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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? by lbrito on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:17PM (#31358950)
Until the day they don't.

This kind of thing is inherently un-provable. You can have a method that works stupidly well for decades, and then it stops working. Building a model that provenly (in the mathematical sense) works with X% efficiency would be akin to building a free energy device.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? by nightski on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:48PM (#31359358)
It's very likely you put your life on the line every day with things that can't be proven. That is engineering after all.
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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? by logifail on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:31PM (#31359817)
> your life on the line

Your life at 0.00000x% risk is one thing. I'm fairly relaxed about that.

Your capital at - say - 50% risk of total loss is another. I don't play that game.

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