greatwave1

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by greatwave1 1y ago
Saquon's no-look hurdle alone produced more practical value than 95% of ZIRP-era startups
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by greatwave1 2y ago
Hooke and Newton did spend a considerable amount of time outside and socializing with others lol
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by greatwave1 2y ago
Sure, I'm not disputing each social media company has the ability to alter public discourse. My whole point is that there are literally billions of entities (everyone on Earth with an internet connection) who also have the ability to a
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by greatwave1 2y ago
Yes at scale. There are individuals who run social media accounts that reach hundreds of millions of people every month. You can amass more reach and influence than many of the biggest TV stations / newspapers of the previous generatio
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by greatwave1 2y ago
"alter the mindset of the population" is such a vague boogeyman. Literally anyone with an internet connection has the capability to "alter the mindset of the population".
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by greatwave1 2y ago
Lol just because everything has risks and rewards doesn't mean that the risk/reward profile is the same for everything, and doesn't change the fact that most crypto trading is closer to gambling than it is to investing
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by greatwave1 3y ago
What "managed decline"? The U.S. is arguably as strong as its ever been, and China's economy has been crashing recently. The implications in this thread that US citizens are soon going to be running for their lives from forei
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Autotune and pitch correction are not the same thing. The majority of recent pop songs don't have a noticeable electronic vocal control in the way that the parent comment is describing. The autotuned vocal style generally peaked in pop
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> Because people want one thing. > The one officially-blessed Taylor Swift album. The one version of Beethoven's Fifth. Millions of people have bought vinyls/CDs/MP3 replicas of these albums. These are not scarce works.
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Literally every world-famous work has replicas and recreations, what's your point? Those copies are also part of the work's cultural influence, and in many cases (if the replicas are sold by the original artist) part of the moneta
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> Copies of those works are ubiquitous, but there is a singular, definitive work. When referring to recorded music, this isn't a distinction that has ever actually mattered in the real world, just a fiction made up to shill NFTs. Ar
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> I'd take a step back, and ask what makes art (music, visual, etc) valuable. > To that, I'd respond "scarcity." What is your definition of valuable here? If you're referring to value to culture/society,
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by greatwave1 3y ago
I don't think this is accurate -- overt autotune in pop music peaked in the 00's, and has really not been as influential in the pop trends of the last decade or two. Many of the most popular artists today lean away from heavy elec
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> look at the answer I gave you You literally didn't give me one, what on earth are you talking about. > You seem to make up an image in your mind that I'm disregarding the child's own personality I don't know wher
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by greatwave1 3y ago
I think my point is pretty clear: you listed a whole hierarchy of people who you think should have control over your child's behavior (with you at position #1), and haven't given any answer for where you think a child's own d
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Yes they can, people can (and should) have some influence over their own life.
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by greatwave1 3y ago
I don't think that the incentive to "provide as little value as possible for as much money as possible" is in any way unique to the SAAS pricing model. Theoretically, every optimized pricing model will attempt to maximize rev
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Where does the child fall on this hierarchy... do they get any input in what technology they derive value/enjoyment from, or is that entirely dictated by adults in their community who grew up 20+ years ago?
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by greatwave1 3y ago
I think a more compelling argument against technical analysis can be found by considering the outcome of a semi-efficient market, and how unlikely it is that simple, purely momentum-based signals haven't already been arbitraged away by
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Was it a good school in a wealthy area? If not, what makes you confident that your peers were falling behind due to some sort of innate inability, instead of as a result of compounding poor teaching or other environmental factors?
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> Do you think I really am in the ~50% of the population in terms of mathematical ability? I don't know nearly enough about your personal background to make any sort of judgement on to what extent your success up through university
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by greatwave1 3y ago
What evidence do you have that the biological limitations for mathematical ability meets people early in the spectrum? I can think of several anecdotal counter-examples... students who seemed to have been falling behind, but with the right
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by greatwave1 3y ago
There's a big difference between edge cases like Usain Bolt and Von Neumann, and the barriers that most people actually run into. The vast majority of people are not biologically incapable of making it through high-school level math, o
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Did you actually read the tweet that you replied to? > "I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute." Many Twitter users, including literally the person you are in conversation with, scroll through dozens/hun
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by greatwave1 3y ago
16 hours? If you're scrolling 100 tweets/min, you'd hit the unverified user limit within 6 minutes, and the verified user limit within an hour
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by greatwave1 3y ago
Well if you want to ignore things like advertising and other administrative expenses (which are necessary when running a global beverage company), you will still find that their Costs of Goods Sold is 40% of their revenue: https:/&#x2
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> CocaCola net profit margin as of March 31, 2023 is 22.69%. Which means that it costs them $1 to produce every $1.23 of soda that you purchase. This is a long-shot from being "nearly free" as you claimed earlier, and materiall
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by greatwave1 3y ago
> List one area where Walmart has a monopoly and the only grocer in town. I'd recommend you do some reading to understand the definition of a monopoly, as it pertains to pricing power: https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guid
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by greatwave1 3y ago
"In 43 metropolitan areas and 160 smaller markets, Walmart captures 50 percent or more of grocery sales. In 38 of these regions, Walmart’s share of the grocery market is 70 percent or more." https://ilsr.org/walmar
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by greatwave1 3y ago
What a ridiculous analogy. Add statistics to the pile of topics that you're overconfident yet completely naive about. What you're describing is a scenario where you take a sample, and use its measure of central distribution to mak

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