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by why-o-why 9mo ago
What is an example where gold temporarily replaced a country's currency and it did't go full mad-max? I don't think you have any evidence to back up your claims, but I can just point to COVID and toilet paper to show how slip
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by why-o-why 9mo ago
I was given some gold as a gift and tried to sell it, they take a cut off the top and there are no laws regulating how much a coin shop can charge for exchanging (unlike securities). People don't realize it is easy to buy gold, but a L
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by why-o-why 9mo ago
No. I asked my RIA, and he said that scenario would destroy the world economy but also it is highly improbable (he never says "impossible", which is what I like about him). There's no place to hide if the USD craters a-la red
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by why-o-why 9mo ago
Did anything happen between Darby and Hal Lindsay? Seems like about ~80 year gap before it become de rigeur again?
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by why-o-why 9mo ago
After reading this very well-written essay, what jumped out at me was "this is rich person psychosis". It seems like the easiest answer. Rich people know they are destroying the world, and rather than dial it back, they have menta
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by why-o-why 9mo ago
Reminds me of the whale oil business being replaced by petroleum. Except the ad-based economy was effectively a google monopsony. I'm surprised the OP managed to make ad revenue for a decade, but to me at always seemed about casino-ish
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
In 1988 my Calc 1&2 classes were partially taught using Maple on an MTS mainframe. It did NOT make any of it easier.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Isn't this the basis for every web framework? E.g., Vue Templates?
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
I don't know enough about different industries to know if this is true in general. But I do know in tech it is all about networking (aka soft nepotism): spending your career making friends ("swiping right on every work relationshi
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Well, I -do- only know two people, so I got that going for me.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
>> Cynical writing is like most medicines: the dose makes the poison. A healthy amount of cynicism can serve as an inoculation from being overly cynical. I disagree. Cynicism is a toxicity and will fester. Anecdata: I only know people
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
it's the same logic lotto uses: "you can't win if you don't play". while i agree it is irrefutable logic, the chance of being seen is quite small because there are literally millions of other people doing the same t
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
you're right. i was only high for 20 minutes. happy now?
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
definitely not hyperbole. last time i took LSD i dropped at 5pm before going to dinner and ended up at a bread factory 15 miles away at 5am watching them run the big mixers. no idea how i got there just remember walking all night.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Precisely!!!! The kid in the article had a big brain to begin with, and there were ample buffs at his disposal, so he got to speed run his interest because he was lucky enough to be born in the right zip code. It doesn't diminish his w
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
LSD had the same duration with me, but more psychological & emotional impact. So I avoided it for two reasons. Weirdly, all my divorced 50+ year-old male peers are now into K and DMT. They are raving about DMT, but I feel like my brain
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
"Days"?!? Hard pass. My experiments with shrooms in college was fun, but I couldn't deal with the 8-12 hours of hallucinating.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
OK, so wealth adjacency. My oversight doesn't change the argument.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
OK, so wealth adjacency. My oversight doesn't change the argument.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
>> I’m tired of the hand-wringing over privilege Your discomfort doesn't make privilege go away. The fact that he even could afford a GPU seems to go over your head. EDIT: Ok, so he didn't own a GPU and borrowed a PC from Ca
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Being adjacent to wealth is a privilege. Zip code is a better predictor of a child's success than any other metric.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
This completely ignores reality. Jobs was a one-in-a-billion. To pretend privilege doesn't exist by invoking near mythological probabilities perpetuates it.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
The post you were replying to is about privilege, then you defend with: "but it's not like he had rich parents who casually handed him $10-$20k. Much more likely he got access to Caltech resources because his exceptional talent ca
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
The article didn't say how accurate the predictions were. Too bad, that's the important part.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Seeing as how the US government recently said anti-capitalist and anti-christian opinions are a threat, well... hold on to your collective hats.
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
>> a considerable chunk of the market — including three of the six most popular VPNs — is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
I'd prefer to see the NIST SP 800-22 results. (that was a joke)
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Can't wait for the abuse of the word Grok to die (bet none of these techbros even read the book). There was even an AI company that made a product called "Sophon". Talk about an overinflated sense of self-worth. I like the Wr
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
It's gotta be me, or my eyes. I've never watched a film and said, "Oh that transfer looks beautiful," but I have watched many and said, "Damn that transfer sucks." I remember buying some Criterion films in the
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by why-o-why 10mo ago
Every 4K film I watch seems glossy and slick... it looks more plastic-y than in the cinema. I find it very distracting and unnatural.

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