GreaterFool

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Comment · 4 years ago
I think it’s rubbish. I smoke weed every day and it is not addictive.

I’m simply adjusting my body to weed frequency. I need a higher concentration THC over time because my body raises in frequency.

But I live a clean life. Many mix weed and cigarettes.

To me, cigarette smokers are dead. I don’t care what they think, I don’t associate with them, I don’t go where they go.

Clean and healthy weed smokers know this.

UK is in dark ages in terms of weed culture. None of them knows what they’re talking about.

They don’t smoke weed. They look and numbers, think things, and write nonsensical documents.

That’s not research.

I smoke weed and study neuroscience every single day.

Comment · 4 years ago
True. The US Treasury market is backed by war. That's solid business that you can rely on :-)
Comment · 4 years ago
I remember an interesting HIV campaign that went something like

UVL=0VL

It made me think.

(undetectable viral load = zero viral load)

Perhaps this vaccine will not cure HIV once and for all just yet, but maybe it can work as an alternative to PrEP by keeping the viral load down?

Comment · 4 years ago
There is no "crypto crash."

There is "everything crash."

Crypto, stocks, baby formula, war.

The world has turned into an insane clown world.

There are evil people out there, and they fuel the flames.

Instead of building, they steal, instead of creating, they destroy.

They are driven by a belief in scarcity--that for them to have, others must not.

The people who cheer at this mayhem are fools who think they missed out. They can't stand other people making money. Because they can't stand artists making money. Because they can't stand women making money. Because they can't stand people from "foreign countries" making money.

They'd rather see the world burn or go back to the dark times.

This is foolish and small-minded.

In crypto, there is a floor. It is ZERO. It is "no crypto."

What crypto doesn't have is the ceiling.

There is no ceiling.

It is not a zero-sum game.

WHEN YOU BUILD, MERIT ACCUMULATES. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE AMOUNT OF MERIT ONE CAN ACQUIRE.

The benefits should flow to everyone and not some at the cost of the others.

Comment · 4 years ago
Remote is good because I can do laundry and vacuum my flat while thinking about a work problem.

Most employers though consider that stealing.

Offices aren’t unnecessary but practically all offices I’ve ever worked from are torture chambers.

Thanks but no thanks.

Comment · 5 years ago
I can't wait for El Salvador to offer a cheap, safe, and secure crypto vault.

Once they expand to yield generating crypto, they can charge a small fee while holding BILLIONS in crypto assets.

Comment · 5 years ago
I rented an Airbnb recently and they had a basic induction stove on top of non-functional gas stove.

The induction stove, with special pots, was like tech from the future. I was only doing basic cooking but it was blazing fast and precise.

I never gave this any thought. I don’t cook much.

But something about this inductive stove impressed me.

Comment · 5 years ago
Matt Levine is my favorite source of insight into the nitty-gritty of financial markets. He has an uncanny ability to take what would be the most boring minutiae and turn it into a fascinating and well told story.

I don’t see a problem with what Robinhood is doing. I don’t trade stocks all day. I’m not worried about 10 cents price improvement. By the time I enter my limit price and click buy or sell the price has already ticked up or down.

I buy the stocks that I think will go up over time.

There’s a psychological impact of commissions. When you click the button you have immediately lost money. Now you have to make it up!

I don’t want to be reminding myself “ah, but I paid the $2.34 commission and got my 10 cents price improvement so I came ahead by $1 on a $1000 trade”. Or whatever the actual numbers add up to be.

If the price was $58.10 and I put $58.50 limit (so it doesn’t tick away from me before I click) and the order gets executed at my limit or less and I pay no commission, it seems like I would’ve gotten what I wanted.

Comment · 5 years ago
How much of that is climate change and how much local development policy?

There is an ever continuing push for creating extremely high density urban areas with hardly any greenery. Those are becoming barely habitable.

Cramped offices, people packed like sardines.

Does it have to be this way to sustain economic activity that leads to prosperity? Can’t we somehow spread it out a little more and give everyone some room to breathe?

Comment · 5 years ago
This shows that Robinhood is a true "tech company"!
Comment · 5 years ago
There is a very simple reason why crypto aren't going anywhere -- wealth generation.

For a lot of people in many parts of the world the (still) unregulated nature of crypto is the only way to generate wealth.

How does one get wealthy? I'm not talking about paying my bills for the next X years until I die. I'm talking about starting with no money in your bank account as a young person and building your way to a decent amount of money by certain age, let's say 35.

Work won't get you there. If you live in a good place and have a good job then you can have a comfortable life. But good luck building wealth when taxes are 40-50% and rent is 30% of your salary.

Business? If you're lucky, maybe. It's hard. Few will make it. Barriers to entry are large in many places. Paperwork, company taxes, accountants, etc. You'll be trading all your free time and sanity for a chance to succeed.

Crypto! Yes, right now it's an online casino of sorts. But many companies are building sophisticated financial services on top of it.

Take Binance and BNB for instance. BNB is designed to appreciate if Binance is doing well. It pays dividends. It's an interesting instrument! Binance is a real company that makes real money which says "we made this thing and if we will do well then so will you".

Young people will find something in the new and weird online economy.

When I was a teen I used to sign up with multiple emails for beta keys for online MMO games, and then sell those keys. I made some money that was very useful when I went to University. Without that I simply wouldn't be able to make any money back then.

Crypto is a little bit like that right now except the demographic involved is different.

Comment · 5 years ago
> a strong anti-vaccine stance that and are promoting Ivermectin

I would assume that the core of this sentiment is something like “vaccine is a semi-permanent modification of immune response while ivermectin is a temporary chemical adjustment”

I’m just guessing though.

Comment · 5 years ago
Is heart inflammation serious? News outlets report “increased risk of X condition” usually without any background on the seriousness of the condition.
Comment · 5 years ago
Linux is developer friendly but user experience is abysmal.

I’m a developer. I grew up with Linux.

I can’t wait for Apple to turn MacOS into iOS with extras.

Linus himself said that Chromebook (with a shell) looks appealing.

I just want iOS with a shell and file system running on fanless M1 without catching fire!

Comment · 5 years ago
In their article they have compared the income tax rate with wealth adjusted tax rate.

Out of curiosity, what would a wealth adjusted tax rate be for a dual income family that owns a house?

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