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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>carry out your wishes regardless of any other factors. It will carry out your inputs regardless of other factors. That is a very important distinction, especially in this case.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
is there some widespread issue with trusting the ledgers of banks currently? I wasn't aware that this is a pressing issue, or really an issue at all. >You can trust that your balance in your account is what the blockchain says it i
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I really don't understand this usage of the word "trust". Especially when one of the actual primary uses of bitcoin as currency (and not speculative investing) so far has been to pay off ransomware. Who exactly am I trusting?
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>intentionally do not teach money management skills as it makes people harder to fleece. Yeah, this is a perfect example of "don't attribute to malice what is equally explainable by incompetence." I'm not talking abou
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>They raised a billion dollars of emergency investment later that day Kind of unrelated, but I think if "wall street" was really upset regarding what RH is doing, this wouldn't have been possible.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
> A personal experience is a fact. It is a fact we can be pretty sure of, and we know the context of that fact. Obviously, once we extrapolate from that experienced fact, it becomes bias. > A fact that is not a personal experience is
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I think one way to distill down the simplest change is this: listen in order to understand and not to judge.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I think you must mean that covered calls or the wheel are less lucrative than more complex strategies, unless I'm really missing something. Can't get much simpler than a CC. The Wheel as a strategy doesn't scale well, though
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
All a put option needs is cash backing it in order to write it. It doesn't require any stock. - Me, a long time wheel runner
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
FUN FACT: In The Culture, money is a sign of poverty.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Also, who gets to decide who gets sunlight when? There's no way that's going to not lead to problems. Any thing interfering with enough sunlight to make a difference in global warming is a weapon, whether we recognize it as such
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>If 80%+ of Americans get the vaccine and we still have to mask and social distance, you're going to see a lot of angry people. Then people need to do better. Getting angry at reality doesn't change it. If this is how things
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Removing a massive mechanism for being able to address a need that most people feel shame for and explicitly try to hide due to social pressure? If I'm acting on my own, my reach is very limited. By using the government, we have the p
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>At the time of account termination, they were growing at a rate of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of users per day [citation required] This is an absurd claim.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
And yet there are ways we can address those issues too. I don't get why we gotta stop trying to take care of each other simply because there are assholes who try to take advantage of things.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
In this specific case, it would be an independent audit of the procedures to determine whether they were actually necessary or not. it's not rocket science. Poor people don't have the money required to go to the dentist and prope
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Isn't the answer to this better accountability? Incentives without accountability usually lead to this type of outcome.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>For myself this is “clever art” and has little cultural value. We'd all be alot better if in circumstances like this, we would say "I don't personally value this" instead of "there is not value in this for anyon
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
There is definitely a correlation between lazy thinking and believing in conspiracy theories. Mainly because conspiracy theories do not lend themselves to rigorous inquiry, almost by definition. This is different than "intelligence.&q
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Oh right. i would say that's more function of messing with leverage than it is selling options.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Why would you be selling options on companies with a 1% chance of going to zero? There are much more stable companies out there.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
If they were willing to discuss and listen, this wouldn't be a problem. If people are just talking at you, it's not your fault there isn't a discussion happening. I have tried for years to talk with the type of person that i
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Talking to your representative is a basic civic duty.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Why are Stradivarius violins held in such high regard? The presence of natural resources is not the same as having the craftmanship able to best utilize them. And when scarcity of resources are not a problem, craftsmanship becomes even more
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>But that shouldn't be an excuse to stop trying! I don't see much indication that people aren't trying.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I identify so much with this. It's extremely freeing to break through these previously unrecognized limitations. The first step to breaking out of prison is recognizing when you're in one.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
The problem is that language is not precise, pretty much by evolved design. I totally get the desire for a language with maximum precision and lack of ambiguity, but no one has ever been able to do that successfully. I think it's reas
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>But because technology dangled the carrot of "we can save lives by doing everything virtually with computers" we are charging down that path optimizing for lives saved without giving fair consideration to other side effects of
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
This is a lie
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I'm just a layperson, but it seems like you've described an economy. Especially when you realize that >buy and sell services from each other in a circle isn't true at all. I don't know anything dropshipping - the name

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