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by wickoff 3y ago
If you suppress the heavy conservatism bias that most people have and actually look at what's going on, then the reasonable conclusion is that yes, Messiah is coming.
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by wickoff 3y ago
I hope this point of view wins eventually. It's the only sensible one.
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by wickoff 3y ago
Proposing to jail people for doing http requests to publicly available resources on a hacker forum?
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by wickoff 3y ago
But you're also autocomplete (prediction engine) on steroids. https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/the-brain-is-a-prediction-mach...
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by wickoff 3y ago
If your database isn't involved in your business logic then you're probably significantly underutilizing capabilities of modern databases.
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by wickoff 3y ago
I think people are rightfully concerned with the last AI disaster humanity has, not the first one.
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by wickoff 3y ago
I know it's an extreme example, but flat earthers to exist. I am sure we're all have our own "flat earth" beliefs where we are confidently incorrect.
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by wickoff 3y ago
I have the same exact problem with people. Being inaccurate is a feature, not a bug.
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by wickoff 3y ago
Humans miss things all the time. It's okay to make mistakes.
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by wickoff 4y ago
You severely overestimate the quality of care you would receive in a psychiatrist's office when thinking that lithium and lamotrigine wouldn't be prescribed for no reason. Prescription of pramipexole should have given it away.
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by wickoff 4y ago
I would have agreed with you before the mobilization happened. It's an incredibly risky gamble to make, could have sparked immediate massive civil unrest because in one way or another it touches every person living in Russia. Him going
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by wickoff 4y ago
He wanted to, but blockspace-efficient privacy cryptography wasn't discovered back then.
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by wickoff 4y ago
Currently the immutability of Bitcoin is its core value proposition. Once that's gone, it becomes just another another altcoin, so the community will fight against the move to PoS.
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by wickoff 4y ago
Two words. Identity theft.
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by wickoff 4y ago
He is pointing out that it is in fact a ponzi and explaining the mechanism. There are no regulations against letting people trade this type of ponzi so his company isn't doing anything illegal. I think the problem here is that people o
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by wickoff 4y ago
Crypto bros would forgo the middleman and get the 20% yield instead.
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by wickoff 4y ago
15-ish years ago, when I was twenty, I was foolish enough to see a psychiatrist. I walked away with a prescription for an SSRI, a typical antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer and some Xanax to take as needed. What I really needed was my father
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by wickoff 4y ago
Read up on how the Russians fought in WW2. Russia has executed 153000 of their own soldiers, among other things. They defused mine fields by forcing penalized soldiers to walk through them. Nothing has changed. You don't need to believ
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by wickoff 5y ago
This morning they defaced multiple Russian and Belorussian news agency websites, replaced their pages with an anti war message, I caught it live. The biggest affected sites were https://www.onliner.by/ and https:/&#x2
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by wickoff 5y ago
It's like oxygen. Is it bad because the invaders can also breathe it in? Ukranian government is very much pro-crypto. https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/parlament-uhvaliv-zakon-pro-v...
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by wickoff 5y ago
What do you mean textiles? We just buy the gray-ish ones.
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by wickoff 5y ago
I don't think it matters whether ADHD is real or not. The question is whether stimulant medications improve some quality of life for some people. Seems like they do.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Change of platforms didn't bother me at all, I never watched him on YouTube, but his drift to the conspiratorial right that culminated in vaccine hesitancy eventually made listening unbearable.
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by wickoff 5y ago
For me the most impactful thing by far was leaving the phone in the other room. Instant gain of 1-2 hours of sleep per night.
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by wickoff 5y ago
This is exactly what market makers do. During violent moves prices vary wildly between exchanges and market makers become takers. They instantly buy and sell the same amounts on different exchanges without risk, then re-balance their accoun
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by wickoff 5y ago
Crypto has cooled off considerably during the last few months. It's kinda drifting on the waves of the stock market. It needs a new narrative to become "hot" again, than it'll decouple.
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by wickoff 5y ago
It's parents supporting them most of the time and the only expense is food. I think there is an implicit (and sometimes explicit) understanding that if pushed those people would just commit suicide, so the family is stuck in limbo fore
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by wickoff 5y ago
This is accurate. Browsing is an anaesthetic.
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by wickoff 5y ago
The people who do not share your opinion value cryptocurrency at roughly 2 trillion dollars. Opinions is how value is determined.
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by wickoff 5y ago
Twitter is adding ownership verification for NFT profile pictures.

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