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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Everything in your comment can be true and the advice can still be useless. People need specific, small, actionable steps that they can realistically take. Generic stuff like "you need purpose" is either completely meaningless or
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I don't see how this helps anyone who is struggling. Purpose isn't something that you can just go and get more of.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
It's still very debatable whether advertising works at all, not just targeted but in general. And if it does, the extent is questionable too. Freakonomics had a very good episode on this a few months ago - https://freakonomi
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I can relate. And most of the advice to exercise, separete work from personal life, have a routine etc. doesn't seem to help.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> several orders of magnitude more than a human master encounters Not if you account for millions of years of evolution that got your nervous system to its current state and access to books and training materials which add up to multiple
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
We also won't have oceans by then - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth And it's very hard to conceptualise what a billion of years in the future actually means.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Prices are still high so it's safe to say that people aren't tired. It's also hard to determine how much of what's going on is a bubble and how much is just the new normal. There's a lot of money floating around and
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0 Here's a video of Ray Dalio explaining inflation-deflation and some other basic economic principles. The process explained in the video is the reason why you can never have a
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
The sibling comments show just how difficult it is to talk constructively about these things even at a place like HN. I have no idea about the technical merits of Nano but the emotionally charged reactions with little argumentation aren&#x2
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I have so many languages on the "give it a chance" list that I don't know where to start.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Simons* Mostly known for being the founder of Renaissance Technologies which is one of the largest and most successful hedge funds.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I want to point out that is a very US-specific problem that goes along with the much higher demand for talent in the US and (still) higher compensation. Working in tech in Europe (and I'm guessing the rest of the world) is very differe
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
From the authors Shmargaret Shmitchell shmargaret.shmitchell@gmail.com The Aether Is this some meta joke or a reference to anything?
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I think that you're leaving out economic factors - when better and cleaner technology becomes cheaper than the alternatives, politics becomes largely irrelevant. And to get to that point economically, you need technological innovation.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> But the price jump from one bed to two bed was much larger than any of the other jumps. The jump between sharing and a one-bed flat is certainly larger. A two-bed on two incomes is a pretty decent arrangement in London (if you're
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I don't get why people's thinking swings to these wild extremes. Why does it have to be either a societal disruptor that changes everything or a doomed ponzi scheme? Can't it be something like "oh we tried to have cool i
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I don't think Ray Dalio has ever given much investment advice beyond "diversify into everything". I think his next book is supposed to cover some of that though.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
I don't see how this proves anything, on a linear scale it's still much more expensive than BCH fees.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
You can't do the same low-cost transfer with the original though.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> Also, Expected Value works under the “law of large numbers” assumptions. Technically, EV has nothing to do with sample size. But I get your point that in sufficiently small sample sizes and/or sufficiently large bet sizes you migh
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
> If you are poor, you have few good options and generally wouldn't brag about your gambling. If you do, you are labelled irresponsible. And rightly so. For two main reasons - demonstrably negative expected value of the bets (like i
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Yes. Unless a court decides otherwise or the law is changed. Thinking about it, I don't see why Apple and the iOS store are a specific target. How is it different from Sony having monopoly on who makes PlayStation games for example? Or
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Short selling gives additional financial incentive to research companies and figure out which ones are full of it. That's useful to the market overall, not just to the short-sellers themselves.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
That's hardly relevant to anyone who is actually struggling. Someone else halfway across the globe having it worse than you doesn't make things better.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
That can't be it - the article from Bridgewater was written before Tesla bought a bunch of Bitcoin.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
How do people in those broken countries get Bitcoin? To buy Bitcoin in a first world country I need a valid ID, an online exchange that operates in my country, access to the internet and a bank account. And it can take days if you've n
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Ray Dalio on Bitcoin in December 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeWcprAJjqs He says that it isn't an effective medium of exchange or a good storehold of value. I wonder what has changed between then and now.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
Apart from recording group calls when some people can't attend (you can already do this with any video call software), I don't see a good use case for this. Video is strictly worse for async communication than text - it's mor
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
This is one of the worst things a startup can do with their money. I wonder how many will try it just because they want to emulate Tesla.
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by superbcarrot 6y ago
They're different attributes though. It's hard to argue that: - all other things being equal, people with full hair are more attractive than people with thinning hair / bald people - if you aren't balding, you should sti

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