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841.
by solveit 7y ago
You are if you can't figure out where to go.
842.
by solveit 7y ago
I'm sure they exist, but there are no cases involving kilograms of Californium since there exist maybe ten grams of the stuff in the entire world.
843.
by solveit 7y ago
I'll take a 50% chance of a X1000. Less flippantly, it was a smart bet to make at the time even though things could have gone differently, since we (now) know there was a possible world (ours!) in which it went X1000.
844.
by solveit 7y ago
Only tenuously related to your point (which I agree with), but I think we'll have better-than-human deep learning based vocals in less than a decade.
845.
by solveit 7y ago
Hitler was insane, Stalin was very much sane and acted in his best self-interest.
846.
by solveit 7y ago
At the moment, we don't have anything clearly better. But everyone except the most hardcore Bitcoin maximalists believe some form of Proof-of-Stake will work well enough. PoS will bring along a different suite of problems, but requirin
847.
by solveit 7y ago
Almost every altcoin and their grandmothers are working on it, but it's a legitimately difficult problem.
848.
by solveit 7y ago
Bitcoin was literally designed for the express purpose of surviving that.
849.
by solveit 7y ago
Stock, bonds and a small amount of cash? Maybe some in commodities?
850.
by solveit 7y ago
Economies of scale and network effects mean that government (or comparable entity) will have to go out of their way to foster competition way beyond what the market will bear. How can we make this happen?
851.
by solveit 7y ago
I mean, you're right. But I'm inclined to believe this because most people cannot in fact articulate the difference between metals and nonmetals, complete the square, name the three branches of government, etc.
852.
by solveit 7y ago
It's just you. Things have changed enormously from the "let's put radium in everything" era. Nowadays there's a good case to be made that we've swung too far in the opposite direction and we're letting peo
853.
by solveit 7y ago
Large scale colonization of Mars would require multiple inventions. We know this because we have a good understanding of what a successful colonization of Mars entails, and have a pretty good idea of the main technical obstacles. AGI, on th
854.
by solveit 7y ago
Hagoromo actually solved that problem too, it's thicker and so doesn't resonate at that ear-piercing frequency.
855.
by solveit 7y ago
>the only way Libra can succeed is if Facebook makes a concerted effort to force its adoption. But... Facebook obviously will?
856.
by solveit 7y ago
> Also, the principals involved in "disrupting" governments and existing financial institutions also face the problem of government reprisal. Say what you will about Bitcoin, it's been remarkably successful on this front a
857.
by solveit 7y ago
Your garden variety millionaire doesn't have enough influence to manipulate a well-organized homeowner's association. Averting nuclear holocaust is well outside their capabilities. The only way they could amass enough influence wo
858.
by solveit 7y ago
I have a graduate degree in maths and have played the lottery. The expected return isn't the point.
859.
by solveit 7y ago
Malice is completely unnecessary for the world to go to shit. Very few people are actually malicious in any meaningful sense of the term. Most bad things happen when generally good people cut corners.
860.
by solveit 7y ago
Citation very much needed.
861.
by solveit 7y ago
I mean, the industry only spends hundreds of millions pushing this impression, so...
862.
by solveit 7y ago
> An obvious solution is to use the cost of taking the carbon back out of the atmosphere. Surely that's more or less an upper bound to the cost of the externality? If it were higher, we would undo it by scrubbing the air, if it were
863.
by solveit 7y ago
> and he might be a too overconfident It's pretty much a law of nature that the pioneers in any field will be overconfident. If they weren't, they never would've tried.
864.
by solveit 7y ago
Well they certainly have the money to fight the SEC in court. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out, although I'm not very optimistic for Kik.
865.
by solveit 7y ago
That is absolutely a known risk of investing in anything other than very low-risk investments (and index funds I guess?).
866.
by solveit 7y ago
It might vary by chain, but everywhere I'm familiar with you're not supposed to accuse people of stealing, which has the same effect, perhaps for different reasons.
867.
by solveit 7y ago
Why do you need (1)?
868.
by solveit 7y ago
> We expect tiny people making minimum wage to ask thieves to pay for the cheese they’re shoplifting. We don't actually. All sane employers have them record and report the incident and not engage , because petty shoplifting isn&#x2
869.
by solveit 7y ago
This used to be universal for Chinese delivery in Korea. With the rise of delivery apps it's not as universal as it used to be but it's still fairly easy to see.
870.
by solveit 7y ago
So to paraphrase, "Your argument is convincing therefore it must be wrong and also you are evil"?

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