sergefaguet

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by sergefaguet 4y ago
I have HPPD and it is kind of fun and not at all distressing or problematic for my life. Cool part of how my brain works.
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
Doesn’t require it but it is ok if that happens.
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
Change by definition requires breaking established rules and is how societies grow. Normal part of the process.
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
Yep my thoughts too. He writes like a juvenile philosophy student who has attended one too many gender studies class. The insecurity and mediocrity seeps from every sentence.
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
she will, and she will be heavily funded. i'd love to invest in her next thing.
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
he is a genius and one of the most talented people in the world. just watch this video and check out his charm, communication skills, ability to speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp-CM-gQik&feature=youtu.be of cou
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
right, everyone can build one of the world's best-known brands and become a billionaire. super easy, no talent needed.
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
just watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp-CM-gQik&feature=youtu.be the guy is an absolute genius, master of charisma and communication, one of the best speakers i've ever seen. he calmly and easily
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
Because he’s a very talented entrepreneur and that’s who investors want to bet on
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
Ahh, so nice that we developed cryptocurrencies with the explicit goal of making it impossible for UN trade bodies and other centralized actors to halt their rise :) But good luck guys, you will need it!
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by sergefaguet 4y ago
well, the thing is existing institutions are completely fucked. governments simply do not represent us and there is no trust for them. we have not opted into these systems, they do not speak for us, and they are not legitimate. we are indee
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I ran my startup from Russian prison(medium.com)
3 points by sergefaguet 4y ago|2 comments
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
I’m not ignoring this. You are making the moral assumption that just because someone has a better negotiating position in a situation there is a moral obligation to intervene in some centralized way to “correct the imbalance.” I am denying
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Interesting. I must have missed the point when unions became about voicing concerns. Last I recall, creating unions is an attempt at monopolizing labor to extort the employer. When this tactic is applied to any other factor of production it
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
An extremely efficient and competent corporation doing everything it can to deliver goods cheaper and faster to hundreds of millions of people while creating value for tens of millions of shareholders? And now it has more and more impact ru
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Unfortunately what you refer to as a “problem of currency losing value” is a feature for a government, not a bug. They want this because it allows them an additional path to taxation by diluting all existing holders of fiat. The only way to
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
He’s not saying society “should” be structured this way. It is more about that it “already is” and “will be even more so.”
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Glad that someone is talking about the reality of how things are. The death of the nation state and other hierarchical organizations and of broad-based democracy is written in the mathematical structures of networks. It just makes no sense
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
A lot of people are excited about that. For good reason too. The very idea that two people exchanging private value should be subject to “democratic oversight” is a totalitarian nightmare.
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
very consistent with my sense. it has become much easier to raise money from US VC while being based internationally in the last 12 months
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
There’s something quite un-human about this idea of just being content and accepting and not standing out. Yes this is what a lot of meditators aim for and it likely means less emotional variability in life. But it is not peaceful contentme
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Yep. The reason was that geography based communities were relevant. That reason is getting out of date. And it is important to remember that nation states are a step in an evolutionary process, not the end point. The reason these things are
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
A lot of what they are saying is that governments are losing legitimacy and ability to deliver what people want, and this will shift governance and power to other institutions that will take over much of how humanity interacts. I guess that
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Legitimacy is generally not an objective thing. So there’s not much of a point in arguing here further.
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
i'm not in the US for that reason. and very many people are not following laws.
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
On academia, I work closely with a lot of professors at Oxford, MIT, Caltech and the like and they uniformly believe academia is in decline and with horrible institutional incentives accelerating that decay. The decay of the US government i
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Unfortunately the majority of people who will read this thoughtful and inspiring letter will only see trivial stories about evil corporations. Stories they have been fed by the media and have accepted without thinking. Tech companies are th
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by sergefaguet 5y ago
Excellent comment
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by sergefaguet 6y ago
what is important to remember is that people who ignored the law made a huge return on holding their gold, and people who followed the law lost out bans are a very strong advertisement for piling into the asset being banned. especially when
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by sergefaguet 6y ago
This highlights why governments are impotent: - it has been 5 years since GDPR was implemented to great fanfare - by the time of implementation data mining has been going on for many years - 5 years after 90% of businesses use dark patterns

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