MarkPNeyer

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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
I’ve worked with Mike at theattitudecoach.net. He’s not a career coach but he’s been very effective at helping me advance my career but helping me improve my functioning in all aspects of life.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
This seems so much like humans that it makes me think lots of people are learning math with an ML-like approach instead of… whatever the heck people like engineers and mathematicians are doing.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Did a quick ctrl-f for 'bitcoin' here in the comments. Finding nothing. Just have to add: Lightning Network payments are ~free, ~instant, and as bearer instruments the merchants aren't responsible for fraud.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
This is a result of capitalism with unlimited credit-based money supply. Modern interment businesses rely on the equation CAC < LTV, that is, “is the cost of acquiring a customer less than the lifetime value?” If so, they’ll spend money
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Same. It took working at a social media company on ad ranking to make the thing stick; I saw how much effort is going into putting stuff in front of my brain that is sorted in terms of the likelihood that I will react to it.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Here’s a story about the FBI stealing $80 million after lying to a judge: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-23/fbi-beve...
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Or we need money they can’t be created via debt. Issuing debt to buy back shares is a strategy that works great when interest rates are very very low. But when the money supply is scarce, only so much leverage can exist, so issuing debt to
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Private ownership of businesses, so long term consequences fall on someone with the authority to steer them right.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Why do you care if you harm the company long term? It’s not like you are tied to it’s performance forever. When equity and labor markets are liquid, why wouldn’t you make decisions that help you now, and cause long term hurt something you h
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
What if your belief is that “the US administration” is an inertial beaucracy that carries on regardless of who gets elected? Obama ran on ending wars in Iraq and afghanistan, and then he got in and those options disappeared. Trump did simil
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Basically all of history was powerful people lying to everyone and mass media helping them do it. For some reason people think the world is different today.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
One more thing I’d add; for the love of all that is holy make sure the tests run lightning quick. What you want to do is first reduce the cost and risk of making changes, to a close to zero as possible. Then, come up with a broad system des
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Exactly. They want it both ways. If you are algorithmically boosting some views and deleting others, now it’s your speech and you should be liable.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
You can do both of these things in El Salvador right now.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
The lightning network is, yes.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
The kings who stole money from their nobles soon found themselves surrounded by nobles who were all suddenly impoverished, and bordered by newly wealthy neighboring countries whose banking sectors and suddenly and inexplicably took off. See
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
> if you consider that the economy almost stopped for two years straight It wasn’t Covid that did this. It was government mandates in response to Covid. Printing money let everyone who supported these government actions ignore all of th
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
We can apply this same notion of thinking to ideas like “mark neyer” or “the neyer family”. This closes the loop, though - who I am is both an idea and a substrate for ideas, at the same time.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
There are numerous mathematical measures of complexity. Do you think people believe “tic tac toe is simpler than chess” because of cultural conditioning?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
All of these strategies make sense given the financial environment we live in, with a money supply that constantly increases via debt creation. There’s something like an arms race for attention. The combination of this arms race and unlimit
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
The little red hen is clearly a tool used to control other people. The story could easily have been written by venture capitalists, trying to convince potential employers to sign on to risky entrepreneurial ventures in exchange for a share
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
There were bombings almost every day in the US in the 1970’s.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
“Clarify your requirements” is really good advice here. How much do you care about: - climate - schools - transportation - proximity to a big city - red state / blue state / purple state - time zone Etc etc etc. Be more specific
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Governments are just mafias with better PR.
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
How do 7 and 4 work together? If the reward for staking is fixe at 5%, what keeps the issuance rate from being net positive?
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
> I'm less concerned about the current state of the code, and far more concerned with how easily I can change the state of the code without incident. This is great, it’s the most concise definition of clean code I can think of: how
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
You are providing an excellent example of the fact that in a business context, good code means “successfully meeting business objectives at acceptable cost” But there is another context in which we might evaluate code, something like, “how
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Totally feel you on the desire to help your parents take better care of themselves. Both my parents are much further along the aging process than they ought to be; my dad is 67 and in a memory unit. My mom is in bad shape as well. The main
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by MarkPNeyer 4y ago
Computerized societies are still limited by their resources. We are all seeing now the effects of a society that thinks it can print money without ruining its money supply.
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by MarkPNeyer 5y ago
Faster transportation technology can lower the cost of moving. If you can travel 600mph reliably and cheaply, you can move 200 miles from your job and still enjoy a 20 minute commute. Families could relocate to a shared community without pe

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