spaceman_2020

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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Here in India at least, it feels that the venture capital class has completely forgotten about the bottom 95% of the population. Almost all capital is chasing the lucrative top 5% with products specifically designed for them (like a credit
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Peter Zeihan makes an interesting observation: the 2010-2020 decade was the peak of baby boomer employment. Boomers are now entering retirement en masse. Without a source of income, these retirees - the wealthiest generation in America and
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Because you’d have to be a real dumbass to actually put your life savings in crypto. When I first bought crypto, I put in just enough that if I were to lose it all, it would mean one vacation less and a fewer more meals at home for a few mo
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
What percentage of American inventions and scientific developments post WW2 were led or influenced by former Nazi scientists?
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
> You can absolutely argue against this. It's called automation. You're viewing it from a myopic production-focused viewpoint. Whereas the problem is our consumption-led economic order and its reliant on adding an ever increasi
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
I’ve been following Zeihan since his first book. I’m yet to find a credible counter argument to his theses. And he’s being proven right at an alarming pace this year. So far this year we’ve had: - A land war in Europe - Food insecurity in t
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54 points by spaceman_2020 4y ago|82 comments
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Still not convinced any measure can change the direction unless capitalism and the experiences and lifestyles it enables are killed completely. No amount of incentives have managed to push fertility rate above replacement level in any count
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
most DeFi projects are just engineers reading the first paragraph of a finance Wikipedia article and thinking that they can do better. There's a misplaced belief that all regulations around money just popped out of nowhere. In reality,
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
I don’t think we’re going to a regime of low prices and suppressed wages. That phase of the world’s economic cycle is on its last legs. Demographics are collapsing across the world and the most prosperous, numerically largest baby boomer ge
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
I'm yet to find a single non-Apple laptop that comes even close to Macbook's touchpad. There are better keyboards (Thinkpads are great), even comparable screens, fast processors, better dedicated GPUs. But somehow no one can get t
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Here in New Delhi, people will straight up ask you, especially if they're older. Trying to get a house in Delhi as a single, straight male is an exercise in discrimination 101. Landlords will ask you if you drink alcohol, eat meat, hav
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Cliche, but good family time. Nothing beats a weekend where all my cousins, nieces and nephews are together. Its particularly fun now when all my cousins and siblings have kids and they’re all under four. It gets chaotic but also so much fu
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by spaceman_2020 4y ago
Highly recommend a tool called Syntorial if anyone really wants to dive deep into sound synthesis. It's an interactive tutorial that walks you through creating a basic sound all the way up to complex synthesis.