JackFr

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by JackFr 3y ago
I just don't get his cult of personality. He's an underwhelming intellect but a top-notch promoter. And Worldcoin, seriously? I can see in 2019 wanting to be in on the grift, but let it die.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> they will consider changing jobs. Hmmmm. The stiff resolve of a spaghetti noodle. I "consider" changing jobs literally every single day.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Beautiful, but clouds seem to be missing any cyclonic aspect.
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by JackFr 3y ago
From the initial board release, the issue then was not necessarily the fundraising or him being spread too thin, but rather that he was not forthright with the board. Every CEO manages the board to some extent and paints a picture for them
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by JackFr 3y ago
The idea that only a tiny handful of people knew about Bernie Madoff’s fraud was simply a lie to keep a lot of people out of jail. It’s proved very effective. When your relatively removed it’s not that difficult to generate reasonable doubt
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by JackFr 3y ago
What about crime victims?
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by JackFr 3y ago
Should other people in a police station have any expectation of privacy? Victims of crimes? People who've been arrested?
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by JackFr 3y ago
Singularity coming later this afternoon.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Need some Boston Dynamics flair.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> It's not just the increase of the money supply. It's the increase of the money supply faster than the "stuff" of the economy increases. This. Inflation always is too much money chasing too few goods. Secular shor
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by JackFr 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve heard that a bunch - about the press being uninformed or lazy. I’d offer that they are neither, but if they are restricting themselves to reporting facts and not prognostications and opinions, the statutory maximum is a reasonabl
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by JackFr 3y ago
IANAL, but I think you misunderstand her plea agreement.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> "the defendant will not be further prosecuted criminally by this Office for any crimes, except for criminal tax violations" That has nothing to do with her sentencing and is typical of any plea agreement. I’m not going to ple
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by JackFr 3y ago
Yeah you don’t just automatically get an appeal. You need to point to specific errors in the trial. Of which it didn’t seem like there were many.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Sam Bankfraud-Man
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by JackFr 3y ago
With or without testifying he cut a remarkably unlikeable figure. Smug, aloof, arrogant and condescending, honestly much more so than a typical white collar defendant. I suppose his fatal flaw, though was not having anyone else to blame.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Case in point: the Kennedy assassination changed the world Really? In what substantive way?
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by JackFr 3y ago
The future of the future of warfare: A $1 shotgun shell killing a $400 drone.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> One example is the big bang theory being proposed by a Catholic astronomer who didn't like the then prevaling idea that the universe did not have a beginning or end because it went against his religious beliefs. That’s simply not
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by JackFr 3y ago
Edna Ferber. The movies Cimarron, Giant and Showboat definitely more well known than her novels on which they were based.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Agree. Saw that as a math major undergrad, there were some people with more of an engineering bent who just crushed multivariable calc, differential equations stats and numerical methods, but then just got stuck at abstract algebra and poi
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by JackFr 3y ago
Amusing counterfactuals: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Maug...
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by JackFr 3y ago
Article could be summed up by "Comparison is the thief of joy." The guy has built a successful, profitable company, with satisfied customers and a culture he claims to be proud of. And yet the whole article is him carping.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> The companies that buy up sites like Bandcamp are interested in nothing except ensuring the executives’ pockets get lined appropriately. What about the people who sell sites like Bandcamp? It seems to me they want their pockets lined
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by JackFr 3y ago
The reason why you see them built up in the high income zip codes is because branches are almost completely out of the business of regular teller operations of years ago which as you correctly point out have moved largely online. Instead br
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by JackFr 3y ago
I have no love for Andreessen. I haven’t read his manifesto, but In interviews I’ve listened to he comes off as extremely self-serving and not particularly impressive. That being said, this piece is terrible.
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by JackFr 3y ago
No, it's not a linear regression, but it is at its heart optimization. And yes, that is indeed like saying a computer is just a bunch of zeroes and ones and logic gates. It's true and beautiful and profound but nearly useless fro
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by JackFr 3y ago
Actually more dangerous traveling downward on the inside, where a small misstep will have you miss 2-3 treads, as opposed to the outside where the same misstep won’t have you miss any.
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by JackFr 3y ago
You can trivially create that with a portfolio split between T-bills and the S&P.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Im pretty sure they exist to beat the market. They are called “hedge funds” because, as opposed to other stock funds they were allowed to take short positions while mutual funds could not, and so they could hedge some of their risk.

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