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by solveit 4y ago
I upvote comments I like and downvote comments I don't like. This is independent of whether I'm replying to them. The one exception is when I'm arguing against the comment, in which case downvoting feels like bad etiquette as
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by solveit 4y ago
Banning the publication of media when accused of illiberalism is in fact evidence of illiberalism.
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by solveit 4y ago
Turns out exaggeration works by stating things that aren't strictly true. Who would've thought people could be so devious...
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by solveit 4y ago
The Fed does not have the mandate to do what is convenient for the budget. That's not their problem. Obviously this is naive and I'm sure the Fed is under all kinds of pressure, but the Fed is supposed to kill inflation by raisi
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by solveit 4y ago
"Decentralized" doesn't mean crippled. "On-chain" does. At some point, you need to interact with the off-chain world (say, when you want US dollars and not tokenized US dollars), and that path to the physical world
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by solveit 4y ago
It is horrible if the volatility has a high chance of coinciding with the emergency you're preparing for. Worried about medical emergencies? Emergency fund in equities isn't terrible. But if your emergency fund is supposed to supp
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by solveit 4y ago
I mean, people were screaming that the Terra ecosystem was going to collapse since forever. It's just that different people invested in it anyway. There's nothing impossible about verifying the legitimacy of any endeavour, people
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by solveit 4y ago
It's a terrible idea to give all the power to idealists (even granting this is possible). Corrupt cynics can be bargained with. The damage idealists can do is unbounded.
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by solveit 4y ago
Also, politicians actually are supposed to represent all of their constituents, not just the ones that vote. There is no incentive to do so of course, but that is what they are supposed to do.
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by solveit 4y ago
I have a justifiable reason, you have a respectable argument, they just feel like it. What I'm saying, of course, is that you're obviously right but our problem isn't because anyone disagrees with your position, but because w
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by solveit 4y ago
Indices, mostly. And they understand it well enough to understand that they have no hope of outperforming by thinking for themselves, which is why they invest in indices rather than picking individual things to invest in.
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by solveit 4y ago
I don't know why you think gas fees (paid by users of Ethereum) are a bigger problem than energy usage externalities(paid by everyone on the planet).
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by solveit 4y ago
You can verb every word simply by using it as one, and people understand via context. Unfortunately such nonstandard uses of language are hard to understand for people who are less fluent.
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by solveit 4y ago
Bankman-Fried, but yes, Bankman is actually his (and his father's) legal name. Talk about nominative determinism.
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by solveit 4y ago
> why not just claim copilot was used whenever accused of copyright infringement hence forth? Without speaking to the particulars of copilot, this situation where laws seem toothless because of the ease of plausible deniability is actual
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by solveit 4y ago
Just... not find it. It takes concentrated intentional effort to find these.
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by solveit 4y ago
When I am king I will make it illegal to loudly worry about environmental impact (or anything else) without providing an order of magnitude estimate for the size of the problem. You don't even have to be right, just take five seconds t
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by solveit 4y ago
That is just inaccurate, the police don't even do a good job of that. The police, like every other bureaucracy with unchecked power, exists to perpetuate itself and enrich its members. This is not specific to the police except insofar
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by solveit 4y ago
> We can theorise working societies without money. Really? At scales larger than a few hundred people?
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by solveit 4y ago
My opinion is based on it being completely insane to stake multiple years of your life on starting a cryptocurrency exchange in 2012 unless you had a sincere belief in the promise of blockchain technology. Crypto circa 2012 didn't look
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by solveit 4y ago
I'm not very familiar with the subject but I don't believe the protocols used in banking are very decentralized. I'd be very surprised if you told me SWIFT was permissionless, for instance.
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by solveit 4y ago
Email is a decentralized protocol and the fact that you use a centralized provider such as gmail only somewhat defeats the purpose of email being a decentralized protocol instead of Google Messenger.
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by solveit 4y ago
Of course it is. Money flows.
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by solveit 4y ago
It is very difficult to believe Brian Armstrong was cynically cashing in on what he perceived as a Ponzi ten years ago when he founded Coinbase (he posted an ad for a co-founder here on HN).
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by solveit 4y ago
Well if house values go down it changes the size of the mortgage you can take out on it, and your stable "rent" will turn out to be stably high compared to market, but yeah, house prices going down shouldn't affect your plans
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by solveit 4y ago
Schools should have none of those. And I say this as someone who happily uses my institution's nice gym and happy that decent mental health support will be available to me should I desire it. Schools try so very hard to be the entirety
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by solveit 4y ago
Depends on the field, but 100% is not a bad answer for most non-applied fields.
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by solveit 4y ago
or "enunciate", which I guess is what got mixed up.
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by solveit 4y ago
> Or the usual mistakes like "should of", "it's" when they mean "its", etc Incidentally, these (or at least the first) are the mistakes that only native speakers and very fluent people make.
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by solveit 4y ago
Most of the time this quantifying is impossible as you say. But sometimes half a dozen well-paid professionals do spend two hours discussing the colour of a bike shed.

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