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by timoth3y 5y ago
Stephen Colbert in his Colbert Report days was certainly in the same league. Enjoyed by both liberals and conservatives who managed to take away very different messages.
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This is a clever, but terrible idea. I have had over 100 different direct reports over my entire career, and in all cases, I think having this number would have been a counterproductive distraction. In a sense, this is how gig economy wor
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> Compare how the first iPhone was marketed to cryptocurrencies and Musk's products. This does not get talked about enough, and it encapsulates much of what's gone wrong inn SV over the past 20 years. More precisely, it's
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Heinlein was critiquing (or at least lampooning) the use of the "competent man" in literature. It's what today we might call a "Mary Sue". The specific items on the list are not important. The point is that no one c
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The author of this article minsunnderstinds what fungibility means. ' Fungibility does not mean non-unique or non-traceable. Fungibility means that a given asset is legally identical to all other instances of the same thing. For exampl
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by timoth3y 5y ago
Alternate Take: - Bookmarking is not broken. Bookmarking works just fine. What's broken is what we want to do with the bookmarks once we have them. The problem is we don't know exactly what that is. We tell ourselves that it
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NFT wash trades are 99% of transactions on LooksRare(blog.cryptoslam.io)
5 points by timoth3y 5y ago|0 comments
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You are misusing statistics here. You are dividing confirmed covid deaths by estimated covid infections, and that's not really valid. When researchers study those with natural immunity, they examine people who are confirmed to have
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> But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear. This seems like literal survivorship bias. In the the US, covid kills about 2% of those who get it, so the natural immunity
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by timoth3y 5y ago
Too many people are confusing "censorship" and "content moderation". Content moderation is when you determine what is published on your platform. Censorship is when someone else tells you want can be published on your pl
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Author here. I was going to include a section on NFT gaming, but the article was already running long. NFT gaming is some of the worst of the NFT ecosystem, but time spent researching this area and the people running it is simply rage-induc
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What three-card monte can teach you about NFTs(medium.com)
5 points by timoth3y 5y ago|4 comments
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The real value proposition (and genius) of NFTs is that they have been designed as assets that function as securities but can't be regulated as securities.
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I agree with you. If the talks had been about getting through failure, that it's OK and that this mess of conflicting emotions washing over you will pass, that some friends will drop you, but other will be more accepting than you can i
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by timoth3y 5y ago
We seem to have come full circle with this "embrace failure" mantra. We now simply redefine small setbacks and inconveniences as "failure". I attended an event put on by FailCon a few years ago. Every one of the speakers
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"A representative for Tesla, which has disbanded its media relations department, could not be reached for comment." When they said "Someone should lose their job over this!" that is not what they meant.
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This drives me nuts. The irony here is that one of the things social media does is force us to simplify our discourse to the point of infantilization. Subtly does not get traction. We need binary truths! Myths and myth-busters. None of the
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> The article doesn’t say “be the Samwise Gamegee” ... I've always thought there is a strong case to be made that Sam is the hero in LOR. He's really the only one that has a fully-developed character arc and who grows as a pe
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A hundred years from now, after quantum computing has rendered modern cryptography obsolete, archaeologists will be doing the same with bitcoin wallets.
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“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” -- Mark Twain
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> Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test The article is paywalled, so I can't tell if the irony is intentional. Anyone even thinking of taking actuarial exams should understand that since exam results are non-random,
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by timoth3y 5y ago
I really hope this does not come across the wrong way, but here goes. > "I wish I was not born. But it's not that I'm unhappy in my life. My life is good, but I'd rather not be here. You know it's like there&#x27
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Hayek was talking about something more fundamental. There are countless of beliefs and behaviors we have to accept and internalize before we can even talk about changing a fence. "What is a fence? Can people respect access to property?
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> I've heard a few times that they're about rebelling against a corrupt government That's a relatively modern myth. The intent of 2nd Amendment is primarily the defense of the State. This is clear from the text itself and
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The Five Whys are a great as a tool for personal introspection, but in business it seems to become an exercise in chaotic story telling, with the final "answer" highly dependent on the initial assumptions. Let's take this i
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> it’s obvious that, despite exceptions, most stories portray “goody-baddy” dynamics This is simply not true. At all. Sure, good vs bad is a very simple narrative and so is commonly used, especially in things like children's stories
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> The result was that "TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints This is not due to poor training, it's the result of Directed Attention Fatigue, a
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This might upset those with more libertarian sensibilities, but it will make life better for almost everyone. It's a win for humanity.
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“Click to Subscribe. Call to Cancel” Is Now Illegal in US(ftc.gov)
2 points by timoth3y 5y ago|1 comments
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> It's kind of more akin to ownering a limited edition print. It's more like owning a receipt for a limited edition print. You have no rights to the print itself, but you do have distributed proof that you paid for a receipt wi

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