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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Yet overall crime went down in the mid 90s all the way until the late 2010s. Any explanation based on mental illness, lack of stable parenting, Ritalin, lack of community, etc. needs to explain why all these negative impacts only affect sho
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Instagram used to be good when it was largely used by professional food and travel bloggers. These people weren’t pretending that this is their life and that you should feel terrible because your life isn’t cool. It was clearly a job, and t
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Yes, but it’s a signed copy of a URL. It’s like having the only key to the door to a room in which the Mona Lisa is kept. Except the room is wide open other than the one wall with the door and freely accessible to all the visitors to the Lo
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I don’t even know how I would develop with something like this. My entire workflow is based around tens of little scripts I’ve written. Many scripts tend to be unique to a single project. For example, I’m currently working in a project that
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Code is law.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Nearly all of Alphabet and Meta’s profits are not from customers paying them to use their product, but advertisers who are trying to convince FB/GOOG customers to use their products. If those companies start disappearing, or cutting ba
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Except the previous government gave out a lot more money. Massive tax cuts, votes secured by giving over $40bn to farmers who were negatively impacted by a pointless and thoughtless trade war with China, and most of the COVID aid was given
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I disagree with Biden’s tweet and Bezos’s tweet. I personally believe that the vast majority of the inflation we are seeing today has nothing to do with government debt/deficits, so the government reducing its deficit will have minimal
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Arguably, MLB Advanced Media killed Netflix by commodifying streaming tech. Using MLBAM, any company could set up high quality streaming services cheaply and instantly. For example, WWE went from announcing they would be creating a streamin
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Netflix viewers used to be really good at rating movies and then getting recommendations based on those ratings. The Netflix ratings actually meant something once upon a time. And then, one day, Netflix just got rid of this. I’m still awest
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Whether it’s interesting or not, what the FTX CEO described is literally a Ponzi scheme.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Numberphile lost me with their doubling down on their “sum of natural numbers is -1/12” video.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Horns are the stupidest thing ever. They have absolutely no positive value. And they keep getting louder because the people who hear them and are supposedly supposed to hear them are stuck in air conditioned enclosed cages so the only suffe
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Cracking down on people pressing their horns is far more important IMO.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
There’s a great recent Bloomberg Podcast episode (Odd Lots?) where the CEO of FTX interactive is describing yield farming, and it dawns on everybody (Matt Levine states it explicitly) that what he is describing is a Ponzi scheme. And then t
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I’m not sure how the latter contradicts the former. In fact, it could also reinforce it. With a limited number of available spots, and performance based pay, they would need to be more aggressive to ensure they have more candidates who go t
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Volume doesn’t matter in terms of BTC’s operational capacity. It just reflects how 1 BTC is priced. The number of transactions that can be made on the Bitcoin network is ridiculously low, which is why it can never be a currency. What the “v
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
And Canada likely has better reporting as well (because countries with low crime usually tend to have better reporting and countries with high crime tend to have worse), so the true difference may be even higher.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Expect a lot of Indian and Chinese developers to move here from the U.S. as the prospect of having any stability in the US basically disappears. We’ve had about 4 developers move to Canada already. I wouldn’t be surprised if retaining these
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Go look up MPesa. Been around as long as Bitcoin, and unlike Bitcoin it’s banking thr unbanked, allowing FG cheap transfers and being used in millions of real life transactions all across Africa. So yeah, Bitcoin and most other crypto are a
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
This is exactly what’s happening with crypto. A user’s transaction on Coinbase rarely represents an actual transaction on the blockchain. A transaction actually represents a row in a Coinbase SQL database, which Coinbase will eventually bat
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Skype’s quality, and subsequently popularity, dropped significantly after they removed the P2P bits. There’s still nothing that comes close to the call quality Skype provided for long distance calls, especially when the network may not be a
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I suspect a lot of this is survivorship bias. I suspect if one were to compare a large number of startups to one large company (or even better a portfolio of large companies), the “ruthless founders” will significantly underperform the midd
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
The amount of energy and time spent on “politics” or “bickering over petty issues” is usually highly overstated by bloggers. It’s easy to understand why. The 15 minutes spent bickering over the color of a button will be far more likely to l
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
One of the big differences between a startup and a big company is that big companies have to make decisions about what to build. For a smaller company that decisions is already made. It’s the reason for the existence of the smaller company.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
And yet all the research showed that people were working longer during the pandemic for the same outcomes. Output didn’t drop but productivity did.
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Any examples?
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Every other way is better. 1) Crypto is easily traceable. Far more than any other means of funds transfer if you exercise even modest efforts to hide the source of funds. And to the extent crypto provides a modicum of privacy it’s because i
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Nothing is crypto’s fault. We get it. It’s not cryptos fault that it’s a terrible currency. Just invest in it. It’s not crypto’s fault that it’s a terrible investment. Why don’t you want a great currency that government doesn’t control? It’
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Lol at complaining about being frothy against crypto when crypto is nothing other than HODL Diamond hands cultists (I say cultists to be nice and not call them grifters and scam artists).

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