagnose themselves as mentally stable enough not to kill themselves, is itself an indicator that people who clicked on this HN thread are at higher risk
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by GDC7 5y ago
Freezing eggs at 18-22 y/o should be the norm. Especially in rich areas such as LA and NYC. Gives women options. The earlier you freeze them the more you can get with a single procedure
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You don't wash 22 years of history of amazing sport moments happened in the Staples Center with money , not even 700M. AT&T, Metlife, Gillette, Toyota... they put their name on their respective stadiums just after they were inaugur
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by GDC7 5y ago
Another demonstration of bad financial decision making from the crypto crowd. For sport venues you gotta get there when they open or early during the structure service life. You don't want to absolutely come after another brand. AT&amp
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by GDC7 5y ago
> The risks of climate change IMO are not a question of how but when So is the heat death of the Universe but it's a bit too early to start worrying about it.
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> But if the climate does warm past the expected number, having a clean bill of health won't do much to protect you. The highest authority on the matter is the IPCC, they produce climate reports every 4 years. There made lots of the
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by GDC7 5y ago
Well...how did it go?
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Don't worry, you'll be on your deathbed due to cardiovascular disease, alzheimer, cancer or stroke before climate change even produces any minimal effects on your life. You, me and 50 generations down the road. Sorry to be this cr
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by GDC7 5y ago
It's not just you! It's not a coincindence that the most solid friendships are formed in high school/college where there is a "forced" continous presence . And also you have the added bonus of some authority to rall
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by GDC7 5y ago
> "Cars in the electric world will be all about software!" YES! (Except for the 6000 pounds of metal alloys, batteries, lithium, plastic, semiconducturs, cables, leather and in some cases carbon fiber...then it's all about
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A fellow J CLASS aficionado
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This thing is ugly as sin. Look at this instead y'all. Rejoice yourself: https://youtu.be/uRAGzKJvQ7Y?t=158
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Who/what is "dang"?
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They have just overlooked that China has a solar area which is comparable (or just a tad inferior to Chile's). Gobi Desert. It's far easier to harness solar there and then push it onto the coast than building a 15,000km submarine
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> I've often thought that the pragmatic thing to do would be to send people to Mars that already have short life expectancies Great Idea! I think Musk himself should go around in hospices and hospitals to find terminally ill people
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Ferritin is a marker of inflammation of the liver and anecdotally it rises when fasting.

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