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by bob33212 5y ago
Casinos have existed for a long time and are known to be a place where a lot of people loses money, but that doesn't stop others from showing up and losing more.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Disillusionment is real. Before you have achieved success you think that it is really important to succeed. Once you have succeeded, or see other people succeed, you realize that some of the happiest people are not "successful".
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by bob33212 5y ago
Uninhabitable parts of Arizona have been made habitable already.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Elections are markets. Markets of ideas.
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by bob33212 5y ago
If you Google "statistical anomalies and fraud" you will see several examples of where public data pointed to corruption without hard evidence. ( Madoff, Putin election )
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by bob33212 5y ago
For the past 8 weeks it has traded in a 10% band. Why have none of the events or momentum moved the price by more than 10%. You can make the case that Tesla selling some wasn't a big deal. But with everything happening over the past 2
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by bob33212 5y ago
I'm the furthest thing from a technical analysis expert of price movement, but the BTC chart looks manipulated to me. I assumed at first that it was just people trading BTC between themselves to move the market, but this theory makes m
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by bob33212 5y ago
A major talking point of the pro bitcoin people is that it is "permissionless and decentralized". And it is a good way to bypass governmental interference. They usually talk about the FED in this capacity, but it also applies to d
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by bob33212 5y ago
Mint coins so that they can be used to check the status. Then trade the coins.
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by bob33212 5y ago
We are entering a Post Scarcity Economy. A lot of fiction books write about how this plays out. Regardless of what happens a lot of economic theory becomes less relevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_econ
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by bob33212 5y ago
The freedom that will be provided by a "decentralized database" is commonly overestimated by pro crypto crowd. It is true that the government cannot edit the ledger. But they can take your things and put you in jail.
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by bob33212 5y ago
You should watch some of his early Tesla reviews. He was pretty negative on them. It wasn't until he dove deep to really understand all of Tesla that he realized how well things are going.
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by bob33212 5y ago
This is a great essay. I follow similar logic when assessing bitcoin. 1. Listen to as many viewpoints as possible 2. Remove the people who are not domain experts 3. Remove the people who are blinded by their own financial interests or ego.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Yes, but 100km isn't very valuable as compared to 10km. Pressure is already low at 10km.
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by bob33212 5y ago
You are right, I am in country where there are enforceable laws and regulations. Maybe some developing countries can skip some of the legal and regulatory infrastructure and use software to solve those problems, similarly to how those count
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by bob33212 5y ago
I appreciate this as I'm also trying to keep an open mind and understand what this means for the future. So far there are only two arguments that I understand: 1. Libertarianism: The world will be better if we remove the government and
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by bob33212 5y ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Dr. King explains this far better that I can. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/10/21/arc-mor... .
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by bob33212 5y ago
I don't blame them. If you are offered an executive role at a successful company because you can help with PR, it may be good for your career. I don't see how that is any different than someone with an climate science degree joini
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by bob33212 5y ago
I left a job because management decided to take on a customer that was going to be a disaster to work with. This could be happening here. If you were the lone iOS dev you would be on call 24/7 until they hired more people. Why not take
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by bob33212 5y ago
I think a lot of people have trouble empathizing with owner's perspective. What if a tree fell and knocked out power to your house. And the power company showed up to fix the power lines. Would it be OK for the workers to take a break
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Bitcoin could crash at any time. They need to hedge against that.
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by bob33212 5y ago
I wish people spent more time on Facebook. Is that what FB employees think? Or are they like the rest of us and think fuck this guy, but I'll take his money.
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by bob33212 5y ago
Then don't write any dates down. It is a basic communication skill to avoid sending out a spreadsheet with dates on it when you know those dates are not expected to be met. Someone reading it is going to assume that there is a problem
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by bob33212 5y ago
At least he wasn't slowing anyone down. I have been in several meetings with "Project Managers" who waste everyone's time asking for dates and estimates for their spreadsheet even after I have explained that this is an i
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by bob33212 5y ago
Lets say that somehow the only thing these people knew about a Tesla was that tweet and they bought a Tesla based off of that Tweet and someone else enabled autosteer (beta), which is off by default on a new Tesla. And some how they buckled
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by bob33212 5y ago
This is just VCs trying to corner the market on promising startups. If A16Z takes 20%+ ownership in all reasonable startups even at high prices they may still come out ahead when one of those is the next FB. They are blocking smaller VCs ou
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by bob33212 5y ago
Historically, there have been a wide range of items used in barter and markets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency#Early_currency . Some of those like livestock depreciated in value very quickly since they literally
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by bob33212 5y ago
The difference is that with football every single week you get to see the score and watch the defense and offense separately. So it is very obvious that your awesome offence didn't make up for your lack of a good defense. With a startu
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by bob33212 6y ago
I rarely use facbook but when I do they show me some woodworking projects. I have never said anything about woodworking or joined any wordworking groups on facebook. They are just making a guess that someone like me would find those inter
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by bob33212 6y ago
Sure, people do have to buy food to live, but that isn't the point. Just replace "less valuable over time" with "not much more valuable over time" in my comment. The point isn't that gold went up or down by 1%

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