nickelcitymario

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by nickelcitymario 2mo ago
It's an interesting idea only if you've never studied how democracy came to be. The best definition of democracy that I've ever heard is that democracy is war by other means. When you take away someone's right to vote, o
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by nickelcitymario 4mo ago
> He even brought up job displacement directly. This isn’t usually how Silicon Valley talks. I feel like this is 50% of what Silicon Valley talks about these days.
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by nickelcitymario 10mo ago
Is it really surprising that the top minds in STEM might not be neuro-typical? You can't tell me you think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk (!), etc., have "normal" brains. Whethe
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by nickelcitymario 11mo ago
Full transparency: I make my living as a marketer. So it's entirely possible that I may not have the objectivity to tell the difference between craft and salesmanship. But it's possible we're in agreement. So here's my t
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by nickelcitymario 11mo ago
This is amazing. Thanks for taking the time to share this!
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by nickelcitymario 11mo ago
Holy moly, and I thought French (my mother tongue) was complicated due to conjugation. I'm fascinated by what possible context could call for this many variations on how you spell/pronounce a number. Any chance you know of a good
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by nickelcitymario 11mo ago
I feel like I'd agree with your comment if it was in reply to an entirely different article. As in: I agree with your sentiment and ideas. Out of context, you're bang on correct. But I don't think paying attention to details
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by nickelcitymario 11mo ago
Seeing a lot of comments disputing singular data points, but the author goes out of his way to provide as wide a variety of data points as he could find, and to try to disprove his own theory. A couple anecdotal things I've noticed in
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by nickelcitymario 1y ago
Luck was a necessary ingredient, 100%. But how many other people had similar luck and did nothing with it? Luck is another word for opportunity. Some people are really good at leveraging opportunity for all it's worth. Most of us (myse
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
> Driven by one person? The one that said they needed nukes and allies to defend themselves from their neighbour? Canada doesn't have nukes and has long advocated for nuclear non-proliferation. We're still not looking to have a
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
I've mulled over your comment for a couple days and I still don't really understand what you're saying... feel free not to reply in light of the delay (or to stop the conversation from spiralling), but: > Throw a baby in w
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
I'm not questioning whether it would be worth it. I'm questioning how that would work, and am very much open to being wrong here. I just don't see how it would work. For example... let's say I bet a trillion dollars that
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
Wow, I had no idea. For all I know that's true in Canada too, I'm not an expert on Canadian insurance law, but I was under the impression that suicide was never covered anywhere. Thanks for correcting me!
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
I don't think those are the same thing? For example, I'm in Canada. There's a trade war going on. Every business in Canada is now having to hedge their bets for whether and how long and how bad the trade war is going to be. A
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
With life insurance, they investigate and won't pay out if they discover it was a suicide. Is there any similar mechanism with Polymarket for detecting, shall we say, unethical bets?
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
I guess what I'm asking is whether there is anything stopping you from betting against a specific person. I'm being vague because I don't want to put the idea out there about any specific individual.
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
Wait, does this mean Polymarket is also an assassination market? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market This may be an obvious thing that everyone else has caught onto, but... if I were to place a bet again
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
I usually think about this in terms of entrepreneurs versus managers, or creators versus optimizers and maintainers. One is not more important than the other. Entrepreneurs are cowboys in this analogy. But it's more than just being wil
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
While I'm not saying it's not an emergent property of complexity, is this a falsifiable claim? Is there any proof of this? Until we can replicate consciousness (heck, until we can even measure consciousness), this is as much a mat
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
So why didn’t they?
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
No doubt, but no one is claiming that artificial humanity is an inevitability. (At least, no one I'm aware of.) The claim is about artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human intelligence, not how well it evolves into full-
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
New? No. Fully agreed. But there's misrepresenting, and then there's "What the hell does this have to do with the movie I just watched?" Good advertising (and I speak as an advertiser) sets up your expectations appropria
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by nickelcitymario 2y ago
As a Canadian, it terrifies me that it's supposed to be comforting that these powers are only supposed to be used on foreign targets. The US controls so much of the Internet already, and the idea that it's becoming a full-fledged
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by nickelcitymario 3y ago
I don't know if this works in a big organization, but as someone working on a solo project, I actually love it, and don't take it as a joke at all. I reject the deadline part (I'm a solo dev, I do what I want when I want), bu
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by nickelcitymario 3y ago
It's not about "hot singles" lol. It's certainly open to hot singles, but there's already a plethora of apps for that. This is about catering to those of us who are poly, ENM, queer, etc., who want a place where can
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Toga Social: the sex-positive social media and dating app(toga.social)
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by nickelcitymario 3y ago
Hey everyone! We're kicking around a concept for a new social media and dating app. It's something we've been looking for and doesn't seem to exist, so we're thinking of making it ourselves. Looking for feedback on
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by nickelcitymario 3y ago
World Word Z the book wouldn’t make sense as a movie. It could work as a mini-series though, with each chapter treated as its own episode.
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by nickelcitymario 3y ago
That type of content has always existed, though. They were called advertorials. Endless books going back to at least the 40s advocated making ads look as similar to regular content as possible for the very effect you're describing. So
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by nickelcitymario 3y ago
I generally get downvoted hard when I raise my hand as an advertiser, but here goes. I think scapegoating advertising is a mistake, because I think we're missing the real problem. Yes, advertising can and often is unethical and harmful

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