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by icu 4y ago
Thanks. I also evaluated Celsius (and others) but decided that I couldn't determine counterparty risk after reading their terms and conditions. In the end I stayed away because of that.
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by icu 4y ago
I exaggerate, but in the run up neighbours were telling everyone to just buy Microsoft, and everyone tech adjacent I knew was trying to make an e-commerce website. I was just graduating out of university and web dev jobs evaporated. Many
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by icu 4y ago
I kind of agree, but at the risk of being completely wrong, I think in the future central banks, or global financial institutions backed by central banks, are probably going to be the issuers of stable coins.
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by icu 4y ago
Thanks for your comment. Any chance you could please point me to the sources that constantly pointed out it wouldn't work?
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by icu 4y ago
Sure I get that, but I'm old enough to remember the .com crash carnage and people saying that the web was a total waste of time etc and look how wrong they were. I think that the future is a probability distribution, and there is a non
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by icu 4y ago
My biggest takeaway right now is to study the crypto firms and projects that are having trouble as a way to abstract what red flags to look for. For example, with Terra the abstraction was that pegs don't work as we've seen many a
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by icu 4y ago
Aren't investors really investing in the team talent to find pmf? In this case, is it practical to advise them to quit? If there's blood in the streets, it's just time to be a vampire.
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Perfectionism: Why and How to Beat It(every.to)
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by icu 4y ago
I deal with one of these 'killer problems' every day. Hard money, aka inflation, is a very important economic problem. For example, inflation forces market participant behaviour that they would have otherwise avoided. For exampl
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by icu 4y ago
The key to Plain English writing can be found in the book, "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" by Joseph M. Williams (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing). It gives you the ability to take simple ideas, and write in a
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by icu 5y ago
I never thought Russia would invade, I kept hearing the US warnings and thought it was BS. I was proved wrong, so I had to reassess my model of the world. I went to first principles... geography, history, demographics, psychology, and tri
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by icu 5y ago
Are there any online educational resources that teach how to do this?
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by icu 5y ago
I have literally said, "I in no way condone what is happening". Also, please don't start jumping to conclusions that I'm just a parrot of Russian propaganda. It shocked me that I never considered that I would see an inv
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by icu 5y ago
I completely agree about the Russian brain drain issue, and about the extreme cost of sending young Russian men (many of whom are only sons) off to die. All of it, on all sides, is a huge waste and tragedy. However, with regards to your st
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by icu 5y ago
Thank you for your comment, you are right that nuclear deterrance is important and should be factored into any military conflict. However, you've assumed that nuclear deterrence cannot be nullified, or that robots or drones (or say a
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by icu 5y ago
Before I begin to offer a different view, please allow me to say that I in no way condone what is happening. So why is Putin invading Ukraine now? There are several logical reasons if you understand Russian history, geography, psychology a
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by icu 5y ago
This will force me to migrate to Ubuntu. I've been growing more and more reluctant upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 because of all the surveillance but I will never use an OS that embeds ads.
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by icu 5y ago
I hear what you're saying but my conclusion was that I'm never going to be able to protect my son and all I can do was prepare him in stages as best as possible. Change is inevitable... and in the past I used nostalgia as a mental
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by icu 5y ago
I don't think you're way off the mark, or being a "grumps" on the subject. Young minds can be heavily influenced which is why many societies regulate experiences that may cause harm. I'm sure there are children who
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by icu 5y ago
I was really hoping that the pushback on videogame gambling by minors would gain more regulatory momentum, not less. I think it's going to take longer to see regulation stick due to a lack of first hand knowledge of lootboxes by politi
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by icu 5y ago
I heard an analyst say, "All models are wrong, some are useful." After this article I've updated it to be, "All models are wrong, some are useful in certain circumstances." I would say another heuristic should be so
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by icu 5y ago
The Games Pass is such ridiculous value that my "non-gaming" partner got a Series-S with Games Pass to play MS Flight Simulator, and as an aside, to have games available to myself and our kids (it was impossible to get the Series-
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by icu 5y ago
All of the direct and indirect perpetrators. Sexual misconduct is devastating for the victims. Covering it up is part of the problem.
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by icu 5y ago
Until Bobby goes it's all corporate bs. The fish rots at the head.
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by icu 5y ago
Besides living long enough to witness mistakes that took a decade or longer to play out, what I do is use the cognitive bias codex by designhacks.co. My heuristic is: Is the subject matter important? If yes, is the cost of being wrong high?
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by icu 5y ago
Honestly it's in the spirit of discussion and idea exchange that I post on HN. Karma points aren't really worth anything except a proxy for my contribution to the discussion and community. As for encouraging you study it, it&#x27
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by icu 5y ago
The trigger was a confluence of events: A) Personal, life changing, events forced a total re-examination of my psychology and beliefs B) One of the smartest people I know making a book recommendation. At this time, and moving forward, I beg
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by icu 5y ago
OP here. Yes, I had to send "money" to China, for a service rendered in the US, while I am physically in London. It was a totally legitimate transaction and had nothing to do with anything dark market or drug related. Thanks fo
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by icu 5y ago
OP here. Please refer to the study resources I posted above and please go through them. Yes there is a lot of FUD, FOMO and scammers... but I encourage you to think about cognitive biases and take the time to assess crypto through the lens
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by icu 5y ago
I'll try to be brief because there are lots of reasons why I changed my mind: 1) I actually think I understand it now (I could still be wrong) because I studied it. 2) I had a very annoying use case sending money to a company in China

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