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by deltree7 5y ago
He lived till 98. At some age cut-off point, shouldn't we be thankful that he lived so long?. If you consider the first 25 as useless/building stage of life and the next 35 as contributing/productive part. This man lived anot
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by deltree7 5y ago
Immigration and Travel too
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Huh? From Peter Thiel to Bill Gates to Steve Jobs to Zuckerburg, most billionaires don't push the college propaganda and have shown/encouraged path without college education. It's only the pseudo-social scientists who can&#x2
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by deltree7 5y ago
Money is a natural concept that roughly describes how much value you created. Eschewing money on the outset seems taking the high-road, but from a value creation and compounding perspective, it is pretty dumb. If you create value, you bette
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by deltree7 5y ago
Yes, Gold is definitely the closest asset class that aligns with Bitcoin. Not a pyramid scheme
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by deltree7 5y ago
Then he shouldn't advise others to "Quit your Job". It should have been titled "I Quit My Job"
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by deltree7 5y ago
If you are banking on activism to stop/start anything, you are in for a huge disappointment. Profits / Self benefits are the most powerful, natural forces of the world. If you want any positive changes, you should harness them rat
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by deltree7 5y ago
No. We are talking about thresholds. He has advantages that may be applicable to < 5% of the population. If a person quit their job being a short, brown, woman and found happiness and people willing to help them, it is more likely to be
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by deltree7 5y ago
Note: Author is a Tall, White, STEM educated dude living in America. So, his experiences is very specific to his skills, his reach and societal perceptions about him. It's like getting dating tips from an attractive person or money adv
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So does Amazon, Apple, IBM and hundreds of other companies
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Enron, Lehman Brothers and similar companies would have easily thrived in the 2020s. Up until 2015, there was really a true cost of capital. Investors wanted to see real products, real cashflow, else you head straight to bankruptcy. 2015+ c
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by deltree7 5y ago
Star performers will look at the maximum, not the minimum
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Do you have a peer reviewed scientific paper that shows any of it? Do you even know what Growth is? Since you are in HN, I'm guessing you also know the 2nd law of Thermodynamics?
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by deltree7 5y ago
So, the Earth Overshoot Day people know exactly the model of the Universe that they can accurately measure (let alone predict) all these things? Where is your 'scientific thinking' in questioning all these things?
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How did you arrive at the 'carrying capacity' of the planet?
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$50,000 - $450,000.
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what about emacs org-mode?
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Ummm No. I can create 1 million bot accounts, transfer the NFT within myself, each time bidding a high amount and eventually reaching $10,000,000 Would a new sucker bid $11 million on that? Yes. This is the true nature of NFTs. Everything a
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by deltree7 5y ago
There definitely needs to be training on how to play this. May be start off easy with easy current events and sports. Once you get a hang of it, you can definitely use for better decision making inside a corporation.
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https://www.asiaone.com/health/singapore-happiest-nation-asi... This is classic liberal ideology, pushing an imagined ideal version from the comfort of well-protected jobs and living conditions on countries who seem to
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by deltree7 5y ago
Try again, Singapore has lower suicide rates than liberal darlings Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden. Ah, you think there may be other reasons for suicide? May be weather? Try South Korea https://www.macrotrends.net/countries&
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by deltree7 5y ago
Bingo, As a policy-maker, Law Enforcement, you should be optimizing for f(Incarceration Rate) * f(Violent/Property Crime Rate) Merely focusing on Incarceration rate (which the progressives are so fixated on) is naive.
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Progressives -- Driving every moderate/independents into the hands of GOP
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Global Warming by 2-3 degress doesn't imply human extinction (or even the leading cause of deaths). That is an incredible lazy, naive and dumb take on effects of Climate Change. Human ingenuity and technology and accumulated capital of
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Facts on ground prove the point. https://taxfoundation.org/top-1-percent-pays-more-taxes-bott... Don't let your bias or brainwashing go against facts. It is inevitable that the top 1% will be bearing most of our taxes
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by deltree7 5y ago
You don't have to tax everyone for basic income. Thought Experiment: Let's say we eventually have a super robot, which can build other robots which can produce all the goods and services the humanity can consume sustainably. Now,
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Extraordinary claims need extra-ordinary proof. Humans have survived for hundreds of thousands of years, You are making the claim of their extinct in the next 50 years. The burden of proof is on you to prove that. If you make the claim that
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'existential crisis' : citation needed backed by actual model of the universe and human behavior.
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Bingo! There are <0.0001% of the population who understand transaction risk. If I pay $Cash for Goods, In a trustless network, both side of the exchange have to be instantaneous. I can never pay cryptocurrency for any item that are not v
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It's easy to calculate Co2/Mile for a given Car make/model. Essentially, it's Carbon Tax.

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