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As Oscar Wilde wrote, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".

I have always seen Ivy League admission controversies as stemming from the fact that the number of "perfect" (as measured by objective criteria) candidates is so high versus availa…

In my opinion, regulators have a too-big-to-fail problem here. Tether is known to be used for artificially inflating the crypto market in collusion with certain exchanges. There is…

If anyone here is interested in Vietnam war photography, I highly recommend the book Vietnam Inc., by Philip Jones Griffith (1971).

Lukashenko will not go down without a fight, and Russia is very unwilling to see a color revolution again next to its borders. Putin dreams of annexing Belarus. Couple this with th…

There is a far more eco-friendly alternative to proof-of-work (PoW) called proof-of-stake (PoS). I wonder if a serious discussion will finally begin on moving Bitcoin to PoS. This …

As you can see, buys make this worse, sells make it better. Robinhood could not execute buys, because it would increase the deposits they'd need, which they legally must obligate b…

Chechnya after the 1994-1996 war is also an excellent example.

Awesome. How easy would it be to generate a corresponding interactive 3d environment?

I suspect Ethereum itself may provide a feasible basis for supporting open, transparent research.

> Is this something you witnessed going down in person, or did you just develop a strong feeling given a lot of clues? The latter.

It's somewhat heart-warming to read the comments here about machine learning. I did my PhD in machine learning from 2007 to 2012, and the main reason I left research was because of…