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by nscalf 6y ago
I’ve done it in such a variety of ways and splitting bets with buddies that it’s become a giant pain to figure out the net profit, but it has been relatively good——it’s definitely not getting me to retire anytime soon. You learn where a lot
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by nscalf 6y ago
Unfortunately, there just weren’t other options at the time. And you don’t find out that you can’t withdraw until you tried and failed for a few days straight.
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by nscalf 6y ago
This is assuming valuations are based off fundamentals. The market is absolutely disconnected from what companies can actually deliver, and instead has become a place to park the surplus of money in the system.
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by nscalf 6y ago
Were you in the space before Coinbase became big? Because I've had crypto exchanges get hacked and run away with my money. There was zero trust (for good reason) in any of the sites that let you buy crypto. Without Coinbase, this li
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by nscalf 6y ago
That's an iPod with a data plan.
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by nscalf 6y ago
I have some friends in this field as well (though they are in small sample size things, like specific breast cancer trials). Some of the fact-finding looks like calling up every patient who has gone through their treatment, but they have a
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by nscalf 6y ago
I think this is an illustration of an issue that has been seen throughout the entire pandemic. Medicine != Public Health Policy. In general, I would say medicine is too dogmatic to decide on public policy, and public policy is too loose t
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by nscalf 6y ago
I do a ton of different things, but none of them are quickly accessible and all lean off my strengths. I love economics, and MMA, so I've been gambling and trading for years and getting better at them over time. Any unique venture yo
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by nscalf 6y ago
To piggy back on the ideas here, don't be afraid to clone something that already exists. The important part here isn't to make a company that will make money, it's to learn by doing, so don't stress over the idea too mu
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by nscalf 6y ago
The stack trace comment is 100% what I wish I had built into my IDE, and from my time mentoring more junior devs, I can tell you this is one of the hardest things for them. All of these are great suggestions, but the first one really has b
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by nscalf 6y ago
Protecting the individual investor usually looks like limiting our ability to participate in the market.
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by nscalf 6y ago
To be fair, this happened a bunch with more traditional stock brokers in 2020. Most notably was Robinhood (definitely not a traditional broker), which seemed to go down every few days at the beginning of the pandemic. Comically, it was obv
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by nscalf 6y ago
By not tipping, the poster is doing something about the system. If you make less money as a driver because people are not tipping, you're going to either go to another service or stop delivering altogether. That's a slow change,
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by nscalf 6y ago
It could just be better policing. If you catch someone after they kill once or twice, they don’t get the chance to become a serial killer. But I haven’t looked up any stats on this.
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by nscalf 6y ago
Once you have grown and learned the 80-90% of stuff that is easy, exciting, and has quick returns, all that is left is the hard stuff. And the hard stuff is boring---it's always boring. It's the nitty gritty details that only a
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by nscalf 6y ago
The mortality rate is much higher than that, in the US it's 1.9% based off the individuals identified. And that does not capture the significant amount of people with severe, long standing side effects. Many people have had months of
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by nscalf 6y ago
I was always sympathetic to the argument that we underestimate how valuable having a centralized control is (when it doesn't go off the rails). We get a lot of fraud absorbed by banks right now so that end users aren't holding th
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by nscalf 6y ago
I think this eliminates much of what you learn from history when you study it. Knowing what lead into WW1 and WW2 spanned for decades before, and were much more important than learning the actual facts of the war. History isn't reall
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by nscalf 6y ago
Those shields really creep me out when you see the military grade equipment popping up around them.
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by nscalf 6y ago
Reviews have always been a deeply flawed process, particularly anonymous reviews online. The rating system doesn't mean the same thing to everyone, and it is easily faked. Companies are incentivized to sell control over reviews to th
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by nscalf 6y ago
Thank you, serverless is the new structure that everyone loves and wants to work in, but no one talks about the downside. I just took over a project that has a serverless architecture. We can't run it locally because the emulator won&
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by nscalf 6y ago
I think it is likely that we do not have free will. However, it is such a complex system, and it would be so incredibly difficult to make meaningful predictions for how humans really are about to behave in any given moment, that we effecti
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by nscalf 6y ago
It seems much more time-deaf to think that everyone wants to be involved in this highly stressful, chaotic game of identity politics. Some people just want to do their job. Personally, I want to focus on what I'm working on while at
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by nscalf 6y ago
I'm an independent, who will be voting Democratic. The Democratic party is spineless, corrupt, and oddly radicalized in some ways. But at least they're not explicitly trying to undermine pillars our constitution and democracy ar
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by nscalf 6y ago
Do you know how laws are often interpreted? It's asking what is the faith and meaning of the law, NOT what is literally written in paper. This means past precedents are incredibly important for defining what a law is. Refusing to ho
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by nscalf 6y ago
To be fair, they passed the ruling for non-supreme court justices. Republicans extended it to include them in 2017. Still, an example of terrible governance and foresight on both sides.
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by nscalf 6y ago
Well, the house explicitly has financial powers, and they can impeach officials. If the house was republican and the senate was democratic, you would see much more financing for projects Trump wanted. Like, just to make up the most ridic
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by nscalf 6y ago
It's a bad faith enforcement of the constitution. In democracies like the US, precedents are as powerful as laws. This was not literally breaking any laws, but this was as bad as breaking a law.
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by nscalf 6y ago
This wasn't always the case, here's an excerpt from the wiki on recent changes making this the case: "Senate cloture rules historically required a two-thirds affirmative vote to advance nominations to a vote; this was changed
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by nscalf 6y ago
Yep, they've gotten more corrupt.

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