imustbeevil

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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> the current state of the market contributes very little to the overall narrative. You're the one complaining about the last few months of increased negative articles. If you cannot see the connection between the frequency of negat
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> and you don't find it rather peculiar that the concentration of anti-crypto rhetoric has suddenly spiked about a year ago, and now there's a relentless assault from all opinion outlets? When the price goes up, people are happ
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Yes, when I see articles I disagree with my first thought is that someone paid them to write it, and not that most people disagree with me and statistically most articles will be from that side.
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Well that's kind of a collection of things that includes working in the office, but doesn't really provide any viewpoint at all as to why they're so comically misunderstanding how to track productivity. On my team, I want eve
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> The point is that having bought bitcoin and held for a few years would have been an outstanding investment in terms of returns, even if you disagree with it's price. The point of the original comment was that they were happy not t
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> But happiness here is about the outcome. Yours might be. Happiness in general is about your personal narrative of reality. I'm happier than you are to have not invested in Bitcoin 10 years ago, because I thought it was a bad idea
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> But going back to what I was commenting, my point was that if I was a 10+ year investor as parent said, I would not feel fortunate about not having bought bitcoin throughout my years. Of course very recent years are different. That&#x2
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
The median price of Bitcoin over the last 3 years is $20,471. That means, today, half of the people who bought in the last 3 years are down. Yes, you could have bought Amazon stock in 2001. But if you're trying to judge rational invest
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
QQQ is security that tracks the NASDAQ (NASDAQ 1% up = QQQ 1% up). TQQQ is a security that tracks the NASDAQ x3. (NASDAQ 1% up = TQQQ 3% up). SQQQ is a security that tracks the NASDAQ Inverse x3. (NASDAQ 1% up = SQQQ 3% down). In the contex
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
They may have a whitepaper or something, but the simplest way to generate higher returns in a bull market is just to use leverage. I can sell you an ETF that returns 2x the NASDAQ, and use the money to buy a 3x and pocket the difference. It
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
The LTV of an electric scooter is negative, so more people using the service is actually bad for Bird.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Eh i love remote work but people saying no one is slacking at home show a clear lack of judgement themselves. No one is saying "no one is slacking at home". Individuals who don't slack at home are saying "I don&#x
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> authoritarianism and totalitarianism are perfectly acceptable views if people work in particular academic and political circles and mask it in the 'better regulation' Or, just to be devils advocate, maybe people just want bet
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
You need to be able to see true malice through Hanlon's razor. Not every bad thing is just a stupid person, sometimes (often) it actually is people doing bad things on purpose. Even if someone is so stupid that they design a Stablecoin
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
The market is efficient. You raise prices and pay workers more -> Fewer people are willing to purchase at that price -> You make less profit -> You don't make enough profit to pay people more. It's a complex problem. You
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Take all the pieces off the board and now the bets align with the information asymmetry. The only thing exclusive to poker is the hierarchy of the combinations of cards.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Any game could incorporate wagers into its rounds. You could bet on plays in a football game. You could bet on matches in Chess. However, the competitive foundation isn't predicated on these wagers. This allows for more dimensions of s
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Teach your kids the basic social skills that society mistakenly believes other children will teach them, instead of teaching them the only competitive game so universally boring that people can only play it with money on the line. If Poker
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431224 Are you aware of the search feature? Or are you wondering why people aren't talking about something tangential in this thread specifically? People talk about YC companies a
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
In the context of the Twitter transaction, the purchase agreement was already made.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
Either. Caveat emptor. You don't get to question the ingredients of food in your stomach.
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We can probably infer from the fact that they've been remote for 2 years that it is possible to do their job remotely.
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by imustbeevil 4y ago
> Finding a trusted bookie, especially one who’s licensed in multiple jurisdictions is really hard. Anywhere that it is legal, it is significantly easier than dealing with any blockchain. What you've stumbled upon is the reality tha
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
> impromptu conversations are verboten because you might be leaving a remote worker out Most people on your team aren't listening to every conversation everyone else ever has. You should be documenting all meaningful communication f
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
> That is one result, the bigger picture is that the strategies centralized owners of those items use to make profits at the expense of each user would go away. It's the opposite. No real game developer would ever make assets tied t
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
> With regard to lottery play for respondents of various racial/ethnic groups, non-Hispanic whites and Native Americans had the highest proportion of gambling on the lottery (51% for each group); however, with regard to mean levels
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
Except to have some skin in a game, you actually have to have that skin in the game. To put a monkey as your profile picture on Discord or Twitter, you can just do that without owning the monkey. If anything, not owning it is better social
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
Having a DAO doesn't eliminate the need for a lawyer. If you get sued over claims of ownership, the trial won't be taking place on the blockchain.
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
2024 means boosters for at least 2022, 2023, 2024. If covid becomes like the flu that requires a new shot every year then 3x (exceeding the population by 2x) is pretty much the exact number of shots you'd expect.
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by imustbeevil 5y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday... 5 states have fewer than 10% of their ICU beds remaining. The public death rate of victims who receive treatment when necessary has virtual

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