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by solveit 4y ago
> I agree it's a little disappointing that one mistaken word throws Google so far off the trail. But can you imagine the aggravation if Google chooses to do the opposite and 'helpfully' 'corrects' your quotes for
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by solveit 4y ago
Reading silently is faster than reading out, and also easier and less error-prone than listening.
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by solveit 4y ago
Why do you think climate change will kill a billion people over the next century? Not saying you're wrong, just bewildered that you are able to make any kind of prediction on this at all.
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by solveit 4y ago
1. No, it only kills the validity of IQ tests for which the examinee has practiced, and only if the amount of practice is unknown and the amount of improvement is large and unpredictable. Nevertheless IQ tests correlate with performance on
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by solveit 4y ago
We were able to lift entire neighbourhoods in the 19th century but now we can't even build houses...
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by solveit 4y ago
Also, it's not like Ethereum is a physical good that can be destroyed. It's just a bookkeeping tool and what happened is people trying to mint NFTs gave up their portion of the total supply in exchange for having their transaction
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by solveit 4y ago
Completely legal porn also has a lot of trouble using regular financial services.
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by solveit 4y ago
It's not difficult to cash out 8~9 digit sums though.
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by solveit 4y ago
At a large enough company you kind of have to... as this situation shows.
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by solveit 4y ago
Certainly this is the only reason Germany is behind the UK. They were somehow the centre of the scientific world despite their less-than-ideal political conditions and then they ran their own talent out of their country. (And then they lost
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by solveit 4y ago
> I think the UK might be an exception, where as far as I remember the royalty still theoretically holds pretty much all the power just politely decide to pretend they don't know they still rule. I would say that it is the rest of t
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by solveit 4y ago
What people call watchmaking is actually usually watch assembling/repairing. As you say, you would need to be a good part of an entire supply chain to be able to make a watch in any real sense.
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by solveit 4y ago
They went on to buy a 130k market value watch for 30k (retail) or something
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by solveit 4y ago
> perhaps a bit thin on the introspection Surely the one thing you don't want these people to do is to think for themselves about whether they should kill tens of millions of people! (the joke is that I'm completely serious and
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by solveit 4y ago
I'm led to believe that the CO2 concentrations still routinely go above 2000 ppm though. Is that right?
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by solveit 4y ago
I'm also interested in the cognitive effects of CO2, and I have a great deal of skepticism in the studies that say small amounts cause noticeable deficits precisely because we know people can carry out complex tasks for months on end i
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by solveit 4y ago
They're looking forward to 4chan but better... do they really need to?
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by solveit 4y ago
This completely misses the point of your hypothetical, but if you only have two humans left your descendants will inevitably die out due to inbreeding. Two individuals isn't enough genetic diversity to sustain a species. See: https:&#
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by solveit 4y ago
> In Asia there is an expectation that relationships will lead to marriage, that you will marry well before thirty, that women will exit the workforce following marriage I don't know about the rest of Asia, but the parts that were e
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by solveit 4y ago
>the proportion of the population that fits this bill has increased dramatically in the past few years. Wait really? Source?
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by solveit 4y ago
I don't know why this comment is downvoted. Let me elaborate a little on what I think they meant. All the risks associated with false positives (other than the side effects of actually drawing blood once a year, which I think is neglig
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by solveit 4y ago
How nice that nature has chosen the correct solution for your host of terrifying problems. If we were immortal and truly wise, I'm sure we also would have decided it was reasonable to kill literally everyone in order to share resources
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by solveit 4y ago
Yes, all the downside falls on the lenders because that's how investing money works. If you can get someone to loan you hundreds of millions, you should (in a purely economic sense) take it because all you can lose is everything you ha
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by solveit 4y ago
Agh, I clicked the first google result for "NYSE by market cap" and it was something else. And of course Saudi Aramco doesn't trade on the NYSE either, that should've been more obvious. What I'm saying is that tech
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by solveit 4y ago
It's probably easier to change the law than it is to change the minds of the hour-counters.
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by solveit 4y ago
Eight of the ten largest companies on the NYSE are tech companies (the others are Saudi Aramco and Berkshire Hathaway). Of those eight, only Tesla needs access to cheap capital. Edit: Tesla and Saudi Aramco (duh) aren't actually on the
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by solveit 4y ago
Have you seen the picture of that brain? Quibbling about the measure of intelligence used was the last thing on my mind because I was amazed the person was alive at all. That said, > He had a first-class honors degree in mathematics. He
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by solveit 4y ago
Presumably said CEO wasn't in much danger of poverty though. The entrepreneurship caused his troubles. That other things also could is beside the point.
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by solveit 4y ago
Yes but he didn't sell as you say. Same with dogecoin, the "funding secured" debacle, and all his other stuff. He does something stupid and probably illegal, but doesn't actually take the crucial steps to profit and comp
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by solveit 4y ago
Musk usually doesn't do the profit part, which is why he can settle with the SEC for pennies (relatively speaking).

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