MrPatan

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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   There is no global "value", there is no global "worth". There is bid price, ask price, and last sale price. Do they indicate "value" to the specific people making those transactions, bids and asks? Sure. Does
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   Are there any wireless split keyboards? Google only finds split-but-still-attached keyboards, I want two independent elements, both wireless. Is there such a thing?
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   > the IRS can’t go challenge the people and ask where they got the money to give to you Isn't that what the IRS very much does? You're moving the risk to your "friends". Or more likely, to a bunch of mules you found o
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   Sure, sure, luck. But the difference between getting a great hand and playing it right or wrong is not luck. Some people want to conflate it. Don't let them. Don't let them compare the trust-fund kid who built a business to the
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   Concrete innovation doesn't have a great track record
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   > But vey far away, no question of it physically coming here If you can see them far away it doesn't mean they are not also close by and you can't see them. You should update "there are aliens close by" to a much high
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   Do you have to show your papers when you board a bus?
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   by MrPatan 4y ago

   They built an institution and it got marched through
9. 189.▲
   by MrPatan 4y ago

   Afraid of PR pieces posing as news? Get over it
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    What do people get out of this paper? That banks can create as much money as they want, without limit? Or that, even if the bank has a hard limit to how much they can loan out to the amount they hold in reserves in the central bank, what co
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    > what else are they supposed to do with gaps in knowledge? Not saying anything about it, or saying "I don't know what that's about" sound like OK choices to me.
12. 192.▲
    by MrPatan 4y ago

    AI is replacing artists like CAD replaced arhcitects
13. 193.▲
    by MrPatan 4y ago

    And the study was produced by overschooled people
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    JavaScript doesn't make websites shitty, people make websites shitty.
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Scratch the surface a little bit and the marxist envy comes out quite easily. From "Green new deal" type stuff, where technical solutions don't count because rich people would still be richer than poor people or something, to
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Because we know it's not going to happen any time soon, and when it does happen it won't matter only to devs, that's the singularity. You'll find out because you're now an enlightened immortal being, or you won&#x27
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Oh, it's clear, except that it's also part of the campaign to make it seem as if FTX customers are partly to blame, because everybody knows that if you lend money to the bank, the bank lends it out. But FTX is not a bank, and had
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Losing money is legal. Stealing money is not. I have a hard time believing she didn't know where the money she was losing came from, though.
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Wasn't it 500 million?
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    I think the relevant difference here may be how there is a bit of a cold war with China.
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Or maybe the NYT tried, but failed.
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Stealing securities you're supposed to store for me is a crime. Stealing non-securities you're supposed to store for me is also a crime.
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    So many thousands of words
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    In other words, if they used Bitcoin Iranian women would have access to 25% of their money, instead of 0%.
25. 205.▲
    by MrPatan 4y ago

    [redacted] fixes this
26. 206.▲
    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Blame Canada
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Totally agree. Also you wouldn't see any eggs, and you wouldn't be making any conclusions based on seeing any eggs because it would be your neurons un-firing that would cause your eyes to emit photons at the egg. Wouldn't it
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Didn't FTX invest 500M in Sequoia later?
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    Doesn't matter. They could do it, and they are not really a friendly state, if not in a hot war currently. Why would you hand them the capability?
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    by MrPatan 4y ago

    We're watching the great filter happen before our eyes... and I'm here having a glass and loving it. What does that say about me and about the whole species? We will find out