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skinfaxitoday at 3:30 PM1 replyview on HN

I think your parent's point is even larger than that. To be alive is to engage with risk. There are no stores of value that withstand all decay.


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Dylan16807today at 7:21 PM

If everything is gambling then we lost track of what we were doing and need a new word for what we're trying to regulate. The answer is not to give up because it's a spectrum, it's to mark off thresholds.