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we've all mostly been liberated from back breaking agricultural farm work in developed countries, no? At least in countries that have automated. Don't think you can say the same fo…

I think the compensation comes in the form of lower prices, greater availability of the products, a higher standard of living and newly gained freedom for the worker. They can do s…

Probably helps maintain dollar hedgemony by allowing a wider swath of the global population (criminals, poor people) to use the system unencumbered.

Aren't they using RLHF? The feedback from humans might not always be the ~right~ feedback. Couldn't that possibly degrade the quality of its responses?

There's no promises of future gains or profits made explicitly by the protocol, nor is there any central party pushing/benefiting from its adoption. There are plenty of other crypt…

Social media is just the medium for which doom/despair is transmitted. Removing social media might slow down the transmission speed, but folks will eventually arrive to the same co…

Anecdotally I've had more recruiters reach out to me for potential jobs when I have the Open to work badge. Why not have it on all the time even if you are currently employed, espe…

It's a hedge against currency debasement. And it hedged pretty well against that! From the moment M2 supply increased (Feb 2020) to the moment M2 began decreasing(jan 2022), bitcoi…

The claim is higher interest rates cause things to collapse. US interest rate go up, bitcoin go down ! Argentina interest rate go up, bitcoin go up ! Contradiction. What you pointe…

Interest rates in Argentina have been on an upward trend for the last decade [1], yet bitcoin is near its all time high relative to the Peso [2]. How do you explain the contradicti…

"Nothing to see here! Move along!"

The problem here is a fundamental flaw in the design of bonds.. They're non fungible by design. Why not make their yields fixed to the current fed funds rate regardless of when the…

Looked at the incredients in some walmart Great Value brand hot chocolate... found silicone dioxide listed as ingredient for anti-caking. Really?? Sand?? Basically getting scammed.…

I just watched a relevant interview between Dwarkesh Patel and Marc Andreessen[1] where they discussed James Burnham's ideas on how a manager class inevitably arises once a corpora…

Or Monero.

Probably because all of the French reactors are over 20 years old and the last operational reactor they built was in 2000.. how is France going to replace the carbon free energy th…

I've been getting about 80 mb/s. Still outperforms the only available alternative in my area by 500x.

The ol' wrench attach

Yup pretty sure this is the simplest answer here. Lots of people just BS on the fly if they're expected to have an immediate answer, but it would do better to keep meetings short i…

Disgusting. Everyone trusted him because he and his family are basically washington insiders. He used that trust to scam millions of people. Just goes to show if you become buddy b…

> "I know who I'd rather trust my money with: SBF, hands down." This quote is complety antithetical to everything crypto is actually trying to achieve; which is a trustless financi…

How is California planning to cleanly support the extra electricity load from EVs since they've planned to decomission all their nuclear power plants? The base load is going to be …

> "Now nuclear costs 3-5x more compared to renewables and is simply not relevant." We're seeing the hidden cost of renewable energy now, aren't we? Cheap because it's supplemented …

Asteroid mining seems like it would become a necessary endeavor once uranium becomes too expensive to extract on earth. I'd bet big that humanity can figure out profitable asteroid…

The natural disaster was responsible for killing people, not the nuclear meltdown... maybe if we had been consistently building nuclear since the 60s we wouldn't be in this global …