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by marcell 3y ago
Do you have any reason to believe this? There are dozens of crypto exchanges, and most of the major ones have not become insolvent. FTX and MtGox are the only major ones to become insolvent and lose user funds. The top ones like Kraken an
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by marcell 3y ago
> How do you know Binance hasn't stolen anyone's money? In America you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, under our legal system, Binance.US is presumed to not have stolen anyone's money until the SEC
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by marcell 3y ago
> why is it anybody’s business but mine and CZs? They don't like bitcoin and crypto because they cannot control it.
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by marcell 3y ago
Can you point to a single semi-prominent crypto person who has blamed to SEC for losing their funds?
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by marcell 3y ago
Under SEC logic, this action is meant to protect the users of Binance US who. According to SEC logic, those users the victims of malfeasance by Binance US and it's decuitful, fraudulent actions. I would ask: is there even a single Bi
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by marcell 3y ago
Registering a security means basically an IPO. The burden is very high and is out of reach for crypto startups that have little revenue and under $1 million in funding.
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by marcell 3y ago
15th century was a time of conquest and brutality around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence https://en.wikipedia
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by marcell 3y ago
The Ukrainians probably don’t view it that way.
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by marcell 3y ago
Why would anyone honor the results of a war in a controlled setting? The whole point of war is to compel a result the other country doesn’t want to honor.
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by marcell 3y ago
The most obvious application of this is military. How far out is a robot soldier? We already have unmanned drones. Creating expendable soldiers will be a huge win for whichever country achieves it first.
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by marcell 3y ago
That’s a lawsuit from a motivated interest group, it’s not a primary source.
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by marcell 3y ago
Do you have any basis for saying this law was racist or had segregationist goals? It’s not like the neighboring cities (Mt View and Menlo Park) have many black people. My understanding is that the local resident restrictions were based on s
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by marcell 3y ago
How can crypto companies be expected to follow the law, if the head of the SEC cannot say if Ethereum is a security or a commodity?
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by marcell 3y ago
"Friendship" doesn't happen in a vacuum. You need dependence and value exchange between two "friends." Technology has replaced most of our needs and dependence on other people, with great economic benefit. The downs
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by marcell 4y ago
I've scrolled through the top ~10 or so comments, and none of them, describe or comment on the nature of the charges against Trump. To be fair to the commenters, most stories are vague. The charges relate to hush money payments to Stor
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by marcell 4y ago
This is how it's supposed to work, Congress makes laws and the President enforces them. The reverse, where government agencies ban things without Congress, is the unusual thing from a Constitutional perspective.
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by marcell 4y ago
I hate uncancellable subscruptions too, but under what authority can the FTC just ban these subscriptions? I had a similar issue with their ban on non-competes.
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by marcell 4y ago
This is a common misconception. I don't need science to tell me not eat dirt, my sense of smell does that just fine. I also don't need science to tell me why someone is being mean to me, I can judge the social situation and make a
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by marcell 4y ago
> is unscientific, lacking in perspective, and offensive. I agree it is unscientific speculation. Science doesn’t have any answers. As one example, there are no conclusive scientific answers on why global male testosterone is declining,
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by marcell 4y ago
There is always a time lag between the introduction of a cool new technology, and the discovery of its negative effects on human health. DDT was invented in the 1940's, and it wasn't until twenty years later that people discovered
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by marcell 4y ago
Consciousness can only be understood through non scientific frameworks. It is a religious or spiritual concept. Humans are not God, and cannot create consciousness.
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by marcell 4y ago
I’m surprised by the eagerness to dismiss this trend, both in the above article and the discussion here. A lot of saying it’s not happening, and even if it is, it doesn’t matter. Like the saying goes, “It was a long time ago and it didn’t h
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by marcell 4y ago
How much if this is just awareness bias, where the media reports commonplace events that were previously ignored?
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by marcell 4y ago
Every once in a while a crypto conference invites a skeptic to speak, I guess to show they are open to criticism. It doesn’t benefit anyone. Crypto holders have already heard everyone “con” argument, and whether you agree or not just depend
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by marcell 4y ago
> I doubt it was a trivial endeavor. Per authors comments above, it was indeed a trivial endeavor: a few hours to tweak the prompts and a few hours to make the site. Compare to the most basic children’s book, which would take at least 10
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by marcell 4y ago
There are a lot of negative consequences: 1. Entire classes of skilled jobs are eliminated, only the most elite writers and artists can make money 2. Value for story creation gets concentrated in the few companies that own and operate the b
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by marcell 4y ago
Completely agree. People really don't understand where this is going. It's not like society lacks mediocre mid-brow content as it is. LLM's and diffusion models reduce the cost of production to basically zero, and we now have
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by marcell 4y ago
I don’t know if many major exchanges that stole customer funds. FTX is the only one I can think of. MtGox was a hack followed by a coverup.
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by marcell 4y ago
This post is way to bullish on ChatGPT for coding, and underestimates how big the gap is between ChatGPT and a mid level FANG eng. ChatGPT is very impressive in what it can do, but if you deviate problem statements even a little bit from wh
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by marcell 4y ago
This is a weird article. He's saying we can't do semiconductor manufacturing in US because we don't have enough high IQ people to work in the factory. Is this actually the case? Designing the chips is a high IQ task, but why

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