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Alex Zhao

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on the atlas — 18

highlights — 7

  • many of the crypto advocates are going to find (to their displeasure) that The System is extremely not kidding when it says that one has to perform ingratiating compliance or end up in prison.
    KYC and AML: beyond the acronyms
  • Therefore, polls that rely on detecting very weak signals should be taken with a grain of salt.
    Lizardman’s Constant Is 4% | Slate Star Codex
  • The impression that it was impossible for deposit accounts was a bit of “Meh, that involves work with an uncertain but probably low ROI” and a helping dollop of blaming regulation for the resulting product equilibrium. Regulators, for their part, (accurately) said they hadn’t ordered anyone to not make Nice Things™ but also prioritized KYC regulations over e.g. access goals even when they simultaneously talked very good game about banking the unbanked.
    KYC and AML: beyond the acronyms
  • Who knows, maybe 100 years from now it will be unconscionable to own a dog and awesome to take lots of LSD and sinful to eat broccoli and righteous to worship the Dread God Cthulhu. Maybe we’ll be as dumbfounded about the future as Galton would be about us, and it’s hopeless to expect otherwise.
    How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century
  • Monocultures make for pretty dismal discourse, which is why when Galton suggests in an op-ed that Chinese people should colonize Africa, the angry reply he gets is not “that’s heinous” but “you idiot, Chinese people are lazy.”
    How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century
  • when Galton suggests in an op-ed that Chinese people should colonize Africa, the angry reply he gets is not “that’s heinous” but “you idiot, Chinese people are lazy.”
    How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century
  • Tries to learn arithmetic by smell, succeeds Worships a puppet to see if he can convince himself it has godlike powers, succeeds Tries to consciously control all of his automatic bodily processes, nearly suffocates Hears animal magnetism is all the rage, learns it in secret (it’s illegal), magnetizes 80 people Replaces the blood of a silver-grey rabbit with the blood of a lop-eared rabbit to see if it can still breed (it can) Tells himself that everyone is spying on him to see if he can make himself insane, succeeds Makes a walking stick with a hidden high-pitched whistle inside it, takes it t…
    How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century