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by dsacco 9y ago
I can understand why you're torn, but - speaking here as someone who owns such a watch - people vastly overestimate the Veblen status potential of expensive watches, which is unfortunate because that can lead them to be quick to judge
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by dsacco 9y ago
No, and there isn't really value in its timekeeping either. It's designed as a form of art, not for practical utility.
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's better to think of these sorts of watches as art. You don't own a watch like this because you have no other recourse for accurately telling the time. You own it because you appreciate it, like a Rothko or Pollock, or a Barcel
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by dsacco 9y ago
I own a watch from a brand of comparable quality and complexity expertise as Vacheron Constantin. I don't use it display purchasing power - I almost never actually wear it because I like to wear my Apple Watch most of the time. When I
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by dsacco 9y ago
> If humans pretend to be more intelligent than animals Sorry, what? Humans are only capable of conceiving of religion and destroying the planet because they are more intelligent than other animals. I'm not a religious person, b
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by dsacco 9y ago
Wealthy enough to really never work again? Yes, I'd absolutely "retire." I'd still "work", in the sense that, say, angel investors work, or people own real estate; I'd also still write software in my free
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by dsacco 9y ago
> A blockchain is necessary for decentralization. Every blockchain initiative being explored by financial institutions is not decentralized. Unless you're tossing out the banking system to directly transact with other parties usin
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's not a technical problem, especially because every blockchain proposal for financial institutions is centralized. Until you hit competitive transaction throughput on a blockchain while retaining its decentralized features, it doe
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by dsacco 9y ago
Greed appears to me to be fundamentally intrinsic to human behavior and culture. I don't think it's realistic to try to get rid of it. Rather I think it would be more effective to use it as an incentive and actively limit its ne
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by dsacco 9y ago
Maybe that's enough of a reward for you, but personally I work because I like to get paid. The fact that I enjoy my work immensely is just a happy accident. There are things I enjoy doing even more than my work - much more so! - and if
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by dsacco 9y ago
But why use a blockchain instead of a SQL database? What concrete benefits does it provide and why do we want those benefits? It's just a data structure, and it's a great one at that, but I really don't see how it fits here.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thats's not perfectly illustrated at all...financial institutions have been capable of servicing transactions 24/7/365 for decades now. ACH just doesn't do it, and a blockchain doesn't inherently empower it more tha
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don't agree with the article's titular thesis or the rather extreme examples it uses. I attribute the majority of my career success thus far to my ability to make conversation and present my (often highly technical) ideas in an
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by dsacco 9y ago
I have an Amazon Video app natively on my LG OLED.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think the commenter is aware of collective bargaining, but probably prefers individual bargaining. It's not really about the "best interest of labor"; personally, I wouldn't work in an industry with collective bargaini
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by dsacco 9y ago
I disagree. I very often use the Socratic method, or elements of it, when I don't know much about a topic and want to passively challenge the other party's ideas without trying to convince them of an opposing view point. I do this
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think this needs to be clarified: heel striking is not okay if your feet are landing in front of your body instead of underneath it. The reason cadence is a good indication of form is because it implies to what extent your feet are fallin
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is a persistent misconception about running. You absolutely must invest the time to learn proper form (or more accurately, unlearn negative habits, because children naturally know how to run), but as an activity it is not inherentl
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm a (more or less daily) Sublime Text user, in addition to a few other editors. After reading through the thread, the developer's points seem to be rational, coherent and well-delivered. I can understand some of the frustration
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by dsacco 9y ago
Is it a problem for me to do what you say if the skittles themselves become effectively cheaper for everyone else to enjoy? What if systemic issues only happen every 10 years? Or 5 years?
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by dsacco 9y ago
How would you propose we make a more meritocratic system that doesn't allow for as much luck-based success?
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by dsacco 9y ago
But does this actually describe the current state of affairs? If not, how would we get there? That seems like a cognitive jump from people taking unequal amounts of skittles.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don't really understand how that article by the Guardian supports your thesis that, "when inequality grows, empires shrink and eventually disappear." What do you mean?
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by dsacco 9y ago
But the economy is not zero sum, like that bag. If I have a process that increases the total number of skittles in the bag, is it still unfair for me to take more skittles from it?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Why is that cheating?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Both of those subreddits are actually pretty poor mediums for "serious" discussion about quantitative finance. There's been an uptick in cryptocurrencies on each lately, and the subreddits are mostly saturated with early-care
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's about the amount of employees I'd expect, actually. You might be surprised at how many products or engineering initiatives can be accomplished by an efficient 300-500 person team.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Congratulations on losing 40 pounds! To your first point, it's great to see you say that: I see this repeated so often, yet I observe very few people actually internalizing it even when they hear it from others. The most effective and
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Security by Obscurity doesn't work. Yes it does! This meme is both widespread and incorrect. Security by obscurity is a great layer for defense in depth. The only time it's not sane is when it's used as the only method
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's a myth that open source tools are more secure than closed source tools. Use whatever tool is put out by the team with the most expertise and the least reason to do something untrustworthy (or alternatively: the most to lose). A ba

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