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by chillacy 6y ago
> very very very very very basic intersectionism I'd be curious how many people subscribe to both intersectionalism and rationalism, I suspect it's very hard to do. I recently read an interesting take on this from Philip Telock
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by chillacy 6y ago
Don’t you think HN harbors a larger percentage of people who were more likely to be early adopters of crypto (and possibly crypto millionaires by now)?
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by chillacy 6y ago
I noticed they also get harder on a VPN and I encounter more of them with non-chrome browsers.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The details of the competition aren't available yet (what's the scoring criteria?) but one would presume that planting trees is a viable candidate.
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by chillacy 6y ago
There is so much blogspam and SEO gaming going on now that google results are very low quality for any topic where there's money to be made.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yea this. "people given the same opportunities will be capable of achieving" leaves out the difference in time spent. On the one hand, I don't know anyone who has put in thousands of hours and not been a decent programmer. On
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by chillacy 6y ago
There are things called Income Sharing Agreements that in theory better align the incentives of lenders and students.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> militant activism via buying stock as a means to sticking it to the man. > beginning of another stock market crash Hmm sounds like it's working then.. Going off of the resentment against the 'elites' in wsb comments t
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by chillacy 6y ago
I mean, he literally just said that money is a construct, and maybe implied that fundamental value is too, which is sort of a reductive argument, but going from that to "market manipulation" and "there should be no real rules
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by chillacy 6y ago
I was more pointing out that even though "More often than not, the calls will expire worthless." is true, the quote refers to the fact that buyers of calls have limited defined risk while sellers of naked call options have unlimit
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is some of the oldest stuff in the book in terms of human psychology: how to create group beliefs, how to punish defectors, etc. I think it might work surprisingly well, given the rise of populist movements in the past few years.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I heard this comment at 12k and now I'm hearing it at 35k, I think it's worth being honest that nobody knows the future and if we did know where the top is, we'd short it (which you can with DeFi now from my understanding).
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's probably a little undervalued at $5 a share if you strongly believe that Ryan Cohen and his buddies from Chewy can turn the company around into a digital first company, then project big future revenue growth. Whether it actually w
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by chillacy 6y ago
1. Book value: how much you could get by liquidating all the assets 2. Discounted cash flow: how much revenue this business is expected to make in the next N years 3. Dividends I will grant that multiples vary wildly by industry, but in the
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don't see anything in the parent comment that would imply that they were "okay with market manipulation" and "if value isn't real there should be no rules".
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by chillacy 6y ago
Ryan Cohen from Chewy just joined GameStop, so it's probably not true that they're going to continue their current strategy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2021/01/11/can-ryan-...
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by chillacy 6y ago
They say selling call options is "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller": most of the time you collect premium, and then occasionally you get run over by a steamroller. This is the steamroller.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Afaik the US military used to mandate a buzzcut for new recruits that was recently dropped because it causes a lot of issues for black recruits (curly hair).
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by chillacy 6y ago
Just reminds me that Clay Shirky forsaw these issues back in 2003 in his writings A Group is its Own Worst Enemy: > People who work on social software are closer in spirit to economists and political scientists than they are to people ma
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by chillacy 6y ago
* $50MM loan The key distinction being that loan will need to be repaid. > The initial $50M in funding was a loan, not a donation, from Brian Acton to the new nonprofit Signal Technology Foundation. By the end of 2018, the loan had incre
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by chillacy 6y ago
I read it too after reading Kevin Kelly's analysis in What Technology Wants. I recall it was very meandering, not particularly well supported, and from what I understand, not very novel either. In retrospect, if Ted Kaczynski thought t
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by chillacy 6y ago
The search for a universal measurement of value (or even "positive value for society") has not yielded any results afaik, so some people are going to disagree based on their own morals.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> 1) you cannot control the world around you It's definitely not either/or, sometimes you can change the world a little bit by making a post that says "please be nice". Or the way I see it: be prepared to step in shit
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think there is an important distinction between censorship done by the government and done by companies, at least in the US. Companies (usually) have competition, but you can't really switch your federal government as easily as you c
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by chillacy 6y ago
iOS has an option to wipe itself after 10 incorrect passcode entries. There are lots of warnings, I think most people get the idea that this is opt-in.
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by chillacy 6y ago
In lieu of raising taxes to claw it back, I hope it at least phases out so there's less of an incentive to game your way towards eligibility. I think Yang understands this, but it would otherwise create yet another welfare trap.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Sometimes I think Yang is too good for politics: he's smart (and surrounds himself with smart ideas) and from everything I've seen, a very genuine person. That said the appeals of his campaign hinged on policies that worked nation
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is a fact many take for granted: the association between government jobs and inefficiency is not an inherent part of government as much as a reflection of the fact that nobody with options is going to choose a job which pays far less.
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by chillacy 6y ago
iMessage pulls this off though, afaik iMessage does this by having the sender encrypt for each recipient device.
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by chillacy 6y ago
If you're hinting that what is legal is not necessarily right, it seems odd to fall back to this position when the original comment about the 1st and 5th amendment are legal, not moral. Instead of just mentioning the 1st and 5th amendm

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