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by dvh1990 5y ago
Not sure what "paint by numbers" means in this instance, but making beats is ridiculously easy nowadays. Go listen to the top 10 singles right now. If you have a good ear you'll notice that most of the arrangements are very s
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by dvh1990 5y ago
While that may be true, I find it repulsing that somebody somewhere is charging real money for placebo effect results.
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by dvh1990 5y ago
If you know it's a placebo, it won't work. Folks, please don't buy sugar pills.
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by dvh1990 5y ago
The thing with Buddhism and perhaps any genuine spiritual practice is that the tools you acquire through working on yourself are powerful and useful, which is why secular people are drawn to yoga/meditation as "just" a practi
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by dvh1990 5y ago
You get uneasy because this is written in a very ego/control driven way. I get the feel from the text that the individual who wrote it is interested in dominion over himself and perhaps others. This is diametrically opposite to how Bud
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by dvh1990 5y ago
This isn't very different from existing forms of meditation, but the scientific/secular focus here changes things. If done for science and the discovery of truth, this practice could be a great way to bring old-school spirituality
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by dvh1990 5y ago
Then it's a UX problem. What if switching algo was like switching channels on your TV?
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by dvh1990 5y ago
There are special risks involved when relying on novel, market breaking features: Your offering will be dependent on that feature remaining available AND cost effective. If the company ups the price or removes the feature altogether then yo
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by dvh1990 5y ago
How is censorship the answer? People want to consume all types of content on social as much as possible. The answer is making all the data public and open sourcing the feed algo + allowing users to pick their preferred algo. That way, if yo
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by dvh1990 5y ago
There's a whole other side to this that is positive, because there's some truth to the phrase "The things that you own end up owning you". Maybe, just maybe, owning less things could be to our collective benefit.
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by dvh1990 5y ago
From my experience, what the writer is talking about is a transcendental experience that sounds awfully similar to what happens under psychedelics. Experiences like this are highly influenced by set, setting and expectations, and can go wro
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by dvh1990 5y ago
Well... Gotta go buy masks to hide from this. It's insane how normalized this is becoming and how dystopian we are becoming. And the trend is only accelerating.
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by dvh1990 5y ago
Just working hard was never a guarantee of anything, but when is it ever a bad idea to adopt a positive mindset about putting in the work to achieve something? It's not like that DOESN'T work? You can get pretty far if you put y
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by dvh1990 5y ago
That's one example in a very specific niche (sales), but this approach really underplays the value of being an active and present team member. But yeah, if your job is shit and you're just doing it for whatever money you are getti
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by dvh1990 5y ago
4HWW is a how-to guide to hacking capitalism as an individual, and is a case-study of itself: - Screw over your day-job if you have one - Invent a "good-enough" product to entice buyers but "shit-enough" so you can make
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by dvh1990 5y ago
The most profitable games are always a rich kid's game first and foremost, because power begets power. This doesn't mean that you don't get a shot at doing what you want. Yes, your odds as a "nobody" are lower. But
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by dvh1990 5y ago
I am simply saying that it is early to tell if Bitcoin failed in any way. Is it subject to price manipulation? Of course. But that's the result of a free and mostly unregulated market, which is inherently a good thing because it foster
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by dvh1990 5y ago
"Bitcoin launched with the stated goal of providing an alternative financial system,2 and other blockchain projects followed with all manner of lavish promises. Bitcoin failed at the stated goal (unless you count the dark net markets).
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by dvh1990 5y ago
"Such ideas are not guaranteed to work. But they don't have to be. They just have to be sufficiently good bets — to have sufficiently high expected value. And I think on average they do. I think if you bet on the entire set of imp
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by dvh1990 5y ago
Because free market is predicated on a business setting its margin to whatever works, aka the delta between what customers are willing to pay for the products and what it costs to run the business (salaries included). Workers get paid based
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by dvh1990 5y ago
1. I can dig splitting up big tech companies, that can make sense in some form. 2. But why should workers get 78% of profits? Since when is that a sensible thing to do for a company?
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by dvh1990 5y ago
Why?
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by dvh1990 6y ago
I understand your anger, but that piece of advice was meant for the kind of people that CAN afford a vacation after a startup failure. Is something wrong with that? If you can afford a vacation, you take it. If you can't, you don'
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Good article, one question: "We talked about Bitcoin for half the meeting. I asked him if he owned any, and he said no, but he tells all his clients they should own it. " If it is such a brilliant hedge, why doesn't he own an
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by dvh1990 6y ago
But this is an odd conundrum. If Ethereum is decentralized, any such change must be achieved by a vote. Circumventing such a vote is detrimental to the eco-system in the long term, wouldn't you agree?
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by dvh1990 6y ago
I don' think so. Not if you have Bitcoin to pay everyone when other things go bust.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
You wouldn't think that if you were Chinese, Syrian, Lebanonian, and many other states
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Of course you don't have the problem because your government is currently not oppressing you and nobody is targeting you. But if that were to change I believe you'll start appreciating Bitcoin more.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Maybe, but being a free system everybody is more than welcome to build something better. I'll be the first in line to hop on.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Yes. I'm talking about financial collapse, not destruction of infra.

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