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Hi everyone, super excited to release Prxmpt! After writing a few too many prompts with nested ternaries in string templates I tried writing prompts in JSX instead, and discovered …

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"...banks issued their own currencies, which they sometimes refused to redeem for their purported value in gold or silver." Fortunately the government stepped in with its own curre…

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1404100794245214215

The economic stimulus has certainly been a success for asset prices, in dollars...

know something we don't = difference in how you price risk of various outcomes. Not necessarily new information

Uber without drivers is a very different business. You get clown numbers if you try to model the profits if Tesla can make 20M cars / year

Tesla's rise this year is obviously extreme, but it also traded sideways from 2013-2018. Over a decade AMZN is up 25x, TSLA 150x

The problem with Tesla is that the opportunity for FSD is insane. Either the market is mispricing the risk or the shorts are, but the asymmetric upside if Tesla succeeds makes it a…

The market is usually right, but the market doesn't have all the information either.

"Why would one person want to reduce the ability to apply economic policy in their country?" What do you think happens to your currency when they print more of it? One problem with…

Price action would seem to agree with your typo

I can't tell if you're agreeing by saying "its only been 12 years," or if you're disappointed by a 10 million % appreciation in 12 years

I think the difference is that currencies fluctuate against each other, whereas if everything is priced in Bitcoin, its whatever you're pairing it against that's fluctuating. Goods…

Most of the criticisms in this thread seem to be missing that Bitcoin is only layer 1. Bitcoin isn't Visa or cash - its gold. Rather than shipping gold across the Atlantic, large i…

This is super common on HN. Just look at threads on Tesla. Fortunately betting against someone with a closed mind is super profitable, because they'll always mis-price the risk/rew…

ML is intuition. Consider the difference between an expert system solution to chess and an ML solution to go. Go is all intuition.

Would be surprised if autopilot isn't already superior to humans at avoiding cyclists. This seems like mostly an attention problem, and humans are more susceptible to not noticing …

We are far too stupid to not fall for scams. It's better that the government "protects" us. /s Seriously though, this is messed up. Crypto is similar - CoinMarketCap has a program …

https://blog.ted.com/what-will-the-future-look-like-elon-mus... @34:15

The crazy part is that Elon has said this will look like a rowboat compared to their future rockets

True, but I'm not sure difficulty is as relevant if the motivation is there. You can't terraform the South Pole. Mars reopens the frontier whereas the South Pole is a dead end

The other factor is that Musk has nothing better to spend his money on. With Tesla + SpaceX + Boring + Neuralink he'll likely be a trillionaire by the time Mars colonization is ful…