beforeolives

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by beforeolives 5y ago
I've read some of the cryptocurrency subreddits recently and it has been absolutely fascinating. The degree of group cognitive dissonance is something else.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
So if it's a scam but everyone knows that it is, you think there is no risk?
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> it’s a currency not a stock. It's a digital asset that you buy with dollars (or equivalent). If your position benefits from the price in dollars increasing, then you're long.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
This thinking only holds if you feel positively about who you currently are and your place in life right now. If you don't, then these "what if" questions can be a lot more appealing.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I genuinely gave up after two unsuccessful clicks. It probably says something about my personality or current state of mind.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> Jobs are handing out more money with more flexibility than ever seen before. I'm in the UK and not seeing any of this.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I don't think that my point is getting across because you're focusing on the people that you have most commonly observed in the environment around you. Sure - people can work harder, most of us are average and we don't need t
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> In my own perhaps limited experience, I've never really encountered anyone who is simply incapable of deep thought / critical thinking. I don't know how we're defining deep thought and critical thinking but it'
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Aren't you sharing that key with anyone that you transact with?
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by beforeolives 5y ago
No, it's not the same at all. Tether is not a bank. Banks are audited and bank deposits are insured. Banks can't print money unilaterally. Tether doesn't have the same regulations apply to it.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> It's also hard to call a 0% interest, zero return token, a ponzi scheme. Much easier if we mention that only 3-4% of the entire Tether supply is backed by actual dollars.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Maybe we have very different experiences and perspectives. If you're healthy and things are going well, then stability and routine look like something boring that maybe even takes away from the quality of your life. If you're stru
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by beforeolives 5y ago
When I clicked on this post I was thinking of timelines like 1-2 years but 10 years is a long time to have something on the back burner. Do you really need to keep up? Do you want to have engineering as a hobby in some way?
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by beforeolives 5y ago
As someone who is depressed, founding a company is very low on the list of things I would like to do. Reasons: - it's practically impossible for me to be excited about any business/software idea/project/opportunity - dep
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> I talk about my mental health to anyone who will listen, and also try to those who won’t. I don’t launch into the story of my life and whole disease history but I need everyone to understand that depression is something that affects ev
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> Maybe, and this is a fat maybe, Greek symbols could make the odd write-once math or scientific code easier to read. The Julia community has been trying really hard to convince people that this is a good idea and I'm still not on
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The whole video would have been better if he had built an argument from the ground up instead of starting with the idea that Tether is a scam and laying so many attempts at humor and irony on top of it. Or at least it would have been cleare
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by beforeolives 5y ago
It's not even created by financial people. If you watch the coffeezilla video that some other people in this thread linked to, you'll see that the people behind Tether have backgrounds in various types of fraud. Also, this affects
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Is there a mechanism for Tether to collapse on its own or does the collapse have to necessarily come from regulation? If the SEC do nothing about this, can Tether keep printing forever?
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I can't agree that it's equally well. I think there are a couple of points here: - We are always comparing to human consciousness and we don't understand consciousness in humans well enough. - You can always retain some for
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by beforeolives 5y ago
With IBM's materials I genuinely can't tell how much is real working technology and how much is salesmanship and hype. Can anyone with more expertise comment on the current state of quantum computing and whether any of it is exagg
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by beforeolives 5y ago
No. My phone is really useful. Why do you want to quit in the first place? Are you finding it difficult to quit because it's inconvenient or because of some behavioral pattern that you want to eliminate? If it's the former, I woul
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by beforeolives 5y ago
I don't zoom in and out but now I keep some sites on 110% zoom all the time. For some reason my vision has considerably deteriorated over the past year. Once noticeably in the first couple of months of the pandemic and then I had anoth
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Might be more accurate to say that population has grown since living conditions have gotten better.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
The nutrition point is so difficult to evaluate - a lot of personal variation, many anecdotes, few good scientific studies, a lot of subjectivity and misattribution, people getting fired up online and turning it into ideology... it's v
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Even if it's true, you'll need an equal hiring wave on the other side of the equation. It's not like people are stopping work altogether.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Technology could be enough if we have had clean solutions that are cheaper than the alternatives.
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by beforeolives 5y ago
> If you are bitching about recruiters then you are not the CTO or development manager who is paying them and working with them and wants them to succeed. This implies that you only care about the experience of the people who are paying
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by beforeolives 5y ago
Never ever? I wouldn't mention it in the resignation letter like in the OP but it's been very natural for managers and colleagues to ask where I'm going next and I've been happy to share. I also ask colleagues who are le
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by beforeolives 5y ago
- having calls for the sole purpose of getting my name in their pipeline with no intention to actually help me find a job - ghosting - asking for my current salary - asking for my desired salary for a job that I know very little about - not

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