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Ugh I literally love you right now.

Or from a more cynical perspective he was extremely effective and altruistic. He robbed millions of people with spare capital and redistributed hundreds of millions to EA causes.

Absolutely agree. The legislative branch needs to reassert itself here.

I'm sorry but these two points are extremely disconnected. EA really has no bearing on the financial mechanisms that undid SBF. Furthermore, although he was a prime donor to EA, I don't thin…

The industry IS a bad apple. There are zero legitimate use cases STILL of any crypto related product.

“Never assume malice by that which could be explained by incompetence.” As a caveat, however, SBF did work at Jane Street and graduated Summa Cum Laude from MIT with a Physics degree, so maybe this qu…

The real end state is having an instance of our consciousness across a distributed system of servers that is provably impossible to error.

As a corollary, it takes decades where nothing observable happens to have the weeks where decades happen.

I think parent comment is trying to make a joke by referencing the common refrain of American republicans regarding election denialism.

No, the merchandise is sold at cost. The class is so popular with students, that students want a token to remember it and so they buy clothing embroidered with the class name.

He used to sell merch in previous semesters, there's lots of 3110 sweatshirts around campus. Hopefully he brings it back this semester!

Woah... I'm in this class right now. We <3 Prof. Clarkson and his textbook!

My APCS class was the worst experience ever. The teacher acted like a baby sitter, watched basketball videos all day, and knew less than the students. Yet, even with this, he got all of his tests from…

I loved using Tikz for my Discrete Math homework. I was so proud of how pretty the DFA's looked :)

What advice would you recommend to a current undergrad?

Honestly, fission has been the solution for the past 70 years. We, as a society, have just failed to implement it.