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by nlowell 9y ago
Market cap is not the same as actual money that has flowed into the space. Tether claims that 2B actual USD exist in reserves.
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by nlowell 9y ago
That line stuck out to me as well. It's a good example of this victimhood mindset where even when the people on the left are the ones being reprimanded they insist that the other side started it and forced their hand somehow. There is
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by nlowell 9y ago
There are two main schools for investing/stock trading. "Value investing" which is trying to buy company stocks that are undervalued and generally seeks to hold these stocks for a long time, and "technical analysis"
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by nlowell 9y ago
I think Robinhood does a great job of giving young traders the experience and knowledge of what actual trading is like before they're managing really meaningful amounts of money. College kids trading $500 on Robinhood are going to beco
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by nlowell 9y ago
I think there's also a difference between the actual reason you leave vs. the reason you tell all your Google friends vs. the reason you post to Medium. You can't tell your coworkers you disagree on politics, so you tell them you
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by nlowell 9y ago
>I'm honestly curious about this: I've gone from very bullish to very bearish over the last 5 years or so, while I've watched the population at large take an opposite course from indifferent and unaware to very bullish, an
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by nlowell 9y ago
If endocrinology was the most talked-about, hyped, and invested-in form of medicine I think it would be fair. DL is where an enormous amount of AI growth and progress is.
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by nlowell 9y ago
Tribal warring is common even in apes. Territorialism is especially strong. There are also plenty of things to war over besides food, such as space, shelter, mates, glory, gods, historical feuds, etc. Remember if we don't sacrifice one
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by nlowell 9y ago
It's one thing to write about something, it's another thing to have a call for action.
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by nlowell 9y ago
> speaking politically on either side is a bad idea. Part of the current concern is that it has become common to speak on just one side in tech culture. It is seen in some circles as morally superior to be on the side of social justice n
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by nlowell 9y ago
It makes very little sense to me that their sliding window does not appear to contain previous holidays. I'm not expert but I'm pretty sure holidays are a seasonal trend, and it would benefit them to train their models on previous
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by nlowell 12y ago
Arguably there are better things that programmers can do with their talent, not just for themselves but for the world, than updating social media websites and building a personal online image.