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Yes, but it's only able to solve problems that humans have already solved. The Eureka moment is when it starts solving problems that humans have not.


Pay to play, not pay to win


Average people don't play in the NFL


It's the same reason slot machines, lotto and scratch offs are popular despite their extremely low odds of winning. The dream of the big winner invokes something in us, especially those most susceptible to gambling addictions.


Odds of winning Powerball: one in 292.2 million

Odds of guessing SPY direction right through calls/puts right and getting 30% return: going to guess not that bad

I'm curious what the odds of making a profitable options play are. It's got to be less than 50-50 because of the time decay.


The great thing about options, like sports gambling, is you can find an option play that will give you whatever odds you want.

You can bet the underlying goes up, that it doesn't go up, that it moves in either direction, that it doesn't move in either direction.

There are plenty of 90% odds option plays. Keep in mind there's a big difference between odds and expected value.


If I need to transfer $1M to you because a some type of "favor", you can buy a collectible like this for a reasonable price, then get it appraised for a ridiculous amount like this, and then I can buy it off you for that crazy amount.


Of course it can. The people maintaining the network can decide it's not profitable to do so and the value could drop to near worthless.


It's a policy that prevents employees that have been awarded shares or options to immediately sell their shares once the company goes public to avoid it flooding the market and lowering the price.


Adding the cost of an employee's health care plan to their earnings is an easy way to mislead people since most people have no idea how much their health care plans even cost.


or thank you devalued dollar for making these assets worth $1tn more.


Yes because Apply offering housing to their engineers making 20x the average American's salary is just like serfdom...

If McDonalds starts doing it then maybe I'll feel a bit more outraged.


The formalization started in the connection between lords and their retainers. Gradually every other kind of tenancy was subsumed by it. It didn’t happen all at once — the high value relationships were, naturally, the ones that got formalized first.


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