Melting_Harps

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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> cutting edge crypto BWAHAHAHA! Nothing about that program had any redeeming quality, the fact that everything was based on solidity was enough to confirm this: I knew IBM would be split into 2 companies when the upper brass refused to
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> No, things you voluntarily participate in aren’t scams. The vocal detractor's hostility is only matched by the their ignorance and arrogance; they assume because they have no use for it that no else does either. Again, I've t
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
Well done to the Kagi team for opting into LN integration; I cannot say for sure what will come of it terms of overall volume (I don't use MAC as daily driver) but just taking the middleman out of payments underscores the mission&#x27
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Training and salaries Defintely not, take a look at the dark part of re-enforced learning [0]; this is a digital sweatshop these mega corps are exploiting to refine their algos. I was going to try GPT4 today to see if it is really tha
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Shhh. The central coast doesn't exist. Just the bay and LA. Nothing to see here folks, keep driving. Seriously, I still aspiration of retiring in Santa Barbara some day when the boomers are long gone and hopefully CA's popul
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Cybersecurity IC here. We have all of that, and more. Damn... as an IC are you forced into the machinations on a daily basis or can you actively avoid it by choosing to work remotely even if TC is lower than otherwise could be? I&#x27
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
What I found more distressing was how many holiday makers kept going despite the warnings in Rhodes earlier in the Summer; it was very apparent that Greece, like Spain and Portugal and Slovenia last year, was a hot spot. I get Greece is a t
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> If your definition of hustle is stack ranking I look forward to carrying the industry when you burn out and get out. I keep trying to bide my time, but all the industries outside of tech I could rely on have been absolutely wrecked by
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Corporate mythmaking extols the cheap desks Bezos et al would construct out of sawhorses and reclaimed doors I did a 'virtual internship' at Amazon during COVID, and the mythmaking is just as strong of a koolaid at any Muskco
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Well, Noma can charge customers up to $1500 per person and average worker is paid around $50/ hr. What are you talking about? This was never the case, and when Rene had to pay market prices on labour he shut the place down. Peopl
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> This already exists just with surrogacy as there are both egg and sperm banks available to those who need them. True, and if you saw what played out during COVID you'll realize there is a massive market for this: during COVID hea
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> I've been asking myself that for a while. Would they be so popular if they didn't host & serve petabytes of model files for free? How will they monetize that aspect to match this valuation? From what I gather it's m
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Russia is not that great an example because they don't actually manufacture anything at all that we'd miss, and we can quickly get gas and oil from elsewhere (and have done so). 'We' as in the US, sure,I'm sur
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> This makes a lot more sense when you look at less rich countries and see how much less popular iPhones are. It's only in America where people who aren't in poverty but rather deep into the lower class that will make sacrifice
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> I’m something of a skeptic myself. I’m not convinced LLMs are as disruptive as the hype says. But they’re not nothing, and it’s still early. As someone studying AI and ML: they never were, this was pure hype cycle mania to juice the nu
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> This is often repeated, and I believed it myself in the past as being self-evident, but the Russia/Ukraine war has changed my mind. Russia was selling gas, the west was buying gas. Other countries produced e.g. iPhones and Russian
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
While the students in question technically might not be benefiting from the collusion between Modi and Putin (cheap oil) they most certainly have to realize that their government does: furthermore, that their government cares more about che
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> That was one of the surprising marketing lessons for the early iPhones and is a well known social phenomenon. I don't think that invalidates my position, or argument: hence why I said that laptops provide a better UX, if I had bee
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Neither “high-power” nor “motorcycle” are words I would use to characterize the vehicle in that advertisement. Words I would use are 'manipulating gig workers nto thinking they can/should/must own a phone that far exceed
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> You know you are getting old when everything seems shockingly expensive. Or conversely you have vivid memories of how quickly the AUD, or USD or any fiat currency really has been so immensely rapidly inflated in the last 20 years; hell
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Simple fix. Haha! If only that were true, it took the riots during COVID (often regarded as BLM but was at it's core were really about rampant Police abused and corruption as seen erupt in France) and an immense amount of backlash
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> And as someone who works at UChicago, very not surprised... Go on...
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Shocking, I know. I've been in this space for 13 years next month, nothing shocks me anymore; it is why I find TV and Movies entirely boring by comparison. Fact is stranger than fiction. With that said, yeah that makes sense; you
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Crypto wealth seems to come with exposure to unsavory people. Or maybe it's a chicken/egg thing. Hard to deny on frequency alone as this part struck me as noteable and to your point: Peev is the second crypto king to be fou
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> No, more like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, I'm going to be incredibly cynical and go back to my channer days for a second because you think this holds water for some reason: I can't believe anyone thinks these cosplaying
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> I don’t understand how the lockdowns destroyed trust. From my perspective, they saved thousands of lives, buying time for the development of a vaccine. Can you explain? They really didn't, what was thought to be sensible policy e
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> There are a lot of people in that group that would go to war for Trump because they trust him, and war is not comfortable at all. They would be 'legions' comprised of men like the the Qanon Shamaon I take it? If so, this woul
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Why does climate change attract all these loonies? Its not just Climate Change, though its rather stark and obvious there for the listed reasons below, but we've come to realize that 99% of social media based tech has been based o
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
`> Please illuminate me: what have I said that has been debunked? The fact that they invaded Georgia, during Xi's Olympics no less and did it again in Ukraine during the Winter Olympics, after the West capitulated and the 'sepa
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by Melting_Harps 3y ago
> when we see that's its scam after scam all the way down, excuse us for having a dim view of those who are all about the fundamentals. I hate to be 'that guy' but usename checks out: Philistine (adjective) - Lacking in a

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