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by csallen 5y ago
What about unexpected events, like getting sick, or getting stuck at an event for too long, or being distracted by relative, etc?
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by csallen 5y ago
I see stories regularly of engineers who know very little, yet get hired and paid huge sums to fuck around for years and coast while staying under the radar. It happens at every level. It's turtles all the way down.
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by csallen 5y ago
> While at the same time, people who come in as "headline" hires from external are given not nearly such scrutiny and instead get $Ms and hiring bonuses and directorships… Strict standards for the masses, bonuses for the leade
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by csallen 5y ago
Our obsession with non-obvious advice stems from our base addiction to novelty. For good reason, pathways in our brain become myelinated and more efficient the more often we use them, to the point where we can process well-worn thoughts alm
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by csallen 5y ago
You're right, let me address your reasoning. > ordinary people have an obligation to pay rent, and otherwise buy resources from the previous generation of humans, who allocated nature before they were born; so they have an obligati
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by csallen 5y ago
> Wealth represents owed labor That's the flawed assumption you're making. Wealth does not just come from labor. It largely comes from technology. Technology provides leverage. It's not uncommon that a single person toda
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by csallen 5y ago
I think you have some flawed assumptions. 1. Wealth doesn't require a lot of labor to prop it up, especially not in an increasingly technological world where digital products enable infinite copies at no marginal cost, where code can &
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by csallen 5y ago
Sure, but a big wealth divide does not imply ossification, it just means it's a longer path to get to the top. You can have a big divide and still have mobility.
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by csallen 5y ago
No, I'm saying that there's always going to be some level of wealth that's difficult to achieve. We can all pull a number out of thin air that's just super high, that's tough to imagine people in the bottom 20% co
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by csallen 5y ago
12% of Americans struggle from food insecurity. By definition, 20% of Americans are in the top quintile. I'm with you, I want that first number to be as close to 0% as possible. But it's mathematically untrue that there are dozens
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by csallen 5y ago
> Why should 1 out of 5 people belong to a group so wealthy that saying mobility is difficult should be considered problematic? Why is it a bad thing that so many people are so wealthy? The more people who belong to the so-wealthy-
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by csallen 5y ago
I think you have it backwards, or at least you're missing half of the equation. The influencers are also valuable to Twitter, not just the other way around.
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by csallen 5y ago
Not sure why your comment reply to mine got flagged, but I can't respond to it, so will respond here. 1. You can get around this trivially, by simply either (1) looking at transactions originating from the node that distributes degrees
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by csallen 5y ago
1. You misunderstand how NFTs work. They are proof, because anything on the blockchain can be easily traced back to the original distributor, which in this case would be the university. Thats why it's called a blockCHAIN -- you can eas
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by csallen 5y ago
1. The NFT degree actually could still be useful for proving that you were accepted to the college and that you graduated. Not every entity cares if the college subsequently revoked your degree, and not every entity will check. 2. Other &qu
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by csallen 5y ago
The QR code does not get you everything an NFT gets you and more. It gets you significantly less. NFTs are stored on blockchains, which are distributed databases, which anyone can read from. Those serve as public APIs, basically. That mea
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by csallen 5y ago
In your example, who cares if the university has a centralized master record of the degrees they choose to recognize? If they choose to tell everyone on earth that the degree they gave me was baloney or false or was revoked, that's the
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by csallen 5y ago
Thanks, and I appreciate your thoughtful response! - With the Reddit example, you're pointing out how NFTs and digital property shines in comparison to physical property. Specifically, you can trace the history of any NFT or token on t
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by csallen 5y ago
I guess I don't understand your point. Are you trying to say that QR codes are a replacement for NFTs? Because I can list dozens of things that NFTs can do that QR either can't do, or would be much clunkier to do.
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by csallen 5y ago
Au contraire, Meta already announced that they'll be supporting NFTs, and so has Twitter. Meta wants to build a metaverse, a goal which has no chance of success if they try to wall it off and prevent portability of data and information
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by csallen 5y ago
QR codes aren't digital, they're physical. The purpose of a QR code is for physical entities (scanners, cell phone cameras) to be able to read digital information. Compare to an NFT, whose purpose is for digital entities (apps&#x2
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by csallen 5y ago
> Why do you use cases need a blockchain at all? Your example is one of a physical good. Of course you don't need an NFT to display a card physically. But what if you want to display it digitally? Your best option at this case is
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by csallen 5y ago
I don't fully understand your logic. Are you saying that theft will prevent the adoption of this technology? People get shit stolen in the real world, and in the current implementation of the internet all the time. What happens when yo
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by csallen 5y ago
When it comes to innovation, it's a mistake to assume big incumbents must lead the way. It's called disruptive innovation for a reason -- because incumbents who refuse to change often get disrupted. We've seen this time and t
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by csallen 5y ago
> What problem does Bitcoin (Or blockchain, if you prefer, I'll take either answer), solve? I'll bite. Currently, digital goods are relatively useless, which disincentivizes their creation and usage. NFTs change this, by maki
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by csallen 5y ago
Among numerous other relevant differences, Biden has been president for longer than Trump was while COVID-19 was actually at meaningful levels in the US, so it's disingenuous to compare total death counts.
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by csallen 5y ago
It helps to understand that life is about much more than your career or material success. Really internalize that idea. It's counterintuitive, because it feels so certain that hitting ProfessionalGoalX will make you permanently happy.
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by csallen 5y ago
(SPOILERS) Was the point of the sophon meddling to make the scientists commit suicide? I thought the point was to simply prevent the gathering of experimental evidence, which would stymie progress. The scientist suicides were just an uninte
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by csallen 5y ago
> 4. This it he big one for me: I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale. Genuine question: Don't we already trust governments to do all of the abov
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by csallen 5y ago
> In 2018, Warren Buffett had a net worth of $84 billion. The effective tax rate on his mountain of wealth? 0.006%—orders of magnitude lower than the tax rates paid by most middle-class families. What tax rate do middle-class families

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