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by yks 6y ago
Wealth is a human's worth under capitalism and arguing against riches of any kind while the number goes up is a philosophical attack on what we believe in as a society. At best you're looked at as an idiot, at worst you're th
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Suckers or not, but people do donate to visibly rich people, e.g. Trump.
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It sounds like Uber/Lyft will eventually degrade to the level of service of the regular taxis of old, when the default expectation of interaction is to get scammed or worse. Which means that another disruption opportunity is coming soo
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I see American governance being stuck in different situations without a possible way out. For example, Prop 13 in California, it is clearly not a good idea long term, it will keep suffocating the state and yet I don't think it is possi
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You will be left behind just like all the unborn billions of people. Bitcoin version of the future is catastrophic at worst, with all the unnecessary energy consumption, or inconsequential at best, cause it won't matter much for the fu
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That’s the underappreciated argument. If we to assume that the collective will power is all it takes to create an alternative asset, e.g. the narrative “gold is old, we need a new one” then it follows that it can and will be repeated. I don
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> People are not better off without property rights. Sure, but the problem at hand is they have more than property rights, they have rights to a neighbor's property, conversely my neighbors have rights to my property, and how's
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by yks 6y ago
Yeah, where author hardcoded himself 25m coins [1] and bans everyone who mentions it from the official discord. Currency of the future indeed. [1] https://github.com/cheapETH/go-ethereum/commit/412c38434d8d8..
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This. Elon cannot manipulate Bitcoin price based on fundamentals (mostly because there are no fundamentals) but he controls the narrative. Every stock or asset he mentions goes up and I am sure he knows how to use it to his own advantage.
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Elon in particular can manipulate Bitcoin price so out of them all he's actually one of the most rational. As for the rest, I would not necessarily consider institutional investors an infallible authority, they are prone to groupthink
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Often workers are perfectly capable and eager of Really Caring but then the company incentives and politics force them into Just A Job category. Especially when joining Big Tech not via acquihire.
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Sure, and every oppressed person demands changes in their self interest at the expense of the oppressor. Now, I'm not trying to call people who want to live in HCOL city but don't have money oppressed but want to point out that th
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My favorite speculation along those lines is that people are addicted to motorcycling because they are addicted to gas fumes/exhaust (and I'm riding myself).
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I agree, it's not a pure calculated greed but some sort of a "mental denial of change" coupled with the historically unusual legal powers. Immediate property appreciation is more like blinders, it is very hard to swim against
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It is understandable that people are selfish but why society as a whole should pay for that? It is a relatively recent development, no more than a century, that people actually have such a power to derail urbanization while at the same time
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For anyone confused, “senior staff” is L7 and rare but “senior” is L5 and usually a majority of SWEs.
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Whether there is an unusual inflation or not, "inflation is skyrocketing" is for sure a popular meme among the tech crowd. It nicely fits with the libertarian mindset, "we are smarter than experts" narrative, some asset
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I guess I disagree. Yes, you need a high class talent to move the field forward but once the new frontier is conquered, it ceases to be a frontier and everyone else can enjoy the fruits. Regular engineering practices of today are cutting ed
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I don't understand your point, you don't need "kids from Stanford paid in stock" to run a monorepo, k8s (borg), bazel (blaze), SRE and whatever else you can read on the blogs. That's literally the point, to spread i
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Blockchain is the biggest "solution looking for a problem" of our time and because it looks like we've entered the meme age, I'd not be surprised if everything was reimplemented with blockchain regardless of the fit.
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That is not the point. America fancies itself as an exceptional country (and it certainly is in certain respects) so it is only fair to expect exceptional results from the American leadership.
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When I try to learn a new skill with the help of the professional, e.g. hire a ski coach, I usually get compliments like "you're learning it faster than most people". I often think that they probably tell that to every single
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by yks 6y ago
there's 4G LTE in places, even in Slab City. but if you're seriously considering staying there, you better know how to deal with feral dogs and methheads.
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housing in the US is just not that great for the thing right in the center of the national psyche: cookie cutter designs with no attention to the environment, low-quality constructions, apartments with zero soundproofing (no wonder everyone
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while you are onto something, it also reads like "all my nieces love me and hate their parents because I am around to play with them and give them gifts but not around to force them eat the food they dislike"
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Not necessarily. As an anecdote, I don’t think of myself as a person with a specific name. If I look at the mirror and try to say my name it just does not sound like it fits the person in the mirror. Also I can tell different names to baris
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I think things are pretty clear cut, if you want to start a service to obviously harbor fascist user-driven content, then yes, prepare to be cut off from the mainstream vendors. DailyStormer and Parler are explicitly those types of services
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Conservatives controlled America for all but 2 years in this century, only in 2008-2010 both executive and legislative branches were under Democrats. Republicans heavily gerrymandered country in their favor in 2010 and given that 2020 censu
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I wish it would be possible to get hired into Google straight onto the projects at risk, to have an opportunity to support them even in exchange for giving up the promotions.
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Once I heard some gossip about the Triple Nine Society (99.9th IQ percentile). Apparently the members are mostly doomsday preppers and conspiracy believers. Obviously selection bias applies but I found that somewhat thought-provoking.

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