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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I find it crazy that Google considers Anthropic to be worth almost 10% of Google itself (350B valuation mentioned in the article). Anthropic gets traction but has no moat, no infrastructure and relatively small team working for it. I feel f
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I was responding to this argument: >>the real danger of insider trading are company insiders being incentivised to damage the company to make a quick buck. Damaging the company is illegal as well. Making things illegal doesn't ma
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
How is it different than shorting or buying put options and then damaging the company? The tools are already there.
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
For endurance training the main benefit of heat training is raising blood volume. Lungs are not a limiter. Developing stroke volume I imagine requires much higher intensity but that's just a wild guess based on my limited understanding
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Thank you for your perspective. As the beginnings were tough (sleeping outside) can you briefly describe how Spain helped you along the way? From your description it sounds you got there mainly by your own resolve so I am curious why you ar
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Imo USA is much better than EU (and especially countries like Spain) on this one. I live in EU, my family (both immigrants from different countries) live in USA. I don't think it's comparable. In USA if you are somewhat smart and
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Same goes for sport betting and yet here we are. People like to bet. They willingly bet on things they have guaranteed disadvantage on (casino games like roulette, slots etc.). People also drink pure poison (alcohol), smoke pure poison (cig
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
As Antropic is actively using it for marketing campaign and lobbying for regulations that favor them showing they don't have anything special is very valuable.
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I don't think Spain has such amazing quality of life if you are not already set. It's very tough for young people. It doesn't reward hard work and education. If you have your nice house in a nice place and a good government j
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I spend a lot of time every year in Spain. VPNs work but sometimes you are forget about those Internet outages and are wondering why some services suddenly stop working. Some of them stop working in mysterious ways as well (for example if t
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Yup, there is a lot of value in having universal language and English is the only one with a chance (in Western world anyway). Imo EU should mandate English as 2nd official language for all business dealings and bureaucracy. Having many lan
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
You don't have "your MEP" in most EU countries. They don't care about you because their loyalty is to the party, not the voter. They need to be with good standing with the party to even get on the list. There are so many
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
It's Spain man. Nothing will happen, maybe they will call their buddies in La Liga to ask what's up if the complains pile up and then will ignore all of them if they are assured everything works as expected.
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Speculating about it using arguments like "he also uses C++ and has used words popular in those circles" isn't though or at least shouldn't be. "Hey this guy probably had an access to a few billion USD worth of btc,
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Even if he is Satoshi he might not be a billionaire or rich at all.
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I was thinking along the same lines. Isn't it just doxxing? Going deep into someone's online history and making hypothesis about who they are in real life, then publishing their name and what they do?
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I think you are wrong but it's hard to guess what would would happen in the past. Meanwhile a lot of unpopular policies are implemented right now. You are hoping "good minority" will get its way ahead of "evil majority&q
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
I find it much easier to live with a decision knowing people around me made it. As it is the strongest lobby wins which usually doesn't contain me. In a world where people vote on issues I can at least move to somewhere where people th
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by bluecalm 6mo ago
Imagine we had real democracy where people vote on issues. Speed limits? Vote once every 7 years or so on it and be done with it. Same for abortion laws, drug laws, gambling laws. Have a debate, vote, come back to it in 7 years if there is
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
You need enough customers to make it profitable at reasonably low expense ratio.
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
ARK funds has cult like following but then again they are a typical high beta player who outperforms in hot markets and heavily underperforms in cold ones. Fees are high. The CEO (CIO) is a women who looks for investment advice in the Bible
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
You have very convenient macros. If there is something you want to do in places you are going to mark first then you can just execute it right there instead. If it's just one edit you just do it right there without macro and use the do
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
Rock climbing is one sport known for small differences in performance between men and women. This is unlike about any other sport out there where a difference is huge (the worst male aspiring semi-pro is often better than a top woman).
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
>>AI is a remixer; it remixes all known ideas together. It won't come up with new ideas I always found this argument very weak. There isn't that much truly new anyway. Creativity is often about mixing old ideas. Computers ca
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
My experience is the opposite. People blast music or other sounds on flights all the time. In Europe it's also very common to smoke in public, including beaches, restaurants, areas around building entrances. Literring is also very com
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
Like which one? 2008 crisis was caused by reckless lending by banks as a result of silly regulation (government guaranteeing loans), implicit promise of bailouts and you could argue corruption. What does it have to do with the stock marke
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
There are multiples examples that are easy to see once you realise presenting information has a cost. For example having daily morning 2 hour long stand ups provide more information for everyone involved. It's also worse for productivi
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
It's not disconnected from reality. You just don't understand it. If the stock market didn't exist you would have less opportunities to invest in well priced companies and people would be manipulated in investing in opaque, o
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
Yeah I mentioned it because I have semi-permanent home there. Luckily we left before the war started. I am just getting government SMS with warnings now.
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by bluecalm 7mo ago
For me it's not about politics at all. Just the thought of going through TSA and immigration is enough to discourage me, especially when I can hop on a plane to Spain, Italy or Cyprus and face 0 inconveniences along the way.

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