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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
There's lots of evidence that people in their early 20s and under are psychologically different than older people (higher rates of anxiety/depression at the same age, etc.). Anecdotally, I've noticed that people don't ta
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
It's about population trends, not individuals.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Given that prop trading has been severely curtailed at investment banks, yes.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
It will have almost no impact at this point. It's not highly levered or used as collateral in the financial industry. There's no coupling between BTC and the rest of the financial industry.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Because when a bubble bursts money has just been moved around but there's no net increase in wealth. Expected value is close to zero.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
They are just making markets, so it's sort of 1 and 2. I say sort of because it means clients want to trade cryptocurrencies. They aren't necessarily high net worth individuals though. My guess is most clients are institutional, t
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Haven't read the study, but I bet this has a high correlation with the big five trait conscientiousness. That and IQ are great predictors of success.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
CS50 is an intro level course that has a lot of people who've never programmed before in it. It seems like this course is for CS majors. But probably neither is that comprehensive. It's good to know this low-level stuff, but you n
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I don't know. People at least know what stocks are. Bitcoin is mysterious to most non-technical people and seems sort of sketchy at first glance.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
The most recent times I've met someone and told them I was a programmer there next question has been along the lines of: "Do you have bitcoin/what do you think about bitcoin". Super strange.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
You're treading close to nihilism here, which is a dangerous way to live. The article has a good quote: "The great prophylactic against loneliness is feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself – a family, a friend
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Probably less likely to downvote. Kaczysnki is obviously intelligent, and from what I remember of his manifesto from the last time I read it he makes some reasonable points, but I don't think his interpretation of the world is a good o
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I wonder how many of the people down voting you realize Ted Kaczynski is the unabomber? (I couldn't read the article since it's blocked by work firewall, so I can't comment on it).
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I would love it if the internet worked like this, but I don't see how we could ever get there from where we are now. Too much is invested in the status quo and people are too used to it. Gopher is cool. I bet if Gopher made it easier t
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I've had a few experiences recently where I was searching for a webpage that I knew existed (because I'd been to it previously), but that was fairly niche and couldn't find it through Google even after trying several differen
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I think this is an accurate assessment of how things play out in the real world. It seems like many people here are attracted to decentralized solutions for ideological reasons, but don't realize/acknowledge that the vast majority
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
And they often get under-reported on taxes.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
You'd probably find that 40% of US equities are owned by fewer than 1000 asset managers as well, so I'm not sure that this is all that relevant. If Vanguard decided to liquidate their holdings overnight there would be pandemonium
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Okay, but what would that look like? How do you go from where we are now to there without massive disruption. How do you start feeding NYC locally? It's way harder to de-industrialize than to industrialize. A lot of our cities are only
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Yes, but society was structured under different assumptions then. I live in a city in the desert. There wouldn't be cities in the desert (with modern living standards) if we didn't have fossil fuels to get food, building supplies,
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Hmmmm, I mostly agree. Except I think our definitions of difficult are different. People are complaining about how hard it is to move out of the Bay Area, which they can't afford to live in. Imagine how much more difficult it would be
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Fossil fuel companies being bankrupt is not viable. Fossil fuels allow the modern world to function. How are you going to get food distributed across the country without fossil fuels? How are you going to make sure critical infrastructure c
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I don't think we really expect our children to do that. It's just there aren't any good options right now. The world is so dependent on hydrocarbons and large scale agriculture that there is no viable alternative.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
What do you mean by this?
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I don't have time to find a source right now, but I think conservatism is declining on college campuses. It certainly is among faculty members.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
It's true that some speakers are over-represented, but I don't think that changes the trend substantially. I also don't see how you can draw a distinction between disinviting speakers and censoring the ideas they came to talk
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
They're being censored because of their ideas though... I'm not sure how you can draw that distinction.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
See my reply to ak_yo.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
See this list and go to the most recent years: https://www.thefire.org/resources/disinvitation-database/ When the list started it was fairly evenly distributed between right and left leaning speakers being disinvi
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I wonder how much of this is an outgrowth of the current university campus climate where opinions that don't fit into the predominant liberal worldview can't be voiced. I don't mean this as a criticism of liberals or liberali

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