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Why do you recommend against gigster specifically? Just curious given that Andreessen funded them.

I'm sure Nasim is talking about perception and not 'reality.' As the saying goes "perception is reality," I think you'll find that objective reality is not very important in the do…

I think the history is important for expectation management alone. It took a world of very smart people many hundreds of years to get to where we are today and there are still many…

How would it be less of a Monad than the IO Monad? That's the part I'm not getting. It would make sense to me if neither were considered monads.

Would it be fair to say that the IO Monad get passed along implicitly with the other Monads in an eager evaluating system? Would this make it a stack? Just one that's not represent…

The quote is one I agree with and I thought I should give its origin. I do not agree with everything Winston Churchill has said or done, and I probably disagree with him more than …

> By the very nature of the monad laws, they cannot have side-effects, so they cannot be eager. I'm pretty sure monads can have side effects and be eager. It's just that not everyt…

As long as the methods used to uphold political correctness does not use state or taxpayers subsidised institutions then it's ok. That's just normal society organization with freed…

No need for a global system in taxes to reduce wealth disparity. Just need to stop subsidising speculation. Due to agency costs (information asymmetry etc.) it's harder to make lar…

That is it's intent but ironically it increased the amount of savings required to retire so ordinary people couldn't participate in the speculation but still have to pay tax to sub…

In order to maintain an ever increasing wealth disparity society will have to become more fascist and taxes more confiscatory. To prevent this you simply need to fight fascism in a…

Not market forces, see reserve bank interventions. Deflation is not disastrous for economic productivity but it is a side effect of economic productivity. Taxes on earned income vs…

Firstly, savings are not currency although they are used interchangeably with the assumption that currency is safe. This is not guaranteed to hold. Secondly, with rehypothecation t…

It only destroys imagined wealth and not actual wealth (more useful stuff is created). In the current system the new wealth creation is skewed to the already wealthy, hence why the…

This article is all kinds of wrong. It does not make an appreciable difference between savings, investing, and speculation. There is not a glut in savings but there is a glut in sp…

Next thing they'll be blaming AI and robots on destroying the world economy and not the bankers.

That sounds like the opposite of useless. You now know how long you have left based on your activity and can adjust accordingly with this new information

Meg was before my time. I got to see the aftermath and I heard many of the stories. eBay's success was in spite of Meg Whitman. It was a money printing machine. The first employee …

Interestingly this comment was voted up a bunch and then voted down a bunch. 'fake news' can be easily detected, not by the content but by those who share it. I've built similar st…

Typical corporate politics.

The fake news was done badly on purpose so people would beg them for manual curation ;)

By emphasising local and by using the other details that they know about people to filter out fraudsters. Plus the long tail is filled with interest groups. Facebook already manage…

I used to work at eBay Trust and Safety. The place is a nightmare and will not improve. The culture was destroyed by Meg Whitman and never recovered. This kind of fraud sticks out …