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by fairity 6y ago
It's impossible to time the top, but one thing you can say with certainty is that eventually the price of these stocks will come back down (because the underlying firm is clearly not worth its market cap). Hence, the smartest bet here
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> What has historically happened is just that the company goes bankrupt, the bodies defrost in random warehouses and is finally disposed of in less-than-respectable fashion. Source? Based on my research, no cryonic institution has failed
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Can you provide a source? Thank you.
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> One phenomenon I've always noticed about workaholics is that they THINK they are being more productive, but often times they are just spending more time spinning their wheels. >The effect it has on their mood/interpersonal
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by fairity 6y ago
I'd try not to beat yourself up over this too much. As you've described, you had little to no control over the situation. In cases like this, I think it's often actually healthy to focus on things you do control (so long as
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by fairity 6y ago
Sure, OC's situation could be categorized as escapism, technically, but it doesn't sound like the unhealthy kind. Escapism is only unhealthy if you're participating in the activity at the detriment of your long term fulfillm
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by fairity 6y ago
IMO, the healthier coping mechanism is to realize that the path you take in life will never be the most optimal. We all make mistakes, and if all we care about is extrinsic achievement, we'll be either steeped in regret (or perhaps, b
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by fairity 6y ago
> So it isn't just a telephone company that allows you to make phone calls, it's a service that makes an editorial choice about what they show you. Understood. Perhaps there's a more apt analogy. Let's say there exi
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by fairity 6y ago
I'd love Facebook to do more to prevent misuse of its platform, but I don't see why I should blame Facebook for Myanmar violence. Facebook at its core is a tool that helps people spread information and opinions - not too different
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> The more of these things you do, you become orders of magnitude more impactful than a pure coder. Your job satisfaction/pay are also a function of how unique your skillset is. With this in mind, increasing your impact (through sof
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Years, of course :).
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> I can't see why the majority of actual people in those places would look at the Bay Area, or Seattle, and say "yes, let's duplicate what happened to people like me in those cities". Well, wealth gets spread around s
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by fairity 6y ago
The song he played during the bombing was "Downtown" by Petula Clark. It's a happy song whose lyrics basically talk about going downtown to escape loneliness. His song choice and the fact that he made efforts to evacuate the
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by fairity 6y ago
> We have to solve this kind of problem at the human level. As technology accelerates, it's going to become easier and easier for a crazy person to inflict massive damage. With a knife, you can only kill a few people. With a gun,
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I think it's possible but unlikely first and foremost bc FB has financial incentive to create a fair advertising ecosystem. Since FB sells inventory by auction, they make more money when there's more competition. There's a
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by fairity 6y ago
3-5 years ago, the most effective way to design campaigns was by micro-targeting audiences. That is, you would have thousands of adsets, and each adset would target a small slice of your target audience. The theory behind micro-targeting w
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by fairity 6y ago
Facebook's ad inventory is sold by auction. Inaccurate targeting isn't a big deal as long as all advertisers are treated the same. Furthermore, granular targeting is no longer the way to scale on Facebook. Therefore, inaccurate
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by fairity 6y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. Your question is valid. That said, I've yet to find solid evidence that supports a substantial rise in suicide rates. The only source I found suggested the opposite: https://www.bmj.com
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by fairity 6y ago
I've heard this argument many times over. While it's certainly plausible, I've yet to see real statistics supporting the claim that there's been a significant rise in suicides / drug overdoses during the pandemic.
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> The outrage stems from the fact that they doubled down on it after the problem was pointed out This might be the reason you're outraged, but most outraged people here don't even know the administration doubled down on their p
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by fairity 6y ago
Agreed that society should be more critical of mistakes that put people's lives at risk. But, this decision scores fairly low by that measure. If I had to guess, 0.00001 residents would have died due to this error. There are many mo
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by fairity 6y ago
Well, we're all agreed that this was a dumb mistake that could've been easily avoided. And, the admins should own up to it and implement a QA process to avoid a second occurrence. That said, I think the reason this story is getti
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by fairity 6y ago
I think most people are misunderstanding the likely root cause. > An algorithm was used to assign its first allotment of the vaccine. The algorithm prioritized health care workers at highest risk for COVID infections, along with factors
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> According to an email sent by a chief resident to other residents, Stanford's leaders explained that an algorithm was used to assign its first allotment of the vaccine. The algorithm was said to have prioritized those health care
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by fairity 6y ago
For me, it's largely a question of whether there's reason to relocate my business. If the latest relocation trend is the real deal and there's a sustainable pool of talent, I'll strongly consider it. I suspect many oth
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> I think it's interesting that people forget anything network based tends to unwind just as fast as it winds up. I think that largely depends on market dynamics. For systems that benefit from strong, direct network effects, the vas
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Since cities thrive based on network effects, my question is: did everyone in past exoduses move to the same location? If not, is that not a good reason to believe this time will be different? Smart, ambitious people tend to congregate, an
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> It's interesting how many different ways there are NOT to be earnest: to be cleverly cynical, to be superficially brilliant, to be conspicuously virtuous, to be cool, to be sophisticated, to be orthodox, to be a snob, to bully, to
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by fairity 6y ago
You seem to be making an unfounded assumption. It's entirely possible GP has a balanced view that accounts for both Airbnb's positive and negative impact.
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> Why hadn’t they given up? As a money-making scheme, this was pretty lousy: a year’s work and all they had to show for it was a binder full of maxed-out credit cards. [It was] because of the experience they’d had as the first hosts. Whi

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