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by ves 29d ago
This hasn't been a remotely reasonable characterization of math since at least Hilbert's time.
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by ves 2mo ago
Writing that mathematics is a waste is such a hilariously ignorant comment to make on a programming forum.
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by ves 3y ago
You’re definitely happily collecting the proceeds of those sins, though, I’m sure.
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by ves 3y ago
Were we living in the same city? There were multiple heatwaves in the time I lived there, one so severe that Noe Valley got to 107. And this isn’t to mention the wildfires or inevitable water issues.
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by ves 3y ago
These days, I’ve been separating the poop from the food before I eat it.
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by ves 3y ago
Good thing all those roads aren’t planned, built, and maintained by the government!
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by ves 4y ago
right, which is why this is a liquidity problem and not a solvency one. The assets cover the liabilities--you just have to wait ten years or whatever.
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by ves 4y ago
The liabilities are the same currency and the same amount in 2023 and 2033. They’re solvent. The asterisk is that the liabilities are generating interest, but this is fine because (one very safely assumes) that’s covered by the interest on
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by ves 4y ago
Once-in-a-century weather patterns happening multiple times per decade, that sort of thing.
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by ves 4y ago
> I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm. Speak for yourself.
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by ves 4y ago
You might wanna check out some of jason hickel’s writings in the topic. As someone from such a “place with a lot of poverty” I’ve always chafed at the idea that capitalism (and thus colonialism) led to an improvement in living conditions, w
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by ves 4y ago
Competition in its recognizably modern form only recently became the foundational organizational system for civilization, and civilization “won” because (in part) a) it generally has no problem deploying incredible levels of violence and co
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by ves 4y ago
even if that were the case, the only place you're getting prolonged proximity to a (relatively) fixed group of people is your workplace? that sounds super not good.
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by ves 4y ago
This is really not a great time to rest an argument on the principle that exchanges function well with regards to dollar cashflows.
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by ves 4y ago
huh
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by ves 4y ago
right, except that nobody is buying stocks with tether.
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by ves 4y ago
…what Look at a tether volume chart vs a btcusd chart
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by ves 4y ago
Where in Boston did you live? That’s definitely the case in the fancy parts of Boston and definitely not the case in the minority ghettoes like roxbury, JP, and dorchester
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by ves 4y ago
neither category should be inhabited, so yeah.
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by ves 4y ago
I would not, but I know some people who would consider a deal like that. At $12k/yr and your stage you’re basically hiring a cofounder, so four points is… not a lot. You sound like you probably still have most of the equity left, so I’
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by ves 4y ago
Miners mine the longest chain for a given coin. This poster is proposing just making another coin, not forming the existing Bitcoin chain.
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by ves 4y ago
The sorts of men who are thrown into cages are different sorts of men than those who are handed enormous sums of capital.
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by ves 4y ago
> You could retire tomorrow, but you weren't put on this Earth to just be idle. nice > Your startup is "Ramen profitable" - that means you're making around 7k/month revenue to cover 2-5k expenses. If you start
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by ves 4y ago
Never thought I’d see quillette on the front page
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by ves 4y ago
FTX had enormous crypto holdings and made investments in companies you’d definitely consider crypto companies, notwithstanding that there aren’t any “pure” exchanges in the crypto world anyway—they all get their noses in it.
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by ves 4y ago
It sounds good, except that there’s no results for “screechings” or “only cure” in the books, and Ron doesn’t encounter Voldemort in Goblet, only Harry and Cedric do. Again, it has no semantic comprehension, it doesn’t know that certain str
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by ves 4y ago
Most of the now-deep, now-interesting areas were once shallow and uninteresting.
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by ves 5y ago
You’re aware that an enormous proportion of people’s constitution dao refunds were eaten up by gas fees, presumably.
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by ves 5y ago
Manipulation by exchanges
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by ves 5y ago
We’re already in the middle of a mass extinction event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction And regarding your second point, we know it won’t do anything good, but we don’t know exactly what (nor could we

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