maverick-iceman

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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Humans simply didn't evolve to live in communities as large as the ones which enabled us to really push our foot on the gas in terms of technological and civilization progress. People look at social media but it started waaay earlier,
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Oh my gosh! Sorry if it seemed that I was speaking about you directly. I never thought fusion startup founders would hang out on HN! I've always imagined you guys would only interact in long email chains with .edu domains :) > But I
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> And who will take the blame when 999/1000 of them fail and are forced onto the street? The 1 in 1000 which succeeds would alone provide so much quality of life to society that while it's true that the 999 would see monetary v
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Having the courage to try stuff out is the biggest 'tragedy of the commons' problem we face People think it's taxation or CO2 emissions driving climate change, but they are such a tiny fraction of the lack of courage problem.
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Any international criminal law expert here? Why can the US arrest everybody in Europe but the colony of fraudsters living in St.Kitts&Nevis (among them Paul Bilzerian) is untouchable?
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Maybe it has to do with lack of police force? So no-nonesense solution is to avoid them wasting time for useless stuff? Many useless things such as the war on drugs, alcohol and prostitution are done (in my opinion) to give the millions of
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
In NZ being a sex worker is a job like any other. Sex workers don't need a place to be affiliated with to do their job. The only extra step is that if they advertise online they must do it on one of the half dozen authorized portals wh
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
I am now curious about what is so special about New Zealand. It's the only country when prostitution is completely decriminalized and there is no zoning even. What is going on in Kiwis minds? How are they such a unique exception? And i
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
All those people would have sold their left you know what for an entry in btc around 500, not even back to when it was worth less than a dollar. Maybe in their minds those who bought early and realized their gains managed to get the cheese
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Mentions of Musk and tesla : https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk?t=1625 He calls him "Fraudster extraordinare"
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> The real threat was dumb terminals (aka web browsers). Even today, the world could run on Mac OS / iOS and Safari. If Microsoft was okay with sacrificing Windows market share and instead controlled content and services, they would
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Monero doesn't. Zcash does, and they are planned to be implemented on Ethereum
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> For non-Staff level SWEs, my opinion is that joining a FAANG with lower P/E is better for your future earnings. No, because mr. Market has been looking at everything except P/E, more essentially you can't spend P/E.
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> The only unhappy are those who did not participate to any of it, but they have no right to complain, just envy. What is right or wrong is just semantics, in reality a mob with pitchforks doesn't care about semantics. Humans have f
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
The same way people buy stuff like marijuana, prostitution, alcohol where all those things are illegal, except people who have those preferences are few and far in between, whereas everybody and their brother is afraid of inflation, debasem
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
ZK Snarks is where it's at for crypto. Every cryptography gives the cryptographer an immediate asymmetrical advantage, and that's necessary given crypto's adversaries. Said cryptography advantage cannot be wasted by centraliz
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Thanks for answering . Let's say I get interviewed by the press, and there is a mention of my publication in a journal . Is that invalidated because the assumption is that I provided it during the interview vs. them doing third party v
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Sun sets on 747 Global Supertanker aircraft. Sold to freight company(ifiberone.com)
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Hi Peter. With regards to the O-1 Visa, my understanding is that it's an art more than a science. As a master of this art could you please provide resources on the O-1 visa and what are the must have? Eg. Number of newspaper articles m