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Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:30AM (#48021020)
You're selling the book :D
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:34AM (#45641315)
Yup, was releasing something to prod and can't even build a react app. I wonder if there is some sort of archive that isn't affected?
Re:Ethereum: A Store of Value with Cash Flow [pdf] on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:12PM (#26891563)
I'd say that is a positive aspect. It means a lot of things are being tested. Most fail but at some point they might create something awesome that sticks.
Re:The search for life as we don't know it on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @02:57PM (#20277617)
Whenever I read or hear "looking for radio signals" from other civilisations I wonder what would qualify as such. What does the average radio wave coming from a random point in space look like? Is it just some small amount of noise?
Re:Compounding Knowledge on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:58AM (#19094723)
If they all behaved purely randomly WB would be a high sigma event - he's got to be loaded in some way - the issue here is which of WB's properties are behind his financial success - one strategy would be to emulate him as accurately as possible in all his idiosyncrasies or to use a more scientific method (e.g. looking at common traits among agents of his class).