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I have read it. - He isn't a stock trader, he is a bond trader. The kind of bets you need to make to be succesful are different. - "how lucky he got by chance" - He doesn't say thi…

Yep, you also wouldn't give the same computer/software advice to your grandma as you would a peer at work. Buffet is telling us to leave trading to the pros, but he absolutely trad…

Are there 100 people who know finance and think carefully like Nassim taleb? What do their outcomes look like? I would bet all of them do pretty well. (I'm not even a big Taleb fan…

Every scientific endeavor is about predicting the future. Imagine your 3 closest friends wanted you to invest in your business. Could you predict which of them would likely do bett…

I completely agree. This is true of most fields, which is why you can pay a professional for their special skills.

Nassim Taleb made his money trading markets.

Why do you feel so convinced they can't?

Buffett says this kind of stuff publicly. But his own fund moves in and out of investments all the time.

Do you have any information about how much material going to landfills? What if 1 car is 1000 phones?

That doesn't drive people to pay 3x. What does it is the fear that prices will never come down or that this is a normal.

The price system is how our society allocates resources. The fact that people are allocating their own resources to buy one -- without any perverse incentives or being compelled, i…

> And so we get this waste. Wait. If they are making phones that get bought up every year because of people like your friend, then where is the waste?

These things are always cyclical, but FOMO is a tough emotion to combat.

And if you read what I said, before your comment, you'll see its about this particular situation.

> this is also done in the court room. And we have we gone through that process to look at the issue from all sides and hear arguments from all parties? No. You don't need to know …

Having worked in the areas you are describing, it's still duct tape and rubber bands, they just are better prepared for redundancy and error recovery.

> they doubled down because they lack any sense of morality. I don't believe you know what their internal mental states are.

What are you talking about?

Family relationships are much closer and have more trust than relationship between employer and employee.

Except it's in the body, so they already clicked on the article and made their money. What's left is continuing the trope that Elon is insensitive and stupid.

This is only true if: 1. There aren't other processes that need to share the system. 2. There are no spikes in memory usage. Neither are true. The less memory each component uses t…

Media has to plant a narrative, or why write the article?

Of course, consensus is a difficult philosophical topic. But not every system is based on public voting.

Non security expert here. Walk me through the attack scenario here. The database has access control right? So only a few people in the org can read the data. And you are imagining …

Almost every top stack overflow answer is wrong. The correct one is usually at rank 3. The system promotes answers which the public believes to be correct (easy to read, resembles …