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by dvh1990 6y ago
You can probably tell that I'm a Taleb fan, but it seems that whatever we have in place for doing the same thing is rotten to the core. What happens when we get hit 2x or 4x as hard as 2008? The way financial systems are structured tod
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Bitcoin is insurance for when the banks go bust.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Bitcoin's true use case hasn't showed itself yet because it is uniquely suited to help us in case of a select few low probability and extreme scenarios, aka black swan events which we can't predict, but will probably happen.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Bitcoin is a good thing. It's a simple financial system with very few rules that can serve as an anti-fragile backbone for much bigger systems on top of it. Instead of looking for ways to curtail it (because that ALWAYS works, right?)
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by dvh1990 6y ago
You are judging Israel by American standards. The US is a country of immigrants whose national pride is not based on actual nationality. Israel is meant to be more like Japan, not like the US: A country for Jews. Expecting what is essential
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Israel is an important US-funded outpost in the Middle East. Doing that goes against US interests.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Israel can easily get disrupted if they let up. Right now, maybe you're right. But that can change.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
I'm not American so I can't know, but how much police presence is "right" in your opinion? Surely no police sounds like a bad thing, doesn't it?
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Machines of Loving Grace(medium.com)
1 points by dvh1990 6y ago|0 comments
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by dvh1990 6y ago
Pieter's businesses are impressive, but IMO not using React nowadays is actually harder than using it. Building stuff vanilla takes more time, effort and knowledge.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
No one claimed GPT3 is an AGI. Why does this article carry such a dismissive and disappointed tone? Perhaps the authors were offended that they were not given access and wanted to "expose" GPT3's flaws? We should celebrate GP
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by dvh1990 6y ago
It could be a probe that scans solar systems. I like that idea.
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by dvh1990 6y ago
You can be loyal to truth or loyal to profits, never both.
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Notebook Interfaces Are the Future(medium.com)
2 points by dvh1990 6y ago|1 comments
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by dvh1990 6y ago
More info here: https://medium.com/@danielblank/djitsu-the-problem-with-web-...
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by dvh1990 7y ago
- War and Peace - Life changing book for me. Tolstoy is a genius. You'll find a piece of yourself in every character, and maybe even get an answer to some profound questions. - Dune - Came for the sci-fi, stayed for the politics. - A S
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by dvh1990 7y ago
The purpose of a dictionary is to define words. A word with a thousand definitions is not defined. It is the opposite of defined. If a word has several diverging meanings, perhaps it's time to create more words.